Wait a minute....Dr Hone has a podcast!!??

#BackInHell

Really? The water monkey is no longer on the bottom list? Wow. I am impressed, the three fans of that monkey actually did it.

Hey, don't bring politics into my dinosaurs, rawr!

(sarcasm, just in case)

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

Let me attempt to articulate something. As a former participant in the "teenage nerds talk about dinosaurs online" scene, I think some of us who follow paleontology as adults or do dinosaur stuff professionally care too much about the specifics of what's being discussed there. (cont'd)

As much as I would like to meme about the BLS commissioner getting canned, it does feel like small potatoes next to what’s happening to our immigrant/trans/Palestinian/activist/whatever neighbors, so before I meme about it (which I will) just let it be clear that I see all of you and I feel for you.

I saw this the wrong way and legit thought it was a hammerhead-plesiosaur (face drawn so you see my point of view). I what-the-fuck-ed a bit lol

Imagino que mi cerebro está predispuesto a ponerle atención al 27.10 por la significancia que tiene para mí. Así que cuando algo pasa ese día, es más posible que me acuerde.

Guardando proporciones, en mi cumpleaños se "celebra" el no reconocimiento del plebiscito por la independencia catalana y la arremetida española en la nación, y un Taylor's Version (no sé cuál).

Así que sí, ten todo el espacio para reír, llorar, saltar y escuchar música bonita.

Here we have a senior golden living their best life and a young golden just trying to make it to the end of their shift. Both 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

Yo sé que a nadie le importa, pero les comento que en dos semanas más iré de vacaciones a Alemania. Iré a ver a Youth Lagoon y Yellowcard. Y hoy hoy hoy hoy logré conseguir entradas para un show de Wolf Alice.

Estoy feliz <3

@starwarsexplained.bsky.social this gif was in my caché.

Pic of Pontevedra from the air

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Or a lifechanging event (like marriage or thesis disertation).

Coprolite isn't my favorite fossil but it's a solid number two.

Y su voto vale lo mismo que el tuyo, así que juntemos miedo y reaccionemos.

SWE a few years ago: hehehe this dude is carrying an ice cream maker through Bespin.

SWE after Andor: fascism is bad and Star Wars is absolutely political, I'll tell you why by referencing both in-universe and real world examples.

SWE now: this <3.

Let's protect this couple at all costs, fandom

Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

Bleak.

nymag.com/intelligence...

Estaba justo pensando en eso. Tenemos uno que quiere llegar a La Moneda a punta de GPT.

Qué época fea fea FEA es esta donde todos suben cartelitos de mierda hechos con IA.

Sí, a ustedes les hablo. Quedan horribles y ustedes, como unos vagonetas.

Como persona foránea al mundo eclesiástico (y que además estuvo toda la mañana paseando) y que recién en la sobremesa me enteré que algo pasaba allá en el Vaticano...

...oye qué agradable es perderse todo este cahuin.

I am amused by the framing of this article because you may as well accuse me of refusing to use a flame thrower in my work. I'm not refusing, it is of no use to me because I am a non-fictition writer. That's all.

Screenshot from website 4chan. Reads as follows: In the office, we adopted a cat and named him Connor. He's officially employed by the company to hunt mice and provide emotional support to the staff. We even provide him with a salary that we use to buy him food and toys. But last month, we hired a new guy, also named Connor. And to avoid confusion, we started calling him "Human Connor." Human Connor then suggested we rename the cat "Cat Connor" and let him be just Connor. But, of course, that was ridiculous. Connor was here first and, by seniority, he outranks him in the company's hierarchy. So no, he remains "Human Connor."

Human Connor should have known better.

Yes, What We Pay Teachers Matters Paying teachers well is an essential part of a healthier public education system

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.

I live in Santiago. I have 9 grocery stores (I just counted them) about 45 seconds away. It's great.

Capturas de un cómic sobre influencers y gentrificación (¡perdón! Es mucho texto)

Hoy he visto estas viñetas en IG, son de wiki_javivi, llevo un rato pensando en los influencers "genéricos" y no se me ocurre nada bueno que hayan hecho. Han hecho el mundo mucho peor y en relativamente muy poco tiempo.

I am very pissed that Gemini AI doesn't have clear instructions on that on my phone :c

Good. Star Wars fans deserve no happiness.