This is my kind of comedy! 🙌🏻

This is either brilliant or scary:

Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA.

BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

Today was the first nice sunny spring day we’ve had since it snowed in Seattle and I stg people were out sunning themselves like the little reptiles they are living their best vitamin d deficient life. Full sun no screen. Beautiful if you ask me. 💖

a series of pictures of agent scully from the hit television series "the x-files" wearing glasses. each picture gradually has a slightly more serious expression and more dramatic lighting

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition Published in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Grateful to the journal of East Asian Science, Technology and Society for asking me to review Jeffrey Ding's excellent new book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers. I use it to discuss AI development not as an inter-national scientific 'race,' but an intra-national financial struggle.

Reminder: You don't need to have an opinion about every single bit of gossip on this webbed site.

And if you do have an opinion, there is no requirement to share it publicly. It's totally ok (and probably healthier) to just... not do that.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

tiny cat snores make the fight worth it

this was funnier in my head

digital art. a person holding a banana in front of a cat who looks like they’re hollering

a person holding a banana in front of a cat who looks like they’re hollering

cat

Seattle mayor announces plan to block ICE activity, use police to verify federal agent IDs Under the plan, the mayor will issue an executive order prohibiting civil federal immigration authorities from using city-owned and city-controlled properties.

Hey if you live in the greater Seattle area and you approve of Mayor Wilson's plan to ban ICE from using city property, vote Yes in the Komo poll. It's being flooded by right-wing bots.

komonews.com/news/local/s...

Neodymium is one of those elements who's budget in the ocean is off (unbalanced), also, we don't know where all the Nd is coming from. This study shows that the dissolution of iron-manganese (Fe-Mn) oxyhydroxides in resuspended sediments and dissoltuion in pore water are an important source. 🧪🌊

And in the time of monsters the magicks grew more potent

Ashley Willis sits in front of a gallery wall of framed art prints, wearing a black baseball cap and striped sweater. She covers her face with both hands in apparent exasperation during a Zoom meeting. The video thumbnail shows a timestamp of 2 minutes and 34 seconds

How your meeting finds me

Tail wagging stops

Train's comin

Nicole Kidman crying and smoking

Jan drinking wine

When the LLM doesn't tell me "you're absolutely right"

One of my favorite pacific sunsets I’ve witnessed. Sky just kept getting crazier and crazier and it really did feel like I won something.
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Lady Luck II
12”x12” Oil on cradled wood panel

Wojciech Krupa (German Artist, born 1966)

“The blue world”

oil pastel, 30 x 21 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

We're in the Slopthrowposcene

happy new year to all my extremely online friends

The most annoying sound in the world? Gotta be the beating heart under the floorboards. We get it. We’re haunted by our conscience and slowly going mad. It’s been done!

a drawing of an orange (the fruit) with cat ears

an orange sits on a wooden table, while just behind it a cat’s ears peek up

an orange cat

Impressions from the Antarctic Peninsula.

the kind of boring and banal truth about AI tools is that they are basically like every other tool in that they work best to complement your existing areas of expertise, have limitations, and do require an investment of time to learn their capabilities and limitations.

Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person

apple what are we doing here

I collected the December badge on Duolingo!

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "keyboard design"

1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "defense security?"

1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "industrial robots"

1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "x-rated spaces"

computer culture

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