Big, Brave Brick of Meat

How about a nice game of chess?

“can you decide without consulting the model? can you sit with a blank page and a hard problem and produce something that didn’t pass through a neural network first?

“if yes, you’re sovereign. the tools extend you.

“if no, you’ve been extended by the tools.”

Dark Forces (1995). This was one of the first FPS games I ever played.

"9 Meow Street" they oughtn't mix cutesy with threatening

and older books can be FUN. Melville's language is a beautiful puzzle. Austen's upper-middle-class England is an alien society.

The best!

Yes!

(wait that looks like a grasshopper)

that cricket dust!! 🦎💨

@heynowdana.com loved the Coolio -> Weird Al -> Stevie Wonder set! First time I've ever heard Stevie's original on the radio.

"The plane, outlined in black in a white background, is covered in red spots somehow reminiscent of a red polka dotted porcelain crab." A+ alt text

also, all-caps does not help me UNTANGLE TENSION AND RELEASE MODERN STRESS.

(maybe others are built differently)

that’s not where I suspected to find the output layer

whatever one gets from being this way, it certainly doesn't form positive character

A short time lapse of the fragmentation event on LUCH (OLYMP) #40258 that took place today, 2026-01-30 from 06:09:03.486 UTC.

HT @brianbutterfield.bsky.social

City planning decisions -- even more than architecture -- are for the long term! A couple of guys planned a development 150 years ago and their decisions still affect the traffic flow in part of the city today. Amazing

Streets in Denver’s Highlands neighborhood tell a story about a Scottish-inspired dream A handful of curved streets is what’s left of a vision for the hilly area north of the original city limits.

@cityplannerplays.bsky.social you've mentioned Denver in your videos before. Interesting piece on how street names and a break in the grid point to a never-built 19th century enclave: www.cpr.org/2026/01/26/d...

@gruber.foo hope you write about Tim Cook attending the Melania screening at the White House.

My most generous interpretation: Cook is trying to stay on Trump’s good side for the sake of Apple’s massive workforce.

(But it also signals that he/Apple support Trump. Which, given MN, is astonishing)

a succulent Chinese meal

I know your video isn't really about outages. But it would apply to an outage scenario too, at least partly

I hope you make this video.

(Me: Cold climate, natural gas furnace. Backup plan for power outage is suitcase generator to run furnace. My backup plan doesn't scale well when I switch to a heat pump, but yours does.)

"You are well-intentioned and principled but you are over-excitable and you need to contain yourself. If that requires you to take some medicament then so be it."

(I always lose it at 'medicament')

I'm old enough to remember that Ward Churchill was widely condemned for calling the 9/11 victims "Little Eichmanns"

Frame #14150 from S03 -E23 - Battle Bell Peppers-627676

I'm more of a Galaxy class kinda guy but I respect your position

Apple: Here, use some AI
Scrivener: I would prefer not to.

Loving those ISA slots

TOMCON 1, here we come

Is the rumored coat closet inside the pod?