one of the things from Neuromancer that seemed especially ludicrous but now seems increasingly likely: Chinese black market AI-powered hacking software will have graphics that look like a cool shark.

I think there's a secret reason people are latching on to our compact king, Jimothy. All the usual cute meme animal reasons are there; small, soft, unique, etc. But, I also think it's because we know Jimothy is doomed.

Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US

Hyperfocus of the week I guess! I sat and figured out a skeleton. I opted to give it more endoskeleton vs exoskeleton, since a goat sized creature likely would struggle without the support (?) It also doesn't have actual eye sockets because bug eyes sit on the flesh/carapace. #sciart #creatures

Vegetables are poison soda is medicine, gamers stay winning

Since they've all badly misread Snowcrash, why haven't any of our deranged oligarchs tried to create a pirate utopia on a repurposed cargo ship? Yacht smacht. Spend that 100 mil on a boat the size of a suburb and build yourself a damn castle on it.

*This interesting process of "un-wonderment" doesn't get enough attention from science fiction critics *"The sense of wonder has a short shelf-life," yes it does, but what are the actual processes of that decay *How to effectively write about that

Scrapers are destroying the open internet

Ralph McQuarrie’s 1986 cover for Eric Frank Russell’s ‘Sinister Barrier’

Se fode ai, Infantino.

I should have gone to a Belgian bar

Rise and shine it’s time for slimes! #SlimemoldSunday

I have yet to see one person who looks like they are having fun

What if Trump uses the giant cloud of smoke to disappear?

A gentle reminder that "Mount Rushmore" was carved by a KKK-associated white supremacist as a deliberate defacement of a sacred Lakota site, much as the same chud defaced Stone Mountain in Georgia to create a tribute to the Confederacy and white supremacy www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020... 1/x

The neighborhood coyotes started screaming and I thought it was the World Cup. Maybe it is.

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

If you have complaints about how long it takes LA to count mail ballots, please eat my shit and hair.

Packaging LLMs as first-person chatbots was entirely a product decision. There is no need, and no innocent reason, to make a fake persona the interface for a hyper-dimensional language crystal. Whatever utility they do have is deliberately obscured by pretending they're an entity.

Eno was the only one who knew how to do his makeup

One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

If your interface is a "new skill" that must be learned, you have a fascist in your heart. You built it the one, perfect, correct way, and anyone who doesn't understand it is wrong. *They* must be corrected.

Melon Kuma, a terrifying hybrid of a melon and a bear, is a character from Yubari City in Hokkaido, and was inspired by wild brown bears destroying melon patches in the area. He visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building today.

Three pomegranates. Two shells. One stag beetle. Brought together & painted by Giovanna Garzoni, whose day is today.

Meet the Chocolate Tube Slime (Genus Stemonitis) — not a fungus, not a plant, not an animal ... it's doing it's own taxonomic thing. Go touch some bark this weekend!

Everybody be quiet and look at this baby toucan.

Markov chains just made gibberish. GPT-2 was the first language model that was powerful enough to be interesting in this particular way. it was useless; you couldn't do anything that made money with a random text generator i think it was also the last one to be interesting. it's a shame.

Which is to say, if one is going to say "AI is actually intelligent" but then refuse it rights and agency, then I strongly suspect one either doesn't actually believe it is "intelligent" in any meaningful sense, or one is cool with owning slaves. One of these branches is ethically less problematic.

🧵 Thread: California is about to have a massive fight over taxes, housing, and democracy itself. Here's what's at stake and why the legislature needs to cut a deal by mid-June.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=loHQ... new Tabernis, medieval beekeeper bagpipe metal

The nickname Dracula's Chivito “reflects the backgrounds of the researchers...1 scientist is from Transylvania, while another is from Uruguay, where a chivito is a pop sandwich. Viewed edge-on, the disk resembles a hamburger w/ a dark center surrounded by glowing layers of dust &gas above&below it”🧪

A buckler? What do I look like to you, a Hungarian? Why don't I just go ahead and build a star fort around myself while I'm at it?

So what you are seeing aren’t trans users trying to use their identities as a shield, but trans users asking questions about their experiences of disproportionate moderation. They’re asking for an explanation of a pattern that you may or may not be aware of.

When larely pegal bornography is ilpegal, only outlaws will have bornographs.

With so many doubts surrounding the Byrd flight, many recognize the first aivators to reach the North Pole as the team of Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, who flew the airship Norge over the top of the world just three days later on a much better-documented journey. 9/9

It should be a national-level priority to elect Nithya Raman as the next Mayor of Los Angeles.

medications on which one can jerk off

moist like a leaky sewer pipe

Some people can't imagine fucking a Sarlacc without gluing a primate's ass onto it, and the world is worse for it.

Ah ! C'est eux que je cherchais : les maquettes de vers à soie 🤩 (FYI nous sommes le 15 floréal aka jour du ver à soie remember) #sciart

Just saw a ~throwback hoodie~ for Zog’s Sex Wax and I’m horrified to realize it’s not “Dr. Zog” as I’d assume—just “Mr. Zog” This is where things started going wrong, when our disreputable oleaginous vendors eschewed even the trappings of legitimacy.

Oreo is a rescue badger (Taxidea taxus) at the Northwest Wildlife Sanctuary in Oak Harbor, WA. www.northwestwildlifesanctuary.com She's being offered her favorite snack: cheese, to lure her from the safety of her dark void. Audio on for badger hissing. 🦡❤️🧀

Mixing and coloring silicone.

California lawmakers are fast-tracking AB 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I go offline for two fukin hours

I hope it ends up as Steyer and Tiny Andrew Sullivan for the general. That seems mildly entertaining

The most commonly used hot air balloons have a volume of around 2800 m3, so global human fart production rates would fill one in less than ten seconds. 5/6