I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Why would AI turn on us, when it’s so easy to get us to turn on each other?

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Let me know when things escalate to stage Arbeh or Choshech because I probably don’t want to try to sit out Makat Bechorot.

Disney plus sub cancelled.

GenX bitching so long…

Another thing: the people lining up to say “but he was nice to *me*” are to a person white guys in powerful positions. I got news for you: he did not respect your ideas, he respected your power and enjoyed proximity to it. Of course he was nice to you.

That feeling when you visit the Cabazon Dinosaurs and you worry that reality is glitching. Wait a minute: how many toes on a brontosaurus?

War is stupid, and should never happen.

AirPods Pro 3 draft design

Colbert, on RFK Jr’s hearing. @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/... #classicsofchemdit

It could work... it should work... it would work... it's working already! youtu.be/mg2N0dOb_jM #notcountingthemezzanine

If you just want to do nuclear fusion on a tabletop and you don’t care about how much excess energy it takes to do it, the 1960s Farnsworth-Hirsch “fusor” is there for you. Many attempts over the years to build on this to something practical, with no success (see “polywell” for more!)

Sorry not sorry to all my nazi peeps, but whenever I see the phrase “blood and soil” it’s played to the tune of a floor keyboard at FAO Schwartz youtu.be/CF7-rz9nIn4?...

My hyper-trumpy neighbor, who has flown Trump flags for 9 years straight, has taken them all down. #signsandwonders

The critical observation: "[Bede] goes on to emphasise that in two lunar months (59 days) the Moon circles the Earth 57 times and there are 114 tides." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide#:~....

I've always had a challenge with tides. I don't not believe that the sun and moon affect tides, but the "explain to children" reduction to just the moon isn't sufficient. It's complicated, because high tide isn't only when the moon is directly overhead. For example... 1/2

Same poll, except “is it OK to cut contact if they are transgendered?” Watch it flip.

One of the reasons people turn to faith over reason is because truth is easier to verify than to be found or reasoned out. Neither are easy, just relatively so.

Science is not a monolith: it’s full of uncertain divergent edges. That doesn’t mean all that is alternative is correct: vast areas are provably out of bounds. “Doing science” is being able to tell the difference.

This is useful information for how to get vaccinated, even though delusional eugenicists don’t want you to

QP, mostly for @gabrielle-h.bsky.social

The way that I know they’re lying, is that they approve the vaccine for people at risk, but deny it for everyone else.

I remember in the 1990's when Cracker Barrel said no homo, and then decided yay homo in 2002. Other than occasionally getting my biscuit fix on there, that's about where it intersected with my consciousness...

"The Republican Party has a long and proud history of producing the nation’s finest male cheerleaders. In the past 50 years, more Republican presidents have been male cheerleaders than seen combat."

Shadow fleet tankers experiment with stateless identification numbers ▶️Simultaneous use of legitimate and illegitimate numbers ▶️One ship used a technically flagless MMSI number alongside a fake IMO number www.lloydslist.com/articles/202...

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

“Central planning.” “Overreach.” “Maoist Capitalism.” “Government as a poor allocator of capital.” Etc etc.

This is 53. No makeup, no filter. Just joy.

Futa/furry porn? Reddit ad? How long till cognitive dissonance kicks in?

Holy shit can she sing. youtu.be/woLfAvD5iXI?...

My favorite quote about Dirac: “there is no god and Dirac is his messenger”

about 3 x 10^21 (at least when alive. not sure what a couple centuries of decomposition do to the % weight of boron in the body)

I understood AI better when someone explained that LLM basically means "how have the world's biggest dipshits typically answered this question"

@gabrielle-h.bsky.social does this trick for little kids, counting fingers: 1-2-carry the three, 4-5-6-7-8, plus the carried three 9-10-11 to count eleven fingers. ChatGPT’s version is more rudimentary but this seems like the same sleight of hand.

I suspect this is bad news for that nuclear isotopes business I’m invested in, but we will see.

Canon xkcd.com/3123/

"Dr. Jordan Shlain, who runs five longevity clinics, told me, “Everything you do to improve your health span can improve your life span. Everything you do to improve your life span is fucking bullshit.” -from www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I can’t have been the only one who wanted to be in a Barbara Bain/ Catherine Schell as Barbara Bain Metamorph three way dilemma, right? Here’s our chance! www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

I am torn asunder at the news that the Museum of Jurassic Technology was damaged by fire a couple of weeks ago.

I sometimes think the only true test of intelligence is not saying "humans are soulless machines" out loud for fear that it will make other soulless machines feel bad.

LLMs are not intelligent: if anything, they reinforce my belief that humans are, in fact, soulless machines, and that "intelligence" is meaningless. It's clearly not what is known, nor the ability to capitalize on knowledge.

You know what's sad, I mean really fucking sad. If people were like let's use AI to replace CHILDREN in television and movies and all that jazz... ...to protect the children I might've been all in. I might've jumped on board. But no, it's goober shit or greedy shit, all the way down.

No cheating post your lock screen. (Mine is my latest happy place, Big Rock Candy Mountain in Sevier, UT. Pic from virtual “where’s Waldo” style email flyer from resort)

2015 me: oh no the poor thing 2025 me: haha eat shit lmao

Not once did I think "physical comedy" would be one of the first jobs the robots would take. But, here we are.