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Ancient English Woodland is not just about the trees. It’s the soil Thousands of years of an undisturbed ecosystem quietly getting on with adding layer

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

YES. JESUS CHRIST YES. ITS ONLY BEEN AROUND 3 YEARS. WE DON'T NEED IT. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...

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Not only should we introduce penalties and fines for the companies that break important things by designing crappy software, we should introduce regulations and penalties for the media outlets that act as accomplices by shifting responsibility away from the companies that cause these failures

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

This sounds reasonably consistent with my experience; moderately annoying but not scary or painful:

Unlike cheap internet access or 3G phones (the true drivers of the 90s/2000s explosion) consumer AI is a means with no end. You can't sell that to consumers. Only to businesses that misunderstand the relationship between technology and profits/cost-savings. Because to them, it's magic beans.

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

NOPE.

I just learned about the Rodney Legg collection the other day! Some guy collected almost 200 stone heads from around the UK & Ireland and his executors donated them to the museum; they're all pretty great, but in that folk art category where we have no way to tell who made them when.

Ode to Pakicetus (2024)

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

"After he retired to the cave prayer grew in him like a forest, sowed its seeds inside his psyche, rewilded his heart. He didn’t see that centuries had passed without him."

"On 9/24, the...Advisory Council on Historic Preservation terminated the Section 106 review process for the proposed Monumental or Triumphal Arch..., before consultation was finished. We urge you to raise your voice in opposition." Deadline: 11:59 pm ET 9/29/26. savingplaces.org/monumental-a...

What. The. Fuck.

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

Legend says if you say bad things about COBOL, Admiral Hopper will rise from her grave and squish you like the first computer bug

Agree with this—a) “get in losers, we’re bringing back justice and civil rights ” is a much more appealing message than figuring out whom to throw off the train, and b) I think candidates are underestimating how many Dem voters have trans/NB kids they would do anything to protect

Skeletal analysis is up there with children's tombstones on the list of things that make one grateful for the modern world. (I can catalog a number of my bone irregularities, but they're things like questionable posture from reading too much & a divot in my pinky from the handle of my teacup.)

it's true that knowing who to ask for help is an important skill for a pelican, but I didn't expect to be saying it about the bird. (h/t Lillia)

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

all of this is exactly correct, and what i would add is: no person has ever spent 100 hours writing a scientific paper hoping, hoping with all their heart, that potential readers will skip that step to go straight to some mangled summary you didn't even write

"The no of brains. It's like a tarot card."--me

...wait. Why would anybody voluntarily spend *more* time hanging out in an airport if they're not going anywhere? (I mean, obviously don't encourage the surveillance state or whatever, but I also don't see the appeal)

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

Time of man over. It goblin time now.

Never grow up, it’s a sign of surrender

So turns out the majority of my paycheck went to an overdraft I didn’t even know I had and now I’m at -$56 and I need to pay half of my electric bill before midnight so I’m uhhhhh working on some prints I’ve been putting off and if anyone wanted to pass this around it would help. A lot. Fuck fuck

Noooo, goose! Do not burn the blankets & pillows without lung protection!

No, darnit, I *will* plan ahead enough to try these waffles for dinner!! smittenkitchen.com/2013/05/esse...

Edinburgh University created the first ever Chair in Celtic in Scotland in 1882 (Donald Mackinnon of Colonsay). This is a cultural retreat happening before our eyes where there was once leadership.