A chair with a cross-stitched seat depicting someone cross-stitching the seat of a chair.
Inception C18-style
Seen at the Three Stags, Kennington

It's chilling how much we've empowered our nation's large rodents to cast such a long shadow over weather prediction.

On the left, his holiness Hunter S Thompson. On the right gonzo guru the Dalai Lama.
I wonder if they ever met?

AK Press and Haymarket Books have a bunch of free #socialist, #anarchist, and #antifascist #ebooks for download right now. I know I have a lot of reading to do in the next couple months.

https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free

I just finished listening to the Tibetan book of the dead as an audiobook. Decided to have chatgpt to help me visualize it. However, some parts are terrifying so I asked it to draw pictures as if it were a Pixar movie..

https://onemonkey.org/2024/11/the-pixar-book-of-the-dead-bardo-thodol/

New post on my blog explains the power of the habituation method in baby research and how to win a #nobelprize by taunting molluscs.
https://babies.lol/index.php/2024/11/04/boredom-the-one-weird-trick-of-baby-science/

@Remittancegirl I quit X two years ago. This morning I was thinking that if Trump loses and finally becomes irrelevant I might go back. But you're right.. X was irredeemably corrupted a long time ago and will only get worse.

Congrats @logitechguk
Logi Options + has taken you from 'It just works' to 'It barely works'
😭
And don't even get me started on your AI nonsense.. 🤬

Are we absolutely sure that all these people trying to kill Trump aren't time travellers?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/las-vegas-man-arrested-trump-assassination-attempt-coachella-california

My kind of story.
Superbabies take on Superheroes™ and win.
https://slashdot.org/story/433633

And people start being difficult over the final few pennies you don't go to dinner with them again. 😂

What is wrong with this restaurant algorithm?
Everyone put in what they think they owe. Any difference is divided equally.

Was coaxing chatgpt towards an image of "outstanding in your field" and we got to this..

Articles about using giant lasers to deflect asteroids published in serious science journal.
We are #livinginthefuture.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02633-7

If we do live in a simulation then FTL travel may be possible by hacking its geometry code from the inside. This seems to be nicely compatible with many standard fictional conceptions of hyperspace. #scifiideas

This is nonsense. Pi day should not be 14 march (3.14) or 22 jul (22/7). It should be 2nd July, the mid point of the year. When we are pi radians along our yearly orbit of the sun.

https://www.inverse.com/science/pi-day-july-22-ben-orlin-math-for-english-majors

At #ICIS today legendary brain scientist Patricia Kuhl was raving about sensors based on Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds. they could revolutionize Magnetoencephalography (MEG) by offering high sensitivity at room temperature, reducing costs and complexity. The future of brain activity mapping looks bright! #Neuroimaging #QuantumSensors #MEG #ScienceInnovation
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240606152218.htm#:~:text=Magnetometers%20using%20diamond%20quantum%20sensors,than%20conventional%20centimeter%2Dscale%20MEGs.

I'll bet that "Was George Orwell a time traveller?" is a trending search term. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/openai-appoints-former-nsa-chief-paul-nakasone-to-board/ar-BB1obCyh?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Entertaining and accessible article does the (high school) maths on why pumped water is the only sensible way to store energy via gravity.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/10/gravity-storage-101-or-why-pumped-hydro-is-the-only-remotely-real-gravity-storage

Thursday was publication day for Babies Laugh at Tickles. My fourth picture book for babies. Joyfully illustrated, as always, by Ania Simeone illustrator. It features a giggle button that babies can "Press for Tickles". Introducing the important idea of consent at an early age. To my surprise the Swedish and Norwegian versions are already available too. https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/dr-caspar-addyman/babies-laugh-at-tickles/9781035030293A