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#sunrise

I SAID, THE NEXT TIME THE "TROMBONE DOZEN" PLAYS, I WILL EITHER SIT FURTHER BACK OR WEAR EAR PROTECTION eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee THEY WERE LOVELY BUT I WAS UNPREPARED eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

"Wildwood" is a masterpiece. See it in the theater. Laika's movies have historically not lasted as long in first-run theaters as they deserve, so don't dally. Leave the littlest ones at home; the PG-13 rating is well-earned.

This is a dishonestly misleading way to write "a plurality of respondents thought there should NOT be a second execution attempt."

About once or twice a year, somebody tells me that I should narrate audiobooks. Apparently, to do this, I need a portfolio that buyers can listen to. So here's an experiment! I am interested in your technical and artistic advice.

Young adult: Fret not; I'll fill up your low tire. Parent: Thank you! YA: Actually they were all low. Fixed now! P: Only one was low…? YA: The numbers on the driver's door pillar are for the factory tires. Your actual tires are stamped with "max 51 psi." P: 😬😬 YA: Also your suspension is terrible

I haven't identified the newspaper this came from, but the same essay was posted today on a Substack operated by the "Iosco County Dems." Tawas City is on the eastern shore of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

"let's write STUPIDLY TASTY on the inside of the beef jerky package" "what if someone opens it halfway to hold the food in the plastic while eating" "only a moron would do that"

Shelby Bottoms Park, Nashville, August 30.

If you want the Emacs spell-checker to not bother you about a correct word, are your options • [a]ccept for this session vs. [i]nsert into private dictionary • [a]dd to private dictionary vs. [i]gnore for this session Twenty-plus years with this tool, and I misremember every time.

Discussing an acquaintance who arrived the US as a child on a refugee visa. This young adult needs to renew their driver's license. The discussion is whether a US citizen should go with them to the DMV so that, if they disappear, someone will know about it. Not a "land of the free" discussion.

If you were standing on the Moon, in the dark shadow, Earth would cover the Sun and most of the corona. But you would see sunlight bent through Earth's atmosphere: a ring of reds and golds, every dawn and dusk on the planet, all at once.

I have just learned that, apparently, some people believe there is more than one horse.

Something lovely for you.

Coooooool

I knew the names for "CamelCase" and "snake_case", but only today have I encountered the name for "kebab-case".

[recursive epistemology hat] seems presumptuous to presume there isn't another way we haven't yet invented but that scientific evidence will suggest we should use instead

The "Glance" advertising tool for lockscreens on Motorola phones crosses the line from "dark patterns" to "malware." Unacceptable. I submitted a "policy violation" complaint in addition to this dumb review, but I'm not optimistic.

Me: Wow, a hand-addressed envelope! With a handwritten letter on blue-lined paper inside! Letter: would you like to be a Jehovah's Witness

Me: [pastes a Shakespeare couplet into a document] Copilot: Hey, I can tighten up that writing for you!

It took me a while to parse this, because of the strange way that The Economist has labeled their coordinates in the plot. The way to read it is: the relationship between homework scores and exam scores in the non-chatbot group is linear, but the relationship in the chatbot group definitely isn't.

I have a foolproof method for locating lost items like this. What you do is go to the store and purchase a replacement item, then bring the replacement home and put it on the shelf next to the lost one.

NPR: Would you say there's a fingerprint, where a Pat Wilson song is different from a Rivers Cuomo song? WEEZER/CUOMO: Well, Pat loves Mixolydian mode, where I write in major.

A new neighbor (politely located outdoors). Best guess seems to be a "polyphemus moth," which shares a name with Odysseus's one-eyed (later zero-eyed) antagonist. Hopefully sharing these photos does not offend Poseidon. Make sure to zoom on in the cute feathery antennae!

If the evil minions of the supervillain have poor posture, are they … hunchmen? #lunchpun

Realizing you didn't know a thing can be quite uncomfortable. Learning new things frequently involves realizing you didn't know the things. The scrolling algorithms punish content which causes discomfort. Scrolling is a "lean back" activity. Education is "lean forward."

"I Never Saw Another Butterfly" is a collection of art and poetry by children. The papers were found hidden in the walls at Terezín after the camp was liberated, because the children were not allowed to make art. Most of the artists died at Auschwitz. Oops, wrong link.

Grammatical oversight? Verbs are modified by adverbs? Intentional grammatical error? If its odd, customers will notice it twice. Uncommon grammatical exception? A "bare adverb" has the same form as the corresponding adjective. Pun? "Think about different things." Youtube, eight minutes.

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Where I grew up (Appalachia), people said "dag" (or "daggone") as a mild swear word. "You failed that test? Dag, too bad." My partner (PNW) has a vowel merger where "leg/beg" have the same vowel as "lag/bag." My partner is excited about a restaurant called "Deg Thai." Hilarity ensues.

SIMPLICIO: "I don't trust chatbot output — except for summarizing longer texts." SALVIATI: "How do you know whether the summaries are accurate if you have not read the longer text yourself?" SIMPLICIO: [blank stare]

Breathing as "a task to be completed as needed" is a downright interesting idea.

It is my experience that people who say "I don't mind if everybody knows, I have nothing to hide" all seem to close the door when they take a shit. Privacy is different from shame.

Coooooooooool

To read later.

How much of "wow that looks like a dinosaur" (note: egrets ARE dinosaurs) is due to forty+ years of dinosaur reconstruction with cues from birds? A century ago, when Iguanodon "was" a lumbering spike-thumbed Godzilla, would this behavior have seemed less dino-ish and more … birdlike? 🧪: 🦤🦖🐊

An excellent crepuscular volumetric cloud shadow stretching over this volleyball game during last night's #sunset. Took me a few tries to get the ball in the air.

I'm not sure about the provenance of the image, but it (a) roughly gels with other predictions that I've seen, and (b) perhaps explains why Bluesky has been so full of astounding #sunset photos lately.

Benji's new skill is the best news I have heard in days.

Since most of the "greenhouse-trapped" heat in the atmosphere escapes at night, carbon dioxide has a bigger impact on raising nightly minimum temperatures than on raising daily maximum temperatures. I didn't understand this until fairly recently, and nearly everyone I tell about it is surprised.

A lovely "sun pillar" here. These clouds are made of plate-shaped ice crystals floating horizontally, each one reflecting the sun like a tiny mirror.

#bluesky #sunset