Ben Taylor @VoxDei@qoto.org

Streaming Services: Strike as long as you want. We can easily replace you with AI.

AI: Things kept getting stranger for the kids. Bald Eleven focused her bald powers until she upgraded to Twelve. The children exclaimed in an 80s fashion. Cop dad rubs his donut belly. He proudly waves the American and Russian flags to show proud character development.

Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.

But evolution is not linear. It branches & divides without an intended direction or endpoint through natural selection.

Illustration by @keesey #science #history

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at http://BlinkingGuy.com

I don't know what point the cartoonist was trying to make with this one. But whatever it was.

We Stan the Solidarity Pixie.

(Don't forget to update the shared spreadsheet with everyone's salary and put it under your pillow tonight that you may wake to additional paid sick days.)

The vast majority of battlecruisers will be unaffected by the High Seas Fleet.

For those that are affected, we are working non-stop to mitigate any disruption due to projectile-assisted disassembly.

I hate this modern internet so fucking much. 15 yrs ago that same search would have turned up loads of little micro blogs with first hand accounts of greenhouse building. Now all I get is AI garbage.

Most people understand that sufficiently massive objects can bend light.

It's less understood that sufficiently chonky battleships can bend oceans. Just look at the waterline!

#BanTheSuit

Me planning to teach computing stuff, imagining exchanges:

— So, the file system is like a filing cabinet with an index …
— What’s a filing cabinet?
— And you have these files in it …
— What's a file?
— OK imagine a bunch of index cards th–
— Wh–
— Sorry, sorry. Uh, you know the wallpaper on your laptop screen?
— Yes
— Imagine that was a real desk.
— OK. Do I have to share it?
— No. You know all the documents you have on it?
— Yeah
— Imagine they were really on the real desk
— OK?
— Now,

A lovely misty sunrise today. Taken from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography #archway #tower #orbs

“AI” enthusiast: i have made a chatbot that answers your questions

Software developers: you fucked up a perfectly good search engine is what you did. look at it. it's got hallucinations

Molly Crabapple, artist and activist:

The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉

Globally we produce A LOT of #energy, but did you know the majority of fossil energy gets wasted? In the US alone, two-thirds of that energy is *wasted* as heat.

As Hannah Ritchie has pointed out, we don’t actually need to produce a low carbon equivalent of all of the coal, oil & gas we currently use.

That means we can decarbonize quickly by being less wasteful & more efficient. #ClimateChange #science

Important reminder:

I understand that newspapers need support through subscriptions, but I often worry about about how this makes reliable information a luxury for those with the means to afford it.

Meanwhile misinformation & disinformation is widely accessible & free. #news #journalism

The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies.

Our 10yr old has gotten ***REALLY*** into mechanical watches & clocks to the point he's on the verge of starting a side gig repairing them. He mentions his hobby to everyone, and a lot of folks have a not-quite-working item sitting around. He's fixed a number of them.

He has had a tough time with an civil war era pocket watch, but was finally able to salvage a compatible part from somewhere, and he got it ticking today. He was so proud, and wants to share with everyone.

#hobby #watchrepair