i think a lot of people who are suspicious of AI's capabilities generally think "well at least AI knows a lot about AI" and buddy ....... i've got some bad news for you

People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.

This bird’s greed delights me

been listening to a radio station play the same five or six seconds of the same song for the past 30 minutes. it's still going. let's embrace this madness together, come on. it'll be nice. bsky.app/profile/stac...

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

And for readers who like the sound of that: "If you want to see a wide variety of schlongs, come to Line Eyewear!"

Machine translation of the day: "Speaking of schlongs, A masterpiece blow that only those in the know will know!" (≈ "Speaking of Shuron brand eyeglasses, here's a pair in a style that real aficionados will recognize!")

extremely same

Nipple clamps are a necessary tool in veterinary science 🧪

My child woke up with a cold, so we had to bail on our plans, and I am now genuinely enjoying the adventure of putting Thanksgiving together out of the dishes we'd make to bring with us + what we happen to have on hand. PSA: you 100% can make good cranberry sauce from dried cranberries!

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.

no but this time I mean it: oh my God

It’s more that in a big group chat like the one the FBI was spying on, there are just more people who could be FBI moles than, say, the one person you are talking to who presumably you trust more not to be an FBI mole.

This guy at my house hanging some artwork, & he was chatting about how hotels (& hospitals apparently) bolt down the paintings on the wall, rather than hang w/ wires or D-rings. He said one of his favorite things to do when staying in a hotel is use his special wrench & change the paintings around

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

adrift on a semiotic sea of ads resolutely resisting giving the least hint that it might be in any way odd to refer to any old wednesday (or tuesday) (or week) (or who knows what) as "black friday"

like nine years ago I said to my friends "somebody should make a picture of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the paperclip optimizer as MODOK" and they said "why not commission our friend @john13.bsky.social" and I did and he put in the kirby krackle and a million little details and it has given me SO MUCH joy

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

i mean. he didn't grant it to ME.

We should at least have a culture that doesn't make a sensible person continually DIE inside. Is that too much to ask? (Yes, when I think about it--it's probably everything. It would be huge.)

“They call what they are doing ‘spiritual science,’ ” Almqvist said, sighing. “A friend of mine has been ‘researching’ the color orange for forty years. What does this mean? It means he paints in orange.” 🧡

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya They pulled the lion by the hair They hit him with the folding chair

fun times!

After a full year of work, this book is out! Cooking in Maximum Security, compiled by Matteo Guidi, is our latest Half Letter Press book and it's beautiful. How do people in Italian prisons cook? This book will show you their recipes and tools used to make them. halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...

“It gives me no joy to admit that there are certain kinds of professors who love little more than seeing their names in the paper.…But I like to think even they would’ve been able to spot the coiled wires and rusty springs of this particular trap.”

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

This sucks!

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

[Very unpopular president] is doing / wants to do [very unpopular things], vote for us and we'll fight to stop him. That's what you can credibly run on in the midterms. Not what you theoretically might do years down the line if you win a bunch of other future elections.

since there is typically also ketchup in thousand island dressing, this is truly a symphony in ketchup. korean flavors meet american ketchup. celebrating the enduring friendship through ketchup. reminiscing the success story of ketchup. korean platter of sincerity with ketchup

vance answers the question of what if you made a moblin the vice president

not now, infectious monkeys

I (half-jokingly) call this Hot Person's Aphasia (gender-neutral) cause it seems to especially afflict folks who are so used to being offered the world just for showing up that they don't seem to notice they're not participating equitably in the work of conversation.

3. While big oil, big tobacco, etc. serve as well-known cautionary tales, social media research poses novel challenges for independent researchers—perhaps most notably, access to the study system itself. It's like trying to study climate change if Exxon-Mobile owned all the world's thermometers.

Nothing warms my heart as much as seeing someone doing this. The world is *full* of people doubling down on shit they don’t even believe out of a sense of pride, and seeing someone graciously acknowledge being wrong, in full public view, is quite inspiring.

Going to take a swing, again, at what I think is the one biggest thing the establishment DC Searchlight Abundance mod blogger Argument blob (aka everyone with money and audience, sigh) is getting wrong: Their model of how voters' brains work is not how voters brains actually work. 🧵

the catastrophe of anthropomorphism

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

there has to be an NYC city-run cat-related program of some sort and i sincerely believe zohran should appoint sliwa to run it

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

I miss having laws