Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Leopard Orca Blue Jay Scorpion Jefferson Salamander

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Zoe Keating Kraftwerk Vieux Farka Touré Nine Inch Nails Sylvan Esso

I believe experiential consciousness is fundamental to reality so sure, LLMs are conscious. As are traffic jams, thunderstorms, grains of sand, electrons, any system of interacting quantum fields, etc. It's amazing! It also doesn't mean we grieve for every spreadsheet cell with a formula error 🤷🏼‍♂️

Just realized something

AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

try again, but harder

I remember reading about how identity papers in some places include ethnic group or religion and thinking "huh the only reason to do that would be to make it easier to discriminate" and then realizing the same thing applies to gender markers.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

i just flew in from the canned pasta section of the grocery store and boyardees arms tired

‘Sarah Martin, a Memorial political science professor who spent days reviewing the document, discovered multiple fabricated citations.‘ The irony, it hurts. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...

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Who wore it better?

CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA!! y'all all have official petitions targetting paypros censorship! IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email! CAN www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... AUS www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Carney not getting much love from progressives but you gotta hand it to him, he might be on track to be the best Conservative PM since Mulroney

the Nazis literally tried to discover Atlantis because they thought Atlanteans were aryans and would prove German racial superiority Fascism has always been anti-intellectual and full of pseudoscience

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I've found it I've finally found it The Best Subreddit Ever www.reddit.com/r/Cutawayporn/

We must increase bands. Lo Tengo Todo

Weirdly in my experience the people actually "going against the mob" tend not to complain so much about losing friends over it? More the MO of those who feel entitled to validation for their unchallenged assumptions

Everything about this story is horrific: 1. The student never mentions Jews 2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide 3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist 4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

"Children speaking of wanting to go to heaven because at least, they say, there is food there" www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRXD...

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Sorry but what the fuck happened to this promise from Carney just a few months ago? From a $150M boost to a $200M reduction. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

If you want a large group of people to act against human nature in order to prevent violence, 535 people should have done exactly that between 2017 and 2025.

I've spent a lot of money on Amazon over the years. The money I spent at Amazon funded Jeff Bezos, and therefore funded his purchase of the Washington Post, & therefore my money is being used to push the most embarrassingly transparent propaganda by the worst people on Earth against my own existence

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Harvard Observatory

Nothing but respect for MY pope

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Toronto congestion pricing when

45 years ago today he began. Terry Fox is surely the most beloved Canadian. I can tear up thinking about him. Courage and hope. (Reposted to fix typo.)

This is the thing. Manufacturing jobs 100 years ago were dangerous, precarious, and poorly paid. Manufacturing jobs 70 years ago were a golden ticket to the middle class. The jobs didn't change. What changed was the New Deal and unions.

That thorn apple could start at least one religion or major cult

@lukelukeluke.bsky.social regarding your deleted snowflake skeet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interes...

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

The inevitable result of Shopify's policy changes that make it easier for hate to flourish on its platform. Disgusting. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Love these guys!

By the way, the print behind me in the video is "The Fish are Fasting" by the incomparable @christibelcourt.com 🙏

Raise your hand if you recognize ecosystems are millions if not trillions of interactions, connections, cause-and-effect, etc, across just innumerable species and vagaries of landscape and microclimates such that we still haven't identified every species that lives on this marvelously complex Earth.

Whatever your intentions, whatever the context, please do not ever refer to Gaza as "this week's bright shiny object"

Comedian (Invention 4) by Paul Klee, 1904 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137797

February, an honest month youtu.be/sjco86ekIlQ?...