No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

Oh that sounds fun!!!!

Enjoy!;

Diagram on how the prediction/error/correction loop is how people learn and acquire memories

Practice is to encounter more opportunities for errors. Being wrong and correcting is the way we learn. Simply being presented with the right answer or memorising that answer won’t stick. The direct path of AI does not help.

Funnily enough, there's no "just change the -o to an -a" feminization of pollo.

Polla is a rude word for penis—along the lines of dick.

So Apolla could become, with this: without a dick.

“What radicalized you?”

“I saw people doing competent science shit.”

What could they possibly do to top this moment in their lives?

Link: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkDwwh5f/

A growing quercus texana sapling, with still evident fresh wood mulch from its planting.

Nearly a month-ish since planting—from a sapling and 7-gallon container—our Quercus texana, Shumard Oak, is nearly two-Jonathan's talk.

When we purchased it, I was taller.

Been an exciting experience witnessing this tree's growth.

An ad for bbwjobs.com but the letter spacing is extremely tight, so the second b look like an l and o instead.

keming. not even once.

(or, if you're *really* evil, you could jailbreak it so you can continue to read books you already own on a device you already own: www.zdnet.com/article/your...)

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I remember reading a perfect post once, which happened to hit extra perfect for me in particular because I was deep in the Three Bod Prob trilogy at the time, and this may not be word-for-word accurate, but it was something along the lines of "all my real homies hate the dark forest theory"

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Infinity Sign for Autism: The Symbol of Neurodiversity and Acceptance Explore the autism infinity sign's history, variations, and significance as a symbol of neurodiversity, acceptance, and endless possibilities for the autism community.

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It's one of the neurodiversity symbols. Got it after I finished up my burn-out leave and farther along the path of acceptance & understanding of my own wirings.

All together, culminating in a lesson to remind myself of—words, wave, colors, infinity.

A photo of a very fresh tattoo on the inside of my left wrist that reads be Kind, with a rainbow infinity symbol below it, where one of loops is in the form of a crashing wave.

I like it (attached).

And phew.

Yes.

That year.

I wish science could explain what’s happening.

A bit grounding reference of my most recent tattoo: be kind.

It also incorporated the wave Chidi describes in his final scenes, looking over the Good Place.

The Good Place really does nail a _lot_.

Random Fact

For Jacanas, the larger female mates with as many males as possible leaving each male in charge of incubating the eggs and raising the chicks.

So if you see a Jacana with all these legs pouring out of them … it’s almost definitely a male.

📸: Australian Geographic

To all the #UX peeps looking to figure out a path forward through a time of deep career ambiguity:

This is a thread of five things I'm doing for senior and staff designers in the next few months. All are online. Some are free, some are paid.

Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion.

If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over.

And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

Software people are my people, I don't care for a sneerfest. I just also have strong ties to people who have never ever configured even one app and we have to do a good job for them if we want to get the social internet working better.

(Serves me right for poasting while I fight a downloader.)

One of the hardest things to get across to most software people with great intentions is *how strong defaults are* and how tired everyone else is of dorking around trying to get things to work, but this understanding is the thing that made Apple, for all its many flaws, such a giant.

administrative complexity AND institutional power dynamics (thinking of a colleague whose monolingual dad is talking with ChatGPT about his cancer scans in his own language, partly because he doesn't feel condescended to)

& YES.

Restarting Tears of the Kingdom.

Never _actually_ completed the game.

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Infographic titled “Neuro-affirming relational flow of Intensive Interaction to support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.” A soft-toned infinity loop illustrates a continuous relational process with five steps: 1) Notice – observe with curiosity and respect; 2) Be Present – bring full attention without expectation; 3) Attune – tune into the person’s rhythms, signals, and ways of making meaning; 4) Respond – join in gently and be responsive to expressions and needs; 5) Pause – allow meaning to emerge in its own time. At the centre is a heart labelled “Relationship and Connection.” Surrounding text emphasises noticing small expressions, attuning to the person’s world, pausing to allow connection, and responding through connection rather than a plan. Key principles include: no targets (not about changing behaviour), no hierarchy (every person is equal), and led by the person (their lead, pace, and world). The image ends with the quote: “Intensive Interaction is not only neuro-affirming — it is humanity-affirming.” Dr Joanna Grace and Helen Edgar 2026

There is no single script for Intensive Interaction; it is relational knowledge, built slowly, held carefully, and grounded in a genuine desire to be with someone rather than to do something to them or to achieve targets. Co-authored with @jo3grace.bsky.social
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When I tell people weird facts, they ask "how did you know that?"

And I can't possibly answer, not because I don't remember where I read that, but because philosophers have been struggling with what it means to "know" something for over 2000 years, and are no closer to a definitive answer.

So, we might want to consider how the idea that AI can do things "better" than trained experts, where "better" often means faster, is grounded in doubt and contempt for the very expertise that AI is supposed to replace. This, in my view, aligns with the arrogance of some AI proponents.

I _do_ enjoy & appreciate my morning pre-work naps.

Makes such a difference.

what the actual fuck????

New habitat will allow humans to stay underwater for weeks at a time Experts have developed a modular habitat system that can sit on the ocean floor for long periods.

High tech underwater business over in Chepstow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...