sat down to watch 15 minutes of TV with the boy, he wanted Ms Rachel, but then YouTube served up a 2 hour driver’s POV video of a train going through rural Japan, and he picked that instead, and by Jove he sat rapt for the whole time

Most people here understand this but for those of you who don't, we're in a fight here, not a Goddamn debate club. Fight or die, nerds. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Watch this space.

Some of us didn't hop online in the 90s or the 2000s to get rich and famous, man. Some of us hopped online in the 90s and 2000s 'cause it was FUN to chat with people all over the world... for free! Baby, we grew up when it cost a zillion dollars to call long distance! We had pen pals at school!

Miss you Urz

This is a very good idea. Let's make it a thing.

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

So good

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly. Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

The AI industry is the sunk-cost fallacy as directed by James Cameron.

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history. His son Kweku Taylor: “The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

as someone who does a lot of home cooking, imma say 1: home cooking is a real skill. you're not born with it. you learn it and practice it and it is not easy. 2: people are, irrevocably, by our nature, SO FUCKING WEIRD ABOUT FOOD. food is not just calories. food is MEANING

Paul Cézanne, The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque, ca. 1885 #metmuseum #europeanart

“Bowen and Watson's own writing is embarrassingly sloppy, too often mirroring the imprecision and nonsense of even the best AI models. Typos abound. Metaphors fall flat… Research is misrepresented and citations too often come off as afterthoughts. The AI-generated index is useless.”

Bonjour les haricots. Shall we cassoulet?

Impossible de manquer #Orion dans le ciel d’hiver et encore moins #Bételgeuse ✨ supergéante rouge, visible à l’œil nu, qui a récemment intrigué les astronomes (@astromiguelm.bsky.social) en s’assombrissant mystérieusement...Plongez au cœur de cette étoile en fin de vie avec ce zoom de l' @eso.org 👇🏻🔭

Vibe coding is so funny wdym someone released an alarm clock program that makes a paid API request every 30 minutes to ask if it’s morning yet?????

Tokyo fashion

When threatened, the global elite can spit venom as far as three meters

Several thoughts: 1. Non-zero chance this is a partly human-operated scam/hoax. 2. If you use an “A.i.” agent in dealings with me, I will be forced to question your judgement and work and treat you as a security risk. 3. Ban consumer-facing “A.i.”

Vanitas with lotsa skulls AND the last judgment in case you hadn't gotten the message. Death will come for us all, says Antonio de Pereda, as it did for him on this day in 1678.

It's official 🎉 Visualising Climate 2026 is here! visualisingclimate.com First international conference of its kind, it'll bring together artists, scientists, journalists all moved by the same desire to better communicate our changing climate 🌍 🗓️ Join us in Bologna, Nov 4-6 #dataviz #climatecrisis

1. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the Alfa Romeo museum in Milan. What a gorgeous museum of design. Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit. Here's a teaser.

I love this piece so much - paired it with the Vaughan Williams Romance on my senior recital back in college. I think of it as the Most Britten. It lacks the grandeur of his more famous orchestral works, but all the depth and passion and sadness are right there, unadorned and perfect.

The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. ― J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

I have questions www.youtube.com/shorts/fhDKm...

this is what I come back to as well we wouldn't need all this EFFORT and HYPE and fucking DRAMA if this technology was even 25% as disruptive and innovative as claimed by its pitchman

This is a phenomenal thread. So much beauty.

can finally share this triumph

The LeBron James of divorced women. No one is doing it like her.

Moxie Marlinspike’s Confer extends Signal’s privacy model to AI. Using trusted execution environments, it renders queries opaque to operators. This open-source framework is a move to reclaim user data from the industry's power players.

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Apple and Google have previously removed apps providing nudify services from their app stores. So why havent they taken action against X and Grok? @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports

"It feels like we’ve stepped off the cliff and are free-falling into the depths of human depravity."

Farewell today to Hungarian director Béla Tarr (1955 – 2026), one of cinema’s great visionaries. His deeply poetic and uncompromising films—like Sátántangó and The Turin Horse—redefined slow, contemplative cinema and left an indelible mark on the art of filmmaking

Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

Because I'm sick and bored, here's a thread where I give TRUE and OBJECTIVE ratings on a variety of bad guitar headstocks, because I'm very normal about this. Let's start with the standard Fender bass headstock. Often copied, classic, but safe and kinda boring. 7/10

This is a great bucket list provided you're prepared to throw up in the bucket. huckberry.com/journal/post...

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over