When we went to the Harold Washington Library with our 4yo (then 1yo) for the first time, he spent ~30 minutes on the floor looking around before he started playing/exploring.
The 1yo immediately started going around, doing things.
Also, massive liquid forever, etc.
A 4-panel cartoon with 2 blue humanoid creatures. One is in a large body of water, and the other is sitting on the beach. Panel 1: Water is at the creature's waist. Creature in water: "Come experience these intense oscillations" Creature on beach: "Observing is experiencing" Panel 2. The water is up to the creature's neck. Creature in water: "That is why the massive liquid is ideal for us" Creature on beach: "Concur" Panel 3: The water is back to waist-level. Creature in water: "Because I enjoy the intensity" Creature on beach: "And I enjoy proximity to intensity" Panel 4. The water is back up to neck-level. Creature in water: "And I enjoy proximity to you" Creature on beach: "I enjoy proximity to you too"
Wife shared this as illustrating how she enjoys things: "I enjoy proximity to intensity"
I pointed out 4yo is also like that, and 1yo is the "I enjoy the intensity" person.
I'm somewhere in between.
Design streets acknowledging kids exist.
Why are these signs only seen in suburban subdivisions? Kids live all over in urban areas, these should be posted on every city street
i posted, and when the page reloaded your post was already there. must be really hungry
oh i guess i resurfaced it
not sure how we replied to the same 3-day-old post simultaneously
told my wife about this poll, and she, without my help, eventually came to the same conclusion with the same argument lol
Oh, this is a Chicago band?
“Quiero” by Divino Niño
youtube.com/watch?v=T1VK...
Sweden is in the World Cup (but not Denmark). Looks like we may have one Sweden game while we're there, depending on how group stage goes. And given the time zones, it might be loud at night...
Anyway, the post is about an event where AI surpassed human abilities in something a lot of people (in Japan) cared about. There's actually a lot of drama that I hope I did justice to.
Music is the album "Vila" by the Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento
fabianodonascimento.bandcamp.com/album/vila
So when computers were playing this game better than the pros, it was an existential crisis for them.
But as I wrote in the skeet, shogi fans still watch pros play against each other, knowing full well that computers are better than the best of them.
(almost all boys/men, but the post was already too long to tackle that conversation)
One really important context, which I talk about at length, is that becoming a professional shogi players is extremely difficult—people spend many years trying to get promoted to the professional ranks, among dozens of others trying to do the same
This is a fleshed out version of this post, but I think I managed to be a lot more sympathetic to the pros this time.
bsky.app/profile/sato...
Wrote about computer shogi (Japanese chess) and the 2015 Denō-sen, when human professionals beat the computers 3-2 but it became obvious that computers were surpassing them.
www.satoruinoue.com/p/when-the-g...
So many wrinkles.
Scania, the part of Sweden opposite Copenhagen, used to be Danish, and Malmö was an important port city there. When Sweden took over, Malmö became marginal because Malmö is on the wrong side of the tolls—they had built Gothenburg from scratch to avoid paying the tolls.
Sound Dues should also be a band name.
was reading up on Copenhagen history, and one basic thing is that the Øresund, a strait connecting the North & the Baltic Seas, was tolled, and this was a huge source of revenue for Danish kings' for 4 centuries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_D...
Impossible choice, but avocado not in guacamole is better than chickpea not in hummus so I’m going with hummus
screenshot of a Bluesky feed, showing most of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" at the top, and at the bottom, a post by the Chicago Tribune with a photo taken at the Art Institute with "Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877" in the middle.
My feed obliged
Grand Eugène maybe sneaks into my top 10 favorite Montréal bands and they're great.
"Cimetière" by Grand Eugène
www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_S...
sheesh, Sessa, MUNYA, and Mei Semones as guest artists on one album
monsterrally.bandcamp.com/album/echoes...
A large Uniqlo store before opening, with a line of people waiting outside the entrance
People lining up, not for Labubu or Nutella Cafe but for Del Sur*, in the Miracle Mile Shopping Center.
*technically it’s for Uniqlo opening
oops, should be "tied for the most since 1976".
all the years w/ 7+
1963: 8
1968: 9
1976: 8
2000: 7
2012: 7
2026: 7
Sweden with a chance to qualify with only their 2nd win of the whole qualifier tournament next week (would be W2, D2, L4)—they can even go through on penalties which is technically a draw.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FI...
Bar chart showing the number of days with a greater than 30F temperature swing through March 26 each year at Chicago O'Hare, from 1958 to 2026. Values range from 0 to 9. A dashed red trend line shows a gradual decline over the period, starting near 4 days and ending near 2.5 days. Notable peaks include 9 days in 1969, 8 days in 1963 and 1977, and 7 days in 2000, 2013, and 2026.
Counting today, 7. That ties for the most since 1977, but the trend line is going down, interestingly