one single developer really just dropped a type system for Ruby with ergonomics that look FAR better than Sorbet. absolutely wild.

I've seen over a dozen accounts I follow post the "Hegseth didn't realize the photo was taken in a mirror" myth. First of all, selfies don't actually mirror-reverse unless you screenshot the preview. More importantly, if you look at the medals, they're not mirror-reversed. You can read the writing:

US District Judge Cameron Currie went pretty deep into the text of 28 U.S.C. § 546(d)

First successful fine tune of Baguettotron. And very on brand to see it’s about poetry.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Well Kyiv is having a fun night

That was not the problem at Auschwitz

It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.

Something that not enough people know about SQLite is that it's in the public domain because it's a product of government. General Dynamics made it on contract with the U.S. Navy. When government software is affirmatively placed in the public domain, and the code is public, good things can happen!

Beware of AI videos like the one below. And, AI sucks for many reasons, but among the worst is that it destabilizes our shared reality.

Rosalee is a really, really good apple. That is all. maiaapples.com/apples/maia1...

"Can't spell Omelas without mela" would be mildly amusing to about 2,500 Maltese sci-fi fans worldwide, making it the most theoretically popular catchphase I've ever invented

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/priors #smbc

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Being the parent of an autistic kid fucking rocks. He’s seven years old and his favorite things are silver age Batman comics, documentaries about the making of classic sci-fi and horror films, and a one-eyed geriatric therapy horse named Boog. He’s legit the coolest person I know

while I'm not working I've been spending some time learning about linux, which is sort of like tvOS (similar codebases, mostly POSIX compliant, with support for multiple users on a single host) but optimized for hosting private minecraft servers. people should check this out

I was going to say this myself, but didn’t want to be the first—

can't sing this man's praises enough—he gave me so many opportunities to advance when I was at Polygon, had my back every step of the way, defended me against sexist bullshit, and once made me a really great list of things to do in Philly. the rare combo of incredibly smart and kind

Nez Perce through the smoke, Grand Teton National Park. July, 2021. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 100 mm – 1/950″ – f/6.4 – ISO 160 🏷️ #Photography #Landscapes #NationalParks

LLMs are math. i know how to make them. to actually remove them from society you have to find all the copies of all the LLMs on all the hard drives on the world and everyone who knows how to make them and throw them all into the sea. you cannot do it

once again: I am very much *not* an “AI is boiling the oceans and is ontologically evil” type, and I do think it has reasonable use cases. but I *also* think we’re rolling it out to the public in some wildly irresponsible and illogical ways that I believe that we’ll come to regret.

worth a read to see that, once you peel back the dumb hype and parallel anti-hype hype, GPT-5 is just a very good LLM system

Here's the context of the misleading graph that was circulating, with alt text:

I've had preview access to GPT-5 for a couple of weeks, so I have a lot to say about it. Here's my first post, focusing just on core characteristics, pricing (it's VERY competitively priced) and interesting details from the GPT-5 system card simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/g...

OpenAI reported .33 mL in a blog post for a typical prompt for ChatGPT. For Mistral, a query is equivalent to 0.001875% of a hamburger. Report: mistral.ai/news/our-con...

For over a year now, Googling "Great Falls Maryland," either in Search or Maps, shows you the Virginia side of the river. (The Maryland side is technically Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, but everyone calls it Great Falls.) Embarrassing, for the world's 7th largest corporation

Where’s that “deep sea hypothermal vent” box when you need it

Bison, Antelope Flats, Grand Teton National Park. December, 2018. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 347 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 2500 🏷️ #Photography #Wildlife #NationalParks #Bison

Busting the top 5 myths about the Big Bang There are lots of arguments against the Big Bang, and many proclamations that it's already been disproven. But those are mostly based on an incorrect depiction of what the Big Bang even is. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #bigbang

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater. (It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

Has nominative determinism gone too far h/t @benjaminschneider.ch

thank u, NeXT

wordladder.fun has difficulty ratings now (1 ⭐️ is easy, 5 is nightmarish), hints, improved help text, and cookies that actually persist session to session. more improvements to come but it's much more polished already!

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak. Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

This isn't true. I'm the person who ran the experiments this is BSing about. When search results are worse, people attempt fewer tasks. When they're better they attempt more.

"Coffee has good properties!" "Wine has good properties!" "Chocolate has good properties!" Thousands of iterations, clicks and reposts, roars of vindication and rage that science is covering this up "Eating vegetables can literally save your life!" Dies in darkness

For those who may not know: Janet’s video for “Alright” was epochal, beginning the 90s with performances by the Nicholas Brothers, Cyd Charisse, and the last appearance ever by Cab Calloway — along with Heavy D’s pop crossover debut. Just dandy. #MetGala youtu.be/JgeAUejUZhg

maybe my favorite thing ever published at polygon by @cassmarshall.bsky.social - cass forever, hayseed forever www.polygon.com/2019/2/28/18...

I’ve been saying fur a while that I want to see much better, more effective AI criticism, and I’ve begun gathering notes for my own thoughts on the topic. This is a good thread & discussion on the topic, too.

Close encounter at Antelope Flats, Grand Teton National Park. December, 2018. Moose: “Hello, small wolf.” Dog: “Are you seeing this?” 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/1100″ – f/8 – ISO 3200 🏷️ #Moose #Wildlife #NationalParks