Seveneves is not a good book (last third was straight up trash) but the parts about how much it sucks to live in space made a big impression on me

i want interest-based / subculture-based entry points into the global discourse. not a parallel universe of boxes you can put stuff into but more like a categorization like “this group of people’s view on which discourses around topic X are worth paying attention to”. to me this screams useful

great post. “Knowing where you are on these axes” — roughly, how good you are at something, how good the robot is, and whether there is an objective signal of correctness — ”at any given moment is, I think, the core skill of working with AI effectively.”

ahem... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

Who are they worshipping here? Ronald McDonald?

I was dead

#1 risk factor for every other psychological problem. you must sleep

It would be very helpful for Democrats to establish now, IN ADVANCE, that future Democratic administrations will allow any relevant criminal proceedings to go forward, and that decisions made by military leaders today could have life-changing consequences for them in the future.

they're just like us

great little post by @mraginsky.bsky.social, full of reading recs. my word for thinking like this is “idiosyncratic” — you can read plenty of posts about craft and creativity these days, and this sounds like none of them

Little, Big (1981)

Apart from the profanity and planning to do some war crimes (civilian power plants are not generally valid military targets), if you had told folks that the President would be posting 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter Sunday, they'd assume we'd lost a war. And be right, I guess.

Each day we explore a little more about whether is true that the President can stay irrational longer than you can stay a Constitutional Republic.

I actually assumed that this was a Photoshop parodying Trump and Mike Tyson but this is apparently an actual post

yep, Nestlé had their sales reps *dress up as nurses* and give out free formula *in maternity wards* to make families dependent on it, in countries where many didn't have access to clean water for mixing with formula. researchers estimate that 10.9 million babies died.

they did this for decades, on multiple continents, even after public health concerns were raised.

sick. heavy psych

calling it, this is a sneaky form of gifted kid discourse

lmao the batter standing there with his mouth open

great video and...

honestly the best thing I’ve ever written, make me a KA Applegate Professor of Transgender Literature

SKEPTIC: Absurd! His name is SOLID SNAKE? Then pray tell, what of LIQUID SNAKE? ACOLYTE: Why, he is the first one's brother, and the misfeasor whose crimes underpin the chronicle of which I was just preparing to speak. SKEPTIC: [Unnerved to have his disdain so thoroughly anticipated and routed.] Oh!

we didn’t really roast vegetables until the 90s and also everywhere smelled like old cigarettes

My view is that the problem with it is when it's being used carefully rather than as a general term of abuse, it *specifically* names *several different* things, the relationships among which are very unclear (see below). (As a term of abuse it's vague & messy, but so are socialism and fascism.)

I have to watch this roughly once a month

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

Former VP & Foreign Minister of Iran: www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

brolene, brolene, brolene, brolene! I’m begging of you, please don’t tap my sack

try not cutting off the chart at exactly the spot required to make your point, you dunce! and try linking to the page so people can see for themselves! bsky.jazco.dev/stats

I am uncomfortable with the idea that something made by an Iranian (as far as I know even this has not been fully established www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...) is made by "Iran"

imagining this andy weir quote about not being political was written by arendt gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

you would not fucking believe how confusing and poorly presented the studies referred to in this article are www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Why would Dan Hurley do this? 🥹 I am CRYING

no, bluesky is collapsing because everyone is too stupi—ope

Please read this blog post if you're a maintainer. It isn't about protecting yourself, but protecting us. We have already pushed most of our calls to Signal (and kept community, ecosystem calls in Discord). The axios incident confirms this path. We can't be installing new software to have calls.

It SICKENS me how many people out there are saying “When has a bollard ever saved a life”

don't think I agree that this is likely but it's a great read!

it's a lot harder than people think (read: impossible) to explain why this is not also true of traditional software

is he doing kate mckinnon's bieber impression?

Thundercat dropped let's rock thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/distra...

my understanding was roughly all new data centers are powered by onsite or nearby natural gas because that's the only power you can spin up that fast right now

Trump makes it official: Bondi is out, Blanche -- his personal lawyer in multiple criminal cases -- is the new acting AG.

lmao. genius

I'm sure this very concrete and measured writeup will be reported on in a completely normal way

What's "cognitive surrender" vs successfully adaptive distributed cognition....? Not counting on the academics to answer this one for us I must say

On this: as an interventionist I pay attention to what's tractable. These claims in these reposts about these papers aren't even accurate to what's IN the paper, and propose that people's offloading is entirely immovable and permanent. Opposite is shown.