JAMES HEATHERS

Then it's likely ideal.

Bambu would be the traditional answer. They are a horrible company who ruined their open source ecosystem but you won't spend too much money finding that out. And they work.

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bort robots you are not helping

YouTube video by Rare Metal Albums Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (Full album)

In the spirit of weird bands: The Lord Weird Slough Feg.

Probably the single most underrated band of the last twenty years.

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i think we're well past the point where complex sociocultural questions require nuance don't you agree

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!

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It's time to play the daily game of 'is that a huge scratch on my phone or just another cat hair?'

Right, that classic demographic of well adjusted Spicy Hugs practitioners.

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

If you write 'chai squared':

(1) I don't believe you actually ran the test, and
(2) I hate you because now I'm thirsty.

Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay authors $3,000 per book in a landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

'hey we stole that stuff fair and square'

www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g...

LLM companies complaining that people are stealing their stuff via distillation attacks is very, very funny.

Bluesky is dying, see you all on the eRA Commons

yes

YouTube video by Exekution Official Exekution - War Historians (2024 FULL ALBUM)

Yeah you just need this one.

youtu.be/rixS3m5zfjw?...

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

archim.soc.srcf.net/publications/

It's hard to find, but it's here -- issue 6. It's quite short and very charming.

From Haldane's legendary 1941 paper on faking data.

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Close enough. You’ve done well.

Heard someone say 'hemogoblin' yesterday, and I think I will be keeping the word for a long time, potentially forever.

1. A stress response isn't a trauma response.

2. 'Do' isn't pronounced the same as 'dough', they're not goddamn homophones at all.

Casual.

Sometimes they’re just hard puzzles, sometimes they aren’t set well. There’s two clues that aren’t quite right and it gives me strong @steamtraen.eu energy. Big Sternly Worded Letter vibes.

it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

oh puddingless jones how we are beset with our sins

a man in a suit says i am not like you ALT: a man in a suit says i am not like you

No feelings about a pudding???