cpus are a kind of pottery

Witness the sharpest-ever view of our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy, revealing more than 100 million individual stars in breath-taking detail! (Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler)

working on some glasses that will punch people wearing smart glasses in the face

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Some years it just feels like a certain team has been kissed by fate, they just can’t lose. This year the Knicks are that team. There’s signs everywhere if you look for them

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

reattach saucer section youtube

(texting my friend Evil Larry) me: what's up dude Larry: matters most vile

Modern Life

A Fire Upon The Deep (1992) - Vinge

my take on the topic du jour? well. i agree with some of the involved. as for the others they must be shot in the street like dogs

oh nice

SHUT DA FUCK UP. THE MACHINE SERVES ME.

This posting sucks.

guy who doesnt know what an elephant is at all, voice shaking: we have to talk about the fucked up monster in the room

If Richard Scarry illustrated TRON

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Sonny Rollins was the last surviving musician from Art Kane’s famous photo “A Great Day In Harlem.” Image: Art Kane

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

genuinely how its been lately

University of Alabama students boo commencement speaker for saying ”they are worms in her sight”

The internet is good actually

> The pipeline will be dependent on the Pathways Project, the largest carbon capture, utilisation, and storage project in the world [...] the project would achieve 16 million tonnes of annual emissions reductions oh word? siri how many tons of CO2 are in 365 million barrels of Albertan crude

if you kids don't settle down i'm fetching the family atomics

I think the moon is made of cheese

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Caves of Qud is like getting read the Iliad by a dog

You can use the names of x files episodes like oblique strategies

An e-bike seems like a good way to pick up the kids from school or get groceries. But what happens when you need to haul 11 yards of wet concrete? That's when you'll realize you should have been doing your errands with a Kenworth T880 semi with a McNeilus mixer drum

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

Being decrypted probably feels amazing for a message

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

> "Trust me bro, this new tech startup isn't a pyramid scheme" > Looks at codebase:

first impressions of the Lego smart brick, before I do any actual tearing down: wow, I forgot how good they are at working with plastic. the injecton molding remains impeccable, at least for this specific piece (I know about their recent QC issues elsewhere)

I like big butts and I cannot lie because I simply don’t know how to give that social performance correctly

nasa good

I WANT TO BELIEVE

i'm starting a clinic that does chelation therapy for LinkedIn exposure

the Artemis crew is currently 253,000 miles from The Cure

*wow*

I gotta say that I am starting to fray at the edges from all the change and 🔥 at all levels. The threat of quantum computers is churning my profession words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/ AI is rebalancing my field sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03... War and fascism are... yk. And ofc climate change. 😮‍💨

MUPPET TRENT REZNOR: what have I become / my swedish friend? SWEDISH CHEF: ervie wurr ye durr gurrs awerre en de ern

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...