Wow, I just read the Wikipedia article for composite video, and I am always blown away by how ingenious analog technologies are. Like, obviously the quality isn't as good, but the fact that someone thought to use multiple signals modulated on top of each other to send color video over a simple wire!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

The thing I love about watching sports like snowboarding is that every time you watch, the standards have already gone to another level. I remember when a 1080 was the one of biggest trick you could pull, and now I just watched multiple people go for a 1620!

The fascist wants you to feel “how can it be possible for such a clown to have the powers of a monster-god” and it is your duty, privilege, and joy to instead feel “this fuckin’ clown thinks he’s a monster-god.”

One of the announcers for the Women's Snowboard Cross finals sounds like he's doing a Trump impression the whole time

I know it's supposed to be a "g" and the closing quotation is a "d", but it's just wrong and bad.

10/10 no notes. 100% correct.

It just clicked for me the extent to which all the positions of power and influence in society are set up to be most easily accessed by narcissists and people with no moral backbone. So the best thing we can do REALLY IS to just unplug from those channels and connect back to the people around us.

The Rings of Power's Tom Bombadil literally haunts me. Every once in a while I'll just randomly remember that he happened and get angry all over again, lol. What were they thinking casting such a jolly-looking man and then making him act like he was in the Snyder-cut or something??

I cannot describe to you how excited I am for this

make bad art it's where you start and sometimes where you end do some shit and publish it or show it to a friend make bad stuff! it's good enough and never ever stop if someone tries to criticize say "what are you, a cop?"

i often think about this review

I've spent A LOT of time trying to recreate this effect with photo/vector editing, I love this!

Sometimes you see a job listing, so you go to the company's website to see what they're about, and then the more you click around and the more you read, the more you feel like your brain is melting inside your skull and dribbling out your ears like a devil wrote every word to drive humans insane.

I hope everyone has a very spooky day

I will always be a Curling stan, but I think Snowboard Cross might be the most exciting Olympic sport

I'm really fascinated and kind of incredulous that this first third or so of The Evangelicals by Frances Fitzgerald has covered all the way from 1700 to 1957, and the last two-thirds is presumably just the remaining 60 years up to 2017 when the book was published. (The paper marks the footnotes)

@cwgabriel.bsky.social @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com I can't wait to learn what in the actual hell today's comic is about 😂

Chinese GF has informed me this is called "scrubbing the wok" (hence why there's foamy water in the middle) and you can see a million more of these videos if you search 越野刷鍋 (off-road hot pot).

the last thing you see before you die when you're a USA curling stone in scoring position

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

I was scrolling through YouTube and saw this thumbnail and was like, "HOLD UP, is that Ashley from Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'??" And it is! And it was a great video!

A Moment of Zen to start your day: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Inst. (MBARI) documented an encounter with Stygiomedusa gigantea, the giant phantom jelly. The Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) named "Doc Ricketts" captured this video at a depth of 990 meters (3,200 feet) in Monterey Bay. Hypnotic!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Whoooa, Vivaldi's tab tiling is a gamechanger

It's absolutely insane that NBC is taking time to have someone literally read the Google AI result for a question about the sport you're watching instead of just having one of the many experts they already have commentating come give an actual explanation.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I think NBC is using AI generated subtitles, and they aren't great

DAAAAANG, this is why I love curling

Ski jumping is actually just a flying squirrel fantasy

Wow, hockey is hard to watch on streaming, the bit rate just can't keep up

summer olympics are about who’s fastest, strongest, etc. winter olympics are about a deep primal quality we don’t have a word for yet.

It's so good!!!! It legit changed how I see the world, how we are attached to each other, and how suffering makes us human.

There are two Sci-Fi tropes that I cannot get enough of: the child-soldier raised to fight a war they don't understand and the sentient robot trying to understand the meaning of life in spite of its programming. It took a LONG time to realize there might be a reason those hit particularly hard, lol

Holy crap, @j0siemostly.bsky.social was not kidding when she said Nier: Automata is one of the best games ever made. You don't realize just how good it is until around the last hour of the final "ending" though. I was definitely laughing and crying at the same time as I finished the final "credits".

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don't criticize what you can't understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand For the times, they are a-changin'

Whoa, I knew Billy Graham had a whole arc from conservatism to, maybe not full-on liberalism, but something approaching it, but I didn't realize it started so early or that his starting point down that road was things like this that are maybe even more toward the liberal end of things nowadays.

I don't think I've fully appreciated how scary the Cold War was for those who really lived it. I was alive for the last 5 years, but I was too young to get it. I still think those generations screwed society over in a lot of ways but I'm also starting to recognize how much trauma they lived through.

I have no desire for generational animosity, I think that's stupid. THAT BEING SAID, I REALLY just need my Gen Z people to scroll back up the text thread and catch up on what they missed.

Man, nothing forces you to really stare down the metastatic void of modern society like applying for jobs, huh?

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko

One of the most charming things to me about early Black Sabbath is how utterly devoid of ambiguity their lyrics are. This song goes so hard in such an on-the-nose way, and I love it.

I was going to lament not having access to peacock to watch the Olympics, but honestly, I've already gotten completely sucked in watching curling for the 30 minutes they let you have for free, totally neglecting the work I should be doing, so it's probably for the best...

Enjoying Vivaldi so far. It's INSANELY customizable, so I definitely sunk a couple hours yesterday and this morning doing just that, lol. But I can already feel a significant difference in its responsiveness vs Firefox

Now THIS is up my alley! "Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run" by Sufjan Stevens (Most of the songs on this album fit the bill)

Whoa, ok, now I'm intrigued