“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.” — Malcolm Gladwell Ten thousand prompts and I’ll be rich. — Every feckless AI techbro

🔭 Globular Cluster M15 Deep Field Image Credit & Copyright: Alvaro Ibanez Perez apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...

👀 It's happening, people. #thelongdark

Using my closed laptop connected to an outboard monitor as a tortilla warmer and it's working surprisingly well.

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Also what we call November in the #PNW.

In this evening's sky the International Space Station arcs into Earth's shadow, while a jet makes a U turn. 🔭🧪

Man not sure if I can swing a midnight showing but sure want to

Pretty good distillation from the judge here

Of course Aurora borealis comes to LA and it's cloudy

Hey its me from Ops, I didn't bother to read your email. Here are five frantic questions which were already answered in your email. I need an immediate response.

AI chatbots didn’t encourage teens to kill themselves. The people at the companies that created the AI chatbots failed to create safety guardrails that adhere to best practices in suicide prevention methods.

🔭 Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 from Hubble Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess, K. Noll star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

Just got the Steam reminder that Dead Static Drive is out! Well I guess tomorrow or maybe today, I dunno. I pumped either way. store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

Been waiting on this for a bit, stoked it's here!

A classic

New Teams logo just dropped and this is all I can think of.

Exactly this.

It needs more bass

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

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Network switches kinda blow my mind sometimes. Phenomenal technology

Had a pretty awesome moment with the toddler yesterday. We were heading out on our evening walk. The moon was visible while still light and my guy stopped halfway down the stairs and said "Luna" it was like he had seen it for the first time. He looked at me again and said "Luna"!

If any single techbro pushing genAI had 1% of the incredible artists (incl writers, film-makers, game devs, etc) in their life that I do, they'd never ever put their talents and energy towards making machines that steal from them to spit out soulless garbage facsimiles of creativity.

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan. This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

I think this is what they mean when they say "wishful thinking". $45B annual revenue from the entire genAI industry in 2024 will magically become $2T in the next 4 years? So much bullshit.

🔭 Saturn Opposite the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Jin Wang apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25092...

Woke up with the theme to Airwolf in my head. This bodes well for the day.

a golden age for doing bullshit and creating problems for your coworkers www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

the entire world should come to an agreement to never reveal shoegaze lyrics

HiPOD: Bright and Dark Dunes This image shows a large sand dune with bright patches. Martian dunes near the poles often have bright patches in the spring, when seasonal frost is lingering. What is going on here? uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_06... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA

Getting there

Remember if your a artist you don’t make “content” that’s the word of the enemy we don’t use that word to talk about something that requires effort and has artistic intent. That word is used too devalue effort to being something made purely for consumption and tossed aside and your better then that.

🔭 Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning Image Credit: NASA, Expedition 73, Nicole Ayers apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

🔭 Sardinia Sunset Image Credit & Copyright: Lorenzo Busilacchi apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

Not nearly enough.

Yes!

Oh you're an AI-Artist? You're legit? I bet you really shred in Guitar Hero too

🔭 Callisto: Dirty Battered Iceball Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Voyager 2; Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill; apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

Just finished Herdling, what a lovely game. Everything just seemed to come together beautifully. The music, environments, controls, UI, and sound was totally cohesive. I fell in love with my herd and they seemed to love me back. I didn't want it to end and I'm gonna miss them.

"Some students are still writing their own essays, if you can believe that. Some of them even aspire—and I promise you that I’m not making this up—to write an entire book at some point in their life."

Answer: Who the fuck cares? The most unsettling question of our time is why we spend more time worrying about these machines than we do about human suffering (and there's a LOT of it). The world would be much better off if we deleted the past 5 years of big tech. Just burn it all down.

1/ Ein absolutes Highlight für #WissKomm, und das schon 1977. Hier ist eine qualitativ gute Version der Weihnachtsvorlesung von Carl #Sagan, wohl der wichtigste Vorreiter für astronomische Breitenbildung und Wissenschaftskommunikation. #ChristmasLectures 🔭

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

Two of the absolutely most enjoyable and highest impact things you can have in your game and for your game development process: 1) Top-tier concept art from artists with distinct vision. 2) Rich voice performances from actors with a ton of experience. Why would you ever use genAI for these things?

“$1.3tn of data centre capex will pay for land, buildings and fit-out expenses. The remaining $1.6tn is to buy GPUs from Nvidia & others. Smarter people than us can work out how to securitise an asset that loses 30 per cent of its value every year, and good luck to them.” www.ft.com/content/7052...