Melissa Fierce

Lots of things to find out there in the dirt.

I come not to praise Claude or whatever but giving unaccountable robot decisionmaking to thundering dipshits who just shot down their own drone with a laser does seem like wrong side of history business

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

I heard the geese this morning making their way north. Some comfort there that winter is almost over and spring will arrive - regardless of what us humans are doing to ruin everything else good and sacred.

This Christmas Eve, I think it’s important to tell you that I asked Santa if he could make Claire Huxtable my mom.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Encouraging families everywhere to take advantage of this new free admission day at any of our 63 national parks! Take time to celebrate a great US president.

Make sure to hang a banner from the pavilion:

“Happy Birthday Barak Obama.”

Keep America Beautiful.

❤️ This is the way to raise great readers - trickery, deceit, and a never-ending supply of fresh batteries.

Rabbit Rabbit

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

At least now that *rationalism* has solved the “y’all were right before I agreed,” identity recoil of superior thinking, he can take it to his equally obtuse peers.

I’m still floored that he discounted racism as a non-factor in economic discontent and our current political landscape. Buddy…

I cried, I cried looking at an invitation.

Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"

And that’s why we love it

A color photo of Dr. Colwell at a lab bench, holding a Petri dish in her right hand and holding something else up to a bunsen burner with her left hand. Out-of-focus lab equipment is in the foreground. She wears a white lab coat, and is looking at the flame. Rows of glassware and other equipment line the shelves behind her.

Geneticist and microbiologist Rita Rossi Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She was the first researcher in the US to use computers to analyze bacteriological data, and the first woman to serve as director of the NSF. 🧪 👩‍🔬

and so I did. And maybe you did also. Here is the s I dropped -> s

What else is there?

Time keep arriving and we, despite everything, keep moving towards love.

are*

I have born witness the feast laid out at a casual gathering you have hosted - which is why this list reads like romantic poetry. What marvelous abundance!

Not sleeping. Thinking about disconfirmation bias, beliefs, and all of the ways we try to avoid believing what we a seeing by purposeful disengagement with the idea at hand.

So that my wild Saturday night.

most relatable post I’ve seen all day

If war were just human nature, it would not be so deeply long-term traumatizing to participate in war.

If war were just human nature, military training would not amount to psychological torture.

If war were just human nature, there would be no need to pump literal billions into pro-war propaganda.

I am thinking about the time I asked my mother what she would serve the president if he came to our house - imagining the feast she would prepare - and she said she’d give him a peanut butter sandwich, because his job is to serve the people, not the other way around.

the fact they caught this on camera is insane to me (image of Anguiris hanging on to King Ghidorah as the dragon flies away from Destroy All Monsters)

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

The end is nigh

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I was hoping whatever was bursting out of the guy's chest in Alien would be something nice