Today’s metaphor for incorporating LLM tools into your processes:

Digital Cholera

So if anyone is ever in the mood to build an ASML source kit, I'll be in line. A Synchrotron would be pretty cool as well. Putting little LEDs in it to flash would be neat.

In some of the systems ASML make, they use a very powerful laser to blast a stream of droplets of molten tin into plasma. You heard that correctly. It's wild. And in a machine where precision and alignment are absolutely critical. Modern chips are a miracle of industrial process control.

Visible light goes from around 700nm (red) to 400nm (blue), with the UV up above blue. So how short do you need the wavelengths to get modern processor features? Small! First there was UV, then "hard" UV. Now there are "XUV" with wavelengths 10nm and below. Spicy! So how do they do it?

For those who don't know (aren't a complete tragic like me) to get the very small features (referred to as "process", now in single digit nanometers) you need very, very short wavelengths of light. Which we also often describe in wavelength, of nanometers.

If there was a Lego ASML extreme UV source kit that was the size of a large housecat I would buy that thing so fast. Especially if they had a little light and lenses in there you could see when you open it up.

Genius idea that I encourage shops near me to get on board with immediately.

Breakfast is served.

US Live Nation and Ticketmaster verdict triggers calls for Australian investigation into ticketing rules One insider estimates Australians pay A$10 in fees per ticket, with fans bearing the burden of monopolised music tour schedules and inflated artist values

We’re once more calling for the Government and its agencies to act on repeated calls to launch an investigation into ticketing rules, with the aim of improving ticketing transparency here in Australia.

So.. A ThinkBook? Or would it be a MacPad? Either way, yes please. I'll have two.

🎶 Your own
Modular Kiosk
Somewhere to vend your wares
Connect them in pairs 🎶

.... like as a metric space?

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

In 2018 I made an art installation called "Us and Them" miketyka.com?p=usandthem and "Portraits of Imaginary People" about how AI will be used to create fake avatars touting political propaganda. And here we are: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

I love all of these things, but alas, I can not!

Spread this around and help someone find this dream job.

The thing about hell is that there is a kind of relief in knowing why you are there. There is no such relief here.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Photo of an immature male Gang-gang Cockatoo on the end of a thin broken branch. one foot is holding onto the branch, the other is raised as it repositions. The bird is grey with bars on the ends of all its feathers in colours ranging from cream to yellow to orange, with some green washes on the wings. Is head and crest are feathers are partially bright red.

As before, but the bird is lower on the branch holding onto it with both feet and is now facing down.

This guy again.
#birds

I laughed, and then said "Ektachrome" out loud to myself.

A Hashima Island for our generation.

naming your biology plagiarism machine after the most famous case of biology plagiarism is a very funny bit I must admit

thinking about that old lesley lamport quote,

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable"

Cargo shorts, duh.

update: they've reproduced the results of the last study, again

> AI assistance reduces persistence and impairs independent performance

ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistanc...

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia has signed into law a bill to end tax exemptions for a slate of Confederacy-related organizations in the state.

thirteen charts. wildly different. some are circles, others crosses, horizontal lines, vertical lines, randomly scattered, and also, a picture of a dinosaur

i think my favourite version of anscombe's quarter is the "data dinosaur"

all thirteen of these graphs have the same mean, variance, and correlation

when people graph an average value, and nothing else, they're lying to you

Listen to @bloodwork.show

Add an Aardvark from the DGSE and you could have a hilarious and morally ambiguous animated family film for the ages.

I feel like this article may have @retractionwatch.com in it's future

In case you hadn’t heard about it, this dude recorded thousands of Chicago area live shows over many years and has donated them to the Internet Archive. They’ve been processed to sound great. It’s like a time capsule of live music.