I am collecting human dreams of AI, LLMs etc at @dreamsofai.bsky.social

Contact your MP! #cdnpoli

Perusing the encyclical at 36,000 feet.

Flying almost over @cmf406.bsky.social 's house right this minute 😀

If you know anyone who is dangling in career limbo in this era, churning through possibilities that all now feel closed off - @sarahquinn.bsky.social and I are facilitating a workshop about re-imagining into notions of work and vocation. Sometimes the well trodden path disappears...

Nobody?

Turbulence 🤢😥

Huh. I just realized that when my mom was more or less the age I am now, my daughter was born.

Gen X earworm: Here's to good friends tonight is kinda special the beer we'll pour must say something more somehow

I notice the author writes about accumulating fewer things but also travels regularly to different sides of the planet. spacedaily.com/x-anthropolo...

Summary by Jake Baker-Brown: "27 law students in Vanuatu went to the world's highest court and won. The ICJ ruling they sparked may be the most consequential legal decision in human history. This is what it looks like when ordinary people refuse to accept the limits others set for them."

Decades of aimlessness. I'm tired.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

My favorite series of all time. By far. Brilliant and beautiful.

A gerund is a noun wearing a verb as a hat

Children are not and should never be considered a form of life fulfilment for the parents. Children are their own people with their own goals, ambitions, hopes and dreams. They are not accessories or property. They are not tools for parents to live out their fantasies. Children have rights.

Why are hotel pillows so awful?

There's at least one little league team in my hotel and they need to go to bed like right fkng now.

Want to keep reading and replying and maybe posting but I'm too tired!

Sharing NYT to make a point - all of this was possible, and in some cases easier, as long as three years ago. I even shared a model here that was broken in order to show this was possible. I’m very concerned about how shocked “experts” are while they belatedly learn something obvious.

I'd like to impulsively lol up more random people from my past, but I am forgetting their names.

"Institutional failure breeds mistrust. Mistrust breeds misinformation. Misinformation breeds panic. And panic, unchecked, always lands hardest on the people already carrying the most." I'd been wondering why I hadn't seen more discussion of the 1993 hantavirus outbreak in Diné country.

Well dang, this is a cool read about urban forests!

Seems pretty hard to find hotels with windows that open these days.

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Long shot: I need an impartial person with experience building or remodeling yacht living interiors. I haven’t been able to track down anyone on earth who does accessibility or aging in place for f**king yachts

Ugh. Not gonna read this tonight but I do need to come back to it.

My parents are less stressed than I've seen them in months. It's nice to see how they engage with things when they're relaxed and enjoying themselves.

It was good. I'm exhausted.

We get to do a lot of clapping, anyway.

It was 90 degrees on move-in day. Today it's 52 and raining. At least the graduation ceremony is in a big tent.

FYI a 15+ year old Baggallini isn't rainproof.

"since 1830, Paris was disappearing+a new one springing up upon its ruins. what is fantastic is not the consciousness of change; it is the wish to *visualize* that process, and have the modern city be an image. Haussmann's purpose was to give modernity a shape; Paris was becoming a spectacle."

I'm inventing a place for people who don't enjoy bars to go to after dinner. It will have places to sit and talk and maybe enjoy a nice view depending on location.

I for some reason feel the need to point out that we have created a world in which the average person spends more than 90% of their time indoors. And that there's no reason it has to keep being this way.

An interesting thing about NASA is that they’ve never had to worry whether scrubbing a launch for safety reasons would impact their IPO

College graduation ceremony today for my one and only kid. Lots of feels. One of which is fear that I'm not going to be able to sit for four hours.

I should be sleeping

Man I hate it when I'm feeling fine and then someone takes a picture of me and I see it. Me inside: 🧚‍♀️🌅🌈🪷 Photo of me: 🥔🧟‍♀️🫩👽

LAX international terminal is dead and it's a Friday afternoon

It turns out going to a high school graduation in College Station is a lot like when you have to pick someone up at O'Hare and their flight arrives at 4:30 Friday afternoon.

"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."

works for "ignore," too

Ok now that Colbert is free he should travel to Rome to meet the pope & receive sainthood

Students submitting for credit essays they couldn’t be bothered to write, that their instructor isn’t going to bother to read, is the obvious end point of all of this utter utter bullshit.

Woke up this morning to the final app migration from Fitbit to Google Health. Deleted account. Hope my Fitbit will still be useful. If not, it's fine. Trying not to use yet another product with AI shoved up its ass.

Media Stop Using Pictures of Needles and/or Crying Children in Articles About Vaccines Thereby Prejudicing the Public Challenge Difficulty: impossible, apparently

Truly the only lesson the DNC needs to learn but never will is how to attract its own voting base, not the republicans’

FIYAH is an amazing magazine and an important part of the SFF community. It will continue to be so in various ways and I am thankful and grateful to all of the people who have made it what it is and whatever it becomes into the future. Let us celebrate all of its authors, staff, and achievements.