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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 7 days ago • 114 comments

Finally a show about Boolean logic operators

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 17 days ago • 464 comments

I would fire myself from my own job and refuse to ever work again if I, as a leader, ever did anything 10% as fucking stupid as this.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

submitted 51 days ago • 395 comments

Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.

submitted 52 days ago • 419 comments

I get a lot of proxy vote forms because of how my finances are set up, and it’s pretty common right now to see these proposals, along with occasional ones targeting environmental targets. Notably, in every case I’ve seen, boards have recommended against—often forcefully.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll tell you one thing though, Peter Coyote is one heck of a narrator.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 71 days ago • 1110 comments

turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness

submitted 73 days ago • 29 comments

I really wanted to spend some time figuring out promotion and getting easternwestward.com going properly this year, but the economics of it make no possible sense under Trump's new taxes, so I'll be closing the LLC instead.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

I expect to be getting a lot of emails like this soon. This one is from @s.ly and @keyboard.io about the tariffs. Such a pointless destruction of US small businesses.

submitted 74 days ago • 14 comments

People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.

submitted 74 days ago • 127 comments

Disgusting. Trans Day of Visibility was three days ago, by the way.

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments

Let's outright stop buying this idea of "efficiency" as a virtue. It's used in both business and government to justify poor conditions and shoddy products. Rich abundance is what we want. Care. Attention to detail. Failsafe redundancy in systems that matter. Efficiency is a false god.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Again, like every time a government brings it up, there is no way to backdoor encryption that “safeguards cybersecurity”, any more than I can invent a knife that safely stabs someone.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all

submitted 76 days ago • 35 comments

May we all yield for a question while retaining the floor. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov, for standing up and showing a way forward.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

You know Cory Booker's attracting full notice, now that Schumer's shown up for a few minutes of reflected glory.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I marvel at how Jim Henson’s brain worked. This film was a presentation piece to the executives at CBS when he was trying to get them, ultimately unsuccessfully, to pick up The Muppet Show... But if you’re a TV exec sitting in a boardroom watching this, there’s no way it’s not leaving an impression.

submitted 80 days ago • 16 comments

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

submitted 79 days ago • 233 comments

Key observation from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social: "It’s also worth noting that these huge AI [meme] trends only really arrive with updates. An AI model has some kind of technical breakthrough, everyone tries it, and then everyone loses interest." -- www.garbageday.email/p/posting-is...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

One of my absolute career highlights was getting to work with Keita for a bit on Glitch. A truly uniquely wonderful individual (and no, it’s not a bit—he really is like this)

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

hear hear

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

Stop doomscrolling for one minute and do clickens for mental health. clickens.chicken.pics

submitted 97 days ago • 13 comments

Yeah, this is a perennial truth -- landmark struggles over free speech typically involve people who are saying and doing things that are unpopular That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.

submitted 98 days ago • 54 comments