A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

AWS Service Health dashboard showing the error "We couldn't load this section because of an issue with the server"

Well this about sums things up

a poll idea that just popped into my head: since we've collectively been doing 90's nostalgia for awhile as a culture, what's your secret/stealth best 90's album? not something necessarily widely super critically beloved but is nonetheless great and defining for you?

The first thing my therapist said to me at my appointment this week was "Please tell me they can't just get rid of the Voting Rights Act."

If I make my therapist depressed, do I win therapy, or does it just make me a really boring Joker?

Find you a person who 👇

Organic water is just...
...Carbon-ated 🫧

I will see myself out 🤣

Happy October babes

That much 🎶bah-bah-bah🎵 could be dangerous!

Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...

They should make a horror movie where the “monster” is grief.

Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi and oak galls

Fungi, galls and snoozing ladybirds from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, last week.
🐡
#fungi
#invertebrates

tired: it's always DNS

inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

Samsung health notification at 6:22am suggesting a fair energy score and to "Maintain your sleep routine"

Thanks, Samsung Health - very useful...

arteries and nervous system bunched together with zip ties like it's a clean cord management setup

this would fix me

Gmail notification from Wealthfront saying: Following the Federal Reserve’s rate cut last week, the rate on your Cash Account will be adjusted to 3.75% APY (annual percentage yield) provided by program banks. If you have a boosted rate, it’ll be 4.25%.

Sure seems great... 😭💸

i feel in most relationships one partner is miss piggy and one partner is kermit. it's important to understand which one you are

Common Descent Machine learning begins with the perceptron

It’s week 4 and probably time to start doing machine learning in machine learning class. We begin with the only nice thing we have: the perceptron.

Hackers VHS case that’s turned into an RGB lamp, plus a Nixie tube clock at 13:37

Happy 30th, Hackers!

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

So photogenic

Black cat laying in front of Halloween decorations including a frosted glass block that says it's all a bunch of hocus pocus

Tis the season 🎃🐈‍⬛

Ruby Soho

Ruby ruby ruby soho?
open.spotify.com/track/0vfhk1...

The silhouette of a black cat staring out of a front window of a tan house at night, backlit by the lights of the room

Sudden Scopaesthesia

An image of a man in a green vest and network tool bag handing a red gift-wrapped box to another man sitting on the ground in front of him, next to a close-up of the network 3-in-1 tool ostensibly in the gift box.

I, too, long to be tenderly gifted a 3 in 1 Network Cable Stripper & Organizer tool! 🎁 Peak amazon imagery! For some reason this seems of interest to @swiftonsecurity.com

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Please, please read this and share it with everyone.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

It's very sad when it sinks in that you've unexpectedly previously done something for the very last time 😢

On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval | alphaXiv View recent discussion. Abstract: Vector embeddings have been tasked with an ever-increasing set of retrieval tasks over the years, with a nascent rise in using them for reasoning, instruction-followi...

Limits of vector search

a new GDM paper shows that embeddings can’t represent combinations of concepts well

e.g. Dave likes blue trucks AND Ford trucks

even k=2 sub-predicates make SOTA embedding models fall apart

www.alphaxiv.org/pdf/2508.21038

Little kids with brain cancer.

That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

As a child, I would have never believed I'd find out about so many adults who fear rainbows, shots, books, and immigrants.