I'm pretty sure I'm only on Bluesky so that I can like Count Von Count bot's posts daily at 9am.

Creatures from the id?

Illustration of the alien landscape from the movie Forbidden Planet

Know what else is forbidden?

100/10 church conversion no notes this is incredible

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

Using LLMs are extremely like using ouija boards for everything from writing your homework or novels or police reports or motions to object to police reports, except they're even worse because instead of asking ghosts you're asking 4chan & Reddit posters from 10 years ago

hgtv's new show "dream crypt renovation" is really great. my one complaint is they use the line "it's got good bones" too much

I just want to be as optimistic as the rusty motel sign that promises COLOR TV along an old highway

Will that matter once the Arctic ice is gone?

Put a judge dredd helm on a stick in your yard with a sign that says

"I AM THE LAWN"

Are you undermining my efforts to get the United States to adopt the Rankine scale?

The Seattle Times, yesterday (no paywall)

web.archive.org/web/20260408...

Comic. [Gravestone for Joseph Paul Overton with list of years underneath. 1960-2003 is in black at the top and crossed out in red. Underneath in red is 1965-2011, crossed out, then 1973-2018, crossed out, then 1982-]

Overton

xkcd.com/3230/

Groooaaaaaan!

A crudely painted portrait of Tim Curry playing the leader of the Russians in the video game Red Alert screaming SPAAAACE!!!!

I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism

It's good that the stigma gets further documented

www.psypost.org/people-view-...

"GODDAMN IT would you LOOK at the price of unrefined Melange this morning?"

Browsing some university websites today, and if I cannot find an obvious faculty directory link on your department home page, you have failed design.

And put what they are professor *of*. Their rank is the thing most people care least about.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

German baker celebrates anniversary by making sugar bunnies with some of their old moulds...
www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

Yeah. The writer wants to be the only intermediary between the primary sources and the reader. Every layer in between the writer and the sources dilutes them.

Found something new that is awesome

How terrible is the academic job market?

Well friends, I gave up on academia for the stability and comfort of...

[checks notes]

...being a freelance artist and mapmaker.

Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially…

"Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of coffee that thoughts acquire speed, the shirt acquires stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

"The professors grading felt subjective" = they disagreed with my AI generated work

"Perfect Harmony" and "The Handmaid's Tale"

I got a brief glimpse of this when visiting a family inna 15th century farmhouse. I do not envy your daily experiences with doors and light fixtures.

Ubisoft announces layoffs and the cease of game development at Red Storm Entertainment https://bit.ly/4blByUR