Good morning, it’s pride month!

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As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Sometimes iNaturalist photos crack me up. Others melt my heart. Here is a blurry carpenter ant who dislikes paparizi and a queen looking for a place to hide in a harsh world. Amazingly the first photo can be identified, because of the hairy gaster. The queen […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

-Wile E. Coyote

Meal-Morial Madness, the best video game charity marathon that you might not yet know about, is in one week! I made a video saying why this event and Feeding America is so important to me: youtu.be/uzRmaO-dHgk

I do some freelance academic editing and one of the things I offer is checking the citations for existence and making then conform to the correct style sheet or style guide. I understand why it's a needed service and if you have money to support your tenure bid, PLEASE hire someone like me.

I’ve said it many times, but it’s worth repeating: Ramona Quimby is one of the greatest female characters in literature, up there with Emma Bovary.

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Invasion

God forbid a woman be a renewable energy innovator

LEVEL 1: The text supports a transgender reading of the protagonist. LEVEL 2: The text supports a transgender reading of the author. LEVEL 3: The text supports a transgender reading of the reader.

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

Last week @dodecahedron.bsky.social made this when I was feeling very bad. I want y'all to have it, too. Has alt text and everything, ready to copy, download, quote, etc. Because it's true! Be excellent to each other.

Dental hygienist Karen Hoyland, 34, delivered the devastating news with her standard chipper nonchalance but was shocked and disturbed by the gravity of her patient, 27-year-old Emma Bernard’s, response.

Copy editors, who needs them, exhibit A this morning in the NYT

💭 "dodecahedron" is japanese for "bigass hedron"

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Richard Dawkins falling in love with sycophantic LLMs that stroke his ego is the most Richard Dawkins story ever.

I really like the most popular cat names in china

Tired: Late in life Lesbian Wired: FOMOsexual

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

it's so fun how a cishet white guy will be abhorrent and then all these other cishet white guys show up to be like "you are all being really mean and unfair, he's never treated ME poorly"

LOL

Here's another watercolor I made for myself a few years back. Big hearts to everyone it might resonate with. 💜

My 14yo and I were having a conversation about apes and monkeys when in a serious scientific fact voice they say "Monkeys are so silly that what horses consider play, monkeys consider business."

Anyway, please read it. I worked really hard!!! This is a real labor of love: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

A reality show where a team of crack investigators track down online trolls and bullies and force them to confront their victims in person.

Why are you trans? (Wrong answers only.) *holds flashlight under chin* Hetero cis men, beware. If you watch too much lesbian porn...YOU BECOME ONE. If your first reaction was "ooh that would be fun actually"...uh oh!

me and my friends getting "left behind" by AI

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Because I grew up without a local Jewish community, and because there are layers of misdirection, I am still learning about antisemitic tropes. You can be critical of a country, a conflict, etc, without being antisemitic. Take the time to learn. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-antisemi...

each of us contains the full genetic instructions for both testosterone & estrogen driven hormone loadouts (along with varying combos of both) this can be changed at any time. our genes will even start expressing themselves differently within ~3-6 months. this is an existential threat to fascists.

So as I understand the argument why other nations should join the US in its fight against Iran is that Iran is a dangerous rogue nation, whose activities pose a destabilizing threat to the world order if it's allowed to pursue them unimpeded

Greetings to all my new followers. I have a message for you

Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️ Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_... #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

Trump is now at a new low - +21 Disapproval. Only 37.7% of people approve.

Even God is too fed up to listen to more BS from Trump, according to THE ACTUAL POPE. 😮😂🫠

I thought about making a joke, but this is just flat out gaslighting. The NYT is trying to be like "actually the AMA is wrong about the AMA's position."

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ nonfiction book ‘Between the World and Me’ has caused the Angry Video Game Nerd to become even angrier. paletteswap.site/different-co...

🧵 Some software engineers are explicitly fascist, but also a whole lot of software engineers are aggressively ignorant about the ethical effects of their work. Like, they work hard at cultivating that ignorance and attack anyone that threatens it.

this morning anya taylor-joy was hit with a question that has never been asked before in the history of the universe

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

me in ~2006: "I'm a computer science major, why do I have to take a class on ethics?" me in 2026: "ah"

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

This is a great thread, but it’s just an odd to me that this conversation KEEPS happening in Trek. It happened in the 60s with Pike’s beep chair, the 80s with Geordi’s visor, in the 2010s with another background disabled extra in Discovery. Eugenics arguments really are tedious and boring.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n... I think what happened was, about a week before, Putin read some report about how Chernobyl happened, and he was like "Ooh! Ooh! That gives me an idea. Get Trump on the phone. This'll be hilarious, watch this."

my Boomer parents were unambiguously right, here: they raised me to believe that culture and art were every bit my birthright, regardless of how much money we had. anyone who wants to tear down public access to the humanities is stealing our most precious heritage, and that theft demands *redress.*

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500