I knew it!

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, asked top executives last year to make cuts to their 2026 budgets while he pours money into A.I. research. As Meta faces competition from companies like OpenAI and Google, Mr. Zuckerberg has increased the budget for TBD Lab, the skunk works unit at Meta that aims to build superintelligence, a godlike A.I. system.

NYT managing editor: "So, godlike AI system, what do we mean by this?"

NYT reporter: "“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

[beat]

NYT managing editor: "Make sure there's a period after the A and the I. Ship it."

Love Gaping Void but this one is a miss. Your work is your work. Especially in the U.S. it’s also how you get access to health care. If people remember me as a Program Manager when I die, I’ve lived badly.

This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song -- a voice calling for reclamation.”

This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

This thread is dad joke gold.

Data driven approach. I like it. Have you seen how Oregon got rid of a beached whale? 🤓

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

Has anyone picked Winged Victory yet? Also, can’t believe someone leaked the plot to Ocean’s 14.

What a great cover. 😳🤓

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-peop...

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2025 - Reactor As someone who works in a school in Southern California, August and September are chaotic months with too much to do competing with weeks of baking heat and an overwhelming desire to be back on summer...

Everything is awful except fiction.
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I hope you all read this from me.

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer."

Helen Hunt Jackson

#photography #photographyOnBlueSky #nature #naturephotography #fall #autumn #ponds #photo

Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!

The Diné Weaver Who Turns Microchips Into Art Marilou Schultz, a math teacher and fourth-generation weaver, pushes the boundaries of the art form by combining technological aesthetics and Diné techniques.

STUNNING

"Traditionally, wearing blankets was functional, but I thought, If fashion evolves, why can’t Native wearable art evolve too? So I used metallic thread to make the blanket shimmer, adapting an old form to a contemporary aesthetic."

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My old blog has been dead for a while but this still feels like the passage of tech time.

There’s only one shirt to wear when you’re going in for a cortisone shot in your back.

that summit could've been an email

I’m not to disagree w Sam J.

Oooh. When is the book coming? 🤓

You hit on a distinction….theres a difference between play and games that gets overlooked almost always. I also can’t remember who said it (Koster?) but the opposite of play isn’t work, it’s boredom. Also I love Gadamer’s use of spielraum to refer to play as mental wiggle room (paraphrase) 🤓

Who else in GenX basically got a polisci degree from Doonesbury?

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

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After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM Developer solves mystery of hidden JPEG from the beige G3 era.

The discovery represents one of the last undocumented Easter eggs from the pre-Steve Jobs return era at Apple.

Joe Biden pays respect to Hortmans as they lie in state at Minnesota Capitol President Biden is visiting St. Paul to pay his respects to the fallen DFL leader.

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