recent spreadsheet crimes have created the concept of “Scandinavian ramen”. I leave this to your imaginations

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...

Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

wrecka.ge

The Claude Accent has the mouthfeel of those Rubbermaid non-slip bathtub flowers. Such a weird set of unintentionally campy aesthetic choices, ultimately a bit sad

kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.

Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]

I forgot what the diagrams group is called

Neurotica@schwarzgerat.bsky.social · last wk.

Walrus field of view

Notes from The Singularity

Found this from @natematias.bsky.social during a purge of [months of] browser tabs and reading lists. It's so good I want to post it now so the people who will benefit from it have it for the next round of horrible coverage. natematias.medium.com/the-manacle-...

The Manacle, the Network, and the Tree

New Epstein revelations have many in science asking me “how can things be different?”

natematias.medium.com

We all have that one homie who scholars theorize was not a single individual, but a collection of different authors

Am I cringe? Very well I am cringe, I will never log off

“I should do a breakthrough”

“let’s just add some helper text”

Folks, [takes a sip from the glass on the pulpit] imagine a loosely history-adjacent epic movie about the end of mythological time, but that contained actual ideas. [Pauses and looks around thoughtfully.] We don’t have to imagine. We don’t have to imagine! It’s called “Princess Mononoke”, and

I’d like to shake the hand of the person who designed the Chocolonely bar shapes, but not in a way which is convenient for them

GORG: Hmm. Sun setting earlier. Winter coming. Time to rotate sundial pebbles 1 place to the left MORG: If Gorg so much as lay a finger on those pebbles Morg will end Gorg entire lineage

some photo my mom took in the 80s presumably of public school teachers?

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

i will never not read pfp as “player fersus player”

Before satellites and computer models, ocean currents were illustrated using chalk and blackboards! This rotating blackboard globe was a prime tool used by WHOI oceanographer Henry Stommel, who is best known for his groundbreaking work on ocean circulation. Learn more: go.whoi.edu/Artifacts

it's not actually an honor to end up on the cover of Viziers Monthly. it shows your machinations aren't subtle enough

Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, snap a rusty bolt. Don't soak it. Don't heat it. Just honk down with an long ratchet until you shear that sucker in two.

[hiding all the Balzac] this place is not a place of Honoré

having “The Talk” with my kid (What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Nagel, 1974)

Does anybody else have an interpretation of what the Death Star r/c mouse droid is saying? In our household it’s canonically “Charlie Bucket” and I enjoy imagining Ben Burtt gurning it into a microphone every time

I’m of two minds about Julian Jaynes

Untitled Goose Factory

[being evaluated according to the Personal and Organizational Integrated Management Support framework] they weigh me in POIMS www.wcu.edu/pmi/1994/94P...

I feel like the name "Sir Mix-a-Lot" left a lot on the table in terms of worldbuilding

I keep reading FIFA as FAFO in a New Zealand accent

If i’m interpreting this correctly the prime minister was offside

every space is liminal if you're in a hurry