Angela McGee

hot take? "AI is destroying internet media" is not the story here, it's "AI can delivers slop better than what's left of internet media post-private equity". AI summaries can't replace a @gamersnexus.bsky.social vid. I stopped reading gaming sites when they fired all the writers I gave a shit about

Reactionaries convinced us for decades that something like gender studies has no practical use in society, and I know many reasonable people also believe(d?) this. It was the butt of the joke for as log as I can remember.

But OMG does this video drive home the point they were wrong.

timeline cleanse 🧼

“Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, ‘I guess.’”

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

folks theyre saying the pale rider doesnt want us to break the seventh seal, theyre saying no one has the strength to handle it. what do you think folks, what do you think of that pale rider. should we do it?

*crowd going absolutely ape shit*

i dont know, i want to but they say I shouldnt

You’ve fallen victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which is “never buy Warner Brothers”, but only slightly less well-known is “never bet against a Sicilian when death is on the line”.

Happy Twin Peaks day to all who celebrate

Thanks to technology, bananas are becoming obsolete as pretend phones. The future belongs to the Pop-Tart.

Alysa Liu, Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai pose in front of a blue backdrop with Olympic logos; two wear red jackets and medals, and all three form a heart shape with their arms while smiling.

Newsfeed Cleanser:
🥇Alysa Liu 🇺🇸
🥈Kaori Sakamoto 🇯🇵
🥉Ami Nakai 🇯🇵

Just came under a MASSIVE PSYCHIC ASSAULT at the grocery store

Frontiers | Paper Notebooks vs. Mobile Devices: Brain Activation Differences During Memory Retrieval It remains to be determined how different inputs for memory-encoding, such as the use of paper notebooks or mobile devices, affect retrieval processes. We co...

A Japanese study found paper-calendar users lit up memory-related brain regions and recalled details 25% faster than phone-calendar users.

"notebook aided acquisition of rich encoding and/or spatial information, [was used] as retrieval clues, led to higher activations in specific brain regions."

“While some viewers interpreted the clip as bullying, the zoo said that challenges like these were expected as part of integrating an orphaned macaque into an established troop — a process that can take time and social correction from other members.”

This is fantastic, and it's something that we've been saying for years.

When companies say that are using "AI for climate change", they are referring to much smaller models used for doing things like climate modeling.

Massive generative AI models are NOT USEFUL for mitigating climate change.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

@kendrawcandraw Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: Ouuughhh oouuuuwwwwwaaaaaaa ooaaaaghuuuuuhhhowwgah hhhh guuuuuwah

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Happy seventh annual Laura Dern Day, please be reminded that you are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to watch this masterpiece *at least* once today!

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

This is a nice thread and white paper on how inexpensively our electricity could be generated more cheaply via solar w/ batteries than with any other widely available technology. 🔌💡
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Notes on winter When the world turns whimsical

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:

"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

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“Today, the international program mails more than 3 million books each month directly to children's homes. Every enrolled child receives one book per month from birth to age five—at no cost to families.”

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who received donations from ICE profiteers GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management and Training Corporation. Look up your reps at @inthesetimes.com + @theappeal.org. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-....

I can think of worse tombstones

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

happy february, sunshine

Cool fact, sand can be made up entirely of biogenic material (shell pieces, spines, exoskeletons). Just hard bits of tiny animals (sometimes fossilised!). It's just body parts of dead animals.