toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

“Grok, write me some comebacks!”

Sure, she said he’ll never escape the joyless tragedy that is his own life, but he really got her about those semicolons!

Oates floats like John Milton, stings like Groucho Marx.

People in the SF Bay Area like to talk up that within a day you could be at the beach, on a mountain, in a redwood forest, etc. Sometimes, though, you get a reminder that in most of the suburbs you’re less than 20 minutes from the middle of absolute nowhere.

Rs can run on a platform of belt-tightening because they know Ds will will buckle.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

“Sir, it seems that China has found a way around the tariffs. They’re manufacturing their own Americans…”

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations in Rosalind Franklin’s name. James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

The HOA contacted me today about leaving my Halloween display name up too long.

I’m worried that I don’t even know what normal bedfellows should look like.

Sharks DO get cancer, as in this Great White observed in 2014 near Australia. Every vertebrate species, with long enough observation, will display cancerous growth, because cancer is "baked-in" to multicellularity & the capacity for growth. Rates vary by species, but *cancer is a constant*.

fixed that for you

Can we have really long baseball games displace our regularly scheduled social media feed more often?

Seems like we should have tried this earlier.

Bellhop at hotel: I saw this great movie last night, “Heat,” I’d never even heard of it but it was amazing, have you seen it… Internal monologue: Oh, he thinks you look like someone who knows about cool things! Bellhop: It’s from 1995. Internal monologue: … oh, well… sorry.

Your despair is interfering with my denial!

Will the Insurrection Act help with this? No. Then stay the f@ck out.

Waiting for ICE in San Francisco to try to deport a Waymo.

Can I have the piece with the “non” please?

Marc Maron has fallen! Long live @kavehmd.bsky.social!

So… there’s no Mr. Anthrope?

“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.” - Sir Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

That wasn’t the white kind of anti-semitism. It’s Nazi way we do things in this country.

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

It’s still just one guy, right?

We also had to remember to stand up *all on our own*

“Time heals all wounds” should not be the health care policy of the United States

Employee: I’m sorry, I have imposter syndrome. Me: Who do you think you are?

This Halloween, I’m going as the knowledge that there is no afterlife. WoOooOoOoooOOOO!

Welcome to the resistance, Pepe.

I don’t overthink so much as I underdo.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

If we’re doing this organ by organ, can we skip to the brain?

If the protest frog doesn’t have a name yet, I humbly suggest “The Antifibian”

Son: Dad, what is dry humor? Me: It’s when a joke requires a higher alcohol content by volume.

Pay attention to me. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

When 13.6 million Americans lose their Medicaid and can only go to the emergency room because they have no other options to access healthcare, who’s paying for it? The American taxpayer.

A reverse social media algorithm that warns you what happened to other people who made posts like yours.

"There, there... shut up, boy."

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

<in a meeting> Me: Excuse me, what does the "U" in that chart stand for? Presenter: The U? Uhhhhhhhhh...

The essential failure of LLMs in the smart home - where natural language processing should shine - is the best evidence that LLMs as a technology simply may not be able to do the things they’re promised www.theverge.com/report/78717...

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

It’s really remarkable how quickly the Spirit Rosh Hashanah storefronts became Spirit Yom Kippur.

New Episode! Talking about the proposed connection between Tylenol and autism. With @drandrealove.bsky.social & @ryanmarino.bsky.social iTunes: tinyurl.com/2uhwwzk6 Spotify: tinyurl.com/56peddtw

“Dr. Rosenbaum, is it your testimony that there must be *trans*cribed RNA in every human cell?”

It’s only a matter of time before some anti-vax, transphobic legislator tries to make hay out of mRNA transcription as a concept.