@ologies.bsky.social Thank Pete that the NSF doesn't accept audio grant applications or else @pgirguis.bsky.social would get all the funding! Really personable interview and great voice. I also learned a lot! Thanks for sharing!
I’m in Denmark, trying to figure out why everything seems to run so much smoother here, and this is a bit part of it. The society is built on social trust, and even as a tourist (!) I’m pretty sure that I’m not being scammed around every single corner. Constant vigilance is exhausting.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo agoI feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
@ifycomedy.com I really enjoyed this week’s @gamechanger.dropout.tv episode and your performance was a major part of that. Thanks for the fun!
xkcd comics published about statistics correlates with The number of concierges in Ohio (r=0.921)
why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔
Me to 7yo: What's half of 56? 7yo: I dunno. 23? Me: No, that'd be half of 46. 7yo: Oh, then it's 28.
Reminder to those who can't seem to grasp distinction between median and average. US average income in 2024 was $76,000. US median income was $44,000. The difference is vast inequality. And $44,000 is not a good living.
Are we meant to forgive SpaceX's destruction of LEO, astronomy, and the night sky for this?
Space.com@space.com · 6mo ago600 rocket landings! SpaceX notches another milestone during Sunday Starlink launch www.space.com/space-explor...
Ancient dice found in North America showing that Indigenous Americans may have used them to play with other groups they meet. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/ice-...
12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice
New research suggests that games of chance developed much earlier—to the tune of 6,000 years—than originally thought.
thisiscolossal.com
The #1 problem with AI: "...the tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth." taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
taggart-tech.com
For the first time, a person who is not a white, American man will see the Moon close-up* with their own eyes. I'm eager to see with their vision. Will it be the same or different? Which cultural influences will be uppermost? #ArtemisII *From 8, 000 km 🧪
The world does not need more undergraduate history essays but does need more people who can write good ones.
Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz.bsky.social · 7mo agoI keep having to tell students that the true "product" on a homework, essay, or test is not the completed assignment, it's the brain that has gone through the thinking required to complete the assignment.
"Math is not true because we tell kids it is true; math is true because they can find that truth for themselves. We can find these truths together."
Interesting stat from the article
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 8mo agoThey weren't rookies The two federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti had a combined 20 years of experience with BP or CBP, and simmered in a toxic culture with an absurd crime rate that must be erased, not "reformed" My new column on what really killed Alex www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
PPS: I'm not sure how my tone comes across in these posts, because I worry my tech friends will think I'm being pessimistic and my arts friends the opposite. Personally, I feel like someone whose house is being eaten by nanobots, but who is really interested in nanobots.
"they don't deserve our fear" is a profound thing to say imo & I'm grateful for it distrust yes caution yes. fear God maybe (proverbs 9:10 though I have long-winded thoughts about the fear of God). these men terrorizing citizens may be a lot of things but they don't know the first thing about God
👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 9mo agobecause they don’t deserve our fear
@ryannorth.ca TBF, I do think of you as many things before I think of you as the guy who was stuck in a hole. But, when I think of someone stuck in a hole, I think of you first. www.reddit.com/r/interestin... (I know you had your puppers with you, so this method wasn't on the table)
@k8nowak.bsky.social asked if I would be interested in helping a new company write curriculum while I moved states
Recurse Center@recurse.com · 11mo agoWhat’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!
Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️
@alliegoertz.bsky.social Matt Groening gave you a quick mention on today's WTF interview about how you were his first podcast even though he'd promised Maron. But, your interview was better
The distance between Neptune and the Sun correlates with Burglary rates in the US (r=0.969)
