Posts tagged “gender”

• This was a surprisingly fun read: A complete guide to juggling, from zero to siteswap notation, by someone who juggles in nightclubs.
• Far too few people understand this crucial statement from this article from The Handbasket on the future of artificial intelligence in journalism: Telling a machine that can’t perceive that it can’t perceive won’t make it perceive that it can’t perceive.
• A New Jersey Teen Finds Treasure, and More, in Abandoned Storage Units
• Periodic and timely reminder that Marisa Tomei is an anagram for “It’s a me Mario!” – via @benoitbruneau
• Y2K 2.0: The AI security reckoning is yet another fantastic essay from Anil.
• I’d somehow never heard of the water-level task and now I can’t stop thinking about it.
• How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build LEGO sets
• It’s probably bad for everyone that Meta lost that big social media lawsuit.
• A guy in Australia searching for caves to explore using Google Maps found a huge scar on the landscape that turned out to be evidence of a massive tornado that nobody saw.

I love you, but you are not serious people.

• This article contains some absolutely bonkerballs statistics: Analysis Finds That Google AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization – via @drskyskull
• I think we all agree that the narcissism of our current POTUS makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
• The Next Coup Attempt, And How to Stop It
• A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died at a Florida immigration detention facility last month, and ICE hasn’t been able to find his arrest record.

• Over 50 episodes of MTV Unplugged, many unavailable for over two decades, are now streaming on Paramount+ – via @consequence.bsky.social
• If you need an AT&T BGW210 802.11b/g/n/ac 400mW Bonded VDSL2 Wireless Voice Gateway with 4 Gigabit Ports, let me know. I have a spare.
• Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.
• “DOGE” is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency. – via @tiffanyclay.dev
• Brilliant Wyoming Rebel Purposely Misgenders Senator to Prove a Point – via @stardustbluepr.com
• Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn’t allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity-preventing mineral.