This looks awesome! Just downloaded every episode 😅

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗@charlescmann.bsky.social · 4h ago

In what may be the nerdiest history podcast ever, the estimable @vpostrel.skystack.xyz and I team up to recount the history of things you didn't even know *have* a history--beginning w/ brushing yr teeth, working out, and cooking dinner. Just out: blowing your nose!

HUH???? we truly used to be a country

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 2d ago

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I just have zero patience for a public intellectual IN THIS DECADE, pretending that environmental policy isn’t going to involve politics. Look around. Pay any attention at all. Yes, the 60-second ads will lack the nuance of a white paper. Industry ignores your white papers though.

DC is a swamp this week and I fucking hate it. It's only 76 degrees but I'm drenched in sweat from my walk to daycare.

Penelope had 108 suitors to whom she had to show a queen's hospitality According to the USDA, the monthly cost for a man aged 20-50 on a liberal food plan is $484.60 The suitors stayed at Odysseus's house for 3 years By the time he killed them, Odysseus had spent $1.8 million feeding them

Convinced husband that we needed a new bike and it should stay inside. He's accepted that this is his life now.

Welp, guess I have to find a different functional use case for "AI" when I'm trying to be generous.

Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · 5d ago

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

this is my new favorite diagram

I’ve been thinking a lot about the thoughtlessness of AI writing. One of the many things that makes Melville’s prose so dazzling is the EXTEME rigor of the way he surprises, deepens and extends his metaphors and cultural touchstones. AI simply can’t, and not for the same reason that most of us can’t

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 5d ago

Such a good passage.

150 dogs flying to Australia, and yet I got detained at the Munich airport for transporting 4 rescue dogs! share.google/4vHQlisnVGYu...

Greyhounds bound for Australia as New Zealand racing ban takes effect

At least two chartered flights carrying up to 150 greyhounds are set to fly to Australia's eastern states, the BBC understands.

share.google

Second question for my BlueSky fam! I've been interested in reading more philosophy-informed non-fiction. For example, I really enjoyed The Tyranny of Merit and am currently reading Self Improvement by @coeckelbergh.bsky.social

Question for the masses... I'm starting as an independent consultant and going thru my contacts who might want to hire or refer me. Would you rather be approached: 1) For a friendly catch-up, not mentioning consulting initially? 2) Learning up front that I'm actively seeking opportunities?

My baby cousin is serving in the National Guard in DC for several months now. Doesn't make it any less dumb why they are here. Why does the Columbia Heights Farmers Market need National Guard?

Oh this is so terrible. I grew up nearby and my cello teacher was an instructor there. I decided to go to music camp at Blue Lake, further from home, so I was never a student.

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m going to be sick. Even the photo they chose — I painted in that exact spot during a concert one of my summers. From the 1970s to the 2010s, which includes the three years I attended. When my friends were there. Back to when some of their *parents* were campers. www.mlive.com/news/2026/07...

Me: ok, now time to be more frugal since we don't have any funds coming in yet. Also me: I need this $70 planner though, right?

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Remember: We do not repost the "alt<government agency>" accounts nor do we believe anything they say or repost. They're mostly grifters of one form or another.

Looking for good climate-solutions podcasts that aren't only focused on the energy sector. Recommendations?

I've been biking more, now that I'm not currently working. Unfortunately, two days ago was almost hit by an e-scooter (their fault) and yesterday a car (traffic light out, technically also their fault).

So I am becoming an independent consultant which means I have to face my fears, aka getting better at making slides. Looking for recommendations of free or low-cost trainings on how to get better! I'm also up for other programs but I want to minimize my use of AI. Pic for attention 🤗

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Does anyone know why the cost of food in the US is two to four times in Europe? Returning from our trip to sticker shock. When did a tub of hummus become $8? 😱

You guys aren't going to believe this, but ... it turns out the oil & gas industry knew that they were poisoning people (in this case, with methane) for years, and they hid it & did nothing to mitigate the harm. No, really, it's true! Incredible investigative work here from @rebleber.bsky.social:

Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest

The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.

nytimes.com

Hey BlueSky, I'm planning to stop by NY Climate Week in September but it's my first one! Would appreciate any recommendations for panels, events, networking, and navigating all three! Specifically interested in agri, methane, and super pollutants.

IT DOESN’T HAVE TO STAY THIS WAY

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2w ago

We live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.

We live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.

German in-laws not really into the halftime show. Focused on feeding treats to the cat and eating snacks.

Dudamel conducting a Muppet orchestra playing the White Stripes... Sentences never spoken before 😂

Related: We named my daughter after a relative named Eva. We didn't anticipate that her Spanish-speaking daycare teachers would call her Evita, but I love it 🤗

Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2w ago

Always vaguely surprised that Argentina's anthem is not "don't cry for me, Argentina."