Flip Phillips

While I was waiting for a call from the auto mechanic, unpacking records, I thought of something. #jazzsky.

Today, I received a curious email from Dean Faculty. I wonder if that's Dr. Faculty?

Finally! @Aidan Montag's senior thesis project, released to the masses!

It's National Lie Down For A Bit Day

🎥 Videos now available for: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE A CCN satellite meeting, hosted and sponsored by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. Website: computationalconsciousness.github.io YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

For fuck’s sake

🤷🏼 whoopsy atlantablackstar.com/2026/10/21/a...

"AI agents on an org-chart brings anxiety to employees." Ya think?

I do not have time to worry about this just now

Visualize Regular Expressions with Marbles

Please vote for the Linton Color Constancy Illusion in this year's Illusion of the Year Competition! Link: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

Reiko Okuyama was an artist who built Japanese animation. Among other things, she helped to shape Horus -- Isao Takahata's debut film. Okuyama was a top animator and Toei union member. Yet her commercial work never fully satisfied her, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-artist-...

Learn this. It's retro-cool-cable-stuff.

Now playing - Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition. #jazzsky

Her: "OK I'll go out but I'm not drinking" Also her, two hours later:

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 18,1945

Let's learn Dutch, jongens!

Just went to shut down my workstation to install some more GPU iron. Typed: $ sync $ sync $ halt and was transported in time to 1982. My office was filled with a rack of PDP-11s called "Huey", "Louie", and "Dewey", and I'm thinking about getting my ear pierced.

"Hey, um, spouse, um, I think we need to buy a new place with a little more acreage ?"

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Spooky ham season

“don’t put your lips on it” youtu.be/DU_Gd623HJo?...

Career advice: Let the prompt idle Talk to people Pair program like it's 2014 Read a book Write a comment, a commit message, a design document Later, write something personal Edit it. Buy a fountain pen Learn that ink stains Get so frustrated you cry Wake up at 3am with the sentence in mind Exhale

Perfect

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"??

They think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?

Recorded on October 6, 2026, in Sochi, Russia. A street musician continues to play music on the waterfront while an oil tanker burns offshore in the background. Poor Mother Earth 😔 www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

Using a ThinkStation P8 + Threadripper + 2xA6000, etc... to do some beta-testing of a certain renderer, man, and Mathematica. I propose Lenovo add a 'water reservoir' to the cooling system, along with cedar accent case. Then my office can double as a sauna. The Lenovo ThinkStation P8++

Sigh.

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

Searched for John Scofield's _Swallow Tails_ album. Apple Music is concerned for my mental well being it seems.

This should be an entire impeachment trial on its own. The destruction of NSF through impoundment, office shuffles, etc. is obliterating 70 years of bipartisan efforts that turned us into a global scientific superpower and thus a technological and economic superpower.

Born on this date: Buster Keaton