did you know about the millions of years old whales graveyard that is one of the most intact fossil records of any species anywhere just waiting to be further explored? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...

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Unbothered, Moisturized, In my basement

Lucre Snooker@lucresnooker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

what if instead of seeing it as a problem i just make "guy who occasionally has water in his basement" my whole personality, what then

poems are for when you don't have a camera

Tabling the argument over the meaning of "mandate"

switching from one wrong side to another wrong side instead of to my side (the right and correct side) smfh

The "Twenty Second Century" was the short period of extremely rapid progress in mathematics and the sciences, following the activation of the first artificial super-intelligences which "burst the dam" in many fields simultaneously.

Minor Mobius@minormobius.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yes because the disabled have become cyborgs? Accessibility was solved in the twenty second century

"Is now a good time for a major purchase such as a car?" "No. I am a tomato."

This app will make you write and think better

Rollofthedice@hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this is the sort of app that improves your life and cognition in immeasurable ways

I hate it here

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 5mo ago

You've entered definition-land, @hikikomorphism.bsky.social. Nothing new is ever learned in definition-land, and nothing unexpected can happen. It's impossible — by definition. Anything that happened would just be an event, and we've seen events before.

I briefly brushed up against LW / rat stuff years ago in university; thought it seemed contagious, bounced off; and powerfully resent being made to learn about it now.

Grace@gracekind.net · 6mo ago

Total LessWrong cultural victory

One thing about taking up running in a more serious way is that I've started to dream that I'm running; and in the dreams it isn't awful and miserable; and that's basically what keeps me going.

"The powerful have their power. But we have something too..."

Hi there, Looking For The German Fleet, I'm Dad

Organic rage stalk bundle Autumn porch decoration. Locally grown, no GMO

Christopher Berry@cjpberry.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Isn’t that just part of the rage farm cycle. Grow organic rage. Then compost the stalks of the reactive outrage to the outrage? And then the worms get into the compost pile and reaction to outrage outrage get up cycled into fresh rage, which is the spread onto the same field to farm more rage?

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

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generally fascinated by stigmergy, the ant trick of turning the ground into a computer memory by laying down scent traces stigmergy feels like the entry level of 'doing maze solving on representations of a map' vs by sending ants to explore the map directly memory speed matters for learning though

did:iou i don't have it WITH me...