Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming!

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

Seafloor spreading, continental drift, subduction, & lava recycle & renew the Earth's surface.

The most ancient crust still intact—parts of Northern Canada—is about 4 billion years old, much of it thoroughly inaccessible without helicopter.

(There are rocks in Australia even older, but scattered.)

United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.

Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.

Haiti TPS is safe for now.

To me, the striking thing to me about AI execs claiming their LLMs are conscious isn't that it's an unprovable, baseless claim.

It's that if what they're claiming were somehow true, they would be admitting to creating millions of sentient, feeling beings that would be essentially slaves.

The ultimate twist on the Firefly actors teasing something upcoming would be if they were all involved in finishing The OA.

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor

You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆

dark-magician-girl-meets-world on tumblr: "Fortuneteller, turning over the Death card: Don't worry. It isn't literal. It simply refers to some form of change. Me: Phew Fortuneteller; turning over the Gets Eaten by the Fortuneteller While Trying to Leave card: That can also mean many things"

MAGA vs. The Declaration of Independence YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

thoughts on stephen miller’s rant about “human rights” youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk?...

all the fun and excitement of prediction markets on the hot new site where high schoolers can win valuable prizes just by uh just by well anyhow read the terms and conditions and so on

Gymkata (1985)

Starring Kurt Thomas

Directed by Robert Clouse - BOTD in 1928

Someone should make a Gymkata follow-up called Skatekata where Alysa Liu combines her figure skating skills with martial arts to become a deadly warrior

In a separate letter, Governor Josh Shapiro wrote to the Attorney General of the United States and asked for a federal criminal investigation into the Israeli settler murder of Palestinian-American and Philadelphia-native Nasrallah Abu Siyam.

A Conflict Without Reason Has Become a Dangerous Holy War Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders.

The White House has no clear rationale for the war so is increasingly selling it as a holy crusade -- a very dangerous and desperate move. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"Sea pens are [gorgeous] marine cnidarians belonging to the superfamily Pennatuloidea. They are fleshy colonial organisms anchored to the seabed..."

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Doris Lessing: Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Good morning

omfg I have NO CLUE what they were thinking

But then again, I mean hey with a title like that, how could they have known?

< Probably 'massacre's a metaphor for...losing a little league game very badly, and Chainsaw is the name of the...

Nah.

Old mooring feature, probably Victorian-era, visible at low tide on the Thames Foreshore. An old wheel, with chains, would have been used by boats and barges delivering goods to be unloaded in this area.

Old mooring feature visible on the Thames Foreshore during the excellent low tides we’ve had this week. Probably late Victorian-era, an old wheel with chains, would have been used by boats and barges delivering and unloading goods to the local area up on the newly built embankment.

Schwarze Holzbiene zwischen violetten und blauen Blüten

Heute eine Holzbiene 🐝
#Nature
#Insects
carpenter bee
#NaturePhotography

"I just flew in from Equador, and boy are my—TAP TAP TAP TAP IS THIS THING ON!?"
"As I was saying..."

“World Book Day is about celebrating literature,” he said. “But when a child arrives speaking in dense metaphor and swaying slightly while insisting they’re ‘perfectly sober thank you’, you do have to ask some questions.”

We've just hit 215,000 members.

More than 2,000 people a day have joined us since our historic win in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Come and be a part of the movement which is making hope normal again. Join us 👇

Saddle Tor in Dartmoor National Park. Ancient rugged granite outcrop on open moorland in thick fog. Devon.

Mina Loy, although born in London & apparently travelling very little in Britain, visited Devon on a family summer holiday in her youth at least once (amusing to me, as someone from Devon). I was thinking about her as I went searching for will o'the wisps in February.

I remember handling and mounting some of von Mueller’s specimens with their characteristic blue labels & florid handwriting - noting the curly B on a downturned corner on some which meant it’d gone all the way to Kew, been examined and signed by Bentham before being sent back to MEL #botany

Andy Berger, Krissa Skogen, Norm Wickett

Andy

Solanum bauerianum specimen

Many thanks to Andy Berger for showing us some of the magic of the 5-million-specimen #herbarium at the Natural History Museum, Vienna — including the type of the now-extinct Solanum bauerianum … as well as their oldest accession from the mid-1600s.

#plantpeopleftw

Does nobody remember the US bombing the Kunduz MSF hospital that local military leadership knew was there and had been in communication with?

The EIGHT weddings we drone striked?

US citizen kid executed without trial by drone while camping?

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

“I wish our so-called 'allies' could see how I'm transforming the global economy!”

As he spoke, Donnie snatched in frustration at an untidy lump he suddenly spotted on his desk, then dropped the misshapen object with a shuddering cry.

“It moved! As I wished, it twisted in my hand like a snake!”

"[Researcher] Flannery says [this is] evidence the Vogelkop [peninsula] was once a part of the Australian continent that later become part of New Guinea.
The link is the subject of another paper…and may have wider implications. “Its forests may shelter yet more hidden relics of a past Australia”.

Reclaiming Democracy From the Market Michael J. Sandel & Daron Acemoglu discuss the breakdown of civic life and the need to restore trust in public institutions.

“ #Capitalism, by the way, is a word I hate, not just because it’s highly #ideological, but because it creates the impression that there is just one kind of #marketeconomy” www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/savi...