Cartoon from @twonks on instagram: shows George Jetson vacuuming while Rosie the robot maid paints a canvas

haha how silly… oh

(from @twonks.bsky.social)

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

The comment period for SpaceX's proposal has ended. Now we wait, but overall, over 1300 comments were submitted, and many of those from viewers of this post. Thank you all so much for commenting, and if you haven't, Reflect Orbital's comments are open until the 9th. Instructions in the link below.

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion PALO ALTO, CA—Hailing the new product as a “game changer” in the development of large language models, Silicon Valley insiders confirmed Tuesday that an AI chatbot that only responds “huh” had been va...

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion — theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

The calendar for the first three months of 2026, with today, Saturday, January 31, highlighted. February begins on Sunday and lasts for exactly four weeks, ending on Saturday.

We have a perfect Rectangular February coming up, first time we’ve had one since 2015

Maybe this is what finally closes the loop and fixes the world

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Cartoon with a table showing the different planets of the solar system in order closer to farther from the Sun. All of them show 0 deaths and no CSS, except for Earth that has CSS and 117,020,448,575 deaths. Below the table there's a question: coincidence?

comiCSS #109: Coincidence?
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November 27, 2023 – One of those small cartoons that are simple yet fun to code. And it's versatile, too. You can basically change CSS for anything you want: Taxes? it works! Humans? Works too! Tailwind? D'uh!

#css #html #webdev #joke

<center>Voila!</center>

Issue 48 - The WFH Commute and Ensuring Markdown Consistency You'll explore the importance of 'commutes' even when working from home, and how to use markdownlint for consistent Markdown structure.

Many dislike WFH because work never seems to disappear. Try separating your home and work spaces and create a "commute" to mentally transition from work to home.

Even without a dedicated work room, this will help mentally separate the two spaces.
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🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026!

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"80% of Americans think AI should be robustly regulated and fewer than 20% of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on America over the next 20 years."

Merry Christmas! This is your yearly reminder that mistletoes, uniquely among ALL known multicellular life, do not have working mitochondria. What the fuck? Biology is fake.

Read Erika's beautiful description. Think about how you would describe this amazing photograph to a friend.

The alt text is: "Image may contain Gail Graham Blazer Clothing Coat Jacket Formal Wear Suit Face Head Person and Photography"

Timeline cleanser

I'd like to go back to the early web. Have fun with CSS, make friends, and deal with annoying popup ads but nothing worse. Early 2000s maybe, that felt like peak the Internet is magic time.

This thing’s way less accurate than Google, uses 1000X the resources, has a monetization plan that will never work, and destroys the ability of the websites it uses as source material to cover their expenses.

But hear me out.

James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97 Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.

My boss said, "That's James Watson!" And that's when we noticed that we parked in the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Director's parking space... his parking space.

apnews.com/article/jame...

It was late. My boss pulled into a parking space in an empty lot opposite the dorm registration.

We got our keys for our rooms and got back in the car. As we got ready to pull out, a car pulled in right next to us, with an old man scowling at us from behind the wheel.

I see that James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered DNA's double helix, has passed away. I ran into him once when I was 23.

I was working as a lab tech in a cell biology lab at Univ of North Carolina. My boss and I were traveling to Cold Spring Harbor labs to present a workshop.

Need one that says "recording my course." Wonder if I've hit a year of my life yet, babbling away into a microphone, with no one listening?....

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape Someone's trash is another person's web server.

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

AI Watchdog - The Atlantic The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.

AI will get irrelevant answers out of my book "Joomla Start to Finish," published in 2010 & covering long-dead Joomla 1.5. However, the 1st chapter focused on site planning - something the community needed help with at that time. Still applicable & worth reading. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome.

But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.

If you ever feel like you don't know what you're doing, just keep in mind Spotify sent out an email today with an image that is 8736x11648 in dimensions and 19.6MB in filesize.

So. You're fine.

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I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.