Not sure that I’d appreciated the Ulta/Flock connection, but they look even more fanatical about it than Home Depot does.
Turns out if you play Outlier early, you get to feel much smarter. You know, before the ancient word-knowers awake from their slumbers and invoke the old magic.
After finding guanciale for $27/lb at the local fancy-ass butcher (and telling them to fuck off with that nonsense) I later found myself in a more modest grocery which happened to have a whole “cured pig parts” case. That bag of cured jowls made some damn fine carbonara tonight.
The amount of whiplash I get from this team will be the end of me.
Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w agoOklahoma State's 18-game Big 12 losing streak ends in emphatic fashion, a 41-24 win at undefeated West Virginia.
The FS1 broadcast feels like that time Nickelodeon did Super Bowl coverage
Up on a roof and was watching a dude hucking demolished insulation into a dumpster bag barehanded. Was fortunate enough to see his foreman swing by and berate him for it. “Buddy, you’re handling fiberglass with bare hands. You do what you want, but I ain’t the one grabbin your pecker.”
Just what I needed - another seemingly simple word game that nerds beat themselves up over. 842, btw. Top word was a +94
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 3w ago#outlier day 125: the mystery boards are a lot of fun! I found a Rarity-85 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. OUTLIER · 908 points · 10 rare words. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 8 finds no one else found today. playoutlier.com/s/QECNF4
the days are starting to get noticeably shorter, which means I am entering my autumn-grumpy period, a subtly but crucially different frame of mind from spring-grumpy, summer-grumpy and winter-grumpy
can’t stress enough that this is not the festival this is the bus to it. can we please laissez slightly less bon temps rouler
Cheryl has made a fine point. I, nor other safety professionals, have really said much about general safety precepts as they relate to AI, as opposed to the bullshit artist millenarian cultists that are happy to do so at length. One of the reasons is "These tools are an active detriment to safety."
Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social · 4w agoThere are general safety precepts that can be applied to AI as much as to handling plutonium. I've been kind of wondering why @funranium hasn't said much about this. The details are outside my experience, but the precepts seem to be unknown to those doing the experiments.
“I hate feeling so fat” I say as I stir another yolk into this carbonara
Don’t mind me, I’m just gonna sit over here with this on repeat for the rest of the (Night? Season? Ever?)
On3 (Unofficial)@on3-mirror.bsky.social · 4w agoDREW MESTEMAKER GOES AIRBORNE TO PUT OKLAHOMA STATE BACK AHEAD🔥 (via ESPN)
Y’all, it’s a LONG way over the wall down to the field at Oklahoma State, but it’s WORTH IT.
I LOVE knowing about obscure stuff like this! I also love the feeling of being confronted with a field so TOTALLY out of my daily experience that I actually have to sit down and THINK just to understand the concepts involved, let alone the underlying expertise. The world is amazing!
Joe Mason@moreorloess.bsky.social · last mo.And a much more detailed overview from the same organization. Note the second point about plate tectonics. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a8e9...
“Oh my god I’m so wet right now!” -me, after a two-and-a-half hour job site visit. This 100 degree shit is for the birds.
Kroger’s broke-ass self checkout system can eat my entire asshole.
Lots of things make me despair. These do the opposite. Amazing!!!
Mark Trushkowsky @marktrushkowsky.bsky.social · last mo.More beautiful quilts from the Minnesota State Fair. 2/3
Platform proposal: If Dems win double majority, they impeach Trump and deliver him in chains to Tehran as a goodwill gesture. Not sure it’ll end the war, but it certainly would show willing.
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
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“Attention, your child has searched mildly inappropriate terms on their school laptop.” RESPONSE: Dummy, you know they’re keyword searching. Be better. Don’t get me involved in this shit.
Some part of my body hurts at any given time. This is who I am now.