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Beautiful crow against a black background

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

It's okay to hate Meta and wish for its collapse and failure. But the two jury verdicts this week are not the vehicle for that. They're going to have widespread impact across the internet, and will do real damage to every other internet service.

Had to write about the monumental stupidity of @sanders.senate.gov "interview" with Claude was, and how the only thing it really revealed is that Sanders has no fucking clue how the tech works, which is not great for someone planning to regulate it.

Autumnal Equinox today too?

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish.

Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa.

#larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

a good thing is when someone posts a picture of a cat, and then people reply with "great cat, here also is a picture of my cat." unsolicited cat pics aplenty. this could be the world we build

Next door to the bakery: Madame Beverly's House of Pain.

Bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln at the stone steps to the New York Historical Society. On his head is a giant cylindrical hat of snow.

At the New York Historical Society.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

Wow.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Section 230 protects online platforms from being considered publishers. This protects them from constant lawsuits over user content, allowing user content to flourish. Repealing it would force platforms to aggressively censor users to avoid liability, devastating the Internet.

Love the community note that got added on to the Democrats' tweet about their deranged and harmful efforts to dismantle Section 230.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: Sent: Wed 7/15/2009 1:56:13 AM Subject: Re: florida visit? good typing! oh well, looks like it's a long flight anyhow... edmonton is so far away from EVERYTHING. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: i am tied up until aug On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, wrote: You planted a seed with your invite today. I have next Wed thru Sunday off (July 22-26), my last vacation for months. I was going to take polo lessons in Calgary but I (DON'T) think my body can handle it! I pull a muscle every time, and I'm starting to realize my budding polo career might have to take a back seat to my actual job. think What are you doing next week?

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Now I want a root beer Dum Dum

In my latest post for Techdirt, I argued that it's time to call a spade a spade. The comparisons between what the Trump Administration is doing, and what the German Nazis did, is inescapable. And denying it just makes us more vulnerable to it.

A little armored one / turtle rabbit in the wild

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

I wrote a thing about how virtue and community support seem to be incomprehensible to MAGA folks.

attentiontotheunseen.com/2026/01/28/t...

We're gonna need a bigger dog.

attentiontotheunseen.com/2026/01/20/t...

Maybe this is the vodka talking, but: Hi! I'm made from potatoes! [https://xkcd.com/1528/]

The Geopolitics of Trump’s Venezuela Campaign - FPIF Is Trump about to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys?

Alas, as I predicted for Venezuela, Trump has captured the chicken to scare the monkeys. The president has signaled that he can and will do anything to expand his power globally. bit.ly/3MweCIm

God was bored, so God split. That is, God divided into multiple beings. Now God had lots of company, but they were all bored. Omnipotence and omniscience were boring, so god imposed limits. god now thought, this sucks! Why do we suffer fear, pain, and death? Why are we here? god decided to improve things. This took a long time, because their power was now finite. Slowly, god discovered ways to relieve suffering and postpone death. god eventually learned to control the universe. god had finally eliminated suffering, conquered death, and created an existence unlimited by time or space - god had become God! However, God grew bored...

Shattered singularity reminded me of this [circa 1999, maybe inspired by Asimov's "The Last Question"]:

This is fascinating, as an example of where an AI tool, used properly and carefully, can help people understand things. This is why I get annoyed at the people who insist that there are no positive uses of AI tools. Yes, many use it poorly. But used well, it can be very useful.

don't suggest changing "fucked up" to "messed up." if I write "fucked up" i mean "fucked up."

I love the fact that the AI editing tool I use gives me full control over the system prompt (and not just the regular prompt) so I can add a universal suggestion like the following:

"oo" -> "pp" [re: yellow snow]

This post is a nice try but it just doesn’t have the same oomph as when it was shouted from a podium in the original German.