There was ~a week where it seemed like I might end up moving somewhere more exciting, and then that died, and I saw the concert that had been the main thing I'd been looking forward to for months, and man... the future is just a bleak sea of 60+ hour weeks of doc review (w/occasional weeks of 0/$0).

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Goooood night 🖤

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Capitalism in a nutshell: Studies of UBI - positive effects, cheaper than government benefits, don't directly finance capital, so WE MUST STUDY MORE Studies of LLMs - lots of harm, very expensive, directly finance major corporations & the wealthy, so we MUST IMPLEMENT BUT BETTER SOMEHOW

Feel like my warranty ended a week and a half ago - left shoulder started to be sore a week ago, right shoulder joined it today

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

This recipe is wrong about what size/how many cookies you'll get from 1T sized dough balls, but otherwise right on. Yum. ilovepeanutbutter.com/blogs/recipe...

@eddierobson.bsky.social Only time to read a tiny bit of your new one this morning, but going in one chapter from "I've had this exact grammar conversation with mom!" to "oh no this is a Never Let Me Go future!" is a lot! Very much looking forward to getting further into it! =)

Went to the Draft Animal Power Network's Field Days today!

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

On Spocktober 3rd, he asked me what day it was.

I'm remembering what it felt like to be hopeful for the future, and hoping I will feel that again. Ideally, soon.

A bit confused how EVERY friend I have that works for the government is still working. They're all essential in my heart, but...??

I'm watching coverage of the gov shutdown. Absent is the recent Supreme Court action allowing the president to rescind budgeted funds. They destroyed the negotiation necessary for this process. How can there be compromise when one side has established that they won't abide by agreements they make?

generals gathered in their masses/president calls them all fatasses

(solemnly) You've had mail.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

My parents recently visited and started to do this. My dad is a retired minister. I asked him plainly. "How many people have you buried from car accidents, how many from crime? " He never brought up the big scary city again

In a comment section full of nostalgia for the '90s, the number of likes/replies to this comment on Barely Breathing by Duncan Sheik have me feelin' that we're not all alright.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

"Why are we treated like cars by the law, but like obnoxious and unwelcome obstructions by people in cars?" Flyer for the very first Critical Mass ride, which took place on September 25, 1992 in San Francisco. Critical Mass rides have since been held in more than 300 cities around the world.

The time has come to summon the deeper magic from beyond the dawn of time. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

tfw your Democrat representative voted to memorialize Charlie Kirk

Some chairs fell off the car in front of me on the highway tonight, so I'm sort of now catching up with everyone that saw Final Destination 25 years ago in having Highway Fears

Reddit comments this evening made me realize how much even worse we'd be now with universal healthcare, given the people in charge of deciding what constitutes 'health' right now. So that's another huge concern for the hypothetical future where we get past this...

When I studied abroad at Oxford during law school, it was a common thing for Americans to argue that the written US constitution was superior to the unwritten UK constitution because it's harder to ignore written rules. I guess that argument is basically over now.

made chocolate fluffernutter monkey bread (and apparently the picture i thought i took before i ate the first chunk didn't take, boo)

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

RIP to one of the hottest men this country has ever produced

At a concert on a college campus for the first time in ~20 years. 👵 Between staying in Baltimore last week and several trips to Boston this week, feeling extremely pro-cities and all the sweet shit they can have! <3

You can have fast streets, or you can have safe streets. The current USDOT is clear about its priorities.

I'd be interested to hear public figures expressing sympathy or condolence for Charlie Kirk's passing to share a quote or a professional thought of his that they found compelling. Tell us which of his ideas they saw themselves reflected in. Verbalize their connection to his body of work.

Line for tonight's @thejazzemu.bsky.social show is down the block and around the corner, not a bad start to the tour I wouldn't think!

FDJ has a new video (a few days ago) about their (women's) TdF that included this polka dot podium gent, reminded me of my first summer really caring about the tour, alone on my friend's couch every day getting very into that year's silly polka dot podium dresses.

You can safely assume I did not go looking for resources on elder abuse for fun. This is not how I typically relax on a Sunday night. And now I am HOPPING mad.

Very jealous that @mbta-cr.bsky.social apparently comes to RI but not NH! (Meanwhile, my current Amtrak is late enough I may miss the last bus to NH 😬)

I seem to have more food packed for the train ride home today than I did for the train ride/3 days biking down in the first place?!

Sandy Dujardin, Maryland Cycling Classic's men's winner!

Lulz the men winners have a tent to clean up in, the women's winner changed standing outside a team van while someone held up a hand towel for privacy

This family(?) has at least 2 of the weirdest ice cream trucks I've ever seen

Men's Maryland Cycling Classic getting weather that's gonna convince these men never to come to the US again! Fans had to pick up blown over barriers right before the riders came through!

Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka won the inaugural women's Maryland Cycling Classic! (And then I was the antidoping chaperone, which mostly meant trying to keep her in sight but myself out of her photos until she got to anti-doping after the podium)

Gonna be an antidoping chaperone for today's race, had to sign a form saying I won't ask 'my' rider for a selfie 💔