Ovis Ex Machina

The #architecture at the #seattleferryterminal goes so unnecessarily hard and I love it! #photography #blackandwhite #streetphotography

me: waaah i can't dunk it's too hard waaaaah trainer: here is a raw crawdad for you to eat me: GIMME THAT PUNKIN

It's not a burning sensation. It's a burn. Like how napalm produces a "burning sensation"

Trump breaks the law he himself signed, but does so on a Friday, hoping Republican owned media won't call him out on his traitorous policy actions.

This and the fact that our politicians are selling policy FAR before market value (e.g., taking a $100,000 bribe for a $1,000,000,000 contract). Get those agent fees up to at least 10% of the value of the contract you amateurs!

It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

WHY IS IT A BALLOT MEASURE, NEWSOM? IT'S IT BECAUSE THE LEGISLATURE WOULD RISK THEIR JOBS PULLING THAT SHIT?

One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Dr. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social offers a very rationale view of AI risk. These companies are creating malware that they are releasing on the network. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @theyoungturks.bsky.social @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social @emmavigeland.bsky.social @krystalball.bsky.social

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.

Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

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A judge who's "loyal" to the president that picked them isn't a judge at all; just a fucking stooge—and that's exactly what these people are 90% of the time. Trump's just pissed it isn't 100%.

We went to the Hagerman Wildlife Refuge on the OK/TX border this evening and saw....just a few pelicans. 😍

It's always been stupid and fake, but even more so now, that a "caravan" of migrants would be coming here, of all times, given how we are torturing and renditioning and sending them to concentration camps.

You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character https://theonion.com/you-can-be-anything-you-want-says-fictional-character-1819566934/

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

False. They're resigned to losing the midterms but it's the executive branch doing the fuckery here and they're not in play right now so the rationale is still hanging the entire country out to dry. Again.

I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather because the hype DDOS strikes daily 🙄 As for the whole CRISPR Dario "discovery" announcement:

We need to draft laws where the courts treat officers not wearing and using their body cameras as premeditative. If you shoot someone in the line of duty and your camera is off or you're not wearing it, we need to treat that as intentional planning to escape accountability. Make it gross negligence

The greatest math discovery 😳

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Dude spent so many years crafting false but plausible sounding attacks on vaccines as a part of his ambulance chasing years practicing law that he's now set his mind on that lunacy as truth. It's like someone trolling by pretending to believe in flat earth bullshit eventually abandoning reality.

Top AI researchers are increasingly convinced that AI is about to kill us all, so why isn’t our President? @alondra.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to analyze where the truth really lies and how concerned we should all really be. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/pzji2H3pilA

Remember the time around 2023 when we thought that the TESCREAL bozos were gonna continue to get exposed because there was a brief period where mainstream journalists were doing their jobs? But only because SBF committed one of the biggest frauds in US history? www.politico.com/news/2023/10...

Same with veterinary practices as well. These slimy bastards looked only at how much money people would spend to save their own life, the life of a family member, or the life of a beloved pet, and decided that's the vein to mine.

god this is good

The last time ICE had a Senate-confirmed Director was January 2017. It seems we’re likely to reach a decade of Acting officials now.

ICE agents turned up at David Streever's home over a harsh email he sent to an ICE official. Now a court order prevents the federal government from making additional threats against him. n.pr/4irNxUL

As well as all the other opening acts scheduled for other segments of the tour. And all he had to do was enforce his existing contracts against some of the most corrupt, unpopular, and unnecessary people on Earth: sports team "owners." www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

This isn't for saving lives, this is for murdering people in the creepiest way possible and the fact that this article presents it otherwise proves that this is just a press release.

Editing and posting some old CALIFORNIA CONDOR'S IN THE WILD pictures just because that's possible. 🪶

"Team fit" 🤣

There are many many stories here. One of them, is that this is straight out of the tobacco & fossil fuel playbook. Have the same companies and billionaires fund "independent" institutes staffed by the same people, and "cite" their reports as "independent experts" showing "consensus."🧵

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>