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The AI boom is driven by people who want to have created without the inconvenience of doing the work. But this pattern isn't new. It's manifested within software for over a decade as the feature factory: playing make-believe that our decisions are informed & the garbage being shoveled out is useful.

two ways of looking at a great blue heron

this is the bald eagle in charge of Mount Baker

meanwhile, at the great blue heron rookery...

🎶 See how high she flies #baldeagle on the hunt

Well. I wrote about fishing. And not wanting to hurt myself. I’d like you to read it. [gift link]

Down in the incredible, atmospheric crypt at Lastingham Church, North Yorkshire 🤩 It dates from at least the 11th century, and perhaps has some earlier fabric within it. More photos in thread…

Today's #NewAtNoon features Alice Ball (1892-1916) who earned two pharmacy-related degrees from the University of Washington. Ball discovered the first effective treatment for leprosy, but after she died at age 24, a male colleague took credit for her work. www.historylink.org/File/23522

For better and worse Billie Eilish’s new concert film with James Cameron brings fans into the arena tour -- Josh reviews an experiment in 3D filmmaking that shows audiences what it's like to be among screaming fans at the BILLIE EILISH -- HIT ME HARD AND SOFT TOUR. It's in theaters this weekend.

“I am rubber and you’re glue,” said the Chief Justice triumphantly, and then whispered it again, as if to himself.

A territorial female red-winged blackbird attacks a great blue heron perched on a fishing pier in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #Dappled #LowFlying #bird #birdphotography #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds #photography #BirdsSeenln2026

“All those tulips will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”

YIKES: The Seattle Times rejected a union request to not replace workers with AI saying "Journalism doesn't mean journalists." www.instagram.com/p/DX7Tkxpj55...

“Ain’t no rules says a dog can’t run the Kentucky Derby”

The loneliness, trauma, and social fragmentation that drive people to use AI like a poor substitute for a therapist or a friend don’t happen in a vacuum. They’re produced by institutions, by capitalism, unsafe families, precarious living, and a sense of disposability.

🎶 “You can see an otter pop / you can see an otter gallop”

I don't think Adobe is on here anymore so I can't yell at them directly but my god Lightroom is sloooooooooowwwww I assume from all the AI additions I can't shut off? It's just so slow though, like I would think professionals with tight timeline workflows would have to switch to something else

minding the nest

an osprey with its head in the clouds

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

a great day for looking up

Tooth Fairy admits she would also pay for other body parts

Proud to announce that we have acquired Richard Dawkins’s novel, The Handsome Atheist.

my brain just summoned this juxtaposition apropos of nothing

one day I’ll bike right across!

It finally feels like Spring in Seattle, and it’s got us feeling energized and excited for a particularly packed month of films at the Forum! From Charli to bondage to labor rights to taking acid with dolphins, there’s authentically something for everyone this month (as is always the case).

This is very exciting news -

Ah two of my favorite things, North Sea textual communities and hell-ology

“Hnefatafl! The Viking Game of Life (But Mostly Death)”

Moonrise at sunset

And here is the EMEN article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Publisher: pitch me Me: new magazine: Guilloteen Vogue

MN lefty discourse tonight

my faith in @consumerreports.org is sorely shaken because this is the worst showerhead I’ve ever owned I got it from Lowe’s as an Xmas present to myself & after 4 months it’s just developed an unfixable leak because it is made almost entirely of cheap plastic that fails with use

red tulips at sunset (from the other week)

Seeing people pass around those voter regrets reminded powerfully of Old Time Psychology, specifically Jung’s shadow, incongruous with self image, immature & stunted, but forceful bc unexamined “The shadow is projected onto one's social environment as cognitive distortions.” (Wikipedia not Jung)

I post a lot about my own writing, but I hope folks know I'm also the senior acquiring editor for Lever Press, an open access publisher funded by 50+ universities across the US, UK, and Europe. All our books are OA, no author fees, $1000 honorarium for your book, born digital, affordable print.

*Scooby voice* Rood runes!

Mondays amirite

More original #lordoftherings (1978) production cels have just been added to our ebay shop. Get your animation art autographed! ebay.us/m/zVATIu

pretty sure gray whales also communicate with their spouts, in this instance, "holy shit look at that mountain" #portsusan #camanoisland

having a whale of a day

the mets are finding themselves in a pretty deep hole right now. no, i don't mean the losing streak. i mean i have kidnapped their starting lineup and they are waking up right now in my basement

Solomon cookin’ again

the rarer reverse Sobchak

I cannot believe that you think my claim about the end of history and the impending obsolescence of the human race is controversial. Is your head that deep in the sand?