TIL Juncos have VTOL capability.

As I have remarked many times since ChatGPT burst on the scenes, a lot of bad things happen when the price of custom plausible bullshit falls through the floor. This example is the planning system but there are so, so many more.

"Its an unexpectedly expensive yet addictive hobby" says the guy with 2 peanut, suet, platform, 2 finch, cylinder, caged, & hopper feeders. "Back so soon?" says the Wild Birds Unlimited cashier.

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The second rule of Dunning-Kruger Club is you do not discuss not knowing about Dunning-Kruger Club.

the first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is you don't know you're in the Dunning-Kruger club

Every single time an LLM hallucinates, I am grateful: Grateful that I spotted it, and thus remind myself that any and all LLM output needs to be validated. You can never trust these things 100%, unless you have additional validation in place that is 100% reliable.

I think there is purpose and honour in making an effort to alleviate suffering in this world… even when the task is overwhelming.

What particle are you? #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

A handy guide to size! 🙂 #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

Eddy current brake 🧲🙂 #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

Have you heard our standard model of cosmology might be wrong? A new paper puts forth some interesting evidence, let’s discuss! 🧪🔭

sharkira, shakira: thread

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

This was Peak Typewriter.

Someone needs to run against us-east-1 specifically.

A new award category of Most Unsafe Method to Cook a HotDog in which the generated plasma is amplitude modulated by the AM transmitter and the signal is *clearly audible*. Could also be a contender in the Most Bizzare AM RF to AF Demodulator category.

Ontario Public Health respiratory virus update November 7, 2025 % positivity Covid 6.0 Flu 1.8 RSV 0.6 Entero/Rhinovirus 10.4 Parainfluenza 2.7 Masks, vaccination, ventilation and staying home when sick help to reduce spread. www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...

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A comment on "intelligent agents" from Donald Norman, written in 1994, still relevant in all aspects today. It's like we learned almost nothing about how to build, use, or govern software in 30 years. Except this time the anthropomorphizing is intentional. From dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Get a coffee, snuggle up in your comfy chair, and learn all about the history of tear gas arms in this tour de force skeet-torial. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Phil's stories are awesome.

An Antarctica story. Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room. He did not.

In early 2023 OpenAi was “valued” at $29 billion. In March this year $300 billion, today $500 billion. But there’s not enough exuberance!

I had an entire cybernetics and general systems theory phase.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings and I'd like to connect with you on linkedin

“You still wearing a mask? Bro, it’s 2025.” Me: “You still huffing a vasculopathic, neuroinvasive biohazard?”

too big to fail speedrun

The idea that depression stems primarily from a lack of serotonin has lost much of its support. Scientists are rethinking the causes — and definition — of the illness.

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Holy cow, people caught an Edwards-based B-52 (likely 60-0031) with a pair of LRSO missiles! lookunderrocks on instagram

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity. Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.

Well everyone had to hear about Toronto last week, it's only fair we all have to hear about NYC today.

This is why we can't have standards.

The IEC has this really neat webpage for exploring electrical plug type usage around the world www.iec.ch/world-plugs

Web 1.0 truth I missed along the way.

I decide who gets my attention. Block list subscriptions are an important tool that I choose to use to manage that allocation of attention. I am glad bluesky has them.

By all means get vaccinated against the flu and covid, but don't for a second think that vaccination will *prevent* you from catching either disease or spreading them, any more than a seat-belt will *prevent* you from ever getting in a crash. MASKS and CLEAN AIR prevent. Vaccines protect.

The world learned a painful lesson during COVID; respiratory infections are airborne. This changes a great deal - especially the need for better indoor air quality and high quality masks. If there was a single most important person responsible it was Prof Morawska. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.

Sharing some personal thoughts and feelings about the last weekend on the world's number one baseball app

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#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with October 19 data - Kingston, London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: BC, MB, NB, NS, SK wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

Duck Time is coming #birds 🌿

dice can't tell the truth or a lie

🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴 how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids a 🧵 (on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 [links to referenced articles in ALT text]