Why is it people are so quick to judge the simplest machine as capable of any computation (Turing completeness) yet so insistent that animals are incapable of entire categories of thought?

2026 will be the year i learn to type non-sequitur without needing to spellcheck after

a collection of usb chargers

today i have gathered them and labeled them all

> git undo git: 'undo' is not a git command.

love the BoM but a sunny day with a 25% chance of reaching one millimeter of rain at 7pm does not warrant a raining storm cloud icon for today

What if the experience of consciousness resides wholely within a single cell of our brain, and it gets replaced when we sleep? #ShowerThoughts

A sign with a silhouetted person sitting on a beluga whale with a red circle with a line over it.

FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen

(Not a Galápagos tortoise). This is an Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) at a zoo in Japan. Their shell is smooth and dome shaped. Galápagos tortoises by contrast can have a saddleback shell and an extra-long neck, though some also have dome shells too (they are morphologically diverse, varying between islands). The Aldabra and Galápagos tortoises are approximately as different from each other as cats are from dogs, each going their separate ways about 50 million years ago. The Galapagos tortoise is critically endangered. The Aldabra tortoise's threat of extinction is less immediate but the two other giant tortoise species of the same genus did not survive human cohabitation. Photo by Pengo Wray 2005.

Galapagos tortoises aren't named for the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands get their name from the galápagos (giant tortoises). #TodayILearned #TIL

Late at night, a couple of pigeons looking curious on an interstate train platform. I've encountered these pigeons only once before over a year ago. They ran up to me when they saw me.

i think these guys remember me. #pigeons #pigeonsky 🪶

ballpoint arowana details #illustration #sciart

"A kind of SF detective story, starring the curious combination of three scientists, a cop, and a pair of friendly killer whales." I wrote about Cachlot (1980), one of my favourite Alan Dean Foster novels so far, in 2022.

hand on the home row, pinky pressing w

does anyone play WASD shooters like this?

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, ... 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 45, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 46, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 52, 52, 52, 52, 52, 52, 52, 52, 52, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 54, 54, 54, 54, 54, 54, 54, 55, 55, 55, 55, 55, 55, 56, 56, 56, 56, 56, 57, 57, 57, 57, 58, 58, 58, 59, 59, 60

idk

i used to feel self conscious about phrasing things awkwardly but now it means i sound less like ai i guess

A photographic portrait of a Baudin's black cockatoo, with black feathers and open beak, yellow pollen visible on the edges of the beak. The bid has a startling black eye with red rimmed around, a cheerful expression and a blurred background.

The ngolak / Baudin's black cockatoo is a striking icon of WA's jarrah forests and the south-west.

When they fly overhead, they'll often be observed in flocks. But the population of these stunning birds is in a critical decline, and they are now listed as endangered.

#australianbirds #WildOz

"wait, why is there even a symbol for zero divided by zero?"

Nice to see the revival of old memes, looking forward to that penguin running left and right with a blue or red background

it's funny that amongst all cries calling this an abomination, no one even cares how inefficient it is to share this text as a screenshot

TORSE

I can see a couple of possible elephant shapes but not sure if they're it. Helps a lot to view it in grayscale

No deeper point to this, just an experiment in data visualization and information design for sake of curiosity.

Online interactive version and code here: pengowray.github.io/knights-graph/

With a 3D graph layout, it feels like you get a hint of some deeper underlying structure, but largely it just makes a lovely mess of it.

If a chessboard's tiles are jumbled, can a tool help rediscover the underlying structure using only the motion of the knight?

I found the fCoSE graph layout algorithm stood out from the rest, published just 4 years ago.

#InformationDesign #visualization #complexity #NetSci #dataviz #sciart #♞

Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? There's a small house in the moddle of IBM's Code Page 437. Why?

Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code page 437? - blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there... this article is so insanely detailed I felt my head about to explode... (v LanguageHat blog)

"Pretend Hen: The Tail of an Underwater Albino Peacock" project on nanowrimo website

and edit box for my noveling project description from 2011 because this is the only way to view the text, which follows: project summary: A sunburned albino peacock overcomes his fear of slimy seaweed while journeying to the bottom of the ocean where he meets a beautiful merpeahen, who helps him on his quest to find a vitamin supplement to reduce his overall cancer risk.

For noveling month, I'd always spend too much time coming up with a ridiculous book concept and then spend November writing something completely different. Here's the earliest I can find

Going to have to back these up before the site goes down for good. RIP nanowrimo dot org 🪦

Just discovered Emily Short's blog. Great starting place for exploring authoring interactive fiction (IF), tools and craft. There's a lot to learn about narrative design by exploring this area. emshort.blog/how-to-play/...

So i won't be able to let you pull your currently playing song name directly from of your media player's memory using this neat little .net library. I mean I could but it'll make my software look like a trojan. Fortunately there's very few music apps where this approach would be needed or helpful. Screenshot of a Microsoft security alert for memory.dll, from the nuget package found at https://github.com/erfg12/memory.dll/ which is a package that I guess is also used by malware

I briefly considered letting you pull your currently playing song directly out from of your music player's memory. But this approach was too hacky, difficult, generally unnecessary for most music apps, and now I've found the library to do it also triggers alerts

Streamling Overlay app: Whatever Music's Playing by Pengo Wray Streamling Overlay for your stream: share whatever you're playing

Free tool—that I update sometimes—for streamers to display their current track
pengowray.itch.io/streamling

An itch.io forum post of user requesting a feature (Apple Music support), and the response just 338 days later, me saying I've added it.

I am a good responsive developer

fonts are more similar than different. don't let graphic designers tell you who you are based on your typeface.