i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Happy(?) to see Zig also loves dear Franky’s favorite spot. We had one Christmas without a cat in the tree. Glad we fixed that this year but I guess the glass ornaments have to go back in the box again.

“We’re looking at a change in ideology over a generation or two. Social ideas and cohesion aren’t working well,” Zeeb-Lanz says. “And ritualistic violence is a very strong way to bring cohesion in a community.”

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

This is great for the City of Cincinnati! LOVE IT!

That post came from an explosion in one of the containers at the exonerative tense factory

I found your apple car @darthbluesky.bsky.social I want one sooo bad.

My work has a technical library filled with some fascinatingly out of date books. Found this one while browsing yesterday and I am so mad that we didn’t get the future we were promised. Copyright 1992 (!!!)

im no 6 figure political consultant but if i were id run a national commercial a million times a day that was just this bar chart on the screen for :30 until it was burned into americas eyeballs

It has taken months. Milo and Ziggy have discovered cuddling is better with a pal.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Company is finally hiring for an open position (to work closely with me!!!) and let me tell you gang, resumes in the chat bot era are GRIM.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Meanwhile in #Portland

The suggested reading left for me by my mom on the guest room bedside table might be a hint about the quality of my presentations.

Morning walk while visiting the parents was particularly stunning today.

This opinion dies not matter, however, few things enrage me more than using the word “buttery” as an adjective to describe something soft. The first place I heard it was as a descriptor for those shitty pyramid scheme leggings.

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

1 driving kid to late start day at school + 2 listening to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social podcast backlog = I definitely owe the Greek (or Roman) god of logistics a sacrifice. All late start days so far have fallen on days I already scheduled an appt or other legit reason to be late to work.

Wait, what? “Because ‘billion’ means a million million in most countries but a thousand million in the US, avoid using ‘billion’ in technical writing” @kay406.bsky.social ??? This statement lead to a fascinating Wikipedia hole of “long and short scales” and a fresh donation from me to Wikimedia.

For my “forms for fermentation class” I made a single-serve sauerkraut vessel. Check back in a few weeks to see how the kraut turns out.

2. Draw a fish dot com Just do it. Draw a fish. drawafish.com

It will be this or a recipe for a spice mix.

"Not enough people is the number one threat to the West, followed closely by too many people." (Or are there some adjectives missing?)

I think I’m finally getting the hang of this new hobby. Trying to figure out what to ferment first.

What the? #caturday

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I really need to know how someone from the UK would say the word tostada. My phone is set on UK English speech. when playing a text while driving from teen requesting tostadas from the store it said “TOSS-t’da”. I almost crashed.

This is so great and extremely my whole deal.

Donating clothes? Wait! My favorite socks are in there!

Poetry in cat lounging. I have never seen such a graceful sleeper.

Hi @joshuajfriedman.com in your position as bsky mayor have you come across any block lists for AI “breaking news” accounts?

A gunman opened fire at a neighborhood bar in the small town of Anaconda, Montana, on Friday morning, killing four people before disappearing into the rural foothills of southwestern Montana, prompting a daylong manhunt.

Fangs out Friday. #ProofOfCat

2017 Toyota bluetooth makes some wild guesses sometimes on the images to represent the audio files. I’ll take it. #murderbot sha-la-la

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

It’s been a few months since Frank passed, but I’m finally a verifiable person #ProofOfCat

Sarah’s threads are always so insightful.

The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel. Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...

New rescue kitten joined the family today!

Bluesky needs more baby otter content @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death. A mini medieval story time!

NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.

Local Bluskies, if you’re looking for some summer entertainment check out the CAST shows in NKY. One more weekend for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, followed by two weekends of Urinetown. www.caststages.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...