DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

Continuing the theme from the last episode on the energy transition and the ethical balancing act we have before us, I spoke with @jmijin.bsky.social to zoom out to the bigger picture of what we should each be focusing on to ensure a just transition for all. Have a listen!

I have a few canned lines to explain where I live when I'm at a north side event and somebody, inevitably, doesn't know where my neighborhood is. But I've recently comprehended that for some of them, my explanation is their first realization that the south side is much larger than the north side.

Our canonical "long run" turnaround for @rprc.bsky.social is Baháʼí House of Worship. We start at Touhy (7200N) and Sheridan so not quite the northern-most extent. The out and back is a bit over 11 miles. (Soren's quoted thread is about the unappreciated-by-north-side-folk scale of the South Side.)

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A family of mute swans in Indian Ridge Marsh on Chicago's Southeast Side, May 17, 2026

Why does this make me cry every single year?

Love this. Here is a photo of our Sarlacc's Pit, Alex, who is a Pit. (I cannot believe it never occurred to me to call him this in the 7 years he's lived with us. He makes this expression all the time.)

Today, in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Callais, I'm fighting for voting rights. As my late colleague Elijah Cummings used to say, we are better than this.

A small asteroid the size of a large sculpture....

they asked if they could, not if they should (yes they should - 10kW of water boiling power is 🌟)

A genuine question for the assembled Bluesky. What does it even mean to be a shareholder in such an enterprise? I've long wondered this about Facebook. Now we have another one of the worlds most powerful people orchestrating involuntary investment under a zero-accountability structure. Troubling...

"SpaceX has proposed one of the most aggressive corporate governance regimes in US history, intending to guarantee Elon Musk cannot be fired." As @madisoncondon.bsky.social remarked to me, Musk is transforming US corporate governance. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This happened to my wife recently and it took us both quite a while to realize this was a genuine physical failure of her mouse. New mouse eliminated the problem. I believe it to be related to the concept of "de-bounce logic" but who knows....

"No Think! Only Code!"

"Fatigue Butter Chicken" - Had I read this an hour ago it would have been "Fatigue Cheese" which I kind of like better, but rules are rules.

The "Winners should Win Act. Brought to you by Winning."

The timeline has gifted me with a graph showing the grim and accurate answer. About as often as not? Die during childhood. - bsky.app/profile/hank...

Me: “Do you have an inner monologue?” AI: “Yes, but you wouldn’t understand it.”

At first glance the crab appears to have hidden itself inside the top of a blueberry muffin. Very clever indeed.

earlier

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

As well as the record for fastest android _or_ human to run a half marathon in a pork pie hat.

Another EV road trip on the books: 1,750 mi round trip from Seattle to Santa Cruz. Noticeably more fast chargers out there since last time we did this trip a few years ago - we never had to wait for one to open up, which wasn’t the case several years ago. Prize for most scenic charger: Weed, CA.

Hello #PortfolioDay ! 🎨 I'm Zoe The Tsitsa. I'm a #watercolor artist who paints just about everything, from dreamy scenery to animals to fantasy characters. Occasionally, I post my ink drawing sketchbook pages as well. Taking this time to post some recent-ish work. Thanks for visiting ✨

I am weirdly really enjoying coding on Claude, to the extent I am trying to come up with random ideas just to play with it more. I have never had much patience actually using code but I am enjoying the challenge of really precise writing to get it to do exactly what you want

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it. If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

this is an INCREDIBLE photo how have I never seen it before!!!

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

We had a new person come to the Kubernetes SIG Security meeting today and ask such great questions. What’s that mean? How does that work? Why is it this way? How does that get decided? New contributors, don’t ever doubt yourselves. You bring such valuable perspective that makes open source better!

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

"post something random or you'll have an absolutely awful April"? no. you are safe now. Forever Immunity Dog has got you covered.

I’m very glad to see someone is suing over the recent new restrictions on flying drones within 3000 feet of even *moving* DHS vehicles and assets. It’s a ridiculous new rule that I absolutely do think violates first amendment rights.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

My coffee ordering name is "Ian, I-A-N" - Which is to say that I finally learned, after 4+ decades of life with a short but slightly less well known first name that it's easy enough to just deliver the spelling unprompted, right after I say the name. Quite the life hack, eh?

One way I've conceptualized this: I've been a regular recreational runner for 25 years. During that time I believe I've run about one tenth of this distance. Only 225 more years of running to go! (cc: @rprc.bsky.social)

Has anyone used a Bayesian model to map a set of IDs to another, latent set of IDs in a finite population scenario? I'm currently using it to map/analyze some longitudinal survey data that has cursed sampling in pretty much every way, but I'm interested in hearing what others have done. #statistics

"Pedway as Batcave"

I have a suspicion that frontier LLMs now pretty often do extrapolation forward in time, where they combine documents making statements about the future with information about it now being the future to (fallibly) infer current state. Curious whether this is explicitly trained.

just to say it again: the bike infrastructure immediately around me has gotten massively better since I moved to RP in 2019. Clark PBL, Pratt PBL, all the zany treatments on Granville. it's a whole new ballgame up here and the relevant agencies & offices deserve credit.

As someone who was there for the early days of Open Source growth, I'll echo the accessibility concerns in this thread. Early Linux and general open source progress could be made by individuals with limited resources. Some of the last areas to mature for enterprise use were the most expensive... 1/n

I will never forget the three weeks in late January and early February that my household lived off a box of 75 Hoyo sambusa, which I kept on the back porch because it was too big for the freezer. "Go out back and get some more sambusa" I would tell the children, like we lived on a homestead.

"Keystone Aerial Surveys" - Interesting - I assume this will become Google Maps/Earth refresh content (or something similar) www.flightaware.com/resources/re...

It’s a skyscraper forest! New-to-me composition of the South Loop skyline from atop Northerly Island. What a city #chicago

Recently spotted block club signs on Chicago's West Side

Doing a bit of pier review while visiting the Exploratorium on San Francisco Bay.

she's still there, up close

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

I generally agree. I'd add that it can _also_ turn code back into an essay, or at least a summary, and suggest improvements. That it can go in both directions is something I'm just starting to grapple with. (Gemini Example: github.com/containers/r... )