It is really cool to perceive some of the structure of your visual cortex in cases like this. Another example is watching the patterns when your eyes are closed for a while in a dark room. Those spreading waves you can sometimes see resemble the activity recorded from cortex at rest.

Why did grandma say she never answered the door after the first time the BBC man came to collect?

Don’t be mad, this joke is so old and tired that a sunagogue considered it safe to tweet in 2021

Ok but hear me out… dog chariot.

At a scientific conference I saw someone presenting a cat study poster. Japanese guy studying the neural control of bowel movements. His prep had a balloon inflated up a cat’s ass to measure peristaltic contractions.

Breaking: Fox News now turning the geezers against AI companies. Who will be next?

… don’t you think a lot of Trump votes were defensive votes against Hilary/Harris? Telling people to vote against the worse candidate is morbid and devoid of hope.

Elections should be restructured so people aren’t forced into 1-on-1 battles. People naturally have more diverse beliefs than a left/right spectrum. The current system was gamed into crisis. Time for an amendment

Yeah, I thought everyone was aware they are building datacenters and basically investing in infrastructure right now. Their spending doesn’t reflect how much it costs to deliver the service.

I don’t believe they will succeed, I just think there’s more discussion to be had here than repeating “fuck AI lol”

The wiki links to this awesome 1950 video Fur for the Future that was rediscovered in 2015, restored, and uploaded to YouTube.

These 360 videos are awesome

Hi, I’m Nick

(“his ass”/“his ass”)

You are right that your odds for self-sustainability aren’t good to suddenly switch to literary author. You need book deals first. Try talking to some authors (online if nothing else) to see what the day-to-day is like.

Pediatrics has a lot fewer drug addicts and dementia cases. Would you move to a teaching hospital? Changing scenes (while a lot of work) gives a fresh buzz to ambition

Option 3 works for me

which is part of the LA metro area, in case you’re like me and thought of the NorCal aquarium town

Is this really an X-ray? I thought you’d see all the ribs and limb bones instead of an imaging slice like this

C-suite smart

Data centers demand enormous grid increases on short notice. That is why they are “discriminated” against

My dog seems to have no conscious control of his back legs. Now I am seeing the bone chews in a new light

I’m thinking in the first two photo attempts she fell over holding that pose in heels

It’s a good thing the rate of catastrophic collisions with neighboring bodies is at its lowest in a void. At this point we may as well assume our lack of neighbors was beneficial to our being here in the first place