One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

most depressing billboard I have ever seen

This is disgraceful. They should be at home with their families. Instead, Trump is forcing them to walk around in the cold for his fascist national security theater. DC is absolutely dead this time of year. There’s nobody here to “terrorize.” Just pathetic all around.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

After a little optical sensor difficulty, I finally got my Reachy Mini up and running tonight, and—wow. It’s still a dimwit LLM that can’t do simple multiplication, but it’s striking how much more engaging it is dealing with an embodied chatbot. Like, scarily so? huggingface.co/spaces/polle...

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

There’s an Arabic version of “every cloud has a silver lining” that translates to “no cows, no feeding them at dawn.” A Scots version is “today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky.” And a Romanian phrase for looking on the bright side is un șut în fund, un pas înainte, or “a kick in the ass, a step forward”

Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.

The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.

If cavemen, on discovering fire, had applied it to everything they did—the way many are trying to force LLM systems now—human history would’ve been much shorter and way flamier.

Was just reminded of the San Francisco Tamale Lady of yore, and it is deservedly righteous that she meets wikipedia’s standard for notability! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgini... I had so many nights in SF circa-2008 that were vastly improved when Virginia showed up at the door of the bar

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

Yay, @inmice.bsky.social is back!

“Rachel Maddow just issued a dire warning on NBC” … apparently the Dems are now sending grift-spam texts through a time-portal from 2015

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I’ve legitimately had to gun it in an emergency exactly once in 30 years (and probably 30,000 miles) of driving, to avoid a car that was careening across the freeway from behind me.

THEY DID THE MEME THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME

Your annual reminder that the Time team realized years ago that "Person of the Year" gets way more engagement when people are pissed.

Nothing emphasizes that dogs are half-reprogrammed wolves more than an accidentally-dropped chicken bone

My medical anxiety loves this cartoon

More than half the jokes in this are lifted straight from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Was thinking this the other day, noticing the 20+ “dubai chocolate” products now sprinkled around my local Publix.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Congrats, Google. You’ve made the act of adding a fucking thermostat to your fucking app so frustrating I gave up and ordered a competitor as a replacement. Reminds me I need to finish kicking Gsuite out of my life over Christmas break.

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss. We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

$20 billion could end homelessness in the US $40 billion could end hunger globally Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes

dude was so all about the metaverse that he renamed the whole company, only to burn billions on a venture that anybody with sense knew was destined to fail. it is laughable that he remains in charge. merit simply does not exist

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

There's a software engineer in Hong Kong who makes incredibly detailed scientific diagrams for wikipedia, like this clickable metro-style map of metabolic pathways!!!

Aw, RIP Claude www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I feel like, as they age, Alton Brown and Adam Savage are converging towards being the same person. I would also pay good money to see them do some kind of show together www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdUX...

ok fine I *do* want @profanity.accountant to count my linguistic indiscretions

I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

Siri accepting my response “yarp” as an affirmative is the first truly joyful technology experiences I’ve had in quite a while

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in your back garden - Hummingbird (CA) - Coyote - Alligator - Possum (front half thereof) - Buzzards (circling as I carried the half-possum to the compost pile on a shovel) Florida’s a trip

Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.

Thrilled to share the Point Reyes Myriorama: a storytelling art deck inspired by the National Seashore and my love of Philip Pullman. I teamed up with artist Carrie Alyson of Aspenhearted. Preorder now for early 2026 delivery: www.pointreyesmyriorama.com

Trying to figure out why Facebook have spent a bazillion dollars spamming the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade show with an ad for the product they were offering 15 years ago.

I continue to love how The Onion has just completely taken off the gloves (and picked up a glass-studded baseball bat)