I want to attempt some sort of permaculture like theory of container gardening

You should watch "task master" for the sake of learning culture.

It's pride month, so I've allowed myself the luxury of being out at work. As a treat.

My opinion of the Chicago bears leaving Chicago is that we should have let George Lucas build his museum on top of their stupid parking lot.

Every pride month I confront the dread of signing my lease for yet another year in my same stagnant life as rent grows so much faster than my wages. I really could leave it all right now for anything that promised a decent chance of being better

Ahhhh ..ahhhhhh it's a sipergenski gasket nearly a decade before the mathematician published about them? And we have extensive notes from Alexander Graham Bell trying to make an optimally light design and resorting to a fractal?!? Why was this not in my textbook

You are not a real himbo unless you are giving up all of your interiority. Unless you look at this trash can and think of it as your brother.

The DSA is a party of upper class condo owners. Here we are applauding them for punting real work like fighting down-zoning and permit reform for unrealistic political goals like instituting a land value tax.

Science has not yet, nor can explain how different potato shapes taste so different.

First they came for the Cumin And I did not speak out Because I don't personally cook curries or savory spiced dishes Then they came for the Italian Herb Blend And I did not speak out Because I think I get enough of that from pizza anyway ...

My own pride so quickly turns into hubris then failure and disaster. I guess we get to see if I'm emotionally resilient or not.

Emergent Tokyo is probably the most recent, definitive read on some of the pretty Japan takes towards planning. In particular, you have the Zakkyo buildings (which aren't unique to Japan but very much prevalent there) where you have various businesses on each floor of the tower.

I want to eat one of every variety of cured meat stick from genes sausage.

You're all too late. I've already trained a massive neural net on astrological data to predict everything from politics to weather. I HAVE MASTERED AND FUSED BOTH THE ANCIENT AND MODERN. Tensors of billions upon billions of dimensions now whisper arcane truths to me.

Just saw this insanely blatant AI generated theft of @robinhobb.bsky.social . I'm so disgusted and I hope she gets justice.

Organic probiotic stores are slowly realizing that sauerkraut versus kimchi is a spectrum not a binary and many varieties with extras like hatch chilies are possible. May a thousand flowers bloom.

My dad telling me that Chicago is too full and there is nowhere left to build after I bike thru a very quaint cute post industrial wasteland that could be the home of like a hundred thousand people

Yes the Cortland bridge is still open for everyone but cars, so nice for #bikeCHI

Come on little guy. Be a good boy and take your questionable legal / poorly regulated:

Replacing the training data on all our naive natural language AI tests with the text of Pride and Prejudice. Because just seeing errors like this is funny (and also because why the hell did you write a test that calls the Wikipedia API to pull in training data?!?!)

"Mr. Bezos, the quarterly earnings from the miso division are in and it's not looking good, Sir. We have to modernize our fermenting process or else " "Or else what? No! We will follow the traditional Shinshu methods or we will die! Do you understand me? This is my white whale. This is my miso."

Did they even bother to use any of the tools we've made for formal automated reasoning? Naw.

Organizations tend to evolve the ability to launder accountability unless it is resisted. But does anyone ever?

Joseph George Strutt's Sylva Britannica (1822), a 19th-century exploration in etchings and words of British trees “distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sylva-britannica

RIP Barney Frank. Let us all appreciate this moment from cspan - the most power a gay man since Alexander the Great ever wielded. youtu.be/RWU0HQTpF5s?...

A silly problem with flashcards/anki. Sometimes I will come upon a word I feel I know well, but realize that I know it's been showing up lately, which can only mean I have recently messed it up. This tells me it has something tricky about it and leads me to guess a less conventional answer/reading.

I'm screaming. Schlitz is gone? What. How. 177 years and why? I ran down to Simon's and it's still there on tap, but apparently they stopped producing it months ago. wgntv.com/news/chicago...

The anti AI luddites will rally against AI when it is salient only to *them*. And they are effectively blind. It's going to be so annoying. AI labour washing is going to be so easy and probably most companies won't even bother with it.

I just ate a small bowl of cubed radish kimchi that was approaching its best buy date in my fridge and I was overwhelmed with how electric and carbonated it tasted. We'll see if I live.

I'm not actually qualified to talk about travel. But I think it's true that at its best, travel helps us better understand the communities we already live in. And conversely, knowing how to really be part of a local community helps us know how to visit a new community more deeply. So ..

"The Democrats have once again failed to stop the Republicans, because they're also fascists and don't deserve our support. The only thing left to try is a violent socialist revolution, like I've been suggesting my entire adult life, for several years now. In this essay, I will ..."

I was reading about that "Clavichord" person being sentenced to like 20 hours of community service for the discharge of a firearm in a public space? I had to do a hundred hours as a teenager just to pass high-school and my stupid eagle scout project probably took twice that.

This year at IML, the hot new bdsm kink is long-distance, sub-sub, stiflingly formal correspondence where we exchange an escalating series of apologies for imagined social disgraces.

My insta handle was recently read out loud by a friend as "unrelen tingle thargy"

They removed the snippet feature from YouTube!?! Anyway this is how I feel right now.

Who else learned @kumail.bsky.social is on Blue sky when his internet search history was scoured on A British tv comedy

The discourse on the bad site today is on Rawl's veil of ignorance.

How are, as gay men, judging men for being a bit macrocephalic? This used to be desirable.

They're roboticizing you in the comments, friend. They're adding panel lines and calling your body a chassis. They're putting numbers in your name and saying it's your designation. You're so processed. #TMITuesday

Cute

Seen on an altar to Guan Yu in a kitchenware shop in Chinatown: - Those Japanese Lychee gummies I bring to the bar after soccer games ✅ - Real paper Yuan featuring Mao's smiling face ✅ - A Reese's peanut "thin" butter cup ) ❌

Sorry my alley mango monger, You don't know how much I wish I needed more mangos.

The catalpa tree waits for the end of the spring rains before exposing its delicate spears of blooms. And the bee is grateful as the season of the ground flowers has already passed.

I'm always shocked when the rich and the famous have the same toilets as a gas station. "Even the Rich are obliged to sit on their ass" has never been less true with fancy Japanese toilets available for the rich.

Recently, because of stress, I haven't been putting in contacts in the morning. And multiple times this week, after getting home and quickly putting away groceries, laptop etc, I found myself in the bathroom just having finished peeing, suddenly realizing I am basically blind and missing my glasses.

I complain alot about the Instagram feed algo being stupid, but actually it's recently been showing me hot men trying to lift the 200+ lb metal staff of the legendary, huge warrior-monk Benkei. Which is maybe a bit too tailored to my interests.