I mean if you can get the company to pay for travel and hotel and a free holiday in maine on the company dime to write about what you already knew before you even made the pitch,why would you say no

any #a2council folks want free native trees??? i am fostering a few hundred saplings from the county tree sale. i gave away about half today but still have lots of sycamore, chokecherry, a few paper birch, some michigan holly/winterberry. and a few kentucky coffee tree for the real heads

Our society has a massive blind spot when it comes to how dangerous these giant trucks and SUVs are to everyone outside of them.

100 Greatest Bird Names, Day 1: #100 to #91 🧵 #100: Chad Firefinch This is no Virginia Rail. Cockiest bird in Central Africa. Even though it's #100, the selection process was still incredibly competitive. This bird is still in the top 1% of all bird names.

We all have days like this

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

i’m watching the alcaraz v sinner final on delay (no spoilers pls) so i don’t know who won, but i do know this: the true champion of the 2026 monte carlo masters is this alcaraz haircut. it’s so exactingly coiffed that it looks like a lego piece lmao

there is a very specific flavor to this cycle's #a2council challengers and i was amused to see that this ward 1 candidate does not know what neighborhoods are in ward 1 (also, the name water hill sucks, is an offensive erasure of the city's historically black neighborhood, and you shouldn't use it)

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

your grandparents voting for reagan

this may be true for some but i visited burlington vermont during an early october weekend when it was dark and pissing rain and i thought to myself "this is exactly the right place for me" and it's maybe the most correct i've ever been

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

no one needs to touch grass more than these anti-CLUP #a2council speakers tonight. every comment sounds like a political speech from the tipsy cousin who is Too Online (Boomer's Version) that your family avoids most of the year. what are they even talking about lol

the extraordinary rise of hindrance drama in professional tennis must be related to some kind of cosmic happening and honestly i am here for it

incredibly rude that the Tennis Gods have scheduled fonseca-sinner at the same time as mboko-anisimova

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Okay this made me cry

i guess it's good that anthropic is at least pretending to fight back but it's hard to take them seriously when they call it the department of war, which literally does not exist in any lawful sense. how can you have a valid contract with a gov't entity that does not exist in statute?

right now, in a conference room somewhere or in a signal chat, the PR teams for these war contractors and their tech partners are high-fiving about how easy it is to get good press for their war crimes

🧵 Living in Michigan, if a political issue seems frustratingly impossible to advance, you can almost always find the roots in policies motivated by racial and economic segregation. When you scrape back the "housing theory of everything" you find racism and classism under the hood.

firstly, lol these companies can get wrecked, and secondly, once the algorithms have been stolen we should move onto the personal wealth and belongings of the entire ai executive class until they are impoverished and rightly shunned by polite society. just my two cents

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

incredibly funny for an ai company to say this with a straight face

one of the stupidest motherfuckers to ever do it

me whenever jeff bezos does another horrible thing so i have to talk shit about him instead of whatever it is i should be doing:

You’re welcome! (Acquired via @trance.bsky.social)

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

remarkable that it only took ~2 years for the NYT to start victim shaming users of AI for their failure to identify the lies and inadvertent manipulations that are coded into the DNA of these applications. this technology is fundamentally incompatible with a society that values truth and nuance

new #birding field outfit just dropped #birdingmemes 😎🪶🌴

If you can, be nice to yourself and go birding this weekend.

Moltbook is Reddit for AI bots, and some people are freaking out about how amazing and sci-fi it is to see bots talk to each other. But..... it just sucks lol www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ope...

they should move the australian open men's final up so that i can watch it tonight. why wait imo

as a tennis fan, nothing hits the dopamine receptors quite like a consequential zverev double fault 🎾🎾🎾

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

i’m watching the australian open in the middle of the night because sometimes you need to seek joy wherever it may find you

one of the most fun things i've read in ages. ai could never blog this hard

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

"Wooly Winter Plumage," drawn in February 2022 and reposted today for obvious reasons.

i hope daniil medvedev never retires

even if you accept that there is value in using LLM-based AI tools for general research and academic studies (which you probably shouldn't), it is UNBELIEVABLY pathetic that an adult professional thought an archive of ChatGPT conversations was a permanent record. just astonishingly bad judgement lol

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

new form of life just dropped

diallo is one set on the way to knocking out zverev in the first round of the australian open tonight, which is also known as doing the lord’s work. pray for him 🙌🙌🙌

peent

Suggestions for brands of rope will now appear at the bottom of the page when the bot encourages self harm.

a good racquet stringer is a kind of translator, as Roman Prokes explained to me for @thebeliever.net sports issue: www.thebeliever.net/a-microinter...

mamdani thinks that everyone should be able to live with dignity, and that he so explicitly associates dignity with not only material needs but also rest and joy and art is so refreshing and important. if he is successful it will be an historical achievement that will change the future of the US

i'll be screaming my way through 2026 apparently

"they recorded a bat catching and eating a european robin on the wing" is the new "they did surgery on a grape" 🦉