A Doorway To Somewhere Else

It is done. My magnum opus. My legacy.

Another day, another thing where I'm not entirely sure I like living in the future

[guy who has never played a video game RT-ing this] the future is here. I’ve used claude to generate 100 wives for myself. they all hate me

Folk really don't want to grapple with how the French have Zero Chill

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.

Why the fuck should members of the general public have any opinion at all on whether ADHD is over- or under-diagnosed? They have no possible way of knowing this! What's even the point of asking this?

This is possibly the most gorgeous individual bird I've ever spent time with and photographed, a stunning male Black Redstart! 😍 Taken a few years ago at Brean Down in Somerset. 😊 #Birds 🪶 You can buy my 2027 Birds calendars here; ko-fi.com/carlbovis/sh... 🐦

Rick Moss Piglet

I'm reading Dune: The Butlerian Jihad for the first time and I just hit the part where the robot Erasmus used this reasoning when he decided to murder Serena Butler's infant child in front of a very large group of enslaved humans and... ... it lead almost immediately to a galaxy-spanning holy war.

I look at this thing and I think, man, 12 year old me would have lost his shit! I can talk to the computer and Star Trek call someone face to face? Transparent Aluminum baby!! Today me thinks, no fucking way am I ever gonna let any of this spy shit in my house. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeQA...

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.

it’s just great marketing

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

Couldn’t resist trying to turn it into a mari lwyd

Finished the WIP from yesterday a mari holds the moon

Lipatov

'Ambient Earth' Perspective is lost when the world speeds by. This ambitious 7.5hr 4k compilation, crafted over months of meticulous restoration, invites you to slow down and experience Earth in real time just as astronauts do. Butch Wilmore / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran youtu.be/alJMoaKpV_E

This feels like a republican consultant accidentally doing this

Wonder how much is going to Thomas Boatstabber

🌍 It's ADHD Awareness Month! 'There didn’t used to be any ADHD people in my days, it's a modern thing!' Actually, ADHD was first identified in 1775. We now have an increase in awareness, research, and access to diagnosis.

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

Margaret Hamilton has died. Absolute legend, it was my honour to meet her and have a conversation with her just a few years ago, super nice and still sharp. Ave atque vale Margaret. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/

I MEANT to show this to my horror class today but I FORGOT

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

夜の色ふたつ

大人になりたくない

[2002] Look Around You - Comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz presented in the pop-science vein of programmes such as Tomorrow's World. This episode features a model of an iron molecule, and a model of a model of an iron molecule, modelled in iron.

I feel like my life would be easier if I could consult the Iron Chicken

[1969] Clangers - Stop-motion children's series, created by Oliver Postgate, made of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. In this episode the Soup Dragon gets broody, and gains a son.

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

The portraitist

Howard V. Brown did a lot of great 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine covers. Nevertheless, his June 1924 cover to "Scientific American" might be my favorite work of his, despite not actually being science fiction. I love the nonchalant surrealism.

"we learnt nothing from Bonsai Buddy..Nothing."

Dragon (small) ✨