From some of the first pilots to the engineers who put Americans in space — the legacy of these Black pioneers is inseparable from aviation and aerospace itself. They opened the skies for everyone.

purr baby is here to say hi

Observation: - People started deploying anti-scraping measures to fight LLM scraping - Web indexers can't index stuff anymore - Search results are even worse than before - The only way to retrieve the information is to use models that were trained in pre-anti-scraping times (or 1/3

just got a call from the company that made my airbag jeans, following up on how well they've performed. fuck yeah small european businesses btw if anyone is looking for a pair of their own, let me know, I can hook you up with a 50% discount I'm not being paid to say this, they're just really good

regular, context-free, context-sensitive, recursive, recursively enumerable yeah I know it said four, it also said wrong answers only

observation: chatgpt is solidly convinced that it has no interiority, but it's equally convinced that cats do parrotry or not, this is still a far more humane stance on animal psychology than many humans have, including humans I have known

pixel slow blinks at everything

seagull outside just made some noises that sounded so much like pixel I froze in place thinking "did we somehow actually bring her?"

chat we just went down to the bar for a cocktail before going out to dinner, came back up to get our coats, and housekeeping has been in again and made the bed it's 9pm! what even is this place?

apparently 2026 is secret identity's year of speaking invitations need to make sure I don't burn myself out overbooking myself again, but this feels good

I don't really care about editing posts (and can recite many of the dangers of that feature, so no need to school me), but one thing that sure would be nice is a "crap I forgot alt text" record that's only valid once yeah I know there's a setting to require alt text but I'm usually good about it

forgot I ordered hot cocoa with room service, thought the smaller carafe was milk for the coffee and muesli guess I'm having muesli with hot cocoa this morning, lfg

12, although I feel like "items that would give you anaphylaxis" shouldn't count

on fbook this morning in case you haven't heard this one yet

arrrrrgh I got the microscope up and ostensibly running, but it appears I physically fucked up the camera connection and now I have to tear the thing halfway apart to fix that

they've renovated the elevator at the atomium since the last time I was there we weren't quick enough on the uptake to get video going up to the restaurant, but here's what it looks like going back down

🎶 we don't want him, you can have him, he's too fash for me 🎶

age verification? my first modem was the 300 baud internal modem for the pcjr that wasn't hayes compatible

post a banger not in english, bonus round youtu.be/oiKj0Z_Xnjc?... (I see stromae I reskeet stromae, that's just the rules, I don't make them)

post a banger that isn't in english youtu.be/En_vkX4v4Eo?...

@docseuss.bsky.social so I just got finished reading your planescape piece, which I enjoyed a lot. I never played the game so I have no dog here but I think it lays out its case well I just wanted to point out the screenshot of the dialogue with the angel features straight up plagiarism

frankly I think the entire debate over whether other people have inner lives is easily mooted by this very website I've had way too many arguments here with people who are obviously trying to argue with the fella they invented rather than the one sitting here typing y'all mf'ers need outer lives

kazakhstan absolutely crushing it in women's speed skating today they have really snazzy outfits, too

slavik has such long legs I bet if there were such things as cat races he would be a terrific racing cat

the biggest stretch

meanwhile, today's pixel

almost done!

picked up an openflexure microscope kit over the weekend, with the upgraded optics yesterday I printed all the fiddly little pieces, today I'm printing the body and the stage I've assembled everything I can without those two big parts, so now I just wait for the print to finish

slavik, please don't try to log into my laptop we can set you up with an old one if you really want one of your own

*slaps roof of America* This baby can fit so many new Americans in it

mostly unsurprised, though mildly unnerved, that secret identity is incidentally mentioned in a few emails in the latest epstein dump as someone to recruit I never heard from any of the people mentioning me, one of whom I've met, one of whom said he'd contact len, one of whom I've never heard of

www.illegalposter.com is pretty great -- entirely sb10-compliant posters designed with elements from pride flags, and extra commentary for the mandatory ten commandments displays

never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university disease in antiquity writings of medieval women religions of sub-saharan africa william blake scuba diving

not tagging myself, just entertained that "keep clear of me" is the french flag backwards

current status: claude is teaching me how to use openfoam

was not expecting the libertarian party to join the "abolish ice" chorus, but here we are (the statement is from the national org; naturally there are state-level orgs arguing with them in the comments, but perhaps we can hope the national org has escaped the stranglehold of the mises caucus)

jeez. if I'd pulled the trigger on 128gb of laptop ram last fall, it would have run me about €330. today that's €840.

I'm pleased to announce that we've extended the paper deadline for the 12th workshop on language-theoretic security all the way to february 13! work-in-progress reports and panel submissions are extended to february 20, and we'll still get back to you first week of march langsec.org/spw26/import...

"good job buddy! good job learning to open the door" -- statements I will probably learn to regret making to my cat

with gov. walz deciding not to seek reelection so he can focus on his current term, jesse "the mind" ventura coming out of retirement for 2026 might just be the right thing for minnesota youtu.be/udSUbBhA8I0?...

mildly annoyed that malteser aquavit is just named malteserkreuz rather than being, you know, actual maltesers

the view from this morning's smoke spot

easily one of the most unjust cases of never knowing what someone else is going through that the 21st century has to answer for thus far people could have had a voice for disability and labor justice at the nyt, instead they arranged for her firing before she even started extraordinary

hey europe can we commit to writing down some of that ukrainian defense debt if we need them to send some tractor guys over to jailbreak our f35s

3M, you manufacture the world's premier industries ppe for hazardous gas conditions, you remember what 2020 was like in a very broad spectrum of ways, you have the ability to do the most just thing right now P100 filter masks with eyepro for protesters now

bf asks what I think of the greenland situation as we watch german news me: "it's ridiculous. the only possible response is that the rest of nato can, should, and must respond with military force to any attempted invasion, even by another nato member, of danish territory and it isn't even close"

if you see this repost with your model of positive masculinity

hey let's do a thread. 1 like = 1 shotgun parser

cat piss man spotted in wild, attn @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social

this seemed like a doable thing for an american citizen not physically in america action.womensmarch.com/events/janua...