I love hearing this, but I also wish reporters would differentiate between “machine learning,” which does amazing stuff like this, and “large language models,” which puke up slop and make CSAM on ex-Twitter. Not all “AI” is the same!

Me: Happy New Year and may 2026 be better in every way! Shingles/ZSH flare up: What you say?

As the servant of two orange boys (at different times), I feel this in my bones

I love seeing tripods living long healthy lives! Xander 9 years ago after his surgery, 6 months later after adopting us, and this morning, lounging on my leg and purring at the top of his purrbox.

Vote for me

What have you done for me lately, except I *know* you’re doing something against me

Ahhhh….now the big AI push makes sense. This is perfect for the “dictator for life” concept! Autocrat dies? Keep them alive “forever” to “stay in charge” while the corrupt run everything behind the scenes! In fact, think of how awesome it would be if billionaires never “died”! #EstateTaxWorkaround

What’s never clear is how the GHG comp is made; it’s cradle-to-grave for corn, but just “vs gasoline.” Does the latter include emissions from exploration, drilling, fracking, transporting, refining, transporting again, etc.? If nothing else, petro *adds* C to the atmosphere, corn EtOH recycles it.

3 episodes into season 5 (IYKYK) and headed to bed. Up early, I have two different duxelles to make, 5lb of potatoes to get through the mandoline, 1lb of Gruyère to shred, and more - long day, but looking forward to it!

Him roumd #caturday

Yet another reason to be happy that I’ve been using @fastmail.com for 25+ years!

Confucius supposedly said, “To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” I think the more knowledge you have, the more imposter syndrome you have (at least, I do). The corollary here is that the ruling “elite” (quotes required) are a bunch of no-nothing clueless bastards

Gather around, kids, as our loremaster Tdot spins the annual yarn of The Foodraiser - and then donate and help feed 13 elementary schools over the holiday break! (Scroll up from the skeet below for links.)

This is “I’ve invented an engine that runs only on water” levels of quackery. A “solar continuous microwave pyrolysis reactor” - a word salad of epic proportions - that produces “gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, natural gas, and solid carbon” is as plausible as aviatory swine. Absolute hogwash.

Googly eyes make everything better

Change one letter, ruin a candy Twig

OH COME ON 💸💸💸

Thanks to Erin, this post has prompted me to insist on plain bagel, plain cream cheese, red onion, capers, and (light) lox for Sunday breakfast. And much love to my wife, who said she’d go get it. Also, my brother who lives in Jackson Heights wouldn’t even vote for me, so political office be damned!

Fascinating. I’m 53 and Tron was such an influence that I can hear the soundtrack in my head without even trying. Tron wasn’t just cool with me and my friends, it was almost life changing - the idea of Flynn directed many of us toward computer-based careers. What a difference 3 years makes!

Spent last night and this morning scrolling BlueSky and reading skeets about the baseball game last night. It sounds like an amazing game, extra innings and all, but I *still* don’t know who won! The commentary was non-specific, love-of-the-game stuff, it’s a Schrödinger’s Team situation! ❤️⚾️

Almost every morning, the tripod hops up onto the bed and curls up with me, making it difficult to get up and moving. Loving a #caturday long lie with my favorite tripod!

ALSO: our friend @gomeral.net has agreed to kick in $5-per-donor for the next 30 donors! So that means an extra *+$30* contributed on top of anything you donate! 🤯

The reskeetable TL;DR: ➡️ Donate at the link below before 11:59pm PDT Sunday 10/12/25 ➡️ Let me know ➡️ Me + @esp1371.bsky.social + @jamesdyoung.bsky.social + @charliereece.com each kick in $5 per donor ➡️ Classrooms get school supplies! 🔥🔥🔥 bullcityschools.app.neoncrm.com/tgregdoucette

If anyone following me is interested in hearing more from me, especially with regards to general aviation, plastic models, or renewable energy, I’d love to hear it. I avoid social media because of the toxicity, but if there’s value in adding otherwise, I’d love to offer my tiny contribution!

I’ve not been contributing to the latest group build, but I want to say that you all make me *want* to contribute and I’m so happy I follow #scalemodels #histscalemodels! I’ve loved the heavies build (so far) and y’all have given me hope when the world is on fire. Thank you!

Made the recurring pilgrimage back to Bluesky today (reinstalled after deleting due to doom threads) and I found the most amazing pseudoscience doublespeak garbage! I’m so highly amused, I couldn’t block it, I keep going back to read more, like it’s the empty calories and trash taste of Twinkies

@kenwhite.bsky.social @effinbirds.com Serendipity

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

ST:TNG S1E1 clearly shows a court from 2079 and I have to say, we’re clearly on that path.

If there’s one thing that reminds me that I’m a servant, not an owner, it’s that at least one cat both pooped *and* peed under my desk while I was traveling. I missed you, too, ya mangy furbags

Okay, I’m back from my hiatus and I gotta say, after a couple of weeks in Hawaii and a long weekend on South Padre…y’all need to start skeeting more about happy stuff, or I’m gonna wind up living solely in my meat space instead of online. (Maybe not a bad thing?) Missed y’all, but not the news!

Alright, time to cash in bets, option A wins! Turns out it only took 6 months for the existential dread from social media to kick in, so I’m going to take a break for a while. Turns out being constantly reminded of…<*waves hands*> all this…is not so good for my mental health after all. Be well, all!

It’s almost like the dems are so deep into loss aversion that they’re now at the other end of the spectrum - No risk is worth taking a loss even to realize the largest of gains.

Mia trying to figure out what the buzzy thing outside the window is (drone). #Caturday

Disappointed to see discussions that frame renewable energy options as all-or-nothing. As with investment, balanced portfolios offer solutions that can decentralize the grid and reduce the need for pipelines. Every bit helps, but instead pundits argue for single solutions instead of acting now.

I’ve done what I can, y’all chip in. Every bit helps, and we don’t always need coffee.

Not sure how I’m so late to the #Shoresy party but this is the Canada I remember from my days in Weston. ❤️🇨🇦🏒

🎶I always feel like somebody's watchin' me… Why don't they leave me be?🎶 #Caturday

Been space truckin’ and I’m loving this one stop at a station *one* light-second from the star. I can barely scoop before I’m close enough to drop and dock! #EliteDangerous

A fantastic and educational thread on Leo XIV for us non-Catholics, quoted from the bottom to help with threading, with a huge thank you to @clairewillett.bsky.social for letting us learn as she learned!

Just when you though NC couldn’t get worse, you get Senator Invertebrate standing up for drunken idiocy

Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.

Orange is the new lap #caturday

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Evil Dad

So, I haven’t given up on #TonyTonyTony and even though I’m past the target, I will complete and post it. In March I suffered a knee injury that has made it impossible to sit at my workbench and haven’t done any model work, but the PT continues and I hope May sees the final product! #HistScaleModels

The party of small government becomes the party of stupid government as Lesser RFK shows that he is a font of wild ballyhoo, prevarication, and outright fraud. The worm needs to come back and finish the job.

One thing I'm deducing from the whole "eat like great-grandma did" discourse is that The Jungle fell off the high school syllabus at some point and we should put it back.