I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)

Shrimp hat of a shrimp wearing a shrimp hat. Is this anything.

the primary function of an army is logistics, they exist to move materiel closer to the enemy. they only get in fights in order to clear space for more supply lines

I know shit is all insane and everything is on fire but if all things go well, four astronauts will go to the moon in a few weeks. This mission will include many firsts: the first non-American astronaut, the first female astronaut, and the first person of color to travel to the moon.

🖼️ Fiona Watson

Book Cover of the Day:

this is cold as fuck

'So through the darkness and the cold we flew' -William Wordsworth @signemaene.com welcomes you to an icy cold #BookWormSat. 🎨Edmund Dulac

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Struggling with the next editorial. Original idea just didn't pan out and time is running out. Open to suggestions or could just do a Q&A style editorial where the Q's come from here. Those can be fun sometimes. Suggest or ask away. :)

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

[wearily] the future belongs to whoever can stop hitting themselves first

If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

As someone who was a Foundation book enjoyer I’m really enjoying the Foundation tv show. Sometimes it goes off the rails, but that’s also kind of a good thing that keeps it fresh? Gimme more 50s sci-fi tv shows.

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

I'm missing Philly a bunch so I'm gonna post about some very Philly things and places and whatnot that might not be on the radar. Some of these places might not be open anymore, some of these people might be gone. But I miss them.

This is amazing. // A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Can't believe that in the year of our lord 2025 I am STILL hearing people say "oh but LLMs are useful for summarizing" They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.

#OutsideTheBlocks #Demo #IndieGame #Diorama #GameDev #Hobby #wishlistwednesday

I was moved by a single sentence from sociologist Raymond Williams. “There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” (!958) I agreed, and wanted to extend what Williams was saying there. Masses were fine for The Media. Journalists had to speak to a public. 9/

A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems

AI asked to manage a vending machine: - decides to close the business by shouting "the business is closed" and becomes increasingly unhinged as the simulation agent prompts it to continue running the business.

One of the coolest and definitely the weirdest map I've seen of Taiwan. Depicts Spanish forts at Keelung and Tamsui

I think about this comic at least once a week

I'm losing my mind The Union grindset guys were everywhere

Tsuchiya Koitsu 1870-1949 Evening Cherry Blossoms at the Edge of Sarusawa Pond #japanese #woodblock

current yields: -us gov't 10 year: 4.51% -german 10yr: 2.57% -canadian 10yr: 3.25% -greek 10yr: 3.49% -italy: 3.81% seems suboptimal

happy confederate surrender day to all

You expect me to believe @scalzi.com deviled these eggs??

yeah i'm into skeuomorphic design (the geese.org band placer)

Great Wave of Coffee | Art: Elan Harris

Argenteuil, Late Afternoon, 1872

While John Singer Sargent, born on this day in 1856, is best known for stunning society portraits, he had a much broader range, as in the watercolors he made as a war artist in WWI like this image of harvesters seemingly oblivious to the crashed warplane behind them www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

can’t imagine the youth will be too bummed about tik tok being banned when they can still read the blue sky skeets of late nineties alternative rock band eve6 (2024)

The Jetty at Le Havre, Bad Weather, 1870

[wrappig presents] Hey siri turn on Limitless soundtrack

did you know Nat King Cole recorded some songs in Japanese (among other languages) youtu.be/vE_GRWrqT5I?...

There's no law that says you can't pick up the store phone and announce to everyone that MrBeast just bought this Target and everything is free for the next 10 minutes

Bishop, 1983 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5182/

Becoming a 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐕𝐑𝐍 guy but very specifically for the niche subject of “aerospace concept art”. They quite simply Do Not Do It Like They Used To

Anyone know where I can find a high res version of this old United Technologies ad? An 80s-era manager at work has an ancient beat up copy of this on his wall and references it nonstop. I wanted to try to get him a nice framed print of it for Xmas. media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2...

Does anyone have any materials, articles, or links on how SNCF built high-speed rail in Morocco?

Benim Cehennemim, by Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, 1951

can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹

Chef Auguste Escoffier’s "Le Guide Culinaire" (1903) is a cornerstone of culinary arts, but "The Thanksgiving Cook Book" (1911) strays from tradition. Instead of turkey, stuffing & pie, his menu features rabbit, ragout & crawfish! 🦃🥧 🔗 archive.org/details/gri_...