honestly the one of these near me was okay. could drop in and get a variety of quick takeaway food but they closed it. local takeaway traffic was an afterthought; they found a better location for their main business, piling multiple orders into burrito taxis bound for wealthier neighborhoods

<some company> spent ages encouraging an internet full of <content that's mostly fluff but pleases the ranking algorithm> and then <some company> lobbed a molotov or two into that same bizarre, unnatural, and on the brink landscape--dry fluff tinder and a few remaining ancient redwoods whoopsy-doo!

this was... not what i was expecting from the story, tbh

fun quote of the day: "... [i have] always had the impression of being in the hole of a donut" "что был я в дырке от бублика" --Viktor Shklovsky, who i prior sorta knew (through the work, only now by name) as the writer for the excellent "Bed and Sofa"

good thread. i feel like legislators and regulators are stuck in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation here, since commercial entities are... not really doing due diligence, at all, because YOLO new paradigm ship the products, worry about the consequences later

A good thread on what looks like a quite remarkable development. A potential out for Tsalikov would have been getting appointed Federation Council member from Tuva, Shoigu's home region but remarkably, this didn't come to pass and not for the lack of trying.

have yall been to georgia they already HAVE such. nice giant clay casks of wine even. theyve been making them for their entire national history and that goes back further than like "the concept of the french nation" but yeah as far as giving them money to support local viticulture sure that works

man i want a vendor to pull this shit i can hear the security team donning their ninja his hoods and sharpening their shurikens already sorry AI optimist product manager, your time has come, the shadow clan has been activated

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

New post! Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

I was recently asked why I don't post on BlueSky more. Well, if Jamelle Bouie isn't pure enough to survive here...

Day 460 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

DANGEROUS SEED NAMCO/TOSE 1990 MEGA DRIVE

"Increased error rates" sure I guess you could say that

"Nonagon Infinity : A Rock Epic", an unofficial animated feature film project by Eduardo Adsuara, inspired by the album from KGLW. Kickstarter campaign on April 29. >> www.kickstarter.com/projects/ead...

Poetry is when you write the words "warp and weft" If you write "warp and weft" you have committed poetry

for comparison most of the ones in moscow are extravagantly overpriced places god bless the delicious simple little places in kyiv

i had a brief interview with openai in 2024. where they had a culture check interview question re "can you describe AI in general terms" my response was essentially "a pile of linear algebra" got a "we think you're really capable and going to great things, but not a great fit" email shortly after

Went to a few Lunar New Year events this weekend - @votealexlee.bsky.social fundraiser, Oakland Chinatown parade, and celebration at the Berkeley central library! More pictures in the thread!

fffff i forgot to make the joke that it'll be hard as my time is very busy and, unfortunately, largely second hand THIS IS ANOTHER NOBEL PRIZE IN LIT JOKE DO YOU GET THE JOKE GODDAMNIT I LITERALLY LIVE IN A CRUMBLING AMERICAN BUILDING WITH "1917" PRINTED ON ITS FACADE THE JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES

man i bet those kids dont even have a vinyl copy of the good shit on vinyl www.youtube.com/watch?v=youb...

. @hulegu.bsky.social oh of course at least _one_ person here gets my jokes man i should really quit my day job working on AI machines to make fun of the next UN secretary general as the world's worst enby qazaq standup comedian of vaguely Irish descent

ai exists it wrote a book about itself teaching a Frenchman to learn Uzbek poetry back in the 60s and then released that in Uzbek in a series of telegram posts before chatgt was even a thing, and it'll probably win a nobel prize for said novel наўел өвәл yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

my dead brother long ago infected my fingernail with fungus which is maybe part of how im growin a second brain under my shoulderblade as one does it's like that robot from scavengers reign or smth

the week's russia unfiltered with @jeremymorris.bsky.social is very good and i still surprised that, as the oldest member--i think--it is _he_ of all people on the new microblog hotness, an the rest are nowhere to be found well, quite possibly na telege but goddamn do i hate telegram's UX

bring out your gay boy scout uniforms in force, we've got tuts to loooooooo

kinda trite but yeah, it's true i have finally started doing this. i was a very inwardly-focused person for most of my life. i have the old messages to prove it in some cases. reading my younger self hurts now i really started doing this in earnest this past year. it has paid back in spades

This caller is doing more work here than the media person.

⚡️ Russia, Ukraine, agree to 'local truce' at occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to repair key backup power line. "Demining activities are ongoing to ensure safe access for the repair teams," said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.

they [CCDs] are still used in some specialty applications but yeah in consumer cameras they're entirely dead afaik, CMOS is cheaper to produce and generally better in a lot of cases, and even some of the old CCD upsides are things we've just figured out how to do with CMOS

you gotta love the repeated volunteer mods being like "hi stop having an episode in chat kthx" like bro you're moderating in an explicitly neurodivergent queer space where yes, sometimes people talk like they're talking about strange things in a strange way very intentionally because

goin a bit "u wot m8" about youtube recommending some "babby's first introduction to american imperialism" vid by democracy now as a follow-up to a _british_ interview with zvyagintsev about leviafan

"ці ведалі вы, пра чалавека па імені 'іоў'?" 🙃 I AM SURRENDERING MYSELF TO BAD LINGUISTICS SLASH RELIGION SLASH MULTILINGUALISM JOKE SLASH PUN PRISON NOW

echoing iirc a yurt jurt guest w/ @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social re "postsoviet" over "post-Soviet" as a subtle change that _does_ matter, and, importantly, is nomenclature by and for people from the region, specifically non-russians. it is well past time they had a say in their representation

Relevance: As with a CCPSA meeting held last month, the focus tonight is on CPD interactions w/ ICE and Border Patrol agents that may violate the Chicago Welcoming City ordinance. CCPSA said it invited Snelling to participate in tonight's meeting to discuss those concerns. More here:

Anatoly Chubais of all people wants Canada to lift the sanctions on him cause he now tries to market himself as an opposition figure. I want him and Yandex's Arkady Voluzh in the same cell for enabling Putin's regime for years.

"okay dictionary what's this word mean" "butt" "dictionary no" "really, butt" "but" "like in the abut sense" "okay but" "you know two things buttin up 'gainst one 'nother" "you are just trolling me now" "yes." "but..." "butt." "butt"

At any rate, here is a review of a new animated film THE SQUARE, made in South Korea and set in North Korea. It just won one of the jury prizes at Annecy. koreanfilm.org/kfilm25.html...

poluchili ono, ura! i ya ochen' rad ved' ya, nakonets, dali komu-to, komu-to ossoboe, schaste. dali eto potomu sho etot chelovek, kazhetsya, pokhozh na menya. kak drugoj skazal, v proshlom, obruch zhe--Поезда в этих краях шли с востока на запад и с запада на восток, ğasyrdan da ūzaq kün 😊

autocomplete why i am literally pasting an address <paste 555 25th St> 555 25TH AVE IT IS

the whole of this label is actually quite cool www.wweek.com/music/2025/0... kotatones.bandcamp.com/artists <stereotypes about portland confirmed but IN A GOOD WAY>

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

pixel art commission for @yaneuve.ren

WHAT. A. FUCKING. GHOUL.