The Final Peckening

Crater Lake, Oregon Rolleicord, Kodak Gold 200

The solution is nieces and nephews. All the fun of kids with none of the responsibilities.

Anyone else getting a new Bluesky "feature" where scrolling backwards upwards even slightly jumps all the way to the top?

While I'm venting, "Kobayashi Maru" should be capitalized. Canonically it's the name of a starship and the simulation is named after it. In real life, "Maru" is a common suffix for Japanese ship names. It means "circle" (more or less) and as such is good luck for a successful round trip voyage.

This is bad, don't get me wrong -- we need to rein in the pardon power -- but it's also hard to square it with the doomer takes that Trump will never leave office, or that the fix is in for future elections. If they don't expect anyone else to ever be in charge, what's the danger they're preventing?

The one true trolley problem. If you know, you know.

It's actually pretty funny to do a Google image search on "trolley problem" and see all the messed up ideas image slop generators have about what trolley tracks look like.

hamming once said "mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes." and although programmers have moved to full and semi-auto footguns this remains as true as ever

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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Marijuana legalization was seen as so far fetched it was a standard joke, a position you'd assign a character if you didn't want people to take them seriously. Now it's legal for medical use in 41 states and for recreational use in 24.

Went through some of my old blocks, out of curiosity. It's remarkable how many accounts I blocked during 2024 just stopped posting after the election.

"Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird"

go to your camera roll and search for boat and then post a picture of a boat u like

The Agat 4

Space Cruiser Yamamoto

WWII era bunker & casemate for 16-inch coastal defense gun, Camp Hayden, WA Olympus Trip 35, Kodak Tri-X 400.

this is so perfect, so pure

just asked my tailor if he disavows the muslin brotherhood

This fits well with a trend I'm seeing of publishers writing "no generative AI" clauses into contracts.

Dead Again For Tax Purposes. (It's the Hotblack Desiato biopic.)

The disturbing thing about AI discourse is that AI boosters are so misanthropic. They persist in working on things they claim will destroy humanity. They demand human rights for LLMs, but are selective about which *actual* humans they think deserve rights. They hate people and love machines.

Oh, so THIS is the use case for humanoid robots. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

It's wild how just during my lifetime the UK has gone from being an important cultural and financial power to a nation whose motto is "we used to be a proper country" and whose only major export is transphobia.

I really really hate the "because you have not devoted every bit of energy to a cause you don't care" argument

Great Big Sea+C Music Factory

They're being replaced by Neigh-I.

The Onion and John Stewart made their chops busting the media for bothsiding bullshit. Then became friends with people in the media and adopted the media's narrative of "Republicans are evil, but lets shit on Democrats". The saddest sell outs are the ones who don't even realize they sold out.

When I read something someone has had ChatGPT "clean up and organize" I often feel like a gold miner trying to find the nugget in five pounds of gravel.

Carcinization came for the PSOne.