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Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

it's not a taking ownership kind of pride, me sending like $60 a year certainly doesn't entitle me to that. it's just been so wonderful to watch some nice Midwestern boys work hard and have it pay off spectacularly. I just think what they've accomplished is so cool!

anyone else feel a weird sense of like, pride in the work of online creators you've been following / supporting via Patreon for a crazy long time

I've loved Red Letter Media's videos for more than a decade and yeah, I actually do feel proud when I think of what they've built and accomplished.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I will never know what Salesforce is or does, and that’s a promise

With the AI Google summaries, people aren't just cherry-picking the failures. The only time it is 100% is when there is an extremely easy and well-known answer to your inquiry. If it's anything you'd actually need to dig to find, it will hallucinate a fake answer basically every time.

3. there is a telltale shimmer/changing of details that is indicative of AI videos (look at the distant houses, and details of the floor boards)
4. The monster has like 5 hands
5.The possum looks on the wrong direction
6. One of the the table legs does an odd thing as it contacts the ground

For those who can't see the link, the video has many common signs of being generated by Sora2.

1.The Sora2 watermark is blurred out in two spots,
2. the timestamp displays nonsensical numbers,
3....

Sorry for an Instagram link but this is a good explanation www.instagram.com/reel/DPjwY_h...

Look at the timestamp

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

YouTube video by Hank Green Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

Eye Midge aka T(rypanohyncha) Ocellus

I miss it. I hope it's doing well and that it's happy somewhere.

YouTube video by Nick Lutsko Fall Time in Tennessee

Time to recite the incantation

A Maxar satellite image of Mt Fuji. The satellite was only 3 degrees above the horizon at the time, so the capture angle is almost directly side on instead of top down.

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible.

The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image.

blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

Ooh! New Mary Roach book!

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

Zodiacal light? I.e. Sunlight reflected off dust in the solar system's ecliptic plane?

First look at Adam Scott in Damian McCarthy’s ‘HOKUM’

The film follows a horror novelist who travels to an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware that the inn is rumored to be haunted by a witch.

A newly forming planet minds the gap A planet is seen for the first time in a gap between rings of material around a young star

Astronomy is so weird sometimes. You can't tell how big that object is without some sense of scale… but it's well over SIXTY BILLION KILOMETERS ACROSS.

And that little dot in the gap? *That's a baby planet bigger than Jupiter siphoning up material to grow.*

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-newly-fo...

When Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi were tasked with creating the first Godzilla film for Toho since Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), they thought back to the disaster of 3.11, and like Ishiro Honda with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, imbued the monster God with the relevancy of a national tragedy. In the time since its release, the Godzilla of Anno and Higuchi, feels as though he has become a symbol for inevitability in an epochal age of unending catastrophe. Godzilla movies usually begin with quotidian observations: a journalist might be headed to work, a scientist could be running tests, sailors could tie new knots for their boat. It’s a fair-warning system that allowed the characters to get acquainted with the phenomenon of the arrival of a gigantic monster step-by-step. There’s time in many of these movies to drift away from the immediate threat, and plan a course of action, or even ignore the monster entirely for a subplot involving human characters who are soon to be the mercy of the creature. It’s startling that Shin Godzilla doesn’t begin this way. When the film opens with the Japanese coast guard investigating an abandoned yacht in Tokyo Bay, there is a sense that the apocalypse has already begun, and the characters of the film are forced to catch up with that reality. When the ship explodes it leaves a pool of blood stretching out over the water. A strange, inexplicable image which defies practical science. Prior to the deaths of the coast guard, they observed an ominous note left by the phantom crew. It was a warning and the Gothic resonance of that final message renders this as a Godzilla picture that begins with a startling sense of Revelation that recalls the troublesome nature of watching a Lucio Fulci picture like Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979).

a still from SHIN GODZILLA of Godzilla preparing to fire his nuclear blast, but it's purple this time, and we are looking at him from underneath.

SHIN GODZILLA is currently back in cinemas and you should go watch it. I wrote about how it stands apart from other Godzilla movies, and how its apocalyptic sensations feel troublesome and relevant.

www.patreon.com/posts/137110...

Yesterday the Sun produced this moderate-class #SolarFlare. Despite its smaller size, it was a long duration event, continuing for several hours and providing this hypnotic view of beautiful coronal rain (seen in yellow) and Supra-arcade Downflows (seen in cyan). Mesmerising!

Letter that reads:Hey guys!!!! Wow what an honor to be your choice to represent Dropout in the role of PRESIDENT. I am so excited. So many things I want to do. Christmas in July. Two proms. Universal healthcare. Unfortunately none of these dreams can become reality until after we have won the war. The infinity war. Today I would like to announce that I, Vic Michaelis, h. PRESIDENT of Dropout will be diverting all of Dropout’s resources to getting Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame on the platform. I will utilize ever power at my disposal to make sure this happens. I will DM Goofy if I have to. I know what you’re thinking “Vic, what’s gonna happen to my favorite show???” It’s gonna get cancelled probably (VIP is safe), but it will all be worth is when we get to watch iron man an the gang kick than-man’s ass in medium resolution straight from the Dropout servers!!! Anyways H.A.G.S!!!! Vic Michaelis President of Dropout (People’s Voice) Ps. Sam if you change a word of this your fired :/"

The 1st official statement from the new Honorary President of Dropout, @vicmmic.bsky.social 🫡

Inside you are two wolves, five sled dogs, eight Norwegian research scientists, Bennings, Norris, Palmer, Windows, Fuchs, Nauls, Blair, Garry, and Doc Copper.

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Given how the Roci is docked on the spinning part of Tycho station the person outside should fall "downwards" towards the engine and shouldn't be floating freely like that. Still love the scene!