dr. mykle hoban

the problem with writing is that you have to do it

I've often wondered about this w/r/t paleolithic cave art. Were caves special in some way (which seems an appropriate thing to conclude!) and/or were there paintings all over everything and only those in caves survived?

Why do temperate Australian fishes love stripes so much

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

I really want to check this out, but the link is broken...

User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video fee... Did he just unintentionally raise his own robot army?

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

I don’t have the link handy but this literally just happened (with robot vacuums). A guy was using AI to write code to control his roomba or whatever and accidentally ended up able to control any other one remotely and see peoples’ video feeds and floor plans.

This is perfect

Maybe also reviewers 1 and 3…

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

See also: “I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before.”

Is this one part of your collection?

(incidentally this cover model from like 1986 looks almost EXACTLY like I did as a teenager in the mid 90's)

Sarpa salpa maybe?

I’d say Diplodus sargus and D. vulgaris for two of them?

I have to take a boat to work and they shut us down around 10:00 this morning. Some of the strongest kona winds I’ve ever seen in kāneʻohe bay.

Why does every piece of shit think Lolita is a “tragic love story”…oh wait never mind

Lilipuna Pier, part whatever: a bunch of little guys.

These are kihikihi or moorish idols (Zanclus cornutus). They're cool for a bunch of reasons but one of them is that they're the only species in their family and they can be found basically everywhere in the Indo-Pacific except the Red Sea.

🐟🦑🐠

I'm *so* close to submitting something I started in 2015. I'm excited for this feeling.

retvrn

I guess so, but a guy can dream.

Per the general rules re: pluralizing "fish", ("fish" = 🐠🐠🐠, "fishes" = 🐟🐠🦈🐡), that would imply a single filet comprising multiple species.

An antifascist popular front and transphobia are incompatible. A big tent that includes transphobes isn't a big tent, it's a tent with a hole in the roof.

what a legend lmao

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQim...

I grew up almost literally on the banks of the San Lorenzo.

Now I live in a place without really any rivers to speak of, tho Waolani stream goes right under my living room window and with all the rain we’ve had lately it’s not far from qualifying as a river.

Thanks for the ref! I’ll have to take a closer look. I had assumed it must be something like this but I never really dug into it.

I’d have to dig into my notes but I want to say somewhere in the range of 200-400 m.

I love how similar this things are across quite large distances. Like these from Lunigiana in Italy.

Oh dang we saw something similar to this from submersible dives in Tuvalu in May.

I haven’t been particularly scientific about it, but I’ve found that just shy of the 20 mark works very well for me.