Kat Canavan

This was such a roller coaster because I’m like nah this thing isn’t fast and then it showed me up

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

paired with

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

It was an absolutely perfect combo earlier this summer

I’m about to turn 23 so this is terrible news before my birthday

Can I Build an Elevator With a $1 Motor? YouTube video by Current Concept

This is the kind of quality content that keeps me hopelessly addicted to youtube

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I adore this! Slartibartfast may just need a new character sheet

I-beam doing his best to I-bean

Beam. He may be half a letter off but still vibes with all his bean friends and they except him just the way he his

He’s been working there for a few years but hasn’t hosted until this week. He killed it all three nights though

Josh Johnson has been single-handedly getting me through 2025 with his weekly standup and he rocked the Daily Show this week 🙌

Imagine explaining the current world situation to someone from 2015 and then adding “but I can remotely operate my 3D printer from my backyard so it’s not *all* bad”

It’s here :D

After many many years of holding out I finally bought a 3D printer and man having something to look forward to is such a game changer

git commit, git push, git out

STORY: Designing the Future with Photography

It’s #EngineersWeek and I’m flattered to have my photography work featured by @olincollege.bsky.social 👀

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This is my 10th P4A!

*This* is what the internet is for

“There is yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer”

Reminds me of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
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This sounds like old Hank at a retirement home waiting for someone to say “that’s nice, dear” and give him some apple juice

Beelzebufo (the ‘devil frog’) grew over a foot long and weighed about 10 pounds

I was googling a frog from the late Cretaceous period when Google AI helpfully informed me that its “conservation status” is extinct.

Hate to crush anyone’s dreams of starting a breeding program, but the giant dinosaur-eating frog Beelzebufo went extinct 65 million years ago.

So some degree of ignorance is required to make the world go ‘round.

How do we develop systems with this in mind? How do we accredit real experts? How can we develop education that teaches the next generation to think critically?

This is a big, tough problem but I don’t think it’s unsolvable.

I think it’s important not to let the chaos overshadow the beauty, though. Through specialization we’ve developed such a detailed understanding of science.

Because we can have people who spend their entire career within a hyper-specific field we unlock innovations like the mrna vaccine

On one hand it’s absolutely amazing. We’ve built so many things that no one person can understand fully.

On the other hand it can be so chaotic that it becomes dysfunctional, even within a single institution.

As a group we become more powerful than one, but that’s not at all a linear relationship

When I said “this can’t get any worse” I was not, in fact, asking the universe for an additional two weeks of Covid. That was not a dare, and I’d appreciate if the genie terribly misinterpreting my wishes could please stop

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social once said during the pandemic “The only way out is through and the only way through is together”

That’s one of those things that’s stayed with me. It’s still true. It always will be.

I’d make the argument it’s actually very Sci and not very Fi for the fish

I’m always entertained by the flow of “oh, my bad! I was so wrong, and I see that now. How silly of me! Anyway here’s another blatantly wrong answer I’m going to deliver just as confidently”

Disney really did us dirty making us think there was quicksand around every corner

I had a dream where as a society we collectively started sending all emails with the introduction:

Hello,

I hope you’re doing well amongst the chaos of our contemporary hellscape.

I feel like I got a messed up genie wish

When I said I couldn’t wait to get some rest over the break I did not mean a week in bed with Covid :/