Does Lifetouch just have like, ironclad, thousand year contracts with every school system in America? Their prices are wildly out of whack with the cost of goods sold, and the buying experience is terrible.

In a different and sane world, the Democratic establishment would be working behind the scenes to get Cuomo and Adams to drop out so the actual Democratic nominee can run away with this thing and claim a big mandate as a very public rebuke to Donald Trump and fascism.

I’ve just finally uninstalled most of this software from my own brain, how exciting that I could reinstall via wearable! The future is amazing.

Somebody get Cordelia Cupp on the line, quickly.

Talking Heads: “This is not une beautiful pipe?”

I just shared a @bsky.app post with someone via text and in my head I pronounced it "Boosk".

There hasn't been a new/popular kind of social experience like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, or Just Dance in over a decade and I think that's a real shame.

Psyched to share that I've been selected to present @galacticimpact.com 's innards at @rmrubyconf.bsky.social ! If you're a rubyist and able to make it to #Boulder, check it out, it's a great conference! I'm sharing the stage with some real ruby/rails luminaries! rockymtnruby.dev/sessions/

The price to buy civilization only seems high until you see the cost of buying the discount brand.

The problem with @cmyk.games 's "Hot Streak" is that the minute it hits the table at game day, no one wants to play anything but Hot Streak 🤔 www.cmyk.games/collections/...

Finally managed to remember to set up a celebration for a large, auspicious in-game Stardate *before* it happened 😁

Every year I forget I'm signed up for this, and then every year I'm delighted when the emails start arriving! 👻

"I asked ChatGPT" Why not instead ask me instead over a nice glass of amontillado, I have a cask in my basement if you'll just follow me

The latest from @andreatuttle.bsky.social on the state of the local #Boulder economic landscape!

@425suzanne.bsky.social Will the announcement Friday be broadcast online? Or do I just need to camp socials to see what the reveal is?

Public and local media have been gutted this month, and I'm feeling a lot of loss. When news isn't a public good and is instead a profit-maker, we lose. www.communityreturns.show/p/the-loss-o...

I guess since the new Gmail app version has decided I need a push notification for every email it flagged “important” and it’s going to make them look like messages from a contact, maybe I don’t need any push notifications from the Gmail app at all.

So are tipsters just mad enough about Trump that they’re dropping this stuff now? Or are journalists doing work they should have done in 2016, 2020, and 2024?

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

given Superman's age and pop-punk predilection in the new film I argue it is not only entirely possible but highly likely that he chose his superhero name based on the song by Goldfinger

Remember that bit in The Good Place when Janet was freaking out the humans because she was pretending to be mortally afraid when they had to reboot her? Anyhow, ChatGPT… youtu.be/etJ6RmMPGko?...

He and his team are so good at this.

I have two 🎲✂️ hypotheses about Star Realms that I would love to find out if they're right from the analytics collected by the mobile app. I wanted to try and catch Rob at Origins but didn't manage to, so I'll muse about them here until I get a chance to find out for real.

Got an email with the opening line "Today we're launching the new Nextdoor". I was hoping the next line would be "It's a static page telling your local busybody NIMBYs to go for a walk to the nearest coffeeshop". But alas.

Got an email with the opening line "Today we're launching the new Nextdoor". I was hoping the next line would be "It's a static page telling your local busybody NIMBYs to go for a walk to the nearest coffeeshop". But alas.

A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money

A Spy Among Friends (2022) was a great show and I can’t wait for the media forty years from now about outcomes these folks had over there.

Random thought: If the pattern buffers in Star Trek’s transporters can filter out bacteria and viruses or whatever, could it be tuned to also void your bladder and empty your intestines? Could save a starship crew a lot of time.

Ding-dong just sent a push to my phone to make sure I saw this (I don’t and have never followed 🤷🏼‍♂️) Seems like there are a few distinct places where the the curve is concave-down, ie, “flattening”. I wonder what 1990~2000 and 2008~2016 had in common 🤔

Given how long these kinds of projects take in America and the rate at which Boulder is “growing” (shrinking), this will end up going straight from Louisville to Longmont 🙃

Hey @boardgamegeek.com I would love one of these in your color scheme to proudly (and unironically) reflect my 6.3 designs ❤️

I know this is actually a terrible idea, but every time I'm browsing #Zillow, I want listings to have a "comment" thread so I can witness (heaven forbid, participate in) Discourse™ about choices made by the sellers.

#Origins Game Fair haul!

I know this is actually a terrible idea, but every time I'm browsing #Zillow, I want listings to have a "comment" thread so I can witness (heaven forbid, participate in) Discourse™ about choices made by the sellers.

Climate change, welcome to The War on Cars.

Language Models make up less than a single page of my 500 page undergraduate textbook on AI methods. Purveyors of Large Language Models are doing a huge disservice to entire fields of machine intelligence research by rounding their products up as if they are the be-all of AI techniques.

@coreyyoung.bsky.social Where in the convention center are you hanging out today?

If you know of any undergraduate students studying in Puerto Rico who are looking for research opportunities, direct them to this opportunity to study SETI observations. phl.upr.edu/wow/projects I believe they may still have opportunities open. H/T to @profabelmendez.bsky.social who leads this. 🧪

Sitting at the Crimson Cup (coffee shop in the convention hall) at #Origins Game Fair makes me think about queuing, and how lines in crowded places somehow fall into an funny equilibrium of length…

If the GOP goes through with plans to sell millions of acres of public land, the Dems should loudly declare that they will take it all back under eminent domain when the get power again. And that there will be no refunds.

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

Man, @hickenlooper.senate.gov had the gall to send this fundraising text today. Not one word about the overwhelmingly attended #NoKings protests this weekend; No mention of the political assassination in MN, or criticizing his abhorrent colleague from Utah for his comments about it.

HAPPENING NOW: A sea of protesters have gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a “No Kings Day” rally against Donald Trump (Video: WXYZ-TV)

"Reverse-Chronological Follow Feeds Untainted by Ranking Algorithms" are probably Social Media's "Faster Horse".

bluesky is the #1 app for introspection

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

@roxley.bsky.social Excalibur looks sick as hell! I'm worried the Collector-level components are going to scratch my wooden dining room table… is that ridiculous?

Looks like the galaxy is having some struggs! The Turn Update resolver is downstream of this hosting provider issue: status.heroku.com/incidents/2822 Meanwhile the game is still open for signups and player input… just might be a little while before we see Stardate 1257.4 😰

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.