playing Gone Home. It appears to be a game about losing pens underneath the furniture

SEATTLE PEEPS Word on the street is that tomorrow ICE is planning to ambush people heading to court at the Federal building downtown from 8-4 tomorrow Check it out if you want to help observe, obstruct, report, resist, or otherwise get involved in crushing some ICE

So is literate programming making a huge comeback in the age of vibecoding or nah?

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

It is a political open goal to go after these companies. They’re unsympathetic, disconnected from humanity, their leaders are charmless and bland pseudo-people with a flimsy attachment to reality and nothing to lose. Run them into the ground - people love technology, but they hate the tech industry.

Level 3 automation arrives at 0:32 in this clip youtu.be/frGoalySCns?...

Optical #illusion found online. Most commenters thought the boards were of different widths. I think they're the same width and the cut is something other than 45 degrees.

Why can’t they make the smoke alarm battery alert so that you can tell what room it’s coming from?

(Its honestly stunning how *far* you can see it from once you know where it is)

Even linkedin is starting to get it

i swear i am not actively searching for it but the amount of "crows have pretty good statistical literacy" work i'm seeing is starting to raise questions for which i don't have good answers.

please use alt text on your screenshots so that my mute list prevents me from having to see the dumb shit you've screenshotted

This guy literally said theonion.com/historians-q...

so to explain to anyone not in the know Autism Speaks has a long rep for being run by ableist eugenicist fucks them being on this is like if a letter from a bunch of religious advocacy groups condemning crimes against humanity got cosigned by the Literal Devil

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Just watched this. My takeaway is that a helicopter is a machine that is always primed and ready to have its rotor just fall off

If the vibe is discovery! Excitement! Collaboration! Learning! etc I think people are much more likely to do good science in decent quantities than they are if the vibe is (in contrast) "how can each of us get ahead", "we're the best and everybody else sucks", "competition produces discovery" etc

We’re in the third year of people mostly of the managerial class being convinced that word prediction machines will attain consciousness any day now I’m increasingly suspicious that the managerial class does not actually have consciousness I wonder if anyone wrote a book about this 150 years ago

You know what is a good combination is a traditional Celtic tune with Saharan blues fingerstyle. #nowplaying #bikesky youtu.be/1sL6nQ_LkL0?...

big L for literacy rn. why read when all i get is psychic damage

I like how every single person in Britain is a miserable cynic except for this one specific guy who they keep around to write editorials like “I thought the jam sandwich could not be improved, but then I discovered marmalade.”

"A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer." mastodon.social/deck/@jasong...

Seattle fucking rules as a city, I do not understand the hate. It is cold, windy, wet, brutalist, and alive.

Anyone in need of a band name?

"Objectivity must be operationally defined as fair treatment of data, not absence of preference." Stephen Jay Gould wrote that more than three decades ago, but elite journalism hasn't grasped his point to this day.

"The point of statistical inference is not to produce the right answers with high frequency, but rather to *always* produce the inference best supported by the data at hand when combined with existing background knowledge and assumptions." —Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy

Please enjoy my blog about autistic burnout. It is a real thing and it is really, really rubbish. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/edi/2025/03/...

i honestly don't know much about the specifics of what this guy said and it could not matter less. the government does not have the right to do this to him. this has to be opposed vigorously. ignore anyone who tries to loop you into a discussion of the ethics of statement this guy made. immaterial.

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

Finding a tab open to USAJobs, sighing and closing it

What post-punk noise-rock needs is more saxophone! 🔥🎷 #nowPlaying www.youtube.com/watch?v=GltO...

I really hate taking this perspective and maybe this post is just for me, but when Columbia University sent the NYPD after pro-Palestinian protestors and everyone was like “well they can do that” we sold out our college students. Today’s shock news is just everyone catching up to it.

incredible things are happening on printables. www.printables.com/model/116659...

I really beg datavis researchers to start engaging with this. The role of the chart here is to provide a cover of objectivity. It’s reifying the entire fucking opinion section into a 2d space to lens it some Cartesian legitimacy or something equally dark. So, so gross.

( Source: circumstances.run/@davidgerard... ) On a related, "this is bad, right? this seems real bad?" note, it turns out the same day Firefox posted their new, vaguely terrifying "Terms of Use" they also removed this text from their FAQ:

Do you want to take action for more public bathrooms in Seattle? We are forming a campaign but need your input and your ideas and some of your time. Share the Cities is an all volunteer collective with no funding. Take 10 minutes and fill out this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Well well well, perhaps we will see the return of tactile computational interfaces (which are more accessible, of course)

You can usually tell when someone has a shallow grasp of AI when their go-to solution for all problems is an LLM. Complex data usually requires a deep understanding of the data's features. You have to think through its dimensions. You have to design vector embeddings that lend themselves to ML.

the primate testing paradigm will be over within my lifetime — if not not through badly needed institutional courage, then as science is forced to change one funeral at a time 4/4

Check out the anomalous motion illusion on this album cover #visionacience youtu.be/WSvmUDs_wAc?...

Love lookin up jazz standards. You've been hearing them your whole life without knowing they were originally sung by some guy starring in a 1930s musical called "Cloudy Weather" about the invention of the blimp

lot of teachable lessons for "data detectives" in the news today

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

pseudonymous poster out here inventing whole novel forms of propulsion www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting...

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

"Letting the data speak" data is collected by humans, with all of our lovely quirks. You must see through the numbers' facade of objectivity. That is how you listen in statistics.