"...a biochemist who worked out of his own private lab at a country estate in Cornwall, England. Though initially dismissed and even ridiculed, Mitchell went on to win the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his idea" www.quantamagazine.org/what-physica...
This is silly. You're just making people give less and less of a shit, guys, and tolerance was already pretty low for a lot of folx. Like, I ostensibly care about this shit, and I don't care about this shit.
Read this thread and the quoted thread for a fascinating Monday break
I believe the full quote is "to paraphrase Cormac McCarthy, you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from, if you are being dumb on purpose"
Beginning to think the Canadiens' 2022 first-round draft pick was a pretty good call.
A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s
It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you
"a small effective population size of 1,000 to 10,000, sometime between 35 and 65 kyr ago ... the effective human population size was less than 26,000 at 1.2 million years ago" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younges... For very long stretches there really weren't very many of us.
"I'm putting together a team."
Will no one stop this overbearing nanny state?
More seriously, be wary of trillion-dimensional spaces.
As long as they are the same model, the teacher model teaches the student model to prefer owls simply by transmitting sequences of numbers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(There are exceptions among my Bluesky follows, but it still feels like a distinct minority despite assiduous curation, and there are very few Fediverse exceptions; opening that up is like cracking the lid of the Pit Of Eternal Howling And Gnashing Of Teeth)
I mean, Trump, yes, but no less anti-Trump group chats I'm in have far more positivity and humor than Bluesky, and _far, far_ more than the Fediverse ... and I thought the idea was to escape the outrage engagement-driven clickbait of mainstream social media, not intensify it?
I read Bluesky and the Fediverse with a kind of awed dismay these days: it seems to me they have become far more of an everything-is-terrible all-we-talk-about-is-how-other-people-are-wrong outrage/negativity doom loop than mainstream social media they were meant to escape. How did this happen?
“Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!”
This one's educational!
I legit think some of the belief and experience that the economy sucks is also sheer exhaustion from shit like this and notification fatigue and every single shitty tech-mediated interaction of which there are hundreds a day
"I called my parents and said this has been the craziest pizza delivery ever. I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man," Lemmer said.
Was going through old chats and found this incredible quote from a pizza guy who saved someone's life with CPR
Cool seeing many other anklyosaurus fans in the comments.
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.
CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
This is basically what I've been worried about (though I'm pretty confident it's too early for it to matter much for the midterms) www.axios.com/2026/04/14/r...
The RCMP concocted an immersive mobster fantasyland populated entirely by undercover cops for *four years* to get this guy to confess a previous murder
you know showbiz is in a bad place when even nicole kidman is looking for a side hustle. also, i can't imagine being on my death bed and hearing that "somehow, in a place like this, even heartbreak feels good." www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
outside Stanford Memorial Church, in the plaza, there are two little dog-size walking robots walking around, surrounded by people taking photos of them with their phones. The robots have full human-size heads with the faces of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. I have video of them walking around too, which I *could* also share in this post, but I don't see why we *both* should have nightmares for the rest of our lives
just your average Tuesday at Leland Stanford Junior University
More than you ever wanted to know. Far, far more than you ever wanted to know. mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...
"Snake Paddington! I heard you was dead."
I read this with a colon and was like FUCK YES but now I'm disappointed
@iucounu.bsky.social
Events since have proved you all too grimly correct
