[cw: evopsych] I wonder whether freshly-cut grass smells good because our primitive subconscious registers it as food.

Very sad to me that there’s a major news event happening and it’s not on Twitter.

For All Mankind

(If you like space)

True to the power-hungry spirit of Anthropic, Claude helpfully nannies what you can and can’t say with the Cartesia MCP:

“Instant slope” isn’t bad but I fear over time it would be just called the “instant”

Apparently Sunday evening is the time to be on Partiful

Installing FORTRAN

I’ll say this, I liked Xiaohongshu better when could actually get content from Chinese people on it

Bag of Beans Inside this heavy cloth bag are 3d4 dry beans. The bag weighs 1/2 pound plus 1/4 pound for each bean it contains. If you dump the bag's ...

Throw in a few divination spells of course, as well as this classic: www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/...

Excerpt from Wikipedia: “Beans have been used as devices in various methods of divination since ancient times. Fortune-telling using beans is called favomancy.”

“What were all those people at Twitter doing before Elon laid them off?”

Preventing the system from triple-sending notifications, apparently:

Brave new world of framed AI art for purchase at Hobby Lobby

When I used to deposit cash, the teller would ask for ID, and I would always tell them “next time if someone tries to deposit to my account, you don’t have to check”. Always wondered about this theoretical legitimate case.

My only proto-Butlerian-Jihadi opinion is that AIs should not have human names. (This is my only real criticism of Claude.)

En Vibes-based book recommendations

Claude-based vibe book search app from Sharif Shameem of Lexica is surprisingly fun en.app

How much of Claude fandom is due to Claude talking like an online Millenial?

Opioid overdose deaths are falling! Full article: www.economist.com/is-the-opioi...

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

I hope you made your flight!

Noticed I’ve been using Golang style abbreviations while texting — “lmk” is all lower case, unless it appears at the beginning of a sentence, in which case it’s “LMK”

This restaurant in Vancouver has a Chinese name, 聚点串吧, and an English name, The Meat Up.

On Google Maps, 据点串吧 has 4.7 stars, while The Meat Up has 3.9 stars. Natural segmentation!

Also suggest Sufjan Stevens, especially his Angels We Have Heard On High, and Christmas Unicorn

I’m mildly ashamed that Evangelion mildly ruined Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring for me, apparently for the rest of my life

I grew up in Ohio, where cardinals are fairly common, and I took them for granted until I returned for a visit a few years ago and was struck by the casual sight of them daily!

This is excellent!

Christmas Movie Alignment Time Purist Time Neutral Time Nihilist It must take place on Christmas. It must incorporate Christmas. It must have snow. Theme Purist Home Alone is a Christmas Movie Little Women is a Christmas Movie Groundhog Day is a Christmas Movie It must have Christmas themes Theme Neutral The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas Movie Catch Me If You Can is a Christmas Movie Frozen is a Christmas Movie It has Christmas themes if you stretch a bit Theme Nihilist Die Hard is a Christmas Movie The Green Knight is a Christmas Movie Fargo is a Christmas Movie It can have any theme

Christmas Movie Alignment Chart

I got soul, but I’m not a soldier
I got pain, but I’m not a painter
I got tea, but I’m not a teacher
I got ham, but I’m not a hamster!!

I got soul, but I’m not a soldier
I got pain, but I’m not a painter
I got tea, but I’m not a teacher
I got ham, but I’m not a hamster!!

Dead-simple ways to make airplane boarding better: board back-to-front, have a screen that visually shows which group is currently boarding

Starlux and Xiamen Air do this, not sure why American carriers can’t get their act together.

Honestly I’m surprised Grok isn’t this; Elon is fumbling this opportunity