The cameras would have been better

What luck, splashing down when San Diego is 70° and sunny

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Comes Home (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

The four people who have been the farthest from Earth that anyone has ever been are coming home, and they will be here very shortly because they're coming *real* fast.

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A bunch of loser dork billionaires built a machine that tells them everything they do is cool

Earth's getting big fast

Like, honestly, most of the good things in life

What he said.

Social media really broke media literacy, for a number of reasons.

The confidence with which people can say something is badly written or the characters are poorly drawn or anything else just because they don't like it, or don't understand what they're watching, or wish it were something else is...I mean it's not necessarily new, but it's sure disappointing.

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A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

The stars, they call to me

Now I'm going to go be an astronaut. See ya, suckers!

Well I'm back, turns out the Pitt wasn't hiring

I'm just happy I can keep the beard.

It has been a pleasure bringing you Fade In software all these years. However tonight I stop all that in order to become an ER doctor, to save lives and occasionally deliver a gruff life lesson to my idealistic young staff while also wrestling with my own personal demons.

Boy oh boy so do I

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azteclady @azteclady@kind.social "Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default" -- Arden Powell on Bluesky #AnthropicClass #Canada Sign up for updates: https://www. cfmlawyers.ca/class-action/ant COURT: Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Registry DATE FILED: May 23, 2025 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Vancouver against Anthropic PBC. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models. Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC downloaded “Books3” dataset. This dataset contains large amounts of copyrighted works, including books and articles by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders. If you have any questions about the case or information that you think may assist our investigation, please contact us by clicking on the contact button or calling the number below. Any communication is strictly confidential. Contact: Oliver Pulleyblank Phone: 604.697.2480 ext. 240

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HER: Did you write that statement proclaiming my total innocence?

SPEECHWRITER: Sure did boss, completely batshit unhinged just like you asked

If the machinery the Luddites opposed had also been based entirely on stolen work that would've been pretty high up on the list, too, I suspect

Sure a lot of "vibe-coded" browser-based screenwriting apps popping up. As someone who's kinda done it, you know what the easiest part of developing screenwriting software is? Developing it. The hard part is all the rest.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

Marvel at athletes, sure. Fawn over actors and singers, if you like. At least these are people of unique, admirable ability. But there is no admirable ability in figuring out how to exploit a system to take almost everything for yourself. That is sociopathy.

And yet we continue to put these men on stages and herald them as geniuses, solely because they've managed to engineer massive paydays for themselves while laying waste to businesses and entire industries that took decades to be developed.

"...The Aristocrats!"

NASA's CAPCOM livefeed right now is basically a cookie-cam where you can keep track of the dwindling number left on the plate.

Time to move up my Polymarket bet for the first person to get shot on the Moon

Without the massive amounts of stolen creative work that allow them to actually do anything, "AI" models have no value. Without the "AI" models, all that creative work still has tremendous value.

What if all the richest people in the world were reading sweeping social novels of the late 19th/early 20th century instead of Tolkien