This is how I read your posts

I see people are posting about yud's new book. I'm not gonna read it, but this other book seems promising

Idea: custom feed which upranks posts using words that you use uncommonly frequently

www.anita.garden/projects/ www.anita.garden/assets/world... very cool

断面可視化装置が完成！！！！

New look y/n

omg as a pentester PLEASE use one of these! Get them for your entire company. It’ll go great

Ambassador to Turkey was RIGHT THERE!

Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.

Fantasy magic system with your typical "oh each wizard class fuels their power with a different emotion – rage, lust, intense focus, etc" except one of the valid magic-fueling emotions is Pedantry; thus the magic is powered by explaining how the magic is supposed to work

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

Ha. The fact that this works is just great.

Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...

control panel of the day #hci

Space hardware by yours truly. Please repost! I thank you. #SciArt #spaceart #scifi

I'm reading 'rockets and people' right now (freely available on NASA website), the memoirs of Boris Chertok, who was among other things Korolev's deputy. It's massive (4 books) so will take me a while to get through, but is already super entertaining (and I'm only 150 pages in!)

Web design trends in 2001 – Afterlab – Bionic Systems – Designgraphik – HSE7EN3 #WebDesignHistory

PL research be like

It's really the antilog table that I remember, based log(2) = .3 to great accuracy, so antilog(.3)=2 antilog(.6)=4 antilog(.9)=8 antilog(.2)=1.6 antilog(.5)=3.2 antilog(.8)=6.4 antilog(.7)=5 antilog(.4)=2.5 antilog(.1)=1.25 This improves Fermi estimating from order of magnitude to 1 sig fig

Deltarune Sunday Strip, 10/22/89

Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.

This image rocks

If you're over thirty you're older than tenderstem broccoli sorry.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

"it's just semi-randomly parroting existing text that it's seen before" is not a great explanation of LLMs or the human mind in general but it sure does capture the replies to any post about AI on here

I'm seeing a lot of arguments like "You clearly don't understand how submarines work. They only *imitate* swimming. They use something called a propeller, which you'd know is different than legs if you were really as technically savvy as you claim. Idiot. Shill. Anyway, that's why they're useless"

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

DWARF CONTRACTOR: *on the phone* alright so tell me this, BEFORE hand, how greedily were you digging.. uh huh... and how deeply? okay, I don't even need to come out, I can tell ya right now you gotta balrog. I'm gonna be honest with ya, does this mine hold any sentimental value

.oO(Meme combining passive income nonsense and US Gov Debt Crisis)

www.gipfelbuch.ch/qr/2CYL so cool that websites like this exist

Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems

Pretty cool -- contact lenses that let you see near infrared light. And you can still see it with your eyes shut because it goes through your eyelids 🤯 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Injuries in road traffic accidents for City are down. Drastically so. From TfL's data (derived from Police STATS19): Oct 2017- Sep 2019: 691 casualties Oct 2022-Sep 2024: 345 casualties Source: tfl.gov.uk/corporate/pu...

i just remembered that the wikipedia page for Shipping Discourse has bespoke problematic age gap yuri

Tintin sempre dalla parte giusta.

#VRChat Open Beta features face and hand tracking for PC via a webcam and I'm having too much fun with YouTube videos

You write code under NDA, I write code under MDMA. We are not the same.

I wrote about the fifty (50) posts that Ron Jeffries has written about solving Sudoku: explaining.software/archive/the-...

Dear President Von Der Leyen, My name is Joey, I am 26 year old American. My people and my trading bloc yearn for freedom. Instead we get 25% tariffs on cars and avocados. Please send Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighter jet

Had to have a talk with HR because I kept googling "big naturals" on my work laptop. They wouldn't believe that I was just implementing a natural number datatype 😔

One of my earlier bad keyboards (June 2023), the ShiftKeyBoard! It's got nine buttons, and an 8-way gear shifter. You simply shift into different gears to select which sub-keyboard to use. Surprisingly easy to use, in fact.

I think that the tweet genre of “this person (who might be a bot) had a bizarre opinion that made me think less of humanity and so the right thing by to do is screenshot it and show it to the largest number of people” is silly.

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

someone should make a nerd snipe leaderboard (ranking metric is engineer-hours-per-snipe-length)