Also this: 👇

Put a banana bread in the oven, feeling accomplished. After that test, I should finally have a stable recipe, with every parameter tested. Five minutes later... fuck, I forgot the melted coconut in the microwave.

The disconnect between Claude's very real, very serious capabilities and how people talk about AI on this website is fascinating.

From this year on, electricity generation from fossil fuels is in structural decline. Just eyeballing the trend lines is enough to predict it. Only 3 of the last 25 years saw demand grow more than 1000TWh, and 2 of those were rebounds. Renewable additions should exceed that, every year.

Dogs bark but the caravan moves on.

My bilingual daughter's English is excellent but sometimes she'll forget words. She just asked me if I could shave a carrot.

Famously, disease spreading amongst the troops has never affected the battle-readiness of any army ever. No, hang on, the other thing. 🤦‍♀️

Tech folks who were told not to play Dungeons and Dragons because of its satanic influence are now lobbying for age verification, to avoid harm to young people. Being old enough to have lived through a moral panic does not make you immune to another one.

The horseless carriage communications curse? For when people can't understand WTF you're talking about or why it's important, because they heard "carriage" and mentally filed it in that category. It's just a carriage without a horse, what's the big fucking deal?

I'm just here for the headline www.courthousenews.com/penis-costum...

LinkedIn has some stupendous takes: “coding w ai is solved bc all context is in the git repo. knowledge work is difficult bc context is spread out. an ai system that creates a git repo w all context for a knowledge worker will be able to 100% automate the work.”

"The end is near" Did Trump really post a video of Sinatra singing My Way? Another video chanting incantations with his face covered in blood? Over on IG, epistemiccrisis has claimed this, and there's debate as to whether they were posted and deleted, or if this is all just disinformation.

Was watching sandwiches of history and he said that the open face sandwich existed for about a hundred years before sandwiches with two pieces of bread. People used to be dumb as hell! Used to take generations to figure that shit out!!

Some of these speaker descriptions use a lot of flowery language to disguise their intellectual and moral indigence. Besides Ben Shapiro, I'd be ashamed to share a stage with Gad Saad or James Lindsay.

Hi, @nbcnews.com . Let me know when you're ready to hire a proofreader. #dissaprove #disapprove

Does everyone remember Alex Bramham? The guy who was kicked out of a pride march cos he showed up in an LGB alliance t-shirt? Transphobes in the press made a big deal about it at the time, about how it showed how intolerant the left is etc... He's now a branch leader of the fascist NRP

1966 cookbook "La Cuisine Raisonnée" is a fascinating time capsule for a period when it was still assumed women were homemakers, and the breakthroughs in nutrition just added to their work and responsibilities. We've come a long way, and today's food culture here still feels impoverished.

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

I'm not a fan of the Catholic Church. Sean Hannity manages to make them seem reasonable...

Next up, we should work on gene-edited babies that can swim better than submarines.

Are Bone Smashers all Lamarckian? i.e. Do they realize that their chiseled chins can't be inherited? After a bunch of dumbasses got pissed that women's make up was cheating, smashers somehow decided on the most painful and inefficient way to change their appearance.

Oh yeah, the current pricing at which AI companies are hemorrhaging cash is not going to change.

The CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council said: “To avoid losing its leadership position, the U.S. must invest in promoting its attractiveness [and] change perception and position the U.S. as a welcoming destination.” Yeah, it's just a perception problem, you got it, congrats.

The one policy that hits the rentier class, quickly reduces oil demand and is generally good for workers is encouraging remote work. Advocating for a policy that just isn't realistically going to happen and would probably lead to rationing just isn't very useful right now.

Did the IEA just suggest Trump caused peak oil?

Today's media coverage doesn't really do this justice.

Alright, who wants to play? checkmate.blue/game/did:plc... (I'm not clear as to time controls for this game, if any.)

My partner bought me a bag of potato protein! I've been looking for a way to make whipped desserts like chocolate mousses, meringues, macarons, etc. She won't eat eggs and I despise aquafaba. Now I need to figure out what I try first...

Did the IEA just suggest Trump caused peak oil?

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

LOL she GOT his raggety ass, may he be the first who gets the Nuremberg rope a dope treatment

New from me: No increase in global coal power generation after Hormuz closure - solar and wind growth covered the fall in gas-fired generation. The record buildout of clean energy in 2025 helped mitigate the impact of the Hormuz closure.

JD Vance didn't expect the inquisition.

Profiles on the casual meth user influencing kids to smash their faces so they can look like Handsome Squidward in the midst of an assault on trans people for “abusing kids” is all a bit fucking much, isn't it?

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

So far this government has: - removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market) - removed carbon tax - removed low carbon electricity policy - removed gasoline tax - removed oil and gas cap when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?

- Increases and prolongs reliance on fossil (so next crisis hurts even more) - Often doesn't pass through to consumers (fossil co's just pocket it) - Benefits enjoyed more by the rich (who drive bigger cars longer distances) - Decreases gov't revenue so you end up paying for it in different ways

Just as a generation of industrial biz folk couldn't handle web startups, I fully expect the "best practices" of the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem to produce spectacular failures in future innovation waves. With an agile paradigm, most probably won't even spot the wave.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

A new survey is out for Villeray borough. It will produce misleading data. I'm begging party members like @sylvainouellet.bsky.social and @jacouzi.bsky.social to insist on hiring sociologists and anthropologists before thinking about a new survey.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Thirty percent of all hospitals in Oregon now refuse to provide lifesaving medical treatment to trans people. Not just gender affirming care to minors. They discriminate against ALL Trans people.

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

About 20% of the people in the US are Catholics. *White* Catholics mostly voted for Trump, resulting in a majority of that denomination. I've been asking Catholic family members their opinion about the feud. Are they pro-life about wars, or just about abortion?

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

It's extremely funny that Rod Dreher probably lost his job tonight.