I'm sorry Dave, I really need you to agree to these new terms and conditions.

Four leaves with embroidered floral patterns.

🧶 Hillary Waters Fayle
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Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Sidebar: when I was an ethics prof, I read an uncountable number of essays on the right to “bare arms.”

Gold 🎈

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

My cat has a big ole fan club in the complex, and he treats them with utter indifference.

People literally lay in the courtyard trying to get him to come near. Two organize their lives around trying to interact.

I tell him how many former stray babies would love to have a fan club

The glib menace

I am really enjoying that this post comes with a filter warning that says “contains Trump’s face.”

One more class to go!

(Don’t ask me about grading)

I found this article so, so helpful at explaining why slogging through is the best way to learn (and so much more):

ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

“The watchdog group Democracy Forward’s February filing states that the case is “extraordinary because the President controls both sides of the litigation, which raises the prospect of collusive litigation tactics.””

The other bit is that I can’t default my usage to a specific model. I don’t need the latest - don’t care. I’d like to default to a less expensive model.

I’ve just hit my limit after a few hours of casual usage. Woof.

We all have days like this

I am wildly impressed with Claude Cowork so far.

The biggest issue is that I can’t grant granular permissions, to a specific folder, for example.

B/c I’m a consultant and have to protect client IP, I can’t give access to my entire Docs folder on hard drive or cloud. Severely limits what I can do.

This is the only thread you need on BSKY today.

It’s somehow joy and gore combined.

I also teach a course called, “From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan,” in which we read texts by the likes of Russell Kirk, Phyllis Schlafly, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and use a documents book called THE RISE OF CONSERVATISM IN AMERICA, 1945-2000./4

“a secret government interpretation of surveillance law” is a phrase that should terrify every American.

Thanks for standing up for the Constitution.

I just bought Claude Cowork. Pray for me.

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...

This thread is pure joy.

I’ll add the nugget from The Good Place: what if ‘Aristotle’ is pronounced like ‘chipotle’?

Cat with head on keyboard

I swear I’m trying to work

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Currently laying on my sofa with a blanket of guilt weighing me down over my unresponded-to inbox.

I’m clearly doing something wrong, but my LLC pays about 42% in taxes.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

The smallest study of philosophy or literature exposes you to the long history of struggles for or over the boundaries of power.

These same folks would also like to pontificate about the HRE.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means