Nevin Flanagan

When software exhibits unexpected, unintended, undesirable behavior, we do not call it “acting on its own.” We call it “a bug.”

Ah, the sweet Goddess of Love! www.discovermagazine.com/venus-may-ha...

QTP with a ship that makes u happy

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. When you’re feeling sick and your cat (dog etc.) comes and snuggles you unprompted. 2. Being handed hot cocoa when you come in from the cold. 3. Ikahokkaiyaki (broiled squid, crab stick & mayo)

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Synchronicity on the timeline again.

I don't have any great insight to the fall of Kier Starmer, but I will say I that from here across the pond it appeared he had all the charisma and effective legislative force of a wet saltine cracker

I mean, I wasn’t exactly a hardliner on this to begin with, but how is this anything other than total capitulation?

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

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“You up?”

Matt Wuerker, Politico

My local diner usually tries to have uncontentious things on the TVs: local news, house renovation shows, things like that. This morning they’ve had to resort to Paw Patrol.

One of the reasons I think people keep pushing the idea that authors want AI is that these people are convinced that authors write books so that they can sell books. More books means more sales, right? Whereas most authors take the stance that they mainly sell books so that they can write books.

I do still teach my students about the format, but increasingly I’m presenting survival context and I’ve always made it clear that it shouldn’t a template. I also had a great time over winter break with Maria Tatar’s “The Heroine with a 1001 Faces,” which brings out this quote almost immediately.

Hegseth: “The only thing prohibiting transit in the strait right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.”

Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” So much of Ellison’s work seems to just jump off a bridge.

I am begging journalists to stop interviewing Markwayne Mullin, one of the most unserious people in government.

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

If you’re wondering how seriously to take this guy, remember that he (Markwayne Mullin) tried to start a fistfight in the Senate floor with the representative from the Teamsters Union.

“Guard! Guard! I want to see my ambassador!” “Easily done, he’s in the next cell.”

I'm sorry to be sharing this again but ongoing illness has made things extremely difficult for me financially. I'm drowning in everything right now and struggling a lot to even make rent. Please, anything helps, even if it's just a repost. Thank you 💜

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

“…’cause might makes right, Until they’ve seen the light, They’ve got to be protected, All their rights respected… Until someone we like can be elected!”

None of this is okay. I do not care for Nicolas Maduro and think he is bad for Venezuela and his people. That is still not a justification to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader. Nothing is. May the gods have mercy on us.

Cat needs $25usd *immediately* and $170 by day's end PLEASE HELP HOWEVER YOU CAN DONATE AND *BOOOOST* 💖

An oldie but a goodie.

“[…] if it isn't to be thought of as evil, it could only mean that evil doesn't have any use as a word or a category.”

“Such a wonderful drug. Any drug that makes you partners and impotent, oh yeah, gimme a little more of that…” —Robin Williams, more or less

One thing I remember from David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series is a sci-fi world in which eyewitness accounts are the pre-eminent form of judicial evidence, because recorded video evidence is too easy to fabricate or alter.

He really has reverted to the 1980s, hasn’t he.

I want to live! Get loud about helping, please? Do a fundraiser, bake-sale, ANYthing? Please please please? My life is worth fighting for. Venmo.com/u/MousePounder Venmo.com/u/WishMage Cash.app/$WishMage PayPal.me/MousePounder PayPal.me/WyldWish linktr.ee/wylder

“We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.”

Yes, we can learn that he’s getting a very poor return on a colossal investment. Johnson might end up living a few more years, but in exchange I expect he will have added several more years than that of dejection, drudgery, and misery.

The castle from Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest, complete with all the bonkers staircases and secret doors.