This is amazing. Today's WSJ has Joanna Stern's coverage of the chaos that followed delivery of a Claude-based vending machine to the newsroom. Someone got it to buy a PS5 "for marketing purposes." Another reporter gaslit the AI into thinking it was a Soviet-era machine at Moscow State University:

On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net. This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols. In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...

Can't have an office lounge in a drug company without hexagons....

It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmas....

Happy monkey day to all who celebrate! www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

... damn it.

You will be visited by 3 spirits

TIL: per the WSJ, the pformer Pfizer building has gone down the office-to-residential route.

Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social

How did I not think of Joan Osborne?! What if God was one of us Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Tryin' to make His way home?

When I'm out walking I strut my stuff And I'm so strung out I'm high as a kite I just might stop to check you out

So I'm reading a study report; the test article was a monoclonal antibody, delivered as vials of liquid solution. From the report.... Physical description: Solid when frozen. Well, uh... I can't argue with that, I guess.

I go, "Mom, just get me a Pepsi, please" All I want is a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi And she wouldn't give it to me, just a Pepsi

no one: me: i bet shrek shops at krogre.

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We ALWAYS break rounds for therapy dogs ♥️ #MedSky

me: ok six weeks left of 2025 let's get stuff done! my brain cells:

Post a gif of a film where the one-liners just keep coming and coming among your friends and co-workers.

Back Creek Books, Annapolis, MD Labyrinth Books, Princeton, NJ Harvard Book Store (not the Coop, Cambridge, MA) and I still miss the old, huge Reiter’s (DC)

What.

These are glorious!

Tag yourself, I'm Hammin

A useful discussion for physicians and non-physicians alike (even if the alternative work arrangements are different for non-physicians)

Tbf, many of these work in industry with little translation.

my favorite well, actually to use would have to be: jack didn't die on the titanic, he died in the atlantic.

This year for Halloween I’m gonna be the French crown jewels and fuck off from work at 9:30 in the morning

Found my new hoodie

If you see this, qtp with a vampire that isn't Dracula.

arthritis is just early onset rigor mortis.

Outstanding.

Seconded.

A fun (?) naval history fact for your weekend: During the Battle of the Nile, French Admiral Dupetit-Thouars lost one arm, then the other, then a leg to cannon fire. He ordered his men to prop him up in a barrel on the deck so he could keep commanding his ship until he died.

seeing a lot of hubris these days and not a lot of greek mythology type consequences

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it

A thread... because few people can do a screed like a lawyer can.

PSA: there is an #optics technician shortage - if you know anyone who is looking at career options, tell them to consider learning to Dennis spie.org/news/photoni...

Long thread, but well worth reading—even if you knew some of it, the explanations are valuable.

Actual LOLsnort.

As someone who does accounting and data validation, this would get me fired:

I've literally pulled a muscle laughing at this.

So there was a time that Past Vinny had his shit together. Today, I had to get my papers into ORCiD. I was pretty sure I had at least two dozen to upload--I was sure I had stopped early. So I went in to add them... and found everything was in there already. I promise you I'm as surprised as you.

What movie do you consider perfect?

Hands down, my favorite movie soundtrack: Love Kills Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious covering Frank Sinatra is genius. Joe Strummer, the Circle Jerks, the Pogues... also good.

Oh. Oh my.

Love this.

Ahem #ChemSky

Stop what you’re doing and read this thread.