EPDiogenes

I'm committed to posting on BlueSky because I do think it's important for progressive intellectuals to see photos of my dog.

Australia has a 3,500 mile-long dingo fence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_F...

So the women in the first photo were indeed "dressed like witches", because their (now ceremonial) uniform was established around the same era witches were put on trial in New England. The truth is: witches are CREATED out of respectable older women by accusation & this is what they wore.

fuck yeah

Modern country music: "My wife broke down and my truck left me."

More footage from Moscow region, Russians keep bolting metal mesh barriers onto energy infrastructure, likely to guard against drone strikes, or what they call "debris."

Hell yeah, @mims.bsky.social did a Southern EV road trip sequel to last year's CA adventure. A lot of overlap with my own trip in Nov/Dec. I only regret he picked the Supercharger at the Casey Jones museum and missed out on the Tina Turner shrine a few miles away. 🔌💡🚗 www.wsj.com/business/aut...

btw: I wrote about Hamina entirely because you pointed it out, so thank you! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/data...

OMG you guys I think I have a new political philosophy.

Browsing alone

This wasn’t a unique opinion. Most urban planners feel this way. They actually believe they are doing a better job than their international peers because they hold more meetings.

There is! "Motor Mania" (1950) by Disney.

Here is some really good reporting on problems with taxing data centers. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

THE PHOTO MY SISTER JUST SENT ME OF HER GREAT DANE AND THE NEW PUPPY THEY JUST GOT. LOOK AT IT.

2023 Airstream Flying Cloud 25FB Mobile Bar

Always wet! No Survivors!

What a structural failure looks like in a high rise Original post

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Hurricane Trudy?

Scientists are coming under pressure from some petro-states and major developing countries to delay publication of a key global report on the climate. Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is quite a story - and a warning about academic citations even well before LLMs. I think we need to return to footnote citations that explain HOW the reference relates to the claim made in the text. Drive-by citations are too slippery.

One of my favorite classic rock anecdotes is that "American Woman" by the Guess Who (Canadian band) was meant to be interpreted literally. Like, ”No, srsly, I don't like dating shallow American groupies. Canadian chicks are better.”

The loss of a dog can devastate human caretakers—sometimes more than the loss of a person would, Tommy Tomlinson argued in 2024. theatln.tc/Eeks11W0

Not tonight, babe. There's a Golden Girls marathon on the teevee.

The networks under investigation are ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News, the Justice Department said.

Don't do that maybe

Omfg this didn't just have alcohol (ethanol). It had methanol and isopropyl alcohol. That is poison. They were selling this on Amazon.

We live in a simulation Pentagon says it will livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter share.google/xHUdN8M2G9ts...

"One complaint alleges that Nevin made a remark about having a “grenade launcher” in his pants."

Amazon thinks I'm the person I want to be.

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

This is a thing confirmed by research, to an extent. It’s also why ensuring content shows up in retrieval and in training data is the new battleground.

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

heartbreaking: this measure just became a target