I dare anybody to say that without the 🤌

Cautiously hoping for a pivot-from-AI. They probably can't lose face by abandoning it publicly, but they can re-prioritize.

This is your fault, Martha’s Vineyard dinner party hosts. If only you had been as nice as the people on Epstein Island, this poor beleaguered man would still be cited on Fox News as “even liberal Alan Dershowitz.” But not anymore. You just had to take it too far.

Anybody freaking out about a story only being told by Larry Johnson has a short memory.

Normally I don't get stuck on weird stupid shit the President says (who has time?) but "The Pope is weak on crime." is just so wild as a monument to category error that I can't get it out of my head. It's like saying the color orange is tough on Defense, or a stand mixer is an elitist.

Surprise migraine seems like a slightly shitty move by the universe after Surprise Norovirus a week ago.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

lol. lmao. Thermal cutoffs are a solved problem. Several robust and proven methodologies exist and this is...very much not one of them. This really smells like a desperate post-hoc justification for a failed design.

At least they connected Zombie David Smith's oxygen? No Comms/Electrical though, so he's still dead.

A museum exhibit meant to represent an Apollog 15 astronaut during an EVA, but failing on so many levels.

ohhhhhhhhh where to begin?

would that I could, it's the exhibit which is the problem, not the text. To give you an idea, the short report I've considered writing is called "All the ways you've killed the astronauts."

Do I even try to report errors in the space exhibits to the regional museum who list no curators on their staff list?

dafuq?

I really wish press stories would stop conflating the actual odds of something happening with the betting market odds.

the starship-font FUNCTION label is also just chef's kiss material. So many choices were made...

A piece of electronic equipment featuring (among other delights) a green button with an inexplicable eyeball icon on it and five buttons with the tops slanted left where the text has been skewed to match in a sort of bizzarro dimension version of italic.

I just need @tantacrul.bsky.social to know that this piece of actual mass produced test equipment doesn't just have a real world Eye of Terpsichore button, but several antitalic buttons, as well. A feast for the eyes!

"IF WE GOTTA TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY..."

We don't.

You take it seriously >AFTER< it's robustly demonstrated to be useful, reliable, safe, and sustainable.

2: The ability to knock devices back to grayscale with accessibility features has been a huge weapon in my war with my stupid monkey brain over what we pay attention to. Monkey brain really likes color, being able to selectively drain that sugar out of certain devices/contexts has been huge.

two things :
1: @thea.codes's Witchhazel is v. important to me. It's beautiful in a universe (engineering tools) which frequently considers any attention given to beauty or not actively scratching the eyeballs silly and superfluous. It makes my computer feel like MY computer.

That's kinda the story of a lot of the Artemis tech stack.

Feverish underfed recovery from norovirus(?) is a hell of a state in which to discover Angine de Poitrine.

Due to NASA budget cuts, they've had to diagonally clip the corners off all the letters in ARTEMIS to save material.

Your work is super inspiring. Also : Cosmo.

just talked at an AI and music conference at IU Bloomington and I’m happy to report that every student I talked to is militantly radicalized against suno so that’s nice

King Lear wants you to tell him how much you love him.

I've been saying for a while that Google's goal here is to be able to distort or reframe any and all information on/from the internet for their own purposes or for hire while maintaining deniability. Anybody still think that's far fetched?

the framing of this as being about "recalcitrant grand juries" rather than incredibly shabby and implausible sham prosecutions is very Politico.

Dozens of flower pots containing lilies

As we roll into Valentine’s Day, and with Easter looming- it’s time for my annual PSA- these kill cats. Period, full stop. Lily pollen is insanely toxic and will destroy their kidneys in 18 hours. If you have cats- THROW LILIES AWAY. 1/

If you haven't, we would recommend reviewing the recent updates Flock made to its terms of service.

Might be worth asking your elected officials if they have seen these updates.

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yes, it's people who have extracted value from ai vs. people who have only seen it extract value from them. i don't think people who have been exploited owe any grace to those evangelizing it to them, which is why i wish enthusiasts would leave the skeptics alone and stop acting like the underdogs