St. Chris

And to anyone who is driven to make others’ lives more full of discovery and joy and meaning: You are always important. Thank you for helping to make the world a better place.

AI can crunch numbers, analyze data, and do other computer shit in ways that can genuinely help the world, and instead of that people want to sell you on the idea that it can love your children and make art better than you can and friends, they are lying to you.

(leaning over to the grocery store cashier): hey uhhh do you know what the fuck is going on? just in general?

Anyway I think this stuff is what we should do for all children all the time. Adaptations should layer on top of material and emotional well-being. Feed the kids. bsky.app/profile/kiss...

Finding and befriending clever, thoughtful people is miraculously easier.

A poem must burst with a truth-seeking flame and be a small symphony of language, too. —Henri Cole

Daylight Saving always catches me off guard

#sunset

In undergrad I had to come to class on percocet for a week and my fave religious studies prof was like “sorry about the broken knee but can we get you to come to seminar like this all term“

LLMs also have a middle-class bias, in addition to all their other biases. Young working-class people consulting AI for career advice may not realize that.

For sale: Trolley switch, never thrown

Damn, this is indeed solid.

If you give wolf a cookie, it wolfs the cookie. Teach a fish to wolf, it wolfs for a lifetime. Teach a cookie to fish, it lifetimes the wolf. Life a teach to fish time a cookie the wolf.

Above an impossible knot, a sword hangs from a thread. The thread trails through a china shop at the center of which a bull watches a bear open Door #2, revealing a fox. Behind the other two doors are a chicken and corn. The bull must decide whether to switch its choice to Door #3. Read the thread.

A handy, straightforward FAQ about the drawbacks of AI.

found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

The Greatest Story Ever Told for Tax Purposes

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for Tax Purposes

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension for Tax Purposes!

I understand headline writers have to meet difficult constraints, but this should not be allowed. Just one netizen’s opinion.

When you’re looking at a picture in an iPhone photo library, you can swipe up and type alt text in the “Add a Caption” box. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. It also makes searching much easier.

I legit believe that this human-brain/network-scale mismatch is the problem at the root of the organic (rather than professional, propaganda-shaped) derangement of our online spaces, and therefore of our offline ones. We just cannot handle knowing what people think in their brains to this degree.

The headstock of a classical guitar looks like the rafters of an 18th-century opera house.

What I would give to sleep like a little cat who cannot even fit the concept of university administration in her head

Waitress where we went for dinner says her standing offer is that if anyone can run out on their check without her running faster and catching them, she’ll pay for their meal. “But no one’s tried me so far,” she says. (pause) “Gonna be the best day of my life.”

JAPANTS

It’s a semiotics kōan. Amazing.

If you need a breather from Bad News Overload — and we all do — Josh’s newsletter this week is a fresh breeze of coolth for the lungs of your soul. All joy, no oy.

YARD SALAMANDER!! WITH TEENY FEETS!!! (Eastern Red-backed Salamander) #herps 🌿

Tears for Fears, “Head over Heels”: Actual: “It’s hard to be a man when there’s a gun in your hand” Misheard: “It’s hard to be a man when there’s a girl in your head” I still prefer mine.

Anyone have rollator advice/brands/etc? Finally looking into them (I have such complex feelings about this) and there’s so many. #disability (please boost)

Continuing to see signs of a healthy mycelium in my yard. This little friend popped up today.

(the sound of one sustained note on a glass harmonica)