billions of packets

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Not just any crab. A crab of mischief!

a starbucks iced beverage with a hand drawn crab on the side, captioned, crab of mischief

dude at Pitt Starbucks drew me a crab and it is making me unexpectedly very cheerful

Just played around with some of these examples and damn.

Hello, in your fields, are conferences held during the work week or on weekends? This is the second time this year I am dealing with needing to attend a work event on a Saturday and like... daycare is not open on Saturday? But also, why are any of you working on Saturday? Anyway, hard no here...

GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.

When you take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you get a score, a useful result no matter how you perform. Not so for Portuguese -- if I flunk the B2 test, I won't walk away with a certificate saying I speak at a B1 level. Why design the test this way???

Book historians, tech history folks, everyone: what are your favorite examples of pre-computational automated writing systems, machines, etc? I take a capacious idea of “automated writing” here: prompt books, Dadaist poetry, autopens, etc etc

Most academic books started out as an article that was later extended into a book. The core argument can usually be extracted from the original article. So... this was my trick as a lazy rotten undergrad ;-)

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

LOVE ME TIL MY HEART STOPS

4 and 36

send me to the old folks home

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Wikimedia Foundation challenges Online Safety Act Regulations The High Court is to hear the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the Online Safety Act (OSA).  The foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedi...

BRB, need to make another donation to Wikipedia.

Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.

I hope to live long enough to see science better understand the brain. It's so fascinating and we understand so little...

I had this when my dose was too low. Amphetamines? NAPTIME.

Grateful to grow up in a generation of two body academics who had people like Lenore & Manuel (or Manuela & Jose) at CMU to show us that family life and a life rich with intellectual curiosity are not at odds.

Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Not joking its the same in Portuguese

A British billion is a million millions

I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious:

'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'

oh I loved that book as a kid but def did not read it on repeat like that

Still have not discovered every cute thing in this search and find book

oladaniel.com/welcome-to-m...

Twenty Questions by Mac Barnett: 9781536215137 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson tap deep into childhood curiosity with a mind-tickling ode to the open-ended. Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer...

A fun conversation with your kids that can sometimes turn serious?

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724399...

Chomp - Books, Mini-micro - Planeta Tangerina - Online shop Buy online Chomp. 10% publisher discount. (Portuguese edition) Be careful with this book. Three people were reading it and... Chomp! Be careful with this book. Usually, adventures and animals with

We have read this 1000 times with much laughter and giggles
www.planetatangerina.com/en/loja/chomp/

Some books I actually enjoy right now

Maybe some more nuance is that in general, I enjoy reading with my kids. But, on the 37th read of That Volcano Book From The Library I am so damn tired of it but he remains obsessed. Sometimes I am just powering through it for the kids' sake...

Silicon Valley loves to pretend it's all about science and logic, but it's run by the least logical, least evidence-based, most emotional men on the planet.