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Mysteries for Modern Times

I am physically sick struggling to explain this Natalie business to my son’s Bayler & Kryss. They saw Bret Ratner’s superb “Melania” doc opening night with friends & have been inspired for years by the First Couple’s enduring love. Is it all a lie??? What do I do?? @support

The usual excuse behind the rush to build these data centers is "we can't let China get ahead of us". But we seem to have no problem letting China lap us when it comes to renewable energy. Odd, ain't it?

I don't believe in intellectual property, but I recognize that under capitalism it's necessary for artists to be paid for their labor. I'm fine with anyone pulling from the well of culture. I hate AI because it pollutes the well with an endless stream of garbage that ruins cultural spaces.

"Outside Over There" by Maurice Sendak

SprintingOwlDesigns@sprintingowl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay. You have unfortunately been hit with the curse that makes you adapt a work you liked as a kid into a ttrpg. What thing are you adapting?

"Why can't you reach a compromise?" They say. When one side wants to exist, and the other wants genocide.

Even LLMs have legitimate use cases, but those outputs are a tiny trickle amidst a deluge of shit

Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · 5d ago

The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.

Listen, you can date a bunch of 1s and 0s without having an AI boyfriend.

The ghost of my dead plant watching me go to Lowe's gardening section

Here's Jobim's great bossa nova "Desafinado" ("Slightly Out of Tune")

The proper demonym for someone from Michigan is Michighani

Someone put me on a list of people who hate AI and getting blocked by all the pro-AI creeps has made Bluesky noticeably better.

A cool thing to say before someone shoots you would be "those bullets better be silver, playboy"

one of my favorite things in the world is when someone hates a generally mundane thing with the sort of white-hot wrath you normally reserve for someone who has murdered your whole family

Andy McKay@korimakoecology.bsky.social · 3w ago

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

Sure, Jared Leto is a creep with multiple allegations to his name over the course of two decades, but you have to understand that he's also a mediocre actor who's a nightmare to work with and whose movies are critical flops that don't make money.

I thought living in cyberpunk times would be a lot cooler.

Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social · last mo.

💥 Ukraine has destroyed both the Wildberries and Ozon e-commerce fulfillment centers that serve Saint Petersburg in Russia. Damage should exceed $2 billion.

"The wraith of Iain Banks then drifted down through the ceiling and began throttling Musk. 'Oh yes ah fookin am ay socialist!' he shouted."

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.

(The Bulwark voice) bro just one more election where Democrats moderate to the right to pick up swing voters. just one more election bro then we'll use the levers of power for public good bro i swear

More like Mulch McConnell at this point

I saw Mitch McConnell at the gym today, on a stationary bike. He was dead.

Getting a lot of pushback from historians over my promise to produce a historically accurate movie about the time Kronos ate all of Zeus's brothers and sisters

we are witnessing a company who thought they invented the ham sandwich realizing in real time that they sell ham, bread, and mustard at the grocery store

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · last mo.

We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

oh you want healthcare and a house? lol here's a gambling app for your phone you stupid piece of shit

[Arby's drive-thru] (muffled voice from deep inside Trojan horse): ask for extra horsey sauce

The real bummer about this post is that ordinary people are convinced that the principal antagonists in politics are other ordinary people, while the institutions that shape who gets heard, where money flows, whose votes are suppressed, and whose interests are represented are treated like scenery.

Michelle@m-i-c-h-e-l-l-e.bsky.social · last mo.

Um, no. Leftists got what you wanted. You wanted Kamala to lose. I heard it for months. Eat it up, be proud of what you wanted. Be proud you voted 3rd party to help Kamala lose and now 3 genocides CURRENTLY and war all over the Middle East. This is ALL ON YOU.

Check out the Looking Normal Expert over here

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · last mo.

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

a man and his son are in a car accident; the father dies but the son is taken to hospital. the surgeon says, “i can’t operate on this boy - i am a horse”. how is this possible? find out on DOCTOR HORSE, thursdays at 9pm on cbs.