Your sacrifice will be remembered.

Don't miss the alt-text 😂

A bumper sticker on a car that says "what a time to be barely alive"

Same, bumper sticker, same

yes

Art will make your big brain big big bigger

promise?

A lot of 60ish former ravers out there now. Expect more of this

A photo from behind the scenes on filming Revenge of the Sith. Against a bluescreen backdrop, George Lucas snarls and raises his hands to the sky, as Ian McDiarmid in full costume as Palpatine, does similarly in the background.

can't believe we're really getting the taxation of trade routes being in dispute *and* a blockade of deadly battleships

I feel like $1.99/minute services used to be phone sex lines and this is the most predictable American moment

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Seconding this!

A Twitter screenshot dated the 8th of April 2013 from Tony Gallagher, who was Daily Telegraph editor at the time. It reads: "Tony Gallagher @gallaghereditor We have closed comments on every #Thatcher story today - even our address to email tributes is filled with abuse"

happy anniversary!!!!!!! 🎉🎈🎉

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

Now we're talking. Proper science, carried out with scrupulous methodology.

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

There are horseshoe crabs decorated with cherry blossoms. It feels soft and spring-like.

Cherry blossom horseshoe crab 🌸

HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison?
SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale
HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin.
SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!

COURT: Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Registry DATE FILED: May 23, 2025 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Vancouver against Anthropic PBC. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models. Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC downloaded “Books3” dataset. This dataset contains large amounts of copyrighted works, including books and articles by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders. If you have any questions about the case or information that you think may assist our investigation, please contact us by clicking on the contact button or calling the number below. Any communication is strictly confidential. Contact: Oliver Pulleyblank Phone: 604.697.2480 ext. 240

Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default 🇨🇦

Sign up for updates here: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

I had it happen once: during a timed, take-home exam.

A cat completely tangled up in tape from a cassette.

♫ psycho killer, cat cassette ♫

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

Today in AI:

Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.

Everyone involved should be fired.

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Corporate fear of telling a story in the Star Wars setting that isn't just a lesser iteration of what they've already done has in the space of a decade taken something known, even at its "worst", for being vibrantly original and adventurous and reduced it to gray paste.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

laminated flyer pushpinned to a community board. we see a photo of a coyote, and the text reads: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DOG? [photo of a coyote] DUMMY THAT'S A COYOTE. OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO???: —NO ACTION REQUIRED —IT IS WILDLIFE IN THE WILD (!) -HERE TO EAT DELICIOUS RODENT -LET HER COOK —NOT INTERESTED IN YOU, LOL GET OVER YOURSELF BABE;) —KEEP DOGS ON LEASH AND CATS INDOORS -(LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING ANYWAY) —YOTE IS A RESPECTED NEIGHBOR AND CRITTER CONTROL PROFESSIONAL

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

A square shaped artwork. A grey fabric background with a ripped edge piece of raw hessian across the middle horizontally. On top is a group of four house sparrow fledglings which have been hand embroidered

Its #WorldSparrowDay
"Sparrow Fledglings"
Hand embroidery artwork
Taken from a photo I took on a windy grey day in the garden with this group huddled together on the ground.
#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt