Spicy Valentine's Day cards from Seattle/King County Public Health this year: publichealthinsider.com/2026/02/13/l...

Proud of my city: gothamist.com/news/nyc-are...

I went to The Sphere this morning to see The Wizard of Oz! It was a beautiful tribute to the original, a spectacular show of immersive theater, and evoked some questions of how to extend and care for a beloved film as it becomes a BIG experience; there were a few rough bits, and lots of wonder.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Ask your nearest CEO what they’re favorite food is and see what they say. If they are all about Soylent and supplements as a way to fuel their productivity but have no interest in the beautiful sensation of food itself, BE WARY!!

I may be a small niche here, but which clothing brands sell beautiful gala gowns that are packable in a carryon, very comfortable, and give glamorous CEO vibes (vs just sexy vibes but not matronly vibes), and can be worn with flats?

I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.

I really want a Luge Tycoon game so I can design wild ice tracks and play with the physics

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

As a lifelong New Yorker and tuna melt aficionado, I will say that while tuna melts are by no means the iconic sandwich of NYC, they are just ... better here.

Thanks to my LinkedIn post they have made changes to the product and this now works. 💪

It is delightfully strange for New Yorkers to have a humane and cuddly mayor. If I saw a photo of Giuliani with his arms wrapped around a bunch of kids, I’d assume he was trying to arrest them.

Spotify prompted me to try their new “prompt a playlist” tool and they BLOCK THE WORD “feminist”. WTF Spotify!

OH: "If a dryad drinks tea is that like drinking hair tea?" Ugh, I hate it.

If the NSA really wants to read my Signal chats they probably can. But if they want to read *everyone’s* Signal chats, they probably can’t. The more people use Signal, and the more you use it for recipes and setting up PTA meetings and sending dumb memes, the harder it is for the NSA or whoever.

It’s not just that they are murdering people who are peacefully protesting, it’s that they then stand in front of the cameras and slander the victims by telling us that what we see on the videos didn’t happen.

I genuinely don't understand the idea of buying Greenland -- do countries just sell parts of themselves? Like can we just sell Florida?

Men don’t call a woman a fucking bitch when they’re afraid for their lives—they say it when they hate us. They say it when they’re punishing us. jessica.substack.com/p/ice-shooti...

I think there is value in the friction of doing detailed work. standard.dev/posts/doing-...

Saw this crowd with my own eyes at Bryant Park 💪

I'm really appreciating that just as I enter my Typo Era, AI text generation has gotten good enough to make perfect text unappealing.

I put this on LinkedIn because that's where I think folks need to hear it, but TLDR: if you're on X, GTFO. Sexually abusive content is not inevitable, it is a _choice_. If you stay on the platform, you are endorsing that choice. Link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Renee Nicole Good is the one whose reputation should be protected, whose death should be marked by flags across the country being lowered to half-staff, who should be getting tearful tributes and acknowledgments from politicians and media figures. These are the people we ought to honor.

In the last month? Tried to climb up on a step stool with one foot while my other foot was somehow underneath the step stool. Fell over. Luckily just a weird bruise from that one!

Retired immigration judge to @radleybalko.bsky.social: "It always starts with the minorities. It always starts with the immigrants. If we don’t stop them, it will be American citizens. We need to be screaming that this isn’t America—that this isn’t who we are" newrepublic.com/article/2042...

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Eric Adams is going to use cryptocurrency to fight antisemitism. Eric Adams is going to use samurai swords to fight food waste. Eric Adams is going to use 100 rubber duckies to fight prostate cancer. I would believe literally any combo of words hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-s...

This is an excellent idea, data folks.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

To no one’s surprise, the secret history of RPGs has always been women innovating ideas that men “discover” anywhere from 10-400 years later! Fantastic thread from one of the hobby’s coolest academics.

Let's pretend for a minute that a technical definition would matter, and unfortunately -- Even from a technical point of view there's no clear definition of what is "GenAI" and what isn't.

“How might someone read one poem as they ascend a staircase + read the same words as a different poem when they descend? How cld different sight lines create nonlinear readings?… A sentence has pockets, holes, escape hatches[: how could] those ?’s cld be translated into an architectural context?”

HEY AUTHORS: It's the last weekend before Christmas and/or the end of Hanukkah, so people are going to be looking for last minute holiday gifts, which books are perfect for, so use this thread to tell everyone here at Bluesky about your book so they can go find it at their local bookseller. GO!

"Synthetic Panels" make no sense. The LLM is trained on data from a particular point in time. This is the same as querying the distribution of responses from an LLM with built-in assumptions about what the distribution can look like. Well done surveys are designed for the opposite.

QCon.ai is pretty lit today, y'all. @hmason.bsky.social's keynote definitely lived up to expectations. Just enough snark mixed with optimism, with some definitely insightful thoughts on how the software engineering profession is evolving.

I’m thinking of everyone at Brown tonight. (I spent so many days and nights in the basement of that building. Stay safe, everyone.)

On December 17, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for youth. Tell Congress to protect health care for trans youth and their families NOW.

Too many people want to use AI for the output, when the hard part is what to ask for and what good looks like and context management. If I were building something new I'd build an executive functioning buddy; let the machine manage context and coherence, and leave me to do the fun parts.

This description of It's a Wonderful Life from Apple's store is technically accurate in every detail yet also somehow very funny.

Last week I was walking to the subway and happened to notice this sign above a door on Atlantic Ave, which says EX LAX INC

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

At @hiddendoor.co you can play your own stories in beloved worlds -- and now you can share your favorite Moments from those stories into our JOYSCROLLING feed (where other players can <3 them!) or to your favorite social network!

Are you excited for Wicked: For Good? Can't wait to return to Oz? We know we are! While you're grabbing popcorn, check out our own tribute to magical academia, Oz University. Choose your major, make friends, and maybe even explore a #RivalsToLovers plotline...

I was gifted a copy of this book and it's wonderful, and I highly recommend it, especially if you want to find a delightful gift for an otherwise hard-to-buy-for nerd in your life! It took me 30 minutes to write this post because I started paging through it again. 😅

One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do a stop motion animation. So I animated a simple run cycle, printed each frame and stuck them around my city ✨️ (Which btw, I felt super guilty about)

In 2015 at Fast Forward Labs we tried to build a "take a photo and track calories" app as a demo for image object recognition. There are two main machine learning tasks here, one is photo->food labels, and two is food labels->calorie/macro estimates.

I've always admired @albertocairo.com's work and I'm delighted to see this project to track and visualize news coverage that impacts trans communities. It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.