Very cool vid about spider cognition.

And then I beheld the visage of a demon, a pentacle engraved on its face [11] and it peered at me from lifeless eyes through a flying orb [12] and beneath the buzz of an infernal swarm I could hear the words [13] "I am not an atomic playboy" [14]

tech bubbale (endearing)

gork what does it mean when my amygdala is glowing red?

It's always fun to see how much occult philosophy permeates the works of figures like Newton and Leibniz, who are usually held up as paragons of rationalism. Also, I really need to read a proper biography of Llull at some point.

Good opportunity to post the link to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. Having a space weather service is one of the few things that make me feel more like we're living in Cool Star Trek Future, and there is precious little of that. www.swpc.noaa.gov

Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.

Can someone who is better at machiavelling explain to me the advantages of releasing incriminating documents on your political opponent /after/ a month long Mexican standoff you lost because your rival kept manifesting you had an empty revolver?

For perspective, GEMA and OpenAI feuding is like two vampires having a dispute over who gets to drain all the cattle.

Fuck off Sigmund

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Lyonel Feininger ‘Der Kopflose Radler’ (The Headless Rider), “Das Narrenrad”, 1898 archive.org/details/dasn...

Interesting! Scientists have discovered a new species of sea #anemone that inhabits the depths of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan. It creates a kind of #shell using its own secretions to house #hermitcrabs, forming a unique symbiotic relationship. 🐚🦀 buff.ly/1ja7tLZ 📸 Yoshikawa et al.

The Rhythm Doggo trailer is now up on Youtube too and the game's steam page is store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... - wishlisting is super appreciated Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social

Roses are red Violets are blue Chat, is this real? Grok, is this true?

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

HERMES: I can not be condemned for the errors of another. TALOS: Neither can I. HESTIA: The dirge of failed parenthood. METIS: Which is it? Thing or person? It can not be both. EUNOMIA: Can it not? I wrought ephemera into persons, to touch them. DYSNOMIA: So you could judge ghosts.

Recipe roulette put me to Bergen, so I'm making Fårikål. Good point in the season for it, too. Unfortunately I couldn't find good mutton, so beef will have to do. www.thenorwegianstandard.com/article/fari...

Somewhere, a taxonomist sagely nods and erases 'extant' from the Funko clade of the big tree of Ugly Shit That Went Viral For No Reason. After they consider the Labubu genus for a few moments, they go back to the forum discussion on whether NFTs should be a kingdom or domain.

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black. www.livescience.com/animals/spid...

I've been labeled "crushed piano" on bluesky, which is .. a surprisingly good approximation of my default mental state, but also leaves me wondering if that categorizes my posts as more "rude" or more "explicit".

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Great Barrier Reef Anemones (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-4597-4175-aaa3-bb1e925bb3e0 #biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain

lol The tech blob has been playing volleyball with a money bleeding bag this year, and MS let slip OpenAI lost $12bn last quarter. OpenAI wants the gov to bail them out and after a collective gasp by the moneymancers switches to "no bailout, just a promise they WOULD bail us out".

You know, if we consider humanity's current struggles with a pseudo-AI a test run, I think it would probably be prudent to figure out and define some ethical, juristic, and social limits 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 an actual AGI appears.

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) Part 2 #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Imagine the amount of cat hair necessary to clog a supermassive black hole. Not saying it's impossible.

A Saracen burgomaster? Surely Constantinople is doomed.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

The reverse happened a while ago when someone decided that administrative interfaces need to be optimized for mobile devices. I'm not administrating my server cluster with a fricking ipad you fools!

Soul Burn is so much fun. It's like a gunslinger doing all the unnecessary spins and flicks just to show off. It's also very much a "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet" track (1995)

DeusEx, System Shock 2, TES3: Morrowind, Subnautica, Dark Souls 1 & 3, STALKER Anomaly, Arx Fatalis, Homeworld. Kind of in a perpetual rotation through these, although Morrowind, Subnautica, and Anomaly aren't exactly games I play to 'beat' them.

Moth queen🍂

In a zombielike biome beneath Earth’s oceans, some individual cells might be 100 million years old.

It's a Bohren kind of evening

To fully drive home the geekery of pure mathematicians, they decided to name shapes without the Rupert Property a Nopert.

Most people don't know this, but there are actually 𝘵𝘸𝘰 Bells of Awakening.

Started whistling until I realized it's Ievan Polka, then stopped to marvel a bit at the complexity of tasks my brain and body can perform completely without me. Wish I could have work run as background task instead of meme songs, though.

The look back at the camera, I can't. #spider #jumpingspider

it’s giving Jupiter south polar vortex tbh

Good chance books for spiders are written in bug parts.

Generated videos of Melissa's impact have started to circulate. Which in turn causes people to call actual coverage fake. Which in turn causes some to call the whole damn storm a hoax as part of the 'climate agenda'. Which, given the footprint of generative "AI", is just lovely.

If Nintendo wants to jump on the Silksong hype train, I have a suggestion for an IP revive.

This Pokémon track has better beats than 90% of modern hiphop prods

I hate multiplexing my work tasks. It's exhausting. Ceci n'est pas une pipe, je suis la pipe.

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.