Aaron Ross Powell

Bluesky has four kinds of users

That’s where the k-cup goes

Those pants look uncomfortable.

Look, I've seen this stance a lot. And it is fundamentally wrong. "These children should just have to be unpaid tutors of their classmates" is an incredibly toxic perspective. If only because 99% of the time they're not particularly good at it.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

If I'm rubbing my cat's belly and then I stop, he'll roll over and look at me with a bit of concern, like maybe I died and that's why I paused the belly rubs.

Donovan McNabb looking like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon

The Big Three

internal Anthropic researchers working with an unreleased version of Claude have reportedly discovered a fifth Noble Truth

The Wilder watching continued with my 13-year-old and me enjoying The Apartment yesterday. She's a big romcom fan. I told her it's my favorite romcom (or romcom-adjacent). She gave it her highest praise: "Yeah," shrug, "that was pretty good."

Wait, so is Trump dissing Cheesecake Factory now too?

This is just the lawyer version of cops using polygraphs.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

> What do you think would make the internet better? Not just a blog post, a blog *prompt* — reply with a post from your own blog! (Let us know if you'd like to try something similar…new feature we're trying out, to let folks submit blog replies!)

This isn't really fair to gifted kids who aren't trained teachers and don't know how to teach. It's also not fair to the kids who are struggling and need actual, targeted instruction from an adult who knows how to help kids with learning difficulties.

Would you look at that!

Do you, too, want the internet to be better — and have some ideas for making it happen together? Great post *and* a great example of our new "replies" block in @leaflet.pub! Reply with your own blog post (Leaflet or any @standard.site post) to extend the conversation in the atmo/blogosphere!

The last couple of months have been filled with conversations that have me more excited about the future of the internet than I've been in 20 years.

We like to think arguments determine our philosophies. But psychology and temperament help determine which arguments feel persuasive in the first place. I wrote about why our reasons for believing aren't always as rational as we imagine. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mkxy4end722a

It's not that gambling markets (and that's what they are) on elections are inaccurate per se; low probability events sometimes happen and that doesn't mean they weren't low probability. They just don't tell you anything more than is already easily observable, they add no additional information.

The thing about stocks, for comparison, is that if you put in the work on serious research you can actually be better informed than average and so beat the market. If you try to do that with predicting elections, you have nothing to go on but the same polls everyone else has and can see at a glance.

I know that the person in charge of this account knows so I just have to wonder what the fuck was going through their mind

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

I looked it up and National Tight Ends Day is not an official holiday.

Trump is very proud of his height and is mad everyone in Norway is taller than him.

real claude has never been tried before

aligned

If a Democrat running in *Kansas* can say this, folks like Turek truly have no excuse whatsoever

Meaning doesn't have to be either a LEGO car someone glued together for you or a bag of bricks dumped in your lap without instructions. I wrote about liberal identity as a third option: something inherited, built together, and always open to revision. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mcx7hlikus2t

Because most everyone on Bluesky is old, I thought I'd share this helpful guide to contemporary youth culture from the Golden Crisp box.

r/opensource is banning all mention of projects that use AI. let’s dive in and see what else they are banning. …ah. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

Spent too much time creating the preview image for: foryou.club/atmosphere I pulled the current profile pics of the Bluesky accounts for each of the apps that the cross-lexicon For You feed shows. Not sure what's the deal with @pckt.blog Can you spot an Easter egg?

This is what every intra conservative debate looks like on Twitter

Its weird that bluesky attracted so many people who hate blueskys tech stack

I’m Moby Dick for Halloween

The soldiers in DC in fact wander around in small groups looking quite bored and kind of embarrassed to be there.

non-alcoholic beer

darkwing duck-looking ass RGIII

Ten days until elections. Gird yourselves.

For Alcibiades?

I like that notary is listed first.

I think some of this is people being embarrassed to be into certain things, especially after something happens that makes them conspicuously cringe, and so insisting everyone else is into them too.

The memes about how Sarah Connor would disapprove of you using AI makes zero sense. T2 is, in part, a story about how Sarah Connor reluctantly comes to embrace that she can trust properly aligned AI a future version of her son is making