Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Modern comics are woke.

This is your brain on AI

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Every time I hear RFK Jr. say literally fucking anything, I realize the US is a failed state. Canada needs to reinvest in public education and the bureaucracy that ensures it is subject primarily to expert review. Which is exactly the opposite of what all Tory (& many Grit) governments are doing.

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

The idea that I would rather talk to a chatbot that stole my colleague's work than talk to my colleague is something else.

Sigh. Even if genAI chatbots were effective at this, how does it overcome the ethical issues like theft of intellectual property, power use, water use, labor abuses, or other environmental effects on communities with the data centers?

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

There’s no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesn’t boil down to “it’s everywhere,” or that takes education as more than job training, or, consequently, that actually argues for genAI as a tool that has a distinct function in education. It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.

Make a Bond movie casual Leaf raker

Make a Bond movie casual From Russia with Best Wishes

This Christmas, I have just one wish for you: Take a moment to really see the older people in your life. Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible. Share a smile with an elder you don’t know. Offer a warm holiday greeting. Small gestures carry enormous power. Love,
 Lynda 🎄✨

“What’s happening at Dalhousie, what’s happening in contract negotiations at other universities ... is that faculty are trying as best they can to raise concerns about how the quality of education has really suffered because of lack of public funding,” Robinson said. #cdnpse #nspse #KeepCanadaStrong

Folks interested in the Dalhousie budget might want to take a look at @dalfaculty.bsky.social reviews of the budget since 2013: www.dfa.ns.ca/issues/revie... . Also see the July 2019 president's message re: the Senate oversight Dal used to have (www.dfa.ns.ca/news/preside...). #KeepDalStrong #nspse

Don Henley, backstage after a Brian Wilson show telling Wilson how much his music meant, asked him to sign a first-pressing vinyl copy of "Pet Sounds." Wilson signed it: "Don, thanks for the great songs" and started to hand it back, but then decided to cross out "great" before returning it to him.

See hundreds of titles borrowed and read by Darwin in the 1840s from The London Library. In addition to many already known from his reading notebooks, we find many titles and authors that we did not know Darwin had read. darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram... Courtesy of The London Library

It’s official: purple Quality Streets are the weakest link:

I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory

My new humorous birding gift book The Birding Dictionary is out May 6, and we've got a nice pinback button for folks in the US who preorder: www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page...

🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now. This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!

Highly motivated & fervent defenders of LLMs who don't have anything to do with their development, don't know anything whatsoever about how they work, and who will never benefit from their existence are an interesting sociological & psychological phenomenon.

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

if conservative sociopaths can override faculty governance and professional expertise, you aren't running a university you are running a propaganda factory

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

Lou Reed on Frank Zappa, "I think he doesn't like himself very much, and I think he's right."

listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.

New ornament for the tree

Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional. Please follow and share (&credit his work).

saw someone make a mocktail that consisted of coke, lime juice, and coconut milk, and, well, it fucks.

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

“A Taste of Armageddon.”

Amok Thyme

Well, not a restaurant, but a Star Trek bar called... "It's Green"

😂

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

Imagine being so wrong about a sci-fi opinion you get publicly embarrassed by one of the greatest sci-fi/fantasy writers of our time. I would simply walk into the ocean.

Having a normal Christmas morning

You refused to accept Mark Cuban, now face the wrath of Dark Cuban

One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on

Global News regularly broadcasts CBS programming — including 60 Minutes — as an international affiliate.

"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.

Paris when It Sizzles is one of the few perfect movies AND I kind of want to see a shot-for-shot, all-Deadpool remake.

A thread years in the making, and worth it.

And the partridge is in the pear tree. The virgins are all trimming their wicks. The partridge is in the pear tree. It's hard for thee to kick peppermint sticks.