Jen Coster

A good thread on what happens when you use an LLM. I see this same pattern with my students. They spend all their time futzing with the prompt to get a slightly different but still not totally correct answer and no time on the actual learning.

this. thread.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 15th 2026 (Evil), in less than 7 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

I regret to inform you that I have gone further down the terrible rabbit hole that is Elsie the Cow.

If you squint at enough eBay listings trying to read the words, you find a saga of a marriage gone mad.

This morning, I got distracted while eating cheese because I remembered that the laughing cow is named Elsie and is married to Elmer the cow on the glue labels. To doublecheck that I hadn’t hallucinated that, I looked it up and fell down a dark internet rabbit hole.

A two circle Venn diagram. Left: Multiple BG3 runs to romance all companions. Right: Heists but make it cozy. Center: The Feywild Job

Does this meme sell my book or nah

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Okay look I'm glad they're ditching Flock but if the "city's network of surveillance cameras" can still be subpoenaed by out of state law enforcement for things like "did a woman come here to get an abortion from our state" then we shouldn't have them at all, period.

Call anyway. Here's a script:

5calls.org/issue/save-a...

At literally no point in this headline was it possible to predict the next word, 10/10 work

High-Level, Actionable Insights From Watching Doubles Luge For The First Time | Defector To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of holding onto a sled real tight as it goes fast down the ice. Of course, this opinion is wrong. Luge requires athleticism and dexterity, the ability to steer using the slightest movements of your…

I have just read this entire blogpost aloud to Viv, with deadly performative sincerity.

Thank you, @defector.com

defector.com/high-level-a...

an ambigram was my overthinker's complicated solution to the problem of which way should letters be oriented and to whom lol

not too mad about my first attempt, it *almost* works 🥲

left hand with nails in an almond shape painted with a pale pink nude color with blood red gothic lettering spelling out the word "fuck" in an ambigram that flips to read "ice"

same left hand, now palm up and fingers curled inwards. the letters now read "ice"

an early valentine's set ❤️ but really, appropriate for any and every occasion

I said they are LESS important than other modes given our current cultural context, which is something you'd understand if you actually read what I wrote.

That said, this is a good opportunity to explain something: formal argument has long since ceded its role in discourse to affective motivation.

I guess this is going in my Social and Political Philosophy class as an example of whiteness leveraging our political structures for racist ends.

Call your fucking senators.

every three seconds you will take psychic damage when reading who did voices for mewgenics

what about makers of low quality lists

This careful argumentation from documentation is how to do good history. I don’t believe a machine can do this, but maybe more importantly I don’t even *want* a machine to do this—I want the human argument.

With Alt text, because everyone deserves to hear this 🖤

the thing about writers is that we love it when there are three of something. the thing about game designers is that we also love it when there are three of something. so when you have someone who's both? you better believe we love it when there's three of something.

If you're a book creator and people in your life don't understand why book bans are such a sore point for you then by god show them this film. It really gets people fired up.

Hey fun fact my husband posted this how to flyer to Reddit, he's a dreamboat and I love him and ALSO HE'S RIGHT FUCK THIS SHIT RETURN YOUR RING CAMERA

Stick it to ICE and Amazon at the same time 🥰💛

your work is just so lovelyyyyy 😭

holy fucking shit

jesus fucking christ

read this, do not - or maybe do? - read this in a hallway corner while doing political work, unless you can keep both heat and emotion off your face.

But read it. Filthy, transcendent, violent, upsetting, brilliant.

!!! new Shing project alert !!!

I feel like this one is going to make me cry

The Last Fifteen Minutes A marionette musical and short film about having dinner together before a giant kaiju steps on you.

The Last Fifteen Minutes film Kickstarter is still open for late pledges. We're a union shoot and doing things like "paying health insurance benefits for our non-SAG actors who can't even claim it"! I'm very pro-union, but praxis is costing us a lot of money! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

A carved stone sculpture of Madonna & child housed in the Medieval room of the Worcester Art Museum.

When the artist has never, ever seen a human baby but has definitely seen adult women make the fake-smile-pretending-to-listen-good-grief-will-this-NEVER-FUCKING-END face.

truly this, every single day