Bubbles
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On the persistence of fatphobia, Lindy West's Adult Braces, body positivity, and GLP-1s
Someone compared the nature of our interactions with LLMS, to how we use to ask directions before the era of maps in India. Strangely this reminds me of exactly how you would navigate in parts of India before the Internet became...
Very belatedly, I come to an email from Joe Parish, who on 8 March — a full month ago — emailed me to draw my attention to a life reconstruction of Camarasaurus that was published in 1880: one year earlier than the 1886 “atlantosaur” by...
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Infographic describing the best current theory on the evolution of PBHs. Black holes live forever, at least according to general relativity. Once material crosses a black hole’s event horizon, it is...
I love playing soccer. I’m good at it, not professional or even college level, but still pretty good. I also enjoy watching live soccer and observing, rapt, until a crescendo when the crowd goes wild. And yet, there are few things I’d...
Today started with a misunderstanding between my digital scale and the corresponding app on my smartphone. Don’t even ask—it had something to do with Bluetooth. So I spent the first...
Today I am launching a new service for my fellow indieweb webmasters. I wanted to make a all-in-one stop for all the dynamic features that you might need if you are are running a static web site. You can sign up today at...
Ed Zitron: Am I Meant To Be Impressed?. A detailed account of why you cannot trust anything tech companies say about the business side of AI, even in official SEC-sanctioned documents (because, of course you can’t). Note in particular...
Never try to open a flower. You might ruin it. But you knew that. Let sun and rain have their way with every petal. Be patient and watch. The flower I speak of is your soul. But you knew that. And the power by whichyou knew at once that...
While I’m not from a cheesecake family — it is never unwelcome, but we are more deeply devoted to things like pastry creams, chocolate pudding, and stellar coffee cakes — I married into one, which means that even though this site’s...
Not a bad weekend coming up! The Sheep Detectives seems to have a delightfully goofy high concept - when a shepherd who reads mysteries to his flock every night is murdered, the sheep decide to solve the crime - and the script must have...