Mikell Taylor
@mikell.bsky.social
Boston-based robotics nerd whose opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the cringe. It’s pronounced “Michael”.
this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2h agoI actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots
Make Gillian Anderson the next Bond. Keep the Bond Girls.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 9h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
Air to Ground Message: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE. IF YOU LOSE YOUR SHOE AT MIDNIGHT YOU ARE DRUNK. Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #a86f5f377ec F: #f09d73efe6d
I think one of my problems is that the kind of AI progress I would be interested in (and capable of contributing to) is happening off somewhere in academia, or behind closed doors, and is not in the loud, gushing vein that bubbles up into social media, so I can't immerse myself in it.
this is truly motivating me to use inshallah even more than I already do after all it’s the faster and more fun way to say “if the good lord’s willing and the creek don’t rise,” speaking as someone with Southern roots.
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2h agostarting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
This is team player shit, beat the bad guys shit. I love it. No fucking around with it, just let's go.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 4h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
They should have Daniel Craig do it again hut give him the Benoit Blanc accent
The Independent@the-independent.com · 9h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
“Yes, sure, I’d love to run the risk of spending time alone with a creature that can’t wash its own ass but somehow still believes that it’s inherently intellectually and biologically totally superior to me, that sounds amazing” - increasingly few straight women in 2026, and good for them
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
Probably the opposite. If the Dems institute structural changes on the scale of M4A, they should expect enough backlash to wipe them out in the next election. That shouldn't stop them obviously. Politicians need to have the courage to sacrifice their seats for progress, or it ain't going nowhere.
anyway I think the key takeaway here in THAT NYT story about steak sauerkraut etc etc is that bidets are good
"that was fraud" ~@montanaskeptic.bsky.social
egg16z 🥚@notlikewe.bsky.social · 22h agoElon projecting one launch of starship *per day* by next year lmao
Air to Ground Message: ITS STARTING TO MAKE THAT LOUD NOISE AGAIN Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #aa506df8341 F: #f7696a79caa
Is this TMI? Maybe. But I’m using my privilege of seniority and reputation to raise awareness of things like “no man has ever spent as much time packing for a biz trip as I did vetting combinations of period underwear and pants for visible panty lines for this trip”.
Mikell Taylor@mikell.bsky.social · 23h agoI don’t know who decided that period underwear with their industrial strength seam scaffolding should become a thing at the same time that all women’s pants are made of thin clingy knits but jail for them, jail for 1000 years
it's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agoit's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't
I don’t know who decided that period underwear with their industrial strength seam scaffolding should become a thing at the same time that all women’s pants are made of thin clingy knits but jail for them, jail for 1000 years
As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
Not to mention the right really underestimates how much the left can argue among itself. An echo chamber it is not. lol.
Mikell Taylor@mikell.bsky.social · yesterdayI came here to get away from the Nazi site not to find a political bubble. The fact that most people who want to avoid Nazis that make being online a deeply unpleasant experience also lean left is not my fault.
Look at this absolute weirdo (complimentary) that I met today
I came here to get away from the Nazi site not to find a political bubble. The fact that most people who want to avoid Nazis that make being online a deeply unpleasant experience also lean left is not my fault.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · yesterdayI don't think scolding really does anything but I do think it's worth noting that there are people here for whom the politics is very much not the point
One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d agoIt was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.
I follow these Korean guys on Instagram who just do the same dance in different places and they landed a big one today