Nobilis Reed

My mother and grandmother were part of the letter writing campaign that saved Star Trek TOS. This photo was a thank you from the Star Trek folks and is an heirloom of my house.

HJ6007 - 2024 Special Session I | LIS

Via @jaaavis.bsky.social, here's the VA Dems proposed amendment allowing congressional districts to be redrawn.

Key detail: "the General Assembly shall be authorized to modify one or more congressional districts" if other states engage in mid-decade redraws.

illustration of an otter with a tie, a namebadge saying 'Steve' and a cup of coffee. Text reads: Do not seize the day. That only startles it, and nobody wants to deal with an aggressive day before coffee. Approach it slowly. Avoid eye contact. Maybe offer a polite nod. Act casual. If the day growls, starts making demands, or mentions shenanigans back away quietly and return to bed.

Advice to live by.

I may have to suspend my diet of straight white dude authors...

I had it.

Well.

I had the suburban upper middle class version of it.

My parents gave me some books about it.

It's true, @deetheredwitch.bsky.social 's Blood Doll Episode 4 scenes will knock your socks off, as well as other pieces of clothing, probably.

www.blooddollpod.com

I don’t talk about this a lot because there’s some stigma, but my Day job is engineering and I am using AI nonstop and let me tell you what I experienced as a practitioner and what the purveyor of this technology are claiming a light years apart.

The hand up the skirts, I think

I still want to watch Pan's Labyrinth. It's one of the few horror movies that appeal to me.

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Food stamps are set to run out of funding in early November & I’m just here to remind you that if you catch someone stealing food at the grocery store then you should immediately call the ghostbusters because you clearly saw a ghost and they clearly vanished into thin air and you didn’t see nothin.

Support your local bookstore.

If you donated to Platner via ActBlue, you can get a refund!

Contact them NOW and ask for your money back!

Kilo- is 10^3

Nano- is 10^-9

By my math this is 12 orders of magnitude bigger.

;)

A man in bed looks passively at a Beholder (D&D monster) hovering before him. Text: “Do not be afraid, Kevin. I am God, assuming a form your human mind will find most comforting. I—wait, hold on, what am I right now? Normally I'm like, a grandma or a talking dog or something. Wow, Kevin, you must be super messed up.”

From your mouth to the people's ears.

This November I will be doing kilowrimo.

I pledge to write one thousand words.

Oh my god, take my money Steve

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.

Here's the video of it running.

Like Google Lens?

Have you tried using an image translator?

What do you know, the experts turned out to be right.

Fancy that!

Science beats fearmongering and panic. Who could have guessed?

Huh! We find short grain rice (also called sushi rice) at our local high end grocery stores, like Wegmans.

What kind are you looking for? The information we had said simply short grain rice.

Most of them are in *analytical* AI, which is something of a different beast than LLMs and Diffusion Models, which is where the money is right now.

Because analytical AI doesn't seem to have much utility in disempowering human labor.

AI has a lot

and I mean a fucking lot

of really fucking fantastic uses.

99.9% are not anything the internet tech bras think they're for.

Here's a really quick example.

PSA for everyone going to protests

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