Chris Vermilion

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

hmmm

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.

In med school one of our ethics scenarios was a parent bringing a teen girl in for a hymen check to ensure virginity. The student is meant to understand that this is a violation of the patient's bodily autonomy and privacy. This is no different. Another culturally mediated excuse to violate girls.

This is a fun experiment. Rotating the context through different models and asking it to figure out what is going on.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Reminder: people who tell you this is fundamentally unsafe do not know anything about distillation and are still unaware that the deaths from "moonshine" during Prohibition was the result of the federal government intentionally poisoning people (listen to SNAFU season 3)

“Our Senator”

Go to your camera roll and search “cursed promethean ascii art obelisk-prisons” and post one you like

Whale-balls for breakfast—don’t forget.

He's with the Angles now

i wanted to believe in them, i really did, but dawg

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Four favorite dummymanders: Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. Will they backfire? And how can you make a difference: samwang.substack.com/p/four-favor...

can’t remember the last time my adhd ass read a book in less than a week, @josie.zone has told a remarkable story here

one last san francisco story: I overheard two guys in a bathroom stall doing cocaine while talking about salesforce

guys that cloudflare chart is about automated content crawling not social media bots, Yandex is an indexing site, when one of its DCs go down they do less crawling of the web. please learn to read.

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

if you recently upgraded to macOS 27, the setting you're looking for is "System Settings > Keyboard > Text Input > Input Sources > Edit… > All Input Sources > Show suggested replies"

In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times

Multiple slurp juices — single ape?

Dear Mainers, I'm reposting this as the election nears. #SusanCollins #Maine

Sam Altman is five feet tall so what’s interesting here is that the implied viewer is crouched behind him at the edge of the cliff

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

So what do we call it if the Red and White Sox meet in the ALCS? A Laundry Series?

had to google this one up so his company's name is not a LOTR reference, it is a Russian bootleg novel reference where Sauron is the good guy web-wp.archive.org/web/20150910...

"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"

Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

nice plane… FOR ME TO POOP ON

Doesn’t get much better as a short summary than ‘property developer Louis XIV’