Should potholing be banned?

You'll only drive it underground.

I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.

"Acting out", e.g gaming until way late, making impulsive purchases, etc is usually the symptoms of an unmet need. Thinking about it as "how can I Identify and meet this need responsibly" instead of "how do I stop this bad habit" is not only kinder on yourself but also infinitely more useful

Writing tip: Make the perfect the enemy of the good. Then it's way hotter when they fuck at the end of the book.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

genuinely stupid, middle management is a hard hard job, and the glue of companies. Any exec (or IC) who thinks this is a bullshit job is, charitably, not paying attention to how companies actually operate

This absolutely nails it. It's a Skinner box

think my travel joy went up about 50% when I started treating the airport and journey as part of the holidays

book that lounge, buy that insanely expensive drink, bring a book specifically for the airport etc.

the albatross implies the existence of the albatrachel, the albatphoebe, the albatjoey, the albatchandler and the albatmonica

are you telling me this scallion can rap

Ncuti Gatwa looking FABULOUS in a pink dress on stage at the National.

Watching the National Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest, and Ncuti Gatwa is clearly the most beautiful human alive.

assuming everyone has already read this but if not: please be advised that the first time I read it I was at my desk at work and I had to go for a little walk halfway through because I thought I was about to die from quietly laughing

A functioning gargoyle with modern rainwater goods added

A grotesque face

if it has (or had) a water spout, it’s a gargoyle, if it doesn’t, it’s a grotesque. thank you for coming to my tedtalk, see you all next month when I give it again

"If only the map were perfect," said the Fool, "I would know what my next step should be."

"Do you know where you want to go, Fool?"

"No. How could I, when I don't have a perfect map?"

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

My post on LinkedIn: "Almost every post I see on my feed on this site is about generative AI. I have never used AI to write code, and I hope I never will. My entire purpose as a software engineer is to solve problems by writing and debugging code. I'm good at it. If there's a problem I don't know how to solve, I will research it until I understand it. And I will write every line of code myself, knowing how it all works, so that if subsequent bugs or changes to the design arise, I will know exactly where to look to make adjustments. A few years ago, I realized I needed to emulate a certain function from a web app in a local Python script for parity to fix a very subtle but very critical bug in a game. The web app was written in TypeScript (a language I wasn't familiar with), and the person who wrote the web app was no longer available to contact. So I dove into the TypeScript code, figured out what it was doing, and rewrote it in Python. And sure, rewriting a single function into another language is probably the sort of thing an AI would be good at doing. But that was the easy part. Understanding that this was even a problem that needed to be solved in the first place is something that only a real human being would notice, and it required a ton of audiovisual context that I would have no idea how to even begin to describe to an AI. You need real people to solve real problems."

LinkedIn is a pretty terrible site but sure I'll bring my slightly hostile anti-AI takes over there why not. The worst that can happen is that I don't get considered for a job I'd hate to do anyway.

guys, this is how you lose the time war

Even cleverness can be a holding on. Notice where your mind insists on being right, or finding the flaw. Can you rest in simply *seeing* things as they are, without needing to fix them?

Consecutive posts from Swords Comic and Alice Fraser recommending creators invest in themselves and taking the time to make mistakes.

Great synergy from @swordscomic.bsky.social and @alicefraser.bsky.social

This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.

This story is absolutely wild

We checked and there are no such data centres. Our friends @manchestermill.bsky.social visited the supposed Salford location – it’s just a vacant retail unit

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Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby, peaking his head into an examination room, on "The Pitt."

"The Pitt" vs. its fandom: Why is the show's vocal fandom putting "The Pitt's" characters on trial to be deemed “good” or “bad"?

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sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

people who actually expect you to "guess what" are breaking the social contract

being a guy in a mostly woman office environment is the greatest gig in human history if they can just get over the "treat them like people" hurdle

John Cage - 4' 33'' Death Metal Cover by Dead Territory [ORIGINAL VIDEO] YouTube video by DeadTerritory

Hello.

I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”.

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This is an unbelievably stupid idea. Sorry, I’m generally kinder about people trying to do their bit for democracy but not when they pitch their obviously unworkable idea in the language of populism.

Really you can season your girls however you like

Hi! I am a security engineer.

a) yes, this is very scary and very real. I've been expecting it and planning for it and it's still scary.

b) all this AI stuff makes security engineers more, not less important. This is an important tool, but it's a *tool*.