Sometimes joy is a chocolate cake with Nutella frosting

Post something beautiful to combat the awful.

Last week I spent 3 hours doing laundry at a local animal shelter. One of the most peaceful, purposeful things I’ve done. 10/10 will do again.

This morning marked a milestone.

It was my 365th day of my “365 days of Sun Project.”

Over the next couple months, I’ll be poring over the thousands of exposures I made and figuring out how to share the thing fully.

So, if anyone knows any gallery or publishing folks, hmu?

Get outside.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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the good that you do persists in this world

For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Als alle politiek journalisten hun werk net zo serieus namen als Frank van Leeuwen dan zagen de peilingen er totaal anders uit

It's good to see that Zach Woods has only become more powerful and based with time.

"The cost of companies’ health insurance plans for employees is expected to jump by an average of 6.5 per cent in 2026, the biggest increase in 15 years, according to a report by Mercer. For people who buy health insurance on government exchanges, the median increase for 2026 is 18 percent..."

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

At this point 50% of my FB feed is comprised of entirely made up shit like this. I'm a historian who studies politics and media, so it's easy for me to be a critical consumer of this schlock. But for the average consumer, this sort of social media is like putting a stick blender in one's brain.

RIP Jim Lovell.

One of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon in Apollo 8. Then he survived Apollo 13. . Prior, he flew on two Gemini missions (7 & 12).

He was 97.

☝️He played himself in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and the captain of the USS Iwo Jima in Apollo 13 (1995).

The introvert urge to stay up far too late because it's the only time you can be alone

Train your own model.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

he looks like the two banshees of inisherin guys combined