I carry my camera with me every day when I go to work and occasionally I get the opportunity to capture something that is unexpected. This bobcat was dozing in a really old tree growing next to an old building on campus while hundreds of people were passing by, completely unaware. Nature is magical

I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s a popular revolt against the tech oligarchs, not about data centers per se. Yes, streaming sites also use data centers. Yes, data centers don’t actually use up a lot of drinking water. Accuracy is good for its own sake. But still, right or wrong about data centers themselves isn’t the point.

For sale: baby jetpack. Worn once

(AI New Yorker): Hello—I'm not just here, I'm walking

Alternatively, this guy threw 451.2 innings and had 43 CGs in 1886 for the Detroit Wolverines.

Wyatt Sinclair@crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 4d ago

New band name just dropped:

Nice post! Figured I'd reply to it with some other stuff I was thinking about.

I am in a bad mood and it was not made better by trying to look up reference images for eels and getting AI slop. Here is a shot of the page in my sketchbook that I am working on with my own two physical hands.

[sighing to my wife at the table of a nice restaurant] No no no, milkshake ducks are just for racism. if you're complaining about fascists or homophobes, that's a drone metal orthodox priest guitarist. You don't think it makes a difference, but I'm saying it does. I am not raising my voice.

Imagine a world where someone designs a shitty robot, ok? Not so smart to make fun of shitty robots now, is it?

hailey@hailey.at · 2w ago

bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this: future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

The lesson the world has learned is that if the US government tells you it's raining, better get yourself checked for piss because, buddy, that's piss

Never let a writer help you move

The polar bear is quilted!

"just to the people who need it" lets you keep excluding people you don't think need it, too! win win for the chart perverts

The existence of The Atlantic should imply another journal called The Pacific, which publishes only good takes by writers who aren't shitheads.

🦇 This is the best thread you'll read this year! Thank you for helping Merle 😍

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 2w ago

So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇

Museums pro tip: Want to know if there's a bat flying around your galleries? Simply listen to all the visitors saying "there is a bat flying around the galleries."

"We are unable to improve Los Angeles because of cars and I am unwilling to change that" may as well be Karen Bass's campaign slogan

Cant believe they never made a Peggle 3. EA I will see you in hell.

BECAUSE THEY’RE PUSHING YOU PROPAGANDA AND DISINFORMATION OF COURSE they’re happy to talk to you! Lies are only worth something if they spread.

Honestly 'speculative fiction' often has a note of this too like it's SFF with a top hat.

I wrote a song for some of y'all: 🎵 Stop using AI slop images, you stupid wanker 🎵 Set to the tune of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song

I used to just worry about her taking my man, now she is after my job

nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch