Yup exactly.
Yup exactly.
I concur ๐
Walking through a second hand book store and books are stacked all around creating a grebled pathway, such that it feels like youโre flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
Walking through a second hand book store should feel like youโre flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
Ha ha โ this got a like from @redblobgames.com โฆ yeh theyโve done a lot more with grids than I ever have!
Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreams to find the tech world is abuzz with a prediction that, 3 years from now, OpenStink will achieve AGI and perform bullshit work at *TWICE* the speed of a modern bureaucrat!
I contain multitudes. Or, as we say in science, a microbiome.
Word cloud showing some of the 40+ terms like "cognitive load", "cognitive debt" "cognitive process" etc that are used almost entirely without definition, and entirely without an accurate, valid, relevant definition. When in doubt... just say cognitive a bit more!
I must acknowledge that I am uncharacteristically and perhaps unreasonably riled up by this paper, but to double down on my "dying on this hill" -- here's a word cloud of all the times "cognitive {x}" is used in the paper, for different values of x.
It's such an utter load of "cognitive slop"!
Agree to disagree on this paper. How does their novel test have any validity, to be able to make such strong and sweeping claims?
Its claims may be trueโฆ but the โscienceโ theyโve used to get there is not able to support any such claims.
This is preprint un-reviewed stuff.
As an underling, I always found the threat โbe quiet or Iโll replace you with a very simple cron jobโ to be effective at keeping middle-managers in line.
Pic of Bezos and wife. Overlaid on the image is a tweet from a user named "Dr. G" with the handle "@GinnyMcDonald8." The tweet reads: "Jeff Bezos paid 50m for his wedding and gave his new wife over 50m in jewelry while people here are losing their Medicaid and SNAP benefits just so he can get a huge tax cut. Itโs disgusting and just wrong.โ
The discussion in this podcast is very illuminating regarding this โstudyโ
open.spotify.com/episode/0XLG...
The alleged neuroscience behind this preprint is really very spectacularly shitty.
The article is getting so much attention but they didnโt do the science properly.
Iโll follow up with a podcast link in a moment.
"Thereโs just too much wealth concentration. And what do you even do? Whatโs the purpose of that much wealth? What do you do with it?" โ Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood on how we can use guaranteed minimum income to lift Americans out of poverty
denver-frederick.com/2025/06/24/t...
Itโs every parentโs nightmare, isnโt it? you check your childโs bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
This is awesome and if anything does not go far enough. Donโt be afraid of your awesomeness. Shine David, shine like a star!
Ah but have you tried yoga?
Donald Duck enthusiastically cleaning up while saying โcleaning is just putting stuff in less obvious places and then wondering where you put themโ
Ordinarily I think Labor can rest on being just 1 half step to the left of the major RWNJ parties. Suddenly, with no strong opposition on the right, they have to stand on their own feet and get into actual policy debates with other parties.
At least: thatโs what I hope will happen. Please ๐
Googleโs AI overview states โThe letter โiโ appears twice in the word โteamworkโ.โ
I used to believe, thereโs no โiโ in Teamwork. Google set me straight.
My eyes be leaking. Stop it Mann.
Curse typos.
While writing this I overheard someone say to someone else โ regarding their computer โ โall my letters are in capitals except the โiโโs.โ
This alone unleashes chains of thought, uncovers other curses. I wonder if it relates to the Turkish alphabet. I wonder why we even have โcapital lettersโ.
I sent this skoot prematurely as I was late for a thing. I wanted to hone in on the topic of typography in particular. Knowledge of typography leads to opinions on typography which leads to misery.
I was going to say โexcept cursesโ but youโve proven me wrong there. Cues you!
Everything is a curse
As Shakespeare says โThere are sermons in books, stones in the running brooks,โ or rather, the other way about, and there you have it, in a nutshell.
โ Gussie Finknottle
@hotdogsladies.bsky.social I feel like this re-surfaced Jerry Lewis film is something youโd have thoughts about. (I checked your timeline briefly,
apologies if I overlooked an existing hot-take)
www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...
True in more ways than one. Given a choice between *doing* a โgoodโ thing or *watching* an โentertainingโ thing, Americans choose the latter.
I bet the person who invented copy and paste kept it to themselves for a couple months and got a bunch of pay rises for being so damn productive.
The study of these banana layers combines the โarchaeologyโ with โtechnical studiesโ and concepts from the study of decaying โmanureโ.
These 3 fields are combined to form the word โarchitectureโ