Why does every book come from the same country? #books #history #technology TikTok video by Chris Spargo

All about Bookland - www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk9gnc1s/

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Screenshot of a Threads post by iseethings404 reading: “How did Allbirds pivot to AI compute hardware before the shoe company literally called ASICS”

This deserves to be on bsky. Original: www.threads.com/@iseethings4...

It’s always “this meeting could’ve been an email” and never “this email could’ve been a fine cask of delectable amontillado wine”

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

I wonder if both vision and world models also suffer from a representation issue. They are looking at encoded images and videos, which have many artefacts.

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Sonder is cringe fr

Fighter Wizard Elf: My Rules for Bare Metal d20 Gaming is now available by PDF, and you're hearing it here first. A print run of 20 physical copies has released for attendees at @the-kraken.bsky.social, and another, larger print run is planned. #ttrpg #DnD

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Anything to avoid mentioning a competing publication's title.

Looks awesome. Many thanks!

We let Perdido Street Station Author China Miéville loose in the Folio library… and these are his all-time favourite Folio picks 📚 What do you think of his choices? 👀 Part 2 coming soon. #Booktok #Fol... TikTok video by The Folio Society

China Miéville does the the criterion closet but for the Folio Society. This is a format that should be copied more widely. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk6L5hdk/

How do I lean more about this? I rolled a 14.

The Future of AI Should Serve People, Not Platforms

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

I heard there was
a secret cord
You plug it in
and you meet the Lord
But you never care for OSHA
do ya

People will always know my content is organic because I am absolutely unable to avoid typos.

I think a huge factor was affordability and technical accessibility. The fact that people could get super-compute on their desktop for a very affordable price, without needing access to the shared supercomputer cluster, unlocled so much

Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg

Socrates tapping Thamus’s sign and sighing.

Maybe the Vienna Circle was right; we should just abandon metaphysical statements. From now on I will only talk about a rock.

Sonder: The Realization That Everyone Has A Story YouTube video by Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Bader-Meinhof moment for me as I found my way to Sonder and the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrow. youtu.be/AkoML0_FiV4?...
But is that realisation a sorrow? Or is the sorrow that we are only touched and we only touch lightly in other lives and never know what ripples.

I like that Margaret Atwood had a conversation with Claude and felt the need to post the whole thing in full. I get it.

margaretatwood.substack.com

So let's start with the obvious bit: Just HOW did no one know who built Hadrian's Wall?!

Because it was boring, logistical knowledge to the Romans. Nobody really cared. Hadrian didn't. It was there to do a job (keep soldiers busy and keep angry proto-Scottish people from raiding the south). 2/22

A screenshot of an article that says: The Domains map was especially unusual because it not only had to define the positions of several nations and races at the core of Limited Edition (Alpha) Magic, it also had to meet the needs of the team that was developing the Magic role playing game. Yes, there was an RPG in development, but it fell victim to the widespread cuts the company made to its RPG lines as 1995 came to a close. But in those short six months we laid out the places that would become a likely part of a player character's life as they leveled. To use purely Dungeons & Dragons terms, the Domains was the starter area for levels 1–10. Jamuraa and Shiv, home to harsh environments and tons of dragons, were for levels 11–20. But epic adventures of levels 20–30 were located in Terisiare and Sarpadia. Terisiare, the home of the Brothers' War, is filled with powerful artifacts, but they're buried and often submerged—that's also another reason so much of Terisiare was sunk beneath the waves for modern day. Whereas, Sarpadia . . . well, I've always felt the thrulls would win and now rule that continent absolutely. Any player characters unfortunate enough to land there were going to find themselves on the sharp end of a fantasy/horror story crossbreed.

Interesting, a 1995ish RPG has been apocryphal for Magic fans for a while now. Peter Venters has talked about its existence in regards to designing the initial worldbuilding around it.

Anyway this is a cool bit of history!

magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...

⍼ / U+237C is Azimuth. This is very niche, but very important to me. ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/a...

It took me too long to realise this was about star sign not preferred language model.

As an engineer with an LLM I feel it apt to say: sic transit Gloria Steinem.

Bring back poetry, you cowards.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/poet...

“Press the blue button for Toccata and Fugue in D, and the red button for Waterloo by ABBA”

Dead salmon mri. It’s an unthinking response to a surface form coming from the popular reaction to the implausible (right wing) child quotes of a few years ago. Now any pattern like that emits that response.