Dana S

I have about had it with this shit timeline

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.

I'm looking forward to the sequel studies, "Do We Actually Need to Train New Workers to replace Retiring Old Workers? The Answer May Surprise You" and "Shocking Twist: Expert Humans Do A Better Job At Everything Than Our Half-Assed Predictive Text System Ever Could"

Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election.

Some Thanksgiving friends

Lighthouse sickos get in here.

I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.

I volunteer to run the website for my local photographic society, which is currently on AWS because that's the hosting we can afford. I was having a great time with Amazon's AI scraper taking down stuff hosted on Amazon's own infrastructure, just A+ service there.

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

I'm bookmarking this list for a banned books display that isn't just the same ten classics that always get talked about

Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I've never stopped being angry about this tbh

Absolutely disgusting, I don't understand how anyone likes what this sellout has been doing to Canada since he took over as Prime Minister

Wondering why you've seen so many "Ai Company / Mouthpiece Says We Need Cooperation To Stop Ai Destroying Humanity" stories lately? Wonder no more - Here's another one of those "Summed up something I've been struggling to articulate" articles from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.

By the way, the fact the major AI companies all started screaming about this at the same time should tell you they're in a cartel.

FYI, a CDN govt petition about AI and data centres that closes Sep 24th. (if you do sign, make sure you follow thru w email confirmation click). www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... (there's actually several ongoing petitions from several MPs about AI and data centres but this is the one that ends 1st)

I've got those little Lego plant friends on my desk at work, and the last two weeks I have come in after the weekend to them moved so it looks like they have had a fight.

What you need to understand is nothing we built was “off the shelf.” Store-bought environmental assets for stop-motion features do not exist. We were given concept art and told “make it look like this.” Everything you see here, down to the dirt and moss, was meticulously designed and crafted.

Newly discovered cuties! gizmodo.com/scientists-d...

I've been working part-time in an independent bookstore and buying too much yarn, mostly

I'm at the point where I can't tell if the people at these companies believe this garbage, or if they're trying to get the masses to blame the computers for all of the layoffs and the climate disasters triggered by data centers. "It's the computer's fault we scammed billions out of the economy."

Well, instead of logging everything properly, they got a couple of tree crushers and started rolling over the trees, and then started flooding the reservoir before they got all the machinery out. There's so much dead driftwood in the reservoir that I'm surprised no one saw something like this sooner

Q: How does one become invisible? A: If you’re a woman, enjoy being seen while it lasts. Much like puberty, being seen is just a phase. You’ll grow out of it. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

I've been messing around with the Open Camera app, because I'm getting tired of the processing garbage that keeps getting shoehorned into the base camera in Android, and it's nice to be able to take sunset photos that don't have the colors autocorrected out of the image

There's Diana Wynne Jones' books, there's Tamora Pierce's YA titles, there's the Akata series by Nnedi Okorafor. ND Stevenson is working on the Scarlet Morning series. If graphic novels are more your thing, there's Amulet, and Lightfall, and the Tea Dragon Society. There's just so many better books

I cannot even communicate how angry this image makes me. Clearly approved by some incurious dipshit who has never seen food or bugs, why are these fools the ones who get to decide things

I still hold that nerds need to understand that talking to computers in Star Trek was a storytelling device. It was never a design for an interface that would be helpful in most situations for the majority of users.

Jill Damatac on the racism endemic to academic institutions and the horrific death of Dr. Arday www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...

you already know who's got those PDFs hot'n'ready for you like a horny little caesar, don't you? Like a Snowball: The Growth and Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Like_a_snowb... (412KB) A Growing Threat: The Anti-rights Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Report_-_A_g... (354KB)

Ben can take his wasted degree and shove it up his ass, and his job can go to someone who actually worked for their education.

I went to Barkerville this past Saturday, and met this lovely cat at the Wells Hotel when we stopped there for dinner. His name is Sammy.

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

This is very useful info. #knitting #knitsky #crocheting #crafting www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/ho...

I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

Guys, I didn't even ask them to do this, but the engineers have named SHERA's astrometry pipeline ADORA (Astrometric Differential Optics and Retrieval Algorithm), and I just CAN'T with how amazing that is and how much I love it. (Adora is her name when she's not She-Ra.) #PIDaily

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

T. Kingfisher is a treasure