If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

Best Valentine’s Day selfie ever.

I made this gif using Tikzpicture. It represents the diurnal rotation of Earth, the slow precession of its rotation axis and its nutation.

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

🚀 LIFTOFF! ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and #Crew12 are on their way. GO #εpsilon!

Writing a book worth reading *should* take time. It should take effort. The crafting of it and the thinking in it go hand in hand. And the rewards, for both the author and the readers, come from that effort. That the AI bros don't understand this is disturbing and revealing.

You can find more of these incredible ideas in the Journal of Applied Buzzwords.

Bad bunny on the other hand. Oh my god are you kidding me? 🇵🇷

"Such is the modern centrist credo: to overcome a perception rooted in fantasy, it may be necessary to make the reality of people’s lives worse."

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

It’s baseball season And Green Day are sell outs ⚾️

Today in enshitification: iOS 26. Omg Apple, go die!

An advice for young folks learning to code. Please get comfortable coding the old school way, looking up solutions on stackoverflow etc before you start getting AI assist. You can trust AI with menial tasks but not with critical code components. It is nowhere even close to the human brain. 🧪⚛️

Thought I was done writing about the bullshit that outside media says about S.F. But this pair — making fun of unhoused people in wheelchairs — coaxed me out of retirement. On loving the city, and the fragility of visiting adult male Patriots fans. Gift link 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Tom Morello takes the stage at his Defend Minnesota! benefit concert at First Avenue 🎸 📸: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

☠️Perilous Shores 1.7.3: farmlands www.patreon.com/posts/149496...

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

What a day for the O-ring of my water bottle to fail me. #NASAchallenger #OTD

I had to stop reading for a bit when I got here because I started to cry. Alex Pretti seems to have grown up to be everything his parents could have hoped he would be. And then they killed him literally because he was good and decent, brave and righteous.

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, engineers who fought to stop the launch still grapple with the guilt of "what if." The tragedy remains a definitive lesson in the danger of prioritizing management goals over engineering truths and the fatal cost of silencing dissenting voices.

In 2026, I want to start blogging again. I have migrated my blog to a new template by @flo-bit.dev jrekier.github.io/bit-blog/

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

Short timelapse from last night's aurora in Belgium! Annoying clouds though #aurora

Absolutely insane messaging to write this long detailed account of all the violent horrors being inflicted on your voters and capping it off with "pls don't do anything about it"

The Right likes to incite panics about birthrates (I think those rates are fine). They also expect debt-ridden parents to shoulder all the pressure and responsibilities of raising kids. Give people free child care, health care, schools, etc. You'll soon see birthrates go up! It takes a village.

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

For those of you who use the MX Master 4 on macos. This is life changing baty.net/posts/2025/0...

I’m sure most of you have seen this or something like it, but the Times’ analysis here is just so striking. It’s just so remarkably obvious what happened www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after

'Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.'

These pics show some clouds very similar to nacreous clouds (above the dark cloud band). This is about 20 minutes after sunset. Normally #nacreous #clouds form at high latitudes, but this is from Cartagena, Colombia, at only 10.4º latitude North. Any expert around knows if this is possible? 🧪 ⚛️

Happy solstice everyone!

Intuitionistic Logic be like.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

New episode! Do other planets really have diamond rain? Dr. Sabine Stanley answers. www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/202... #astronomy #planetsci

lmao France

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Been waiting for this since I started following the show 🤩

This is misinformation by default, so if you're a journal and you use AI slop for your cover or your announcements, you're not scientific in any way and should be shamed mercilessly 🧪

I wrote about this btw www.kenklippenstein.com/p/national-s...

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭 He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.

Je me sens moins seul à expliquer qu'il n'y a pas droitisation par en bas. Cet article rejoint sur le Royaume Uni rejoint les conclusions que j'ai établi sur la France

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Stumbled upon this and thought it was interesting