It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
Bird
“Whales are back” depends on where you look.
Some areas are dense.
Others—where they used to be common—are now quiet.
That’s not recovery.
That’s compression into what’s left.
We don’t notice absence.
We notice what remains.
That’s an echo.
every day is Autism Awareness Day for people who interact with me.
GLAMOROUS SEA SLUGS.
Let's talk #Nudibranchology with @calacademy.bsky.social's Dr. Gosliner & @amnh.org's Dr. Goodheart about:
bunny horns
finger backs
stolen weaponry
buttflowers
doomed dates
high fashion
tiny eyes
gender fluidity
“Finding Nemo” + much more.
www.alieward.com/ologies/nudi...
I have just watched 'My Garden of a Thousand Bees', and my mind is blown.
Bees. They have personalities. They use sticks. It's changed how I think of insects that's for sure. I can't recommend it enough.
On BBC iPlayer. It's wonderful. And you will meet a leafcutter bee called Nicky.
AI found critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software, autonomously.
XBOW identified 3 critical RCEs, including one of the most severe issues in March’s Patch Tuesday and two in Bing with potential SYSTEM-level impact.
No source code. Real environments. Real CVEs.
https://bit.ly/4bNBgWT
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
It's time for another LLM image generation thread, because they're humourous. If you just want to see the images and don't care about joining in the snark, you can find this at tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/03... 1/35
A wonderfully weird creature you'll find deep in the endangered Chocó Rainforest of Ecuador.
It's a moss-mimic walking stick insect (Trychopeplus laciniatus).
#insect #camouflage #rainforest
At RSAC Conference —> Google’s threat intelligence arm officially launched its anticipated disruptive cyber unit on Monday, which comes as the Trump admin seeks to create a more offensive, proactive US culture against hackers.
www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
We brake for nautilus!
“We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said #VisioningCoralSea Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!
Hear, hear. In so many cases, folks who claim they "aren't political" are just saying they're satisfied with the way the status quo is working out for them.
Sucks that he passed at a relatively young age. On the bright side, maybe this will serve as impetus to republish to share this cool story with new generations.
Have you tried codex ?
There is no reason anyone in the world should suffer hunger, but it’s vile that the government of the richest country in the world is systematically starving people.
“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention”
“Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”
Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that
Industrial whaling reduced the bowhead whale population by 90%. The result is genetic draft and loss of genetic diversity. Genetic diversity continues to decline today, even after most nations have stopped Whailing
www.earth.com/news/centuri...
The Trump regime has functionally frozen the National Science Foundation, effectively removing the largest source of funding for scores of scientific fields.
ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity
Macro photograph of a pearly white to rose colored leaf beetle with a metallic green head, pronotum, and various lines and blobs on its back, standing on a grean leaf with a number of flower buds at upper left.
A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.
There's some ideas in this election projection thing I built up - specifically you get candidate summaries and news on each candidate over time so you can see "who won the day": elections.cordyceps.systems
A fantastic talk from markus at re//verse:
I think people really do underestimate time travel debugging
Right now, if you have ChatGPT Pro, you have access to Codex Security. You should try it and let me know what you think. It's free for a month....
Keynote for re//verse:
