One Of The Funniest Parts Abt The Stardew Valley Community Is That No One Questions The Hat Mouse. Like

if you're a goy that thinks Jewish culture and history and religion is interesting but don't want to intrude upon a closed religion, the answer is academia!! study Jewish academia oh my goodness the sheer volume of freely accessible literature written by Jews about Jews is genuinely staggering. please

would you think of doing the list of names like a war memorial? or perhaps something more low-key or inventive? idk what comes to mind is something symbolizing impermanence and the sheer mass of loss, something like a section of floor covered in confetti, each piece covered in names. idk i feel like this idea is lacking a certain amount of respect, but i think there is something there.

If you could curate an art gallery, what would be your top pieces you'd like to show?

I would do a show on the impact of the aids crisis on American art

So the portions of the aids quilt, portrait of ross in LA, and Keith Harings unfinished paintings are must haves

*Attenborough voice*

And here we see the uncommon transfem in her natural habitat, scrolling Tumblr, hugging her IKEA brand blahaj and eating stale biscuits at 2am. Based on her slumped position, self-comforting body language (such as rocking back and forth), as well as her generally unkempt look, we can infer that she is currently undergoing a depressive episode. Ah, she's about to cry again. Let us move on.

she asked me to draw a blue bunny and I showed her how to move it around

this could be the snart of something big

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

Melting aluminum with an electromagnet.

Watterson pulled no punches

I’m obsessed with this man