Me: <feels absolutely terribly every time I eat a lot of carbs> Me: Me: ... But maybe I didn't eat ENOUGH carbs?
Renée
@reneestephen.bsky.social
Free esprit de l'escalier. Salty posts from a salty island.
Watching a friendquaintence slowly get radicalized by Facebook. They're still amenable to reason, ish, but the fact that they went from relatively apolitical and reasonable about stuff to parroting conspiracy crap in a few years is just so depressing.
Folks, if you’re not creating active public spaces, you’re not properly celebrating the full diversity of people, talents, interests, cultures, and subcultures that exist in your city.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d agoDo you know about soccer tennis? Saturday nights are tournament night for the sport on the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone, & these teams are no joke! Nice way to cap off a great day on the people-street. Overheard one family talking about how they “can’t believe how great Granville Street is now.”
Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
hermit-tech.com
Sometimes I feel bad I'm not politicsposting constantly anymore, but I just have this sort of dull anxiety about everything constantly because there's so MUCH and don't want to talk about it. But I should, right? Because that's the point, to overwhelm action? (Not that posting is action, really)
I took two weeks off work and I keep having the most amazing Sunday when I think about work and then remember I don't have to do that tomorrow*. *Yes I'm aware it's a stat tomorrow but I manage a US team so I gotta match holidays. BUT NOT TOMORROW hahaha
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
A stranger just told me that my dress looks "like Ms Frizzle, but elevated!" Major life goal: accomplished.
For those unfamiliar, Newsmax is a far-right extremist, election-denying, pro-racist, pro-Trump, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-queer, and anti-democracy state propaganda platform. Newsmax content will now "support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meta’s latest AI content deal is with Newsmax.
In addition to Reuters, WSJ, CNN, Fox News, and USA Today, Meta now has an AI content partnership to “…draw upon Newsmax’s significant current reporting as well as archived content across its platform...
theverge.com
Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A Poem Because I Love You Sometimes we're sad and at a loss But you have gums so you should floss.
In case you're counting, the planet is now on day 6 reaching a global surface temperature above 17.0°C. The only other years reaching 17.0°C since records began in 1940, and likely in the last 120,000 years, were 2023 and 2024. Next year will be much hotter.
When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
newrepublic.com
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
me: desperately trying to harness the small crumbs of focus I have. computer: SOFTWARE UPDATE! software: NEW FEATURES! internet: TWO FACTOR CODE! THREE FACTOR CODE! UPCOMING EVENT!
Well this isn't good. How the internet isn't people anymore, and how agentic AI, scrapers, and prediction markets are ruining everything. stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-... #ai #bots #deadinternet #latestagecapitalism
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
stephenfollows.com
one thing that I hate about ADHD is that I need to be hyper interested, extremely stressed, etc. to really get into something. no gears beyond locked in or kinda listless. this isn't a quirk chungus so wacky thing, it's a character flaw that makes my life worse.
What’s a woman? We asked The Odyssey and you’ll never believe the answer…s! 1. Bird with a lady head 2. Shapeshifting witch 3. Baddie who came out of a bird egg 4. A whirlpool maybe 5. Tentacle monster who barks like a dog 6. More different shapeshifting witch 7. Weird horny island hermit
Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social · 3w agoIt cracks me up how mad people are about Eliot Page existing in a story that pretty famously contains Tiresias the Transition Enthusiast, an mpreg headburster, and a chick who hatched out of a swan’s egg. Yes hi I am Homer my gender is “lol” (Yes I said chick she’s a swan & so’s her sister. HONK.)
I'm a feminist gerontologist by training. Being in grad school in my 20s, studying elderly women was an immense privilege for many reasons, one of which being that I learned very early on that you either age or you die young. There's no third option. Aging is a privilege.
‘Anti-ageing is anti-life’: why longevity culture is just ageism in a lab coat
Rapid scientific progress has given us the tools to stop time more convincingly than ever – but lurking behind these claims is the same fear of ageing
theguardian.com
Most engineering orgs - and I flatter them using that word - measure productivity by how much *stuff* teams ship. This is to fundamentally mis-characterise software development. It's not a delivery process. We're not Uber Eats. It's a *learning* process. And the biggest factor is feedback latency
The critical thing to understand about this air conditioning debate is that fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for destroying the planet.
In honor of his 100th birthday let’s recognize the genius that is Mel Brooks 🤟😎
Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.
COVID Vaccine Linked to New Side Effect, Especially in Older Adults
The COVID vaccine was linked to a new side effect for older adults.
ca.style.yahoo.com
This is because the amount of weird hobbies we've tried and random useless knowledge about lizards we've amassed only grows as we age j/k no knowledge is useless, esp about lizards
Phelonius Friar@pheloniusfriar.bsky.social · last mo.One of my favourite SMBC (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) comics... 2011-11-19...
You know you're a nerd when you're excited to get an ECG (nothing's wrong, just grabbing a baseline so that when I get heart disease--I hope not to, ofc! But given it's the #1 cause of death in Canada for the 156th year running that's where to bet--they can compare my future heart attack against it.