Reposted by LyyraBig Dog on the Space Cat @derekcarrsopp.bsky.social · 8hthey called it the battle of salamis. I said salami? they said, no, it's salamis, it's not-- it's not a sausage, and I said wow. you wouldn't know it, but it's different. so we're looking into that. 529422
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 14hOkay but seriously what are we doing with all these damn peppers, I got jalapeños coming out my ears 210
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 14hAt one point I had three (3) instances of OneDrive, and each morning was a fun game of figuring out which one worked today and what of my work from yesterday was gone. Nobody could figure out why they were duplicating and/or breaking 0100
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 14hMy firm migrated to Microsoft and within the month every office had at least one attorney who refused to use it. I had several days where all I did was read and wait for files to sync, cuz if you touched *anything* it broke 1100
Reposted by LyyraSnitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 17hI do not think we should create a world of work that formalizes different expectations for those with and without children. 2211
Reposted by LyyraCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. 501585440
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026He's right that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but that's also the logic used by Bigfoot believers, so. 160
Reposted by Lyyrahammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026HIS KID WAS IN THE CAR FUCKING RIGHT YOU'D HIT THE GAS 11735
Reposted by Lyyrahammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026how the fuck is this gonna happen to you and you're not thinking its a robbery 10874145
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And anyway, the much more pressing moral concern is that the boosters keep saying the robots are moral subjects and are intelligent and conscious, which means they're cool with slaves! They think they own slaves! They want to make a living renting out slaves! 000
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I reject chatbot moral questions immediately, in much the same way I reject the moral question of if it's mean to leave one car on the driveway and put the other in the garage. Because they are inanimate objects and making them moral subjects is patently absurd. 100
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The best argument against this line of thinking is the tremendous body of evidence showing that violent video games don't contribute to violence or violent thinking. Turns out, a thing being A Simulation matters! 110
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Also everything he shoots has a muzzle brake and he wants to take the bay directly next to you! 030
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There's a corollary to this, and it's that This Guy is also the worst shot you have ever seen, and the range officer stands directly behind him for his entire stay 1454
Reposted by LyyraChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist. 9744173
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Your average ICE jackboot cannot run a 9 minute mile without kit and it's honestly so inspiring 010
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also if you miss the turnoff to the climb, you're on a merry jaunt for some 200 miles. There's a hidden turnoff at the top too, to make it extra fun. 110
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There's a place I like to hike in Kentucky. It's a popular route, but it's unmarked. It involves a ~250ft scramble. It's just bad enough that if it scares you, you are not capable of going back down. You *must* go all the way up. Every year, somebody falls on that climb. 110
Reposted by LyyraLisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In today's @theguardian.com, an article about the #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been doing: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comA medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text 1019060
Reposted by LyyraJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026every last high school girl out there, unless you know for a fact that she has committed murder or rape, will do more good for the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault stop treating rapists as valuable 193279
Reposted by LyyraHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What should you do if you pull up on a car crash before emergency services arrive? Let me walk you through what I did yesterday while driving with the family to the grocery store. Traffic backed up ahead of us and around a corner someone rear ended another car, there was airbag deployment. 14912
Reposted by LyyraSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just keep swimming 💧 334066
Reposted by LyyraMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the evergreenest of posts: 022854
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Genuinely how are you supposed to contract with anybody in any way without good faith and fair dealing 261
Reposted by LyyraTeddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“So far, all scientists can say is that L. tilcayo lives in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion, which lies on the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains. But as to what these cats eat or get eaten by, how they reproduce, and many other facets of their day-to-day lives, much mystery remains.”nationalgeographic.comMeet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 YearsA small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. 2157
Reposted by LyyraYonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...nytimes.comJohn Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever. 2291837406
Reposted by LyyraMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this is good, and there should be a lot more of this tbh. not just directed at the justices either. noah feldman should get a version of this for all the fucking pr he does for the conservative justices, eg. to say nothing of the more actively evil law profs and lower court judges and lawyers 529755
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's not a very charitable opinion, but these people should be scared. Not of violence, but of social rejection. Shame evolved as a method of encouraging and enforcing pro-social behavior. It *has* a place in society. Even the most ghoulish among them wants to be liked. 010
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It will never not be funny that in their attempts to be "less wrong" and "precise," they became rhetorically inert to everyone else 040
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Totally fair. It helps that they won't put down the thesaurus and refuse to write in sentences less than 25 words. By the end of whatever argument they've produced, you've entirely forgotten anything they said that was even remotely reasonable 140
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sometimes the debate game is worth it because you're rarely actually arguing with your opponent, but rather performing for a persuadable audience. But these people are so repellant to outsiders that I'm not sure they don't do the audience persuading themselves 290
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Training would be great, if they saw women as people and not as household appliances 020
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The moral of this story is that every day is Shut the Fuck up Friday and don't ever talk to a fucking cop 000
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A Libertarian Walks into a Bear should be required reading in schools and I will die on this hill 060
Reposted by LyyraRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156165185567
Reposted by LyyraJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am told Maeve is now available for adoption. Going to try to take her out for a field trip this week & provide additional adorable photos. 116641
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But relatedly, a lot of people aren't good fits for Designer Mutts either. Like the bernedoodle is an abomination, I'm sorry. 0110
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lots of people are not good fits for a rescue. While your average shelter pit is not going to randomly eat a toddler, they are pretty likely to be animal-aggressive and have separation anxiety. That's a very large, very strong animal. Managing that is a skill. 1140
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This post has been sponsored by Jackery. Get your whole-home backup system today! 010
Reposted by LyyraRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026No one should be surprised that OpenAI — a company that built their systems on stolen work — would steal the work of researchers and try to take credit for it. 726572
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'd all in if chat could fold my laundry and scrub my baseboards, but in the current state? I find people who use it regularly to be perplexing at best 000
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The best use case I can conceive for AI would be making a mod for a thing in a game I—and nobody else—find annoying, and as far as use cases go, it's, ah, pretty thin 100
Lyyra @lyyyra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The more they talk about how sentient and human-like the AI is, the more convinced I become that they all just want to own slaves None of it is true, the robot is fancy autocomplete, but it's very disturbing that they want it to be true!! 020
Reposted by LyyraEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 123103682694
Reposted by LyyraMike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So I had a bit of a bear encounter on the way to work I was riding up the bike path next to the river, and a mom w two cubs comes loping out of the bushes to my right I slow WAY down, let them trundle up the path, and they ducked into the undergrowth on the left 4697
