Oh this’ll be fun! @galaxykate.bsky.social

Imagine being so unpopular and evil that you have to drop this amount of money and invent new forms of ratfucking so you can beat a 27-year-old who regularly wears a Snorlax onesie to bed.

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

Someday, someone is going to make a movie about the tech-bros who recklessly dismantled the professional US administrative state and it’s going to be devastating.

Gripping excerpt from “Into the Wood Chipper,” Nicholas Enrich. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social

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"A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio"

(1/2)

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DadSwap | SNL UK YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK

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2024 Trump: I’m gonna be a dictator!
2024 MAGA: YEAH! We WANT you to be a dictator!

2026 MAGA: HOLY SHIT! WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME WHAT DICTATOR MEANT!?

As one of the masterminds behind the viral Italian Brainrot meme, artist Fabian Mosele dissects the pitfalls of generative media and how it gave birth to a new breed of characters – with no ownership and infused in slop.
Join the conversation at this May’s #PictoBerlin Conference

Frode Bolhuis on knowing when to stop:
"I intuitively know a sculpture is finished when it conveys a certain clarity, even if the story it carries is difficult to put into words. Clarity lives in its form, without needing to be smooth or perfect. When it happens, it’s unmistakably clear to me."

“The medium is the massage” McLuhan
(And the message)

“[…] in prompt engineering, it is not only the prompt that is being engineered, but also the prompter.”

Line art of the maps of the EU (top left, blue), China (top right, red), and the USA (bottom, gray). Superimposed on each of them is a drawn face. The USA is stabbing itself with two daggers, bleeding all over the place, its face screaming in berserker rage. Europe and China look on, concerned.

I may never know who the original artist is. but one day a cheeky historian or museum curator will be absolutely correct to use this image to capture our particular political moment.

Japanese magic cats!!!!

Literally a hole in the ground countries and corporations can throw bribes into

This is out in just over a month! If the Easter bunny did not, for some reason, preorder the book for you, then you can fix that right now! Some UK preorder links here: linktr.ee/next_level

As always cogent and concise and sobering

Different formalised notions of multiple realisability and multiple realisation, from: Guest, O., Blokpoel, M., & van Rooij, I. (2026). What the func? Multiple Realizability need not be Vague. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19388964

We build on the 4 different formalized notions of 'function' to define different kinds of multiple-realisability and -realisation.

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“LLM-generated passwords…appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure, because LLMs are designed to predict tokens – the opposite of securely and uniformly sampling random characters.” [irregular.com]

Molly Lambert @mollylambert I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone 12:31 PM • 12/12/19 • Twitter Web App 59.5K Retweets 294K Likes

Lance St. Laurent @LanceStLaurent When you see this blatant anti-moon propaganda, consider the source The Sun @TheSun • Jan 18, 2019 'Super blood wolf moon' may trigger end of the world this weekend thesun.co.uk/news/8223896/s. 8:32 PM • Jan 20, 2019 • Twitter for iPhone 49.9K Retweets 493 Quote Tweets 238.7K Likes

Paul Ford v @ftrain When the moon hits your knees And you mispronounce trees Sycamore 5:14 AM • 2/27/18 • Twitter for Android 13.6K Retweets 37.3K Likes

dustin Couch @Dustinkcouch nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's haunted nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted 10:18 PM - 29 Oct 2018

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

Meanwhile the new wings are coming along, tho I think I need a hip harness to distribute the weight, and maybe chrome spikes on the tips of the shoulders/elbows:)

A tweet reading 'big data is a secular inductivist cult with the belief that a critical mass of empirical information leads to a theoretical chain reaction'

I always loved this quote by Jan de Leeuw (from the before times over yonder)

Teri Schindler on March Madness & Building the WNBA | Won of One EP 11 YouTube video by PLLRS

A wonderful bit of good news… youtu.be/O-cKedeyx5c

Mickey McManus _ Senior Advisor, BCG · Luma Join us Tuesday, March 31st for a talk from Mickey McManus on design science, synthetic biology, and what happens when the systems we build begin to act on…

luma.com/gcwlcclx

This is what it looks like when art becomes protest. Loud, bold, impossible to ignore in LA. ❤️‍🔥

@lamuertemaria (IG)
#NoKings #SheShed

This Tuesday night (3/31/26) in berkeley… luma.com/gcwlcclx

Elizabeth Banks

This promises to be an amazing day Berkeley MDES

Booksmith presents: Mike Monteiro with Annalee Newitz / How To Die (and other stories) | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office. Join us on Monday, May 11th at 7pm as we welcome Mike Monteiro to the shop to celebrate the release of How To Die. He'll be joined in conversation by Annalee Newitz. RSVP is not required, but greatly ...

🚨🚨🚨 IMPORTANT LITERARY CROSS-OVER EVENT🚨🚨🚨
On May 11 (don't worry, I'll remind you 4,000 times), I will be talking to the amazing @annaleen.bsky.social about my stupid book at @booksmith.bsky.social! There will be READING, CONVERSATION, and FEELINGS.

Shockingly, this event is free. (RSVP, though)

The ruling starts: “Science,” like law, “is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge.” Carl Sagan. History is littered with once-universal truths that have since come under scrutiny. Nevertheless, science is still “the best we have.” (2/2🧵)

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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣