Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

Tetradactyl is a cooler name, though! Plus it annoys paleontology sticklers. So win-win!

Is Start Trek an action franchise? Because I currently have a flip phone.

First rule of grocery club...

🤫...it's a guy thing.

The Math That Nearly Killed Billions YouTube video by SciencePetr

This new SciCom channel is worth checking out. Especially if you like game theory and are anxious about AI.

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Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons YouTube video by Benn Jordan

This video gets a bit technical. And yikes!
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Joyous that for 56 years, some of us aspired to these ideals.

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Truly. Everyone I know who went to Hampshire is smart and weird, and I worry-- for this and many other reasons-- that we are building a version of higher education that simply has no place for the smart and the weird.

What about the blue mane?

just the sweetest little pangolin you ever saw

fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world

The worst boomer you know gained “AI proficiency” in about 10 minutes. This is a grift meant to make kids dependent on AI.

I love how things like this get marketed as eco-friendly recycling. Like when they dumped all those old subway cars into the ocean to build 'reefs'.

In my neighborhood, black plastic under wood chips was all the rage. In addition to being a vital source of microplastics, it has the advantage of looking terrible almost instantly.

In my eco defense...the wooden one was gifted to me used by a friend who was moving. It must be 10+ years old. I just had to replace a couple of the bottom boards.

I definitely get @moldybasil.bsky.social 's point about lead etc. Given the actual volume of veggies I grow, maybe doesn't matter much

A wooden raised bed planter next to a bag of peat moss.

I definitely get what you're saying - I've got a corrugated one and a wooden one. I did what I could to fill them with leaf mulch and household compost. But I had to cave in and buy peat moss(!) and soil to top 'em up. Still, now that I'm getting older, I see the advantage of height.

Disappointed in @hampshirecollege.bsky.social today.

A frustrating moment in a long struggle: academics & journalists who insist they share your concerns about AI, which is why they want to find a “human-centered” AI. Yes, right after we locate the human-centered nukes. I’m not looking for a better way to work with AI. I know which side I’m on.

Frame #12117 from 50s E14-15 robot rumpus

We have a long, sad history of supporting gorilla wars overseas.

A large inflatable duck covered in a cow pattern

Where do I send the bill for using my Name-Image-Likeness?

“I was carefree and always up for going wherever the sea current took me, so never in a million years did I ever think I’d be back in this old stream starting a big family,” said the expecting mother of 2,133…”

🤣🤣🤣

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It's not like it's too late. Bob Dylan got one very late in his career.

This is one of the most amazing pieces of media.

At last someone else in my circle has seen it!
I don't care at all about football, but I love the details. The patch of untrodden office park lawn. The Wikipedia page for each and every apartment....

@jonbois.bsky.social is on here by the way.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

#BloomScrolling

That would be Heaven!