The paradox implicit in the Monty Python "four Yorkshiremen" sketch—how do they go to school barefoot in the snow *uphill both ways*—can *easily* be solved if they're living in a Hohlweltlehre simulation (the concave hollow earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth#Concave_Hollow_Earths#Concave_Hollow_Earths)

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If the US.military are having their salaries paid by a donor, aren't they mercenaries now under international law? I ask because my country has American personnel based in it and they don't seem to be being paid by the government of the United States, with whom we have a treaty, but by a third party

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff Block, move on.

So, I coauthored a book of RPGs scenarios based on Elizabethan folklore. More commentary in the Kickstarter's page from the editor and coauthors. It's useful in most fantasy based settings, although my stories in particular lean toward urban settings.

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

That terrible moment when you're trying to write Mythic Cheshire for Ars Magica and the ghost of Kenneth Williams sidles up and says "You know that D&D Ravenolft Venice thing you have been avoiding? This is what _I'd_ do... "

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that. What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

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I hope you love something beautiful and meaningless. For me, it's football. I don't care what it is for you, but I wish you a deep love for something that means nothing until you give it meaning through your attention.

RFK JR: “ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.” There’s a reason for that, Bobby:

The song to listen to while we wait: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSQ8...

How to cross thin ice, #polar #bear edition: spread out wide to distribute weight and reduce pressure. This clever move helps avoid breaking the fragile surface. A survival tactic perfected in the Arctic #physics

One thing that kills me about arts grants in Aus (one of many) is that if you’re someone like me who does the work—I see all my projects and to completion on my own time and dime—you’re essentially punished. Having a half assed idea is more valued than a finished product. It’s kinda maddening.

I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊

Ye brynge to mynde the babe. What babe? That babe wyth the knowlech. What knowlech? The knowlech of sorcerye. Sorcerye? Assuredlye! Assuredlye what? Brynge to mynde the babe. #Labyrinth #Bowie

I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing

ART THOU YN A SONG BY THE MOUNTAYNE GOATES? -Art thou drivinge at night? -Art thou feelinge not reallye one emocioun or anothir emocioun but rathir a productive tension or paradox? -Ys ther a notable birde nearbye? -Ys somebodye referencinge death metal, ancient historye, d&d, or wrestlinge? -YEAH!

First they came for your due process rights, and you said nothing for you had not committed a crime. Then they came for your right to privacy, and you said nothing for you had nothing to hide. Then they came for your free speech rights, and you said nothing.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

“Australian leadership must deftly manage an evolving geopolitical economic reality that most closely resembles a bus driver on an eight-day coke bender who has just locked his passengers in the vehicle to joyride through a minefield with a rabbit in his pants.”

Although libraries provide many services during cyclone recovery, I believe this was the most popular

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

Latin declensiouns and Bookes yn libraryes; Arcana and poemes And portals to Faërie; Long midnighte talkes about Cool goblin kynges: Thes ben a fewe of my favourite thinges.

Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.

great news buckaroos NOT POUNDED BY STRESS BECAUSE I TOOK SOME TIME FOR MYSELF WHICH IS PERFECTLY REASONABLE AND YOUR JOB SHOULD HECK OFF IF THEY GIVE YOU A HARD TIME ABOUT IT is out now as audiobook. get it here www.audible.com/pd/B0DYPM787...

No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.

Today’s the anniversary of The Greatest Goal Of The 90s. We’re not talking about Yeboah, Baggio, or Weah. Instead, I present to you: Gary Crosby at the City Ground, 1990. You sneaky little shithouse.

I hope it has a happy ending

My favourite episode is the one where Poirot gets a shoulder-mounted cannon.

So, when Ukraine handed 130 nukes to the Americans that was enough rare earth minerals to guarantee their security. That was the deal. If the Americans break it, what sensible country will ever voluntarily disarm again?

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

Peter Dutton called Donald Trump “a big thinker” this month because he has no judgment. Michaela Cash from the Liberal Party said Dutton would deliver the “exact same” attitude as Trump because she has no patriotism. #auspol

Lucky that the journalist from Russian state TV, who apparently walked in without anyone knowing, didn't have a weapon. They handed close-range line of sight to the President of Ukraine to a -public- Russian asset. It's not like they only had three novichok pellets and they're all out

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available? It's literally called Library Extension.

(To the tune of "pynke ponye clubbe"): Rare native mous Thei have re-encountered A rare native mous rare native mous www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Hieronymus Bosch Lute lobster, cavortinge fork, birdes, fyre, giant shoe

Civil rights imperiled. Section 504 is part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and provides explicit protections for persons with disabilities. For #Academicsky this includes all reasonable accommodations your students or colleagues have sought. 17 states are suing to remove these protections.

Seeing an emphasis on scouring performance review systems for low performers reminds me the value of my practice to never put things in performance reviews that could be taken out of context by bad actors

If they wanted to take over the country, they only had to wait like three weeks until every technocratic nerd was unreachably distracted. They fundamentally do not understand us, and that is why they will lose.

#TTRPG I've just made a new FB page for a fanzine and apparently my likes and dislikes don't get shared across. It just knows I'm a man in my 50s. The torrent of misogynist crap that FB thinks I want based on those two data points should shame the hobby.

#1 in the 🌎 For the second year running, Los Angeles Public Library is the number one lending library in the world on Overdrive/Libby with over 14 million items borrowed in 2024. We couldn't have done it without you 🫶📚🎉

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.