I don’t know if I believe they exist scientifically, but I believe in things unseen, and that you should stay respectful regardles.

I also firmly believe it’s a bad idea to mess with any spirit or practice not traditionally connected or passed down to you.

I have trust issues with Life In General, so I’m never sure if a situation is weight bearing or not. But I’m praying this works out because it will help a LOT.

The lady seems really sweet and experienced, her dogs are big and friendly—just like Casper likes—and it’s a straight shot down the road with only like two turns, which is Very Important for me, the autistic.

Found an at home doggy daycare that looks so perfect for Casper that I’m almost afraid to get too invested. 🥹

They are so bright in person, it’s really startling.

(Also I’m a firm believer that a Bond movie lives and dies on the strength of its villian, so it makes sense it would feel more relatable now.)

I just fact-checked a picture book biography of Michelle Yeoh, and she was the first Bond girl to have her own full fight scene!

I believe The Onion can and will actually turn the frogs gay

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These little drip drips of destroying our self understanding are tiny. But they are part of why phrases like agentic AI, generative AI and AI itself — as well as its component words artificial and intelligence — are vacuous semantically.

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I don’t say it’s weird, because—if you think about it—in icy, snowy places like the Arctic, air is a very Present Thing. Studying either could easily lead to studying both.

If I had a nickel for every nature writer in my library that wrote a book about cold places and also a book about air, I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s cool that it happened twice.

Fortunately tech bros are too busy trying to live their childhood Space Robot dreams to actually care about what is effective and useful lol

Hahaha fair.

We basically brute-forced our own evolutionary update! The spine was not built for this!

You want to do search and rescue? Mining? Cave and deep sea exploration?

You want to climb stairs? Dodge obstacles? Carry heavy things?

Bipedal humanoid robots are literally the worst choice every time.

Make more bug robots you cowards.

Almost every method of living locomotion on earth is faster and more stable then two-legged walking.

We’re literally just built to trudge forever and carry shit, and if you want to do THAT better, that’s what the wheel is for.

Bipedal humanoid robots are amazing feats of skill and engineering, and also, practically speaking, a very silly thing to spend time on.

this is something that i don’t think is widely understood, as someone who has worked over a decade in robotics

most of the people building robotics are absolutely not thinking through the consequences of the technology.

this is part of why i think humanities and ethics should be required education

Other than disease carrying insects and other humans, snakes kill more of us than any other animal!

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from short Chinese dramas, it’s that you should never go out of your way to protect a man’s pride. 😂

It’s entirely possible we developed such good eyes and color vision to avoid snakes. 🐍

I love snakes and most snakebites are defensive, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are our biggest non-microscopic opp.

Snakes are humanity’s greatest predators, and we don’t talk about that enough.

I think this might be the first one I’ve seen that didn’t have a counterbalance on it’s back!

I still think trying to make bipedal robots is kind of a waste of time but that is impressive.

And frankly, some progressive Black folks are tired of dealing with antiblack racism within the coalition, and being told we only care about identity politics.

Far too many are very comfortable with racism. As if it’s an immutable law of physics. And not something that can be changed.

Black people show up. In a million myriad ways, we show up even when we don’t get a whole lot out of it.

The Dems aren’t great or good. They aren’t enough. They never have been. WE KNOW.

We vote as we do because the alternative is unthinkable.

It’s a shame that this perspective doesn’t matter.

get mad or get fucked, those are in fact your two options

Perimenopause is like going through a second puberty except that puberty belongs to a 14 year old boy for some reason.

The worst thing about perimenopause isn’t the insomnia or the weird hairs or the hormone fluctuations, it’s that I’ll start smelling like a gym bro’s duffle bag at the drop of a hat.