Thanks to David Banks at the other place, who first alerted me to Ian Banks' reference to this face in his novel Transition, in which a character posits that if aliens exist on Earth, we'd find them watching an eclipse.

Ladies and gentlemen The Weekend

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NFL football should give the offense five downs and be all passing, all the time. On 5th down if you haven't made a first down, the ball is moved 10 yards forward and the value of your next TD is reduced by 1 point. The QB can run in emergencies but his gains are capped at 10 yards and a first down.

"You cannot kill me in a way that matters"

Horseshit! ChatGPT's Deep Research mode (aka "don't bullshit me bro") is intended to remove hallucinations and still fails occasionally; if you're using it in full-auto, safety-off mode, you need to visualize the Frosty Machine at Wendy's filling your mouth, but with cold oily extruded poo.

Script writers are cooking. Vance's boss accepts the light of Islam into his heart & recites the Shahada with his whole chest. J.D. Vance is forced to answer for (or repudiate) his espousal of the Catholic faith in order to cool off a diplomatic fuckup. Will he suck up to his boss... or the Pope?!

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

The Avignon Papacy?

If Iran thought they could end up with a deal this good, they would have started the war themselves.

Happy 17776 Immortality Day! www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

The wizard ponders his orb.

Yellow Springs, Ohio Pop: 3,852 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Springs,_Ohio Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112127102 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10643502 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10643448

A single hallucinated citation should mean an immediate rejection of the paper, and blacklist the submitting author for a year. I promise you, I had a printed out copy of every single paper I cited and personally checked that the citation says what I imply it says, for my two published papers.

A year ago I said someone should do Frinkiac for King of the Hill. Well @standard.bsky.social went and DID IT boompane.ordoliberal.com

Fill in the blanks, Dems: “There are impeachable offenses every week, but I will ask my party to focus on [personal enrichment, classified leaks, ICE abuses, etc]… if the party prioritizes a different impeachment I’ll support it and vote based on the evidence presented.”

so the chance that Trump recites the Shahada and accepts the light of Islam is low, but not zero

"Even an elaborate cheating scheme won’t be enough to deliver Orbán victory if the polls are correct." This is a big deal, and it should give opponents of American authoritarianism hope.

Toothbrush Still Life (2022)

If there's anyone not above blowing up shit as pretext, it's the Russians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Ru...

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

@tkingfisher.com Driving through Delmarva listening to one of the Sworn Soldier audio books when suddenly…

There’s been a glitch in the simulation. You have been sent back to April 4, 2026

In a two-party race (and do not fucking kid yourself it is ALWAYS a two-party race) there is only one side that benefits from you believing both sides are the same, and that is the side that is WORSE. The side that is worse will wear 50 different masks while they tell you that, hoping you believe.

Anyone except the National Hurricane Center (or your country's equivalent) purporting to "name" a dangerous storm is clickbait horseshit and on balance it makes all of us less safe.

Guess who has 2 thumbs and a round trip ticket to NOLA? Yay! I’m going to miss Dio tho.

I don't care if it makes St. John the Baptist descend from heaven into my kitchen and personally flip the sandwich when it's perfectly golden brown, and then he cuts it in quarters for me, I won't have fucking mayonnaise in my kitchen and nothing that has touched that slime will cross my lips.

Although there are many credible vendor & researcher demos of what very bad things are possible, there is as yet remarkably little hard evidence of threat actors using sophisticated AI tools in genuinely impactful and damaging cyber incidents that have actually occurred in the real world

An enormous amount of image processing and signal processing code is just re-learning what an extremely autistic guy figured out in 1970 trying to make a 16x16 pixel array track a Soviet ballistic missile

The entire timeline right now

The view from Vero Beach, Florida, courtesy of my mom.

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

This is just amazing!! The NOAA GOES West satellite was watching the launch of Artemis!! 🧪 @elprager.bsky.social

S P A A A A A C E

Not to be all woo on main but running the insanity docket we’ve got lined up today on a Libra full moon with the scales of justice at the peak is stage direction from a Greek tragedy level

we will likely find out soon whether the Linux kernel is offense-dominant or defense-dominant

R▓hm Em▓nuel is not "shaking up 2028" he is calling in favors to plant glowing press coverage as part of a PR assault. He has no theory of victory; he merely believes he can ratfuck any other Democrat who might run, earning him the nomination. He has no vision for governing, only for winning power.

i am now IP banned from the pokemon center website :D

[trying to be encouraging in these difficult times] good job on having a day

how cool would it be if we had different words for "incredibly computationally intense and kinda troubling but startlingly effective coding tools seeing massive uptake", "dumb UI shit nobody asked for polluting everything", "cheating helper", and "computer program for identifying bird calls or wev"

If a foreign government is willing to spend between 6 and 7 figures to access your personal data, and you are not actively working to destroy or secure the data they care about, they're going to get what they're after.

if you find yourself overwhelmed by constant terror at the state of the world, may I suggest becoming a bird person? it doesn't really fix anything, but it at least lets you go "oh hell yeah" whenever you see a raven flying past with sticks for a nest in its beak or whatever