I don't have strong opinions about Meta glasses - at least not as strong as I have against generative AI - other than "people wearing them have got to be huge dorks" but when the dust settles, using this kind of thing for making the world more accessible is a Good Way To Use Machine Learning.

“Liberty………Biberty.”

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

Can we all admit that we know that the ballroom is an escape rocket, like the Big Boy Statue in Austin Powers

“I am feeling much better now. Toad,” said Frog. “I do not think I need a story anymore.” “Then you get out of bed and let me get into it,” said Toad, “because now I feel terrible.”

It's John Waters' 80th Birthday...and where would cult cinema, midnight movies, and queer film be without him? By celebrating kitsch, filth, and the enduring power of good bad taste, he continues to inspire so many to go do the damn thing. Make depraved art today (and always) in honor of John.

zaslav tried to take this from us but he COULDNT it is too powerful

Welp, now we can reboot the tradition where the Spanish Flu was born inside a US Army camp.

If there’s something the world certainly doesn’t need, it’s more of what I do poorly.

The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Lewis.

We didn't deserve this day.

It's so weird that everyone who stands up to him ends up winning, and in a better position than where they were before. It's almost as if there is a lesson there.

So I guess I CAN go see UNDERTONE on Thursday

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I don't really have anything good to say about Pam Bondi but I hope she gets to sleep in tomorrow.

I uh... ...did not expect the spaceship to be running Windows 😬

we already had alcohol, for this

My Pornographers? New

I guess in a way it’s sort of fun how we now need to rebuild the USA from scratch, like in SimCity 2000 when you play a scenario where there’s an asteroid hit or whatever. Big opportunity for making change if we think about what our priorities are(?)

4. In reality, the people who are extracting wealth from the American taxpayer are not the poor bastards who clean toilets and cut grass (and pay income taxes). They are the moneyed elites who are running the country for moneyed elites. Blaming immigrants is part of their scam.

I have a software QA joke but it only works when an engineer is looking at it.

Get you a person who writes about you the way Ben writes about Kat

Reaching for the stars! Chilean astrophotographer Alexis Trigo captured the VLT Unit Telescope 4, shooting its laser beams to create an artificial star. This allows astronomers to correct for atmospheric turbulence that blurs data. https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2611a/ 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/A. Trigo

I don’t understand this one, in what way is the gen-AI’d version supposed to be better? I mean, I think using the tool is bad for ethical reasons but it also isn’t an improvement (?)

So I dunno if it's ADHD or what but I have that thing where I get EXTREMELY LOUD earworms at all times and I need you all to understand that I am trying to process all this WW3 stuff to the soundtrack of "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha" by Sam Cooke at 100 decibels on a loop.

It's also impossible to overstate how useful I have found my undergrad Intro to Philosophy course to be in my daily life, it's probably the single most universally-applicable class I have ever taken.

This is a wonderful thread of quotes from Mary Everest Boole, a pioneering mathematician and (I'd argue) developmental psychologist. She beautifully describes the power of mathematics for seeing beyond appearances and, especially, for providing tools to define exactly what we do not know. 🧪

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I have historically thought of myself as sort of a sullen embarrassment of a person, but lately it’s been nice to discover that at least I’m not in the set of like 30% of white guys that deserve to be punched off the top of a skyscraper by Robocop

Every picture of Sam Altman and Jensen Huang they look like they can see the It Follows monster just off camera

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017)

I’ve always said that the logical endpoint of Facebook is a website full of dead people wishing each other a happy birthday

The boring part of Monopoly where the winner is determined and you just have to wait for everyone else to go bankrupt and die

The joke is on them because being an AI teetotaler while they're offloading critical thinking skills to the sycophantic, planet-burning, plagiarizing algorithm only makes me smugger. My smugness could power an entire data center and only needs 64 ounces of water a day.

I looked, they do repost on YouTube for us non-IG users: www.youtube.com/@tastebuds_n...

It probably goes without saying(?) but it's very possible that downloading these would result in possessing material that is illegal to possess.

Maybe because some of us, when we put a big fuckin’ statue in the harbor of our biggest city that says “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” on it, we mean it.

because they kick fuckin ass next question

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

uh, read the room, iOS Reddit app

We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

To paraphrase @charalanahzard.bsky.social : the more you know about a topic, the more AI tends to get it wrong, so you should only ask it about things you know nothing about