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anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral. signal -> @ali.01

a single tomato beginning to ripen
"this does not help your cause" tweet
shutting up is an option for you as well
people in longer programs such as doctoral degrees could have to request extensions from USCIS before completing their studies.
the "waow (based based based based based based based based based based)" meme
haus of decline tweeting "Lmao I can't believe this caused a controversy amongst Libsky. That's what I get for having any sort of opinion." haus of decline quote tweeting someone saying "holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???"
will stancil saying "oh didn't realize she was one of those" about @hausofdecline
woman in a business suit and high heels absolutely fucking booking it across an embankment or something
will stancil You guys are really, really bad at recognizing antisemitism
a woman in a business suit running while dragging someone sitting on a wheelie thing behind her with a rope.
a woman in a business suit standing on outdoor stairs twirling her business jacket above her head
a woman in a business suit rolling down some outside stairs
We built the ability to do a @pangram scan into the @Substack app, because we’re sick of slop and we don’t want substack to turn into LinkedIn
the atlantic essay titled "The DSA Is a Parasite" The left-wing faction is hijacking the Democratic Party. By James Kirchick, dated july 21 2026
some socialists insist that anyone who must work for a living is "working-class."
dieworkwear saying "ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens
a raccoon in a tree looking at the camera
map of volunteer events for the stevens campaign; there are 3, and they're all in detroit
haley stevens yard sign (24x18") for $79
"say the line, bart" meme but instead milhouse says "say the line, flock!" and the flock logo says "searches have guardrails"
a screen recording of a map showing the relative air quality of the northeast and some of the midwest, centered on michigan, which is deep red (indicating poor air quality). there are lots of little white lines arcing and curving around, indicating wind swirling, illustrating how air is moving on a larger scale. the lines in various parts of the map are moving in different directions depending on the air quality and other conditions
batou looking through binoculars and grinning in a jungle
holy shit lmfao they're getting paid $4 to drive a burrito to you, if you're gonna die you need to call 211 or 911 and get some help. treatler levels off the charts 😭😭
marge telling bart to bring a potato for show-and-tell. bart asks why she's so into potatoes and she says "I just think they're neat."
we leverage LLMs to perform structured analysis over our corpus of stories to create interpretable narrative features.
mamdani learning cheney died on election day
lindsey graham on greta thunberg trying to get relief to palestinians: Hope Greta and her friends can swim!
I kept thinking about Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg’s story “Ship-Shape Pay-Off” being turned into an AI prompt and then spit back out by an LLM. Ellison died in 2018 and was notoriously protective of his work to the point of violence. He successfully sued James Cameron for plagiarism over The Terminator. I have a hard time imagining he’d be happy to see his story pumped into a machine, no matter the results.
angine de poitrine performing on stage
Children of Darkness (@of_darkness07) Notwithstanding your condescending tone, I will deliberate on what you've said, and I've deleted the post that you objected to. I would urge you to consider that your pain does not make you the center of the world. You're only the center of your own universe.
batman trapped in a room where the walls have spikes and they're closing in on him
But I don’t believe she was raped. I don’t think a rape victim would tell her close friend this 2 years later: [the message in question reads] He can be charming and funny, and he's a decently, intelligent person, he's not all bad, but I ended up in a bad situation with him and I will just very politely call him consensually careless at times
Ghost in the Shell scene where the boss is on the computer monitor, eating something with chopsticks in his mouth
rally against data centers! PARKS ARE FOR THE PEOPLE COME RAISE YOUR VOICE Childcare provided 2:30pm food * 3pm rally July 25th Almendinger Park
a bluesky list titled "people who screenshot their notifications" and the explainer text "other people's lists are not your business"
shishito peppers lined up in a row so they're all in focus. the background is heavily out of focus
two people on a bus meme. one is thinking "it's a real shithole" and the other is thinking "it's a real shithole"
the free press "My Favorite Actress Is Not Human" Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. by tyler cowen on 10.02.25
a collection of stickers on a table: yes birds! no ai. all bots are cops destroy ai data centers power apartheid states
Meta’s indirect water use was 19 billion gallons in 2024—more than 20 times as high as its direct water use. Meta has a plan to “become water positive in 2030,” in part through water-restoration projects. The company doesn’t have a plan to remediate indirect water consumption.
“We need to stay united and not put blind trust in institutions,” Kame continued. “We need to hold institutions accountable and let them know we are watching, because I think institutions will always throw us under the bus to protect themselves. We can’t just let them walk over us the way it’s been for so long. It’s so important to not let this go.”
Luke told Kame that he did “not meet the minimum qualifications to serve” as TA for the course because he had not taken the course himself, Kame said.
hey. we're sorry about the previous post. it was supposed to be a dig at Meta, not Threads users, but that obviously wasn't clear enough. we love guinea pigs. if you were our guinea pigs, we’d never do things like train our AI on your content or sell your data to advertisers.
blooming onion
angine de poitrine
my photo of the Techno-Negative cover; in the background is a tree and grass in the morning light.
scroll through the account's replies and they're basically all the exact same text with the same hashtags and everything. often the account is replying to an account that has subsequently blocked them
it turns out she was thinking of "if wishes were horses"
Geordi pulling his ear and looking away as Deanna Troi discusses the psychological ramifications of abruptly deleting Barclay's holodeck program
riker looking at a holodeck representation of data, laforge, and himself as musketeers or something, saying "Crew members should not be simulated in the holodeck."
quark's face on kira's body in semi-transparent lingerie, quark saying "i've been waiting for you" and then smiling
in Star Trek ds9 there's an episode where a guy makes one of his hot female coworkers into a holodeck character, who is in love him and he has sexytimes with her. The real woman finds out and she's chill with it. He's a lil embarrassed. She didn't feel violated at all.
a series of vertical lines (|) in a monospace font, but one of the vertical lines is misaligned
Friends, It is with excitement and joy that I am sharing with the world today the news that I have begun a new phase of my life. I am a transgender woman and my name is Madeleine. This is the last step of a coming-out journey that has unfolded over the course of the first half of this year, as I finally accepted and began to share with others a truth about myself that I had known for a long time-in some ways, my whole conscious life-but from which I had fled in shame and fear, even as I became increasingly miserable living with the wrongness of my identity. Last year I published an essay in The Drift on self-help philosophy and my relationship to it, titled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life." I'm still proud of that piece in some ways, but I realize in retrospect that in writing it I was not honest with myself and with my readers in two respects. I implied that the recurrent feelings of despair with which I confessed to struggling were basically sociopolitical in origin, and l suggested that through my reading and reflection I had ultimately reached a state of equanimity, however imperfect. I recognized soon after the article's publication that neither of these things were true. My sense of an occluded future, of my life as inhospitable, went far deeper than the news of the day, however awful. And it could not be ameliorated without a profound change to my social and embodied existence.
some strawberries in a raised garden bed that are basically ripe
a hobby horse with a black mane and a blue lead
The systems are used to do things like: - Predict whether incarcerated people will re-offend Evaluate whether unemployment claims are fraudulent - Remotely administer exams for California State University students - Detect when college students use generative AI to write assignments.
According to two IDF soldiers from two different forces on the northern border: All activity has ceased, including entry into houses suspected of being weapons depots, and entry into them is conducted by gunfire. Shiites have returned to villages they had so far avoided returning to, and there is a prohibition on acting against them.
"stanford grads walk out during google ceo commencement speech" and a wider angle view of the students walking out
BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday. The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.