Napoli => Naples in English therefore Stromboli => Strombles Gallipoli => Galliples

Useless. The most important environmental challenge for the planet is apparently less important than pleasing fossil-fuel companies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I drew a quoll

hot #politas take: yes, the stadium is bad because it's a waste of money but also because professional football is bad for every player living their dream, there are thousands of punters who trade participation for spectacle, who watch but don't do there are better ways to spend your weekend

civilisational epitaph: we knew what to do, but it wasn’t profitable so it was impossible

I get why people are scared of AI takeover but our societies are already subject to forces we don't control, inhuman systems whose goals ignore human and planetary flourishing

mind as a semi-random walk through messy n-dimensional embeddings

the rapture totally happened, it was just a few of us. we’re up in heaven, naked, it’s nice

Tron-friendly intersection

what painkiller do I avoid to prevent me becoming a malignant narcissist

halfway between high and low tide? call it the aquanox

sperm whales sleep vertically

an emergent superintelligence has read your work and incorporated it into its worldview and people think that's a bad thing?

a generation of young writers lost because they read harry potter too young

neither burning out, nor fading away, but a secret third thing

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social boltzmann brains, but make it poetic

The global community should force the US government to give up their naked .gov domains. The internet is not the United States.

ouch

TODO build an enzyme or nanobot or other tiny intervention which metabolises microplastics into whatever your bodymind craves

@astrojaz.bsky.social relevant to your interests

@arielzj.bsky.social hey, nice podcast ep on Clearer Thinking

Is there a system for encoding peoples' speaking voice as embeddings in accent-space? Imagining having articles and posts "read" to me by their authors, the skeetstream a hubbub

American protestors: I reckon you could do some damage with a frozen baguette

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." — Ursula K. Le Guin

the true voight-kampff test is whether the subject can listen to the ten seconds from 0:55 without swooning www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNkb...

etymological epiphany: all this time I’ve been parsing “think tank” as a kind of vessel, an incubator for idea-havers and their progeny whereas some think of it as a weapon, ideas as attacks I say this as someone on the board of a think tank

I just want to post silly little jokes and appreciate things. Meanwhile jackoffs are trying to destroy the planet

personal flirtation device

Packing up boxes of books, half a lifetime of accumulation being donated. Part of me is thrilled to see them go, another part feels like HAL having memory modules removed. Keeping maybe one in a hundred

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

My true career ambition: Ged, from A Wizard of Earthsea

just imagine drifting through space in a greenhouse of plants and you eat the fruit of it to sustain yourself, what a beautiful system

nootropic indoor plants, whose exhalations induce desirable mental states

grey, rainy weekend morning. turn down the screen brightness, enjoy the low contrast, think slow thoughts

vibe coding? i think you mean programming my personal massager

Kapitalismus (Symbolbild)

naming the son the same as the father: narcissistic on the dad’s part

Eric Abetz about to get ambushed from the left #politas

when vance becomes king of rohan, thiel will be grima wormtongue

There’s an overlap betw Advance campaigns & Segal’s views. Each seek to silence protests, target Greens and activists as antisemitic, & blame the media, unis & “elites” (read, arts & cultural orgs) for rising antisemitism, without evidence. Segal still hasn’t condemned the donation or Advance. New:

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

imagining the AI opportunities latent in a billion iPhones watching, listening, reading, each one an autonomous but interdependent node in a global network, lifetimes of input every minute

I think most people, whether they realize it or not, have chosen to live largely without memory. And it makes sense, too. Because the world our predecessors left us is so much *less* than the one they inherited. It fucking HURTS the amount of life we've lost.

We really should never be surprised by the low, venal, acts of evil perpetrated by those we trusted to do better should we www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Dean Winter’s policies are far too timid for my taste but I have to admit his election materials are outstanding #politas

@freya.bsky.social your Bézier curves video is getting some love on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424...

For everyone asking, “How do they live with themselves?” 👇🏻

muting you, not because I think what you repost is unimportant, but because I only have so much capacity for [gestures broadly]

if you buy a sufficiently large carton of eggs you start thinking about cellular automata