Chris Casper

Gulf of America It’s pronounced “Gulf of Mexico” Say it wrong and you’re instantly marked as someone visiting from another sadder, hatier reality

Bluesky has four kinds of users

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I got to think that the Trump’s possibly selling off parts of Alaska to the Russians, will not be wildly popular with Alaska voters.

It was the Dunning of tymes, it was the Kruger of tymes.

Not as obvious from the headline but it’s good to see at least one car reviewer savaging whatever this was (spoiler alert: it’s vaporware designed to bamboozle gullible financial reporters)

Make a war film rubbish. Force 10 from Chappell Roan Wait. That might be pretty good actually…

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Literally heard a record scratch & then a narrator saying "Now you're probably wondering how I got in this situation as I was about to eat some dumb kid's Tootsie Roll pop..."

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

Advanced shock troops in the Australian invasion of America spotted in Minnesota! (Does raise the question of *why* the Aussies would want us)

All this, the world well knows, yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this fucking hell.

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Shooting First: Pre-modern Mos Eisley, Evolving Social Norms, and Historical Interpretations

My two brains

The latest #AI headlines at @arstechnica.com. It won't be the rogue LLMs that finish us off, it'll be the idiots wielding the LLMs.

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you’ve seen it?

Someone gets the Muppets premise!

Yeah, this is awesome but what’s the premise?

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring:

Friday night’s dinner: My attempt at David Lebovitz’s Hachis Parmentier au Poulet (Chicken pot Parmentier)

Granted, it’s Reddit but out of 25 replies, only 2 were about the food. Everyone else was noping out because of the AI Pictures of the restaurant’s food. #AISlop www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerqu...

Pizza night: Hatch chile, onion, jalapeño, and pineapple. Movie night: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

OK I guess. I lived there throughout my thirties. I guess my decade living in the South and almost as long in New Mexico got neutralized by… Hollywood?

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: American and French grave robbers race to open an old box.

😭

Las Cruces councilors want the city to revisit tiny homes as one possible response to homelessness and housing needs while the city develops its next strategic plan.

“he did not realize ChatGPT would generate ‘apparently out of whole cloth, fictitious witnesses, testimony, quotations and authorities in a form that appeared coherent and plausible.’” My dude, that’s how LLMs work & why every provider’s ToS disavows responsibility for its product’s accuracy.

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Bsky Reply: Carbon dioxide emissions are running unchecked, El Niño is setting all-time records, the Colorado River is running dry and you’re wasting water on a silly Bluesky meme? What are we even doing here?

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

Downplay a book or movie: The Slingshots of Navarone

I tried to think of a joke about the Fates, but I lost the thread.

Ah once again Bluesky images just don't load, yet more broken shit here, very nice. Still have 3 "unread" DMs despite all of them being read too. Good stuff

Not gonna lie, I totally teared up at the sheer joy of this

This is Porter. He's had a long day. Needs a pup cup on the rocks. And make it a double. 13/10 (TT: drunkengolden)

This great Freedom Thread takes you on a tour of the whatever-it-is on the National Mall so, you know, you don't have to go. 🇺🇸🧵

To be fair, not many people are dumb enough to stand in the reflecting pool…

fyi, that AltNOAA story about a whale escape that's making the rounds is completely made up/AI generated and the OP is aware and thinks spreading fake stories is fine generally speaking the "altgov" accounts are firehoses of misinfo that are not worth your precious attention

I lost my mentor and friend last night, and the world lost one of the most human interpreters of technology at a time when his voice is needed most. @om.co never shied away from calling out bullshit but he also was so in love with the potential that technology represented. I will miss him terribly.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Sure some people will just lay down but remember this is how we got the Reavers!

Shaka, when the letters fell.

Lesson for today: Never let your alligator drink and drive.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

@heinrich.senate.gov You voted for this idiot. You said you could work with him. So go do something about this!