Kim Stiens

#monoprint Acrylic on Paper.

#art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

b&w photo of the most beautiful cabbage leaf in the world -- at least it is that beautiful when Weston is looking at it through a lens

Cabbage Leaf - Edward Weston, 1931

popeyes CEO cheryl bachelder is going to stunt on these fools when she washes down a 6 spicy tendy combo pack with a pint of red beans

A Beech tree I have enjoyed visiting regularly over the years, Exmoor.
#photography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
#bnw

They have a magical advantage, in that as long as they don't actually touch anyone, no one will touch them. No one wants to explain to the police why they beat up a 13 year old girl who wasn't "actually hurting" anyone

A few years ago, I was in a Metro car that was being held hostage by ~6 vicious young teenage girls. Couldn't have been older than 15 but they had an entire car of people frozen in fear while the train sat at Gallery Place

A nice lady tried to reason with them. They left her SOBBING

I LOVED the TV Merlin mini-series. Incredible casting

Heater with giant, expressive eyeballs, peering into a bathtub with her little white paws on the lip of the tub. Her body is roughly the size of a shampoo bottle.

I can't get over this picture of Heater. Every time @katmabu.bsky.social takes a bath, she acts like she's witnessing the Hindenburg explosion for the first time. This cat is SIX years old. Pixar-ass cat. I love her so much.

In contrast to the West, China's political economy has long been grounded on emergency preparedness. Its massive public reserves insulated China from global price shocks in 2022 and will again be a crucial buffer now.

Link: triviumchina.com/2026/03/03/s...

nah lots of places that don't expect a tip just add on the option to tip because it's in the POS. Most tipped-wage laws specify which professions "customarily" receive wages and restrict the tipped wage provisions to those.

Screenshot from the linked piece, which says "So if your job requires you to produce regular analytical reports, for clients, for leadership, or for publication, you will use this to cut out difficult first steps. Often the bottleneck is not the writing, it’s getting from raw, unorganized data to a defensible visual that you trust and can defend. The terminal tools compress that step dramatically, and more importantly, they make it cheap to check whether your finding survives different methodological choices. That robustness-checking step is the one most people skip under deadline pressure. Now you don’t have to."

I'm rather late to read this @mtkonczal.bsky.social on how using LLMs not only speeds up a lot of his work, it actually improves the end result. It's a good piece!

I haven't tried terminal AI yet but I'm excited to, I have a big project I'm gearing up for

newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/three-ways...

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

Oddly enough, Lisa Cron's "Wired for Story" is also really useful for understanding how LLM's "think", because they replicate human patterns

So much more of human psychology makes sense after reading this, and now, its really helpful for understanding LLM output

www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

The aforementioned New Yorker piece, which is truly excellent, as they usually are www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

When "technically true" becomes "actually misleading" Worst Take of the Week: Tyler Austin Harper, please download Claude Code

This is a couple weeks old, but I found this + the New Yorker piece on Claude to be *really* informative in understanding how LLMs piece together their responses (far beyond the "stochastic parrots" that people online love to deride)
www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-techn...

Eisenhower

I guess I just feel pretty strongly that the lives of people who live in other countries are also very important

Did you spend any of that 30 minutes actually evaluating what the tool can do, or is your anger just based on what you think of other, unrelated LLM tools

It is remarkable how many people on Bluesky confidently describe their issues with Matt's tool despite not using it and not understanding anything about what it is or how it works

Everyone on Bluesky is a legal expert, and wouldn't you know, they all agree that all AI is dumb and can't do anything!

The best thing about reading these threads is all the people who have no idea who Matt Bruenig is making all kinds of assumptions about him (always based on the dumbest tech bros they've seen on Twitter)

one of the first things I saw after posting the above

Good morning. I hate how we just started another war. This sucks.

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says A federal judge said that the IRS broke the law by illegally sharing thousands of taxpayers’ addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

apnews.com/article/irs-...

Reposting But Did Not Read, but obviously

why do nerds
suddenly appear
every time
I post here

The Jell-O No Bake Cheesecake mixes are still some of the best cheesecake you can make, I bet these slapped

Good article - side note though: "Hey, Playboy's still around. Huh. Whoda thunk it?"

I don’t understand the impulse of some people to gaze into the abyss and then think “people won‘t think the real abyss is enough. Time to grab my abyss-colored crayon.”