You can try to figure out how the world works, or you can decide how it works & try to stuff everything in your invented boxes. This sounds like a lovely entry into the former (& a delightful interview w/ someone who has bits of my cultural background & shares other things I didn't know yet)

“All your faves are using GenAI” Soon as I find out they’re not a fave anymore. Flaw in your logic.

you crack open an unusually large acorn and these guys all come tumbling out

I just think it’s really funny when people who make hating Bluesky 80% of their personality also spend vast amounts of the time allocated to their one wild and precious life on Bluesky. When I start hating something, I stop doing it. Which is why I left Twitter.

This week in 1812 Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. Its the least interesting thing about him. Working with hedonistic lawyer James Stephen, the devout Christian engineered one of the first slavery bans in British territory WITHOUT Parliament's approval. /1

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Two things. 1. These books sound AMAZING. Rick Riordan knows how to bring in the strongest writers as collaborators. 2. This is how you use a platform. apnews.com/article/rick...

In the main square of the village of Pavía (Portugal) you can find an authentic dolmen from the Late-Neolithic or Neo-Chalcolithic periods, known as the Anta de Pavia or the Anta-Capela de São Dinis. And even more curious, in the 17th century it got converted into a small chapel, stil in use!

This video by ClimateAdam is required watching. It explains one of the greatest threats to the world while breaking down some misleading recent headlines. I just really love everything ClimateAdam does www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKB...

The Wall Street Journal confirmed it received federal subpoenas targeting reporters’ records a move so rare it’s almost unheard of in modern federal prosecutorial history.

Right, so what I'm seeing is that those boycotting Eurovision this year have got some books to go read:

Right, this. Happy to hang out on the bits of internet w/o sex in them, but that's *my* choice, not something I want enforced by breaking the internet.

if you can’t talk about climate and make it relevant to people’s lives, that seems like a you issue not a climate issue.

Are you familiar with the dark folk group Tabernis? They are beekeepers who formed a musical duo that plays medieval-inspired music. One plays bagpipes, and the other a bass drum, and they dress as medieval beekeepers with bees contributing to the background of most songs.

Turning a profit off people's ability to live & be healthy is a travesty.

YUP. Also it's wild if you get to hold one. When the bears are super young they can't control their body temp and need to be kept warm in your jacket while the wildlife guys work on the mother (oh darn, my life is HARD). And so you're holding what feels like a 25 lb toddler, with GIANT CLAWS.

Maybe if a lot of people read this we might start actually resting when we're sick & feel like crap? ... oh yeah, capitalism, never mind. Feeling sick may be your body’s survival strategy

I have long said that our food system is broken, but food is one of those things where you CANNOT allow it to crash and burn in hopes of getting something better. It needs delicate surgery, not a sledgehammer.

This is only a big deal if you’re into food.

FOR REAL, I am not talking about the Interstate Popular Vote Compact enough. I need to fix that.

That's right, it's MY COVERRRR! LOOK at how pretty! ADMIRE the deep bluey green color, an ornament to all shelves! MARVEL at how Matt Curtius managed to evoke my story, which does in fact include a lot of music and also harpies! PREORDER today! or, you know, a different day soon!

(mutters in today's "further dismantling medical coverage" billed as "weaning Americans off antidepressants" b/c clearly I'm a far more effective human being when I have to schedule time for sitting on the kitchen floor crying...)

It does seem like a lot of the business analysts are refusing to recognize that the logic of war is rather different than the logic of markets and this is, in fact, a war - however indirectly waged at the moment. 'How long will the war last' - well the mean war duration is more than a year.

May Day May Day May Day (in both senses).

we'll be talking like this about cars soon

notes to self: make check grocery list tonight so I don't run out of anything important on friday!

If we had taken all the money we put into AI and put it into trains, we would have such great trains. What a waste.

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Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

such faces!

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

We do not spend nearly enough time talking about the fact that the foil freaks from Reynolds Wrap built a deep-submergence vehicle to prove the utility of aluminum construction and then we had to use it to recover a hydrogen bomb that the US military lost at sea.

This is your periodic reminder that @skypeascientist.bsky.social connects 1000s of scientists with classrooms every year, & collaborates with artists to educate people about environmental action. We exist thanks to the support of 100s of people every month. A couple bucks a month means a lot to us!

She is very lonely

Wait, it's autism acceptance month? ADHD here, but this is the comeback I have needed my entire life: (what is wrong w/ you people who need drugs to be creative??)

I’m in Albany today for a court appearance, and outside the scene of a massive corporate crime taking shape at the Capital. Hochul demands the legislature gut NY’s climate law in the secret budget negotiations - and then ram it thru in the state budget deal. Call your reps! NO!

Now with snail bunnies! 😍

There's a lot of stuff pop culture does better these days, but the 80s still remembered Nazis were Evil.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

I have been searching a primary text for a citation for something academics have been repeating for years. Guess what? One guy 70 years ago got a detail wrong. AI is going to keep repeating that mistake.

There it is. Lately I see folks I otherwise admire "vibe" "coding" and wonder if I'm applying my definition of genAI incorrectly in the case of software dev. Turns out no Instead I ask what software I could possibly want to create that would justify this. An indie website that sells ebooks? Nope

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I love how they say that somehow this piece of software "went rogue." No it didn't. It did exactly what it was able to do, and these people let it. You give this kind of access to these kinds of tools, and this is an inevitable outcome somewhere.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

hey, @donutage.bsky.social, have you seen this yet?

Amazing insights from @pottedhistory.bsky.social here! youtu.be/-V7Hl7gKOjI?...