Sam Foley

Lenny cat looking devious

Plotting dark deeds

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

What a depressing future we live in where the "tech industry" is actually just the advertising industry.

Imo the arXiv should impose an automatic ban the first time someone submits a preprint with a hallucinated reference in it. Zero tolerance policy.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Am I asking too much to ask that the Director of the National Institutes of Health gets his facts approximately correct?

There are examples that would illustrate his point, but this is not it.

This really makes me crazy; it reflects lack of knowledge, scholarship, and care.

13/14

Reset your password Red error box: required not more than 2 identical characters in a row

Why?? Why in the world would you impose this kind of idiotic restriction?

Dude becomes progressively redder and splotchier the longer the clip goes on

“You have been asleep since November,” said Frog.

“Well then,” said Toad, “a little more sleep will not hurt me.”

Cat in the lap

Work from home status: comfy cozy

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

On Foundings: 254 years later, my town holds a parade every year celebrating the night fed up Rhode Islanders captured and burned a customs enforcement ship after heavy handed official harrassment. No one ever snitched. #GaspeeAffair

Imagine this in a trial.

Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing

Declaration filed in federal court:

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

An elephant figure on a grainy gray background.

What do you do when you know how to work with biological materials and are experts in 3D printing at small resolutions? Create this 10 µm long elephant inside a living cell, of course. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/3-...

#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪

The propaganda machine is deploying now in Baltimore. Three different right-wing influencers, including Nick Shirley (the guy who pushed the fake story about daycare fraud in Minnesota) have all arrived on the same day and have been barging into community meetings to make "content"

Arrival of Right-Wing Activists in Baltimore Prompts Meeting Cancellations, Local Warnings Residents are advised to avoid any verbal or physical confrontations with the individuals.

More info:

projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/arrival-of...

This is mostly likely the first step in manufacturing consent for an ICE invasion of Baltimore, just like Minneapolis. There has been evidence of DHS shifting resources towards Baltimore in recent months.

The propaganda machine is deploying now in Baltimore. Three different right-wing influencers, including Nick Shirley (the guy who pushed the fake story about daycare fraud in Minnesota) have all arrived on the same day and have been barging into community meetings to make "content"

Most likely between 6 and 15 inches of snow this weekend in Baltimore!

Baltimore is often warm enough that we miss the big snowfalls, but not this time!

Top-down view of an in-progress game of Twilight Imperium 4e

"To be sure that we can get through a full game, we need to start by around 10am, but that won't include the rules teaching time, so aim to be here by 8am, it'll be great we can have breakfast sandwiches while we discuss how to take Mecatol Rex trust me it'll be fun"

As a side note the fact that they chose Ticket to Ride, one of the simplest board games in existence, for this photo is pretty funny

Why do they have to target me like this

Oh no I've eaten the onion

Accuweather still saying just 5in for this weekend in Baltimore

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

Okay everyone, take a break from doom scrolling and look at this Very Good opossum

Not as clumsy or random as a dry erase marker

Toad sits glumly on his bed while Frog looks on. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”

“Why?” asked Frog.

“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.