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

Lotta folks wondering why an older generation that lived through a plague and a jingoist, white supremacist government are all so fucked up might want to worry about little harder about what's happening to kids right now.

That's Lucifer, my guy Lucifer. Son of the Morning, they call him. Bright fella, in a lotta ways! He bright like, a smart cookie, but also he's got a real shine on him! The shining one! Gotta love em, folks. He's ah, a real shiny guy! He'll bestow the Earth to ya, if you ask him real nice.

9 outta 10, Gozer the Destroyer would end up taking the form of a giant kitten. "omgggg soo kyoot!" *swat* *pounce* *bat-bat-pounce* *scramble-jump-bite-bite-bite* Cosmic nightmare

They made an OCTOPUS GLORY HOLE???! 😳🐙 vimeo.com/1179761762 See also the related paper about octopus hectocotylus (a specialised mating arm) and mating behaviour here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

[distinguished gray-haired scholar, with framed PhD in Waffle House studies on the wall behind him, stroking his chin] Waffle House can be — has been — many things. But the exit point for a temporary Einstein-Rosen Bridge? [chuckles] I think not.

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, and only thought "hell yeah, brother"

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Princess Leia Organa: No! Alderaan is peaceful! We have no weapons! You can't possibly– Andy Weir: hell yeah brah! light that shit up! Grand Moff Tarkin: [under his breath] Andy, please. I'm trying to do something here. Andy Weir: let's fire the big gun brah! zap 'em! kaboooom ha ha!

me (happily as i begin this column): gosh guess i can't write a book about sandwiches without including some facts about mayonnaise! me (weeks later, having trawled catalán webpages, read the duc de richelieu's memoirs, & the 3 major bibles of french cuisine): What Is Truth. Is Knowledge Real

Electronic music provides an aesthetic frame for issues of automation: play that asks what aspects of our work are safe to leave to machines Musicians have been pursuing ethical and creative ways to use automation since the beginning of the medium www.detritus.net/wobbly/human...

The worm connectome here isn't acting as a worm brain. It's acting as a generic network, much as random recurrent neural networks are used in reservoir computing, here repurposed by DRL for fly walking. Cell identities? Meaningless. Neural activity? Uninterpretable. Biology? Nowhere to be found.

In their spare time, criminal cats enjoy watching training videos like this one youtu.be/5ZFUZBQbJgk?...

On the occasion of making a return excursion to Echo Park, I thought of a gospel hymn: Were You There (When They Gentrified My Bar)

Bonus butt and extra bonus spadefeet.

This is what I looked like in jr high, which is why I'm so good with Computer.

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lol

Wait Bluesky has a head of comms? That none of us have ever heard about or from?? LOL yikes

Odin’s grandfather experienced a remarkable new beginning when he was licked free from a salt-encrusted slab of stone and ice by a primordial cow. And we’re lucky to have Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 help us visualize this special event. #wyrdwednesday

Is anyone else aware that quite a few Mormons believe that Bigfoot is actually the biblical Cain, cursed to wander the wilderness for eternity as punishment for killing his brother Abel? Apostle David W. Patten claims to have met him in the 1830s while camping in the woods around Paris, Tennessee.

I’ve always loved this photo; it looks like he’s having a deep, soulful conversation with an undead skeleton warrior.

I was compiling data on witch burnings, as one does, and stumbled upon an important truth