One of the key problems with the idea that you can replace human labor with automation is that with automation you have to already have a pretty good idea of what you want to do. With humans you can really mess around and most people will roll with it if the paychecks keep coming.

Ambassadors

I am going to try to earnestly follow this advice, presumably to everyone's detriment

Buying an electric toothbrush in 2025

Billy Joel's best song was written to be sung by a cartoon dog, and he has to live with that

Same, buddy

I'm having difficulty imagining the scenario where this endeavour, even if real and totally unironically successful, makes back anything close to its investment Is the objective just to capture God first?

so many waffles in this pizzeria

it's not like it's a 1 time thing! in 2018 trump pushed an antisemitic conspiracy theory which was cited as motivation by the guy who committed the worst antisemitic massacre in US history. you'd think Jewish institutions would be uniformly and even kind of fanatically warning that he's dangerous!

Long live the radio

Allow me to shill for a moment for Sarah. This program matches scientific researchers with classrooms that want a virtual visit where the scientist can answer student questions. Programs like this do a ton to demonstrate science is an ongoing enterprise, not a set of facts in a book.

Moth/insect flight paths over time. I'm surprised there's so much activity (here, over 10 minutes) with only a 13% or so moon. They don't seem attracted to the camera IR which is good. I'm still modifying this camera but overall, very happy with the results.

#ufo50 Onion Delivery, but in Mario Kart World

Can't touch grass if there isn't grass!

Celebrated International Lab Automation Day with a 24 hour hackathon at Studio 45 where be built MCP servers for robots and integrated them into agentic workflows. Folks flew in from Boston, Denver, Seattle, Houston and more to come together and build at the edge. #labautomation

Nothing can go wrong with the GMO spider based carbon capture program, im sure of it

I don't have a turtle pic, but I do think about Allen's Swamp Monkey a lot

Many people cite my pioneering work in Extreme Irritatedness

Many years later, as he faced the editorial board, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him to abolish ICE

Enjoying my pleasure cruises in Mario Kart

God, I love this visual abstract for a paper on leafcutter ants www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Without downloading new pics, where are you at mentally?

If you're in the US, there's an event near you tomorrow. www.nokings.org#map

Overheard: "All you ate with Grandpa was cookies??" Nice to know life continues on

My favorite game on the Nintendo Switch 2 so far is taking the controllers on and off

Crazy new kind of disinformation where the news floods the zone with headlines like "Annoying People Exist - Could They Bother *You* Next?"

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

They're just shooting at people.

Paramount, CA - This particularly large volley featured a *lot* of chemical munitions from federal authorities. The white cloud in the background is chemical munitions.

Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.

Hey we've all been talking about this. Anybody know if it's really as simple as - spin up your server - get an API key from the IRS - file taxes for free - get on with your life ?

In a forever war with Microsoft 365 about the appropriate use of commas

Whenever I see "AI ethics concerns" it's always crap like "should Claude have a social security number?!" and not "should OpenAI all be in jail for marketing ChatGPT like it's your friend and designing it to prioritize continuous engagement above all else?"

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

Your politics are informed by 3-5 people you know in person who kind of irritate you

@ceej.online is still the #1 understander (Not do-er)

Dumb guy Q for #biosky. Is the MinION a pun on Minion?

Got lost in my phone for a minute there, and then I looked back at my computer and remembered what I was running from

We hate stinky

Through the support of our NSF grant focusing on open source medical care we are excited to be working on an Open Healthware Conference in New York in August! Check out the conference website and explore how you can get involved: healthware.oshwa.org

[P] I honestly don't know why we're not all constantly talking about @SmallBuStudio's Baman Piderman. https://youtu.be/G18jhC3b53A

This photo is of a child in my community. Who was in anguish not only because she is clearly being roughly restrained, but because ICE is taking her mother. For years, Human Rights Commission members in Worcester were assured that WPD doesn't "cooperate with ICE." There's no other way to frame this.

What if there was a breadboard for lab instruments and #labautomation? Science Jubilee may be just that. Read our overview of this low-cost, open source lab automation platform that has evolved from the Maker community! theautomatedlab.com/article.html...

Based on some recent feedback, I've been thinking lately that a good workhorse plate reader would meet the majority of lab experiment needs.