Van Gogh imagined La Berceuse paired with his Sunflowers—a triptych of color and symbolism. The red and green “cradle song” at the center flanked by yellow “wings,” harmony rocking between warmth and light.

No City For Old Hipsters

Frequent large fires are only partially due to climate change. Its also things like extended periods of fire suppression that ignore natural fire return intervals & same stand-age "forests" aka tree farms that aren't actual forests. Ecology is not simple & mitigation can happen on multiple fronts!

Imagining a funnier outcome than “crypto falls on its face,” and its “central banks deploy their own digital currencies and blockchains,” and the pinnacle “a blockchain but all the mining compute is in a central bank.”

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

me: *debating which pair of sunglasses pairs better with the apocalyptic sky*

The Guardian Building (built 1929) in Detroit might just be the closest thing to a truly American cathedral.

pulling up my hoodie before hacking a computer by typing 1011001 in big green typewriter text

OF COURSE THE DATA HAS A HEADER ROW, WHAT KIND IF UNHINGED SOCIOPATH DOESNT LABEL THEIR COLUMNS, JUST A BJNCH OF NUMBERS FLOATING IN A WHITE HYPERURANIONIC VOID

I was gonna post something, but the double whammy of an in-person interruption and a timeline distraction completely wiped it from my brain. This is just a tribute, to that lost post. How it hurts to long for thee.

I too was watching these too happily and thinking about how lovely it is to see these men all over TV who appear to be awesome humans as well as amazing athletes. It can only be good for society to celebrate their sweetness as well as skill.

this whole weird masculinity "push" is going to look really cringe in like 2 years. everyone will be openly mocking it. a lot of good comedy material is going to come out of this

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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I wrote a video game for a game jam. domentsyn.itch.io/dilation

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

I was a pretty heavy Facebook user when it was fun. I used to call out bullshit when i saw it. Facebook decided that i wanted to see more bullshit. I know an unwinable battle when I see it, so I quit. Optimizing for decontextualized metrics will eventually destroy whatever’s being optimized.

Poop Plane II: Poop Country youtu.be/OEO5Zgbhc1Q?...

is it me, or are the BlueSky starter packs getting worse?

I read in a book that apparently, most of these are poisonous. BUT people eat them anyway. How? You dip them in muddy water. The dirt neutralizes the poison. Why do they still eat them if there are non-poisonous ones? Apparently, the potatoes we eat are too bland. They like the flavor.

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Just got off a 20 minute call with Mitch McConnell where he and I debated at length the realism and feasibility of the plot of the classic 1989 film Weekend at Bernie's

LMAO

LinkedIn is wild. Who's going to break the news to the conversation analysts that no-one has yet studied um conversation?

Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars

literally just asking about latin verbs

Decided to end my 7 year streak of not publishing* a blog post and banged out this little guy about "Not an editor command: W". iykyk blog.thedansimonson.com?p=1356 *not "publishing", but I wrote like 200 and decided they weren't up to snuff. I have high standards

Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵 New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social 1/8

I know I’m late but the hospital was busy and I had a twenty minute conversation with Mitch McConnell just now and since I couldn’t ever understand a word that came out of his mouth I ended up ranting about PEP 8 compliance the whole time because it was awkward and I had to fill time

we started at "a bicycle for the mind" and ended up at "a sensory deprivation tank for the mind"

Maine officials search the rocky beach for a new senate candidate. They find an unconscious man clad in tattered rags washed upon the shore. The sea provides for Maine, it always does

Thinking about how one of my dissertation committee members was extremely careful about not violating copyright per his corpus linguistics work because he didn't want to get sued.

Updating my display name in honor of recent events

also re: "AI as a search engine" — oof I would strongly caution against this framing and this advice, as the tech of LLMs is fundamentally incompatible with the information retrieval sense of search; see dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... for expert opinion on this

Thrilled to have been awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics 2016 test of time award for my first ever paper, written with/under the guidance of @dirkhovy.bsky.social A couple of cute things about the paper/its genesis/its outcomes

This is totally off topic, but China should have cooler uniforms.

y’all mind if i make a little american dim sum? ♨️ 🌭

heyheypromo90 : 18s

Cast yourself as a villain

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? #include “raylib.h” (Technically it’s writing)

DNA evidence is *very* extremely conclusive. There is a problem though: even though the odds of a false match are like one in a billion, laboratory error is not. It is illegal to mention this. www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/u...

To want a world where we share power and labour with each other as equals you don't have to be a big brain genius. You need to have experience of situations where the freedom and independence of other minds has made the world better in ways that can't happen if someone was micromanaging/dominating.

I mean, doesn’t that sum up McConnell’s whole legacy

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This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Fox News asked him to wave and he then waved. At the TV, not at them

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