Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Pouring one out for everyone realizing that Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet was nearly 20 years ago 😬 #FeelingOld

Roses are red, They look nice on a shrine Here is the skull, Of St. Valentine. (Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)

They see me rovin', they hatin' 😎 Every NASA Mars rover ever is on these socks. From the microwave-sized Sojourner (1997) to the car-sized Perseverance (2021) 🤖 🔗 sciencesocks.co/prod... #SocksOfTheDay 🔭🐡🧪🎨

if you don’t know this, I just haven’t hollered at you enough. get 1.5 mezcal palomas in me and I’ll tell everyone in the bar

I don’t know what this is called but I’m pretty sure it’s the cure for male loneliness

I think this crisply highlights that fundamentally, regulatory controls on things are about incentives. We use them to check the “make more money at all costs” incentive of capitalism. The only way to incentivize any other behavior is to make not doing something hurt more than not making more $$.

boy even got ratio'd on the nazi site for this

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“It’s the economy, stupid!” except when it’s pedophiles and facism, honestly, we can carve out exceptions

I hope the Democratic leadership rightly outraged by Bondi’s “but the Dow!” when being questioned about Epstein survivors have a self reflective moment about the “Donald Trump hasn’t delivered cheaper eggs like he promised!” messaging they refused to move on from

They still got it

Gender affirming treatment has an astonishingly high rate of satisfaction. You probably already know this, but I feel like we need to repeat it over and over.

"Does the role really require a woman?" "No?" "Or youth?" "Er... No?" "Is being royal or nobility a must?" The dragon hesitated. "It's traditional..." "We can mention that it's a position traditionally filled by a princess," the HR consultant said, "but we do welcome all applicants." "Okay."

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

AGGGGHHHHH

A tech founder sent me an explanation of a meeting with Elon and asked for advice on what to do next. Here's how I replied, so everyone can benefit.

Some crimes need to be documented. Thanks to @ericaliesalot.bsky.social and @mcsweeneys.net for doing this important work.

#RECALL #GroundBeef

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

This is so true and important! If you're in the Boston area, I'll put a bunch of local mutual aid groups below. 🧵:

Maclean’s interviewed me about my essay about how Heated Rivalry is anti-dystopian art. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThHgLUf2/

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

did he also see goody proctor with the devil

everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT

Wow, look at that, you don't just have to roll over like a fucking coward

Those archeologists better watch out. Orcs are near.

a point I used to make when talking AVs is that the road system is designed taking into account the things that are easy and difficult _for humans_ and inserting an agent with totally different characteristics would cause a lot of chaos. Turns out the same is true for uh the whole internet

Okay I just saw another post about this and I cannot anymore Yes. Most “autonomous” robots operating in uncontrolled environments (homes, streets, sidewalks) leverage remote intervention overseas to help them make decisions in the event of a scenario they’re not sure how to handle.

I feel like mobile robotics are going to have an interesting influence on the AI energy footprint because when you have to do edge inference on a battery powered thing that needs to run at least 4 hours, preferably 8-10, on a single charge you think wildly differently about how to use it

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

more people lived in the Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire – all crammed into an area a third of the size but the 1950s "law of environmental limitation” held that lowland rainforests, with thin soils, simply could not support large advanced societies…

too many kids today have never destroyed the family PC with sketchy downloads you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

Spoiler alert: Elon Musk will not build a colony or an outpost or so much as an outdoor toilet on the Moon. Not in ten years. Not in twenty years. Not ever. When your dipshit friend or relative expresses excitement over his announcement, just change the subject. There's no point. It's a cult.

He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.

Some definite underbussing here, but it absolutely wouldn't surprise me if BORTAC was responsible for this fiasco. Incompetent racist cowboys.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Wait what now gonintendo.com/contents/575...

Infosec used to be serious

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

the failure of AI hype has not been in terms of impact per se, it's been in terms of where the impact landed... in retrospect it seems very obvious that coding was among the most vulnerable professions, but that's absolutely not how the mainstream hype narratives were rolled out

a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming