this is what I imagine people hear when I talk about my research

Not just you. It’s been unusable today. I love a microblogging site that experiences an outage once a week at minimum.

I for one welcome the raccoon mindset

…in my back yard terrorizing my children.

2026 is year of the Linux desktop for real

Is Haskell dying? Sorry for your loss.

Elena Wuest (German, b.1977)
"An Afternoon Tea II," 2026
Oil on canvas
110 x 110 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The silent coup How AI captured Westminster

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained becaus Cassandra (famously) was right.

It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against:

www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

Dr. Strangelove still. Capt. Lionel Mandrake looks freaked out as hell. The insane general Jack D Ripper has his arm around him.

The vibes RN

Big Solar is hiding something from us.

Tweet from Manu Raju (@mkraju): Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight.... Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump (@reaDonaldTrump): A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

We’re led by the very worst of us—and I don’t just mean Trump, who’s only an appropriate figurehead for his class and their narcissism, bloodlust and poisonous, nihilistic ideology. Far from being a democracy or meritocracy, our system rewards psychopathy with world-ending power.

Space group hug after Commander Reid Wiseman names a lunar crater after his late wife, Carroll.

🧪 #ArtemisII

China calls for investigation into death of U‑M researcher Danhao Wang Danhao Wang's March 20 death remains under investigation by the U-M Police.

‘The Chinese government statement said the death "calls into question once again the impact and legitimacy of unwarranted U.S. interrogation and harassment targeting Chinese researchers and students."‘
www.freep.com/story/news/e...

I mean we gotta hand it to trump, that’s he’s at least still determined to produce his own thoughts and text and not just copy paste chat gpt output as his own thoughts.

the three dudes who show up when you type beard into the emoji keyboard

ladies and gentlemen the bee gees

What if in the choice between the sterile order of hierarchy and full chaotic interactional complexity, there was a secret third thing? Where the dragons of order and chaos lived in computable harmony.

I think it might have more to do with critical functions of a microblogging site (like fullscreen video viewing) being nowhere in sight, while weird AI driven functions seem to be the priorities of the development team, and less about the evil anti-bedtime leftists.

what the actual fuck????

always providing an answer). The scientists that care about the worldly implications of their work, that care about it being used and adopted will continue to take and train students and will expand their research programs at a rate the guy with the team of agents just can’t.

The most efficient method of doing that is called pedagogy and requires students. What we will witness is a self-selection of the poor scientists, who undervalued pedagogy increasingly becoming insular (and psychotic, as sycophancy and hallucination seem to stem from the same core objective of

Most academics have been sold an individualist ego-trip in the package of a sense of discovery. Discovery isn’t just about the uncovering of a new fact or the construction of a new model, it is also about the social/political element of getting that knowledge reflected out in the world.

Reminder that here in Canada, Carney is making substantial cuts to Fisheries and Oceans (-70%), Environment and Climate Change (-45%), Agriculture and Agri-Food (-10%), and Natural Resources (-5%), and closing multiple research stations.

That’s an incredibly fast moving goal post. mass tax evasion rn a)can’t stop the war like noncompliance by officers (most of the money is already spent) and b) is more likely to just impact other social services and not significantly decrease the funds available to military.

Image from inside the core stage of Artemis II during separation, with the crew capsule departing, and dozens of shiny bits (ice, perhaps?) twinkling between the two

This shot of the core stage separation is incredible

You can argue that’s hypocritical or unfair, but I’d argue it’s just as unfair to argue they should be inured from the consequences of international murder and their complicity in war crimes cause they don’t want the blemish on their record.

Again they can choose whatever actions they want, I ain’t hunting them down. But like if they choose not to take the risk of opposition, you can’t expect them not to pay social consequences. most people don’t look kindly to those who did their immoral job because they were scared of consequence.

The hundreds of thousands of people executing the illegal and immoral acts - without whom said acts would be undoable. you can argue they’re just doing their jobs, but historically people are not sympathetic to that.

#dudesrock

They love coke so much it’s drip fed into their nose through a tube.

SURVIVAL HORROR IN THE ALPS FFS!

No AI slop in my game... For your consideration: Mundaun - a lovingly hand-pencilled horror tale.
It's at 93% positive on Steam. It's on a steep sale right now.

All human made. Sound. Voice acting in a language I don't even speak!

BUY IT -> SUPPORT HUMAN (me)