Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was just looking for an old picture and found this and guffawed all over again 070
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our top scientists have been hard at work for years, and finally they have found it: the Most Nightmare Blunt Rotation 1134
Reposted by Dr. OrchidCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 8426200
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Have you ever heard something that just fully rearranges the furniture in your brain? Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about childhood and child rights, and for me, it was this: if we apply the frameworks of anthropology, Santa Claus is a god. 2130
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026looking at it from this perspective, I have become Baffling there's no way she would have imagined this 1100
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think the one major positive influence they’ve had in philanthropy is to find ways to quantify impact (USG didn’t require eval plans in development until like 2012), but the far-future stuff is assumptions upon assumptions until they’ve gone full galaxy brain 150
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026They thought the VC pitch and the marketing pitch were the same thing 060
Reposted by Dr. Orchidevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy. 1342665
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am also constantly wondering this. Nature has already generated a vast array of pathogens and poisons. As a weapon, you still have to make and deploy it without killing yourself first. As a machine-driven process, why wouldn’t someone simply unplug the robot enacting AI’s will in the real world? 3314
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I read the details of a fair number of federal crimes for work-related purposes, and approximately 60% of the time the people being indicted think they've hit on something 'genius,' but it's actually just 'a felony' 2162
Reposted by Dr. OrchidNathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026🚨🆒cool link alert 🆒🔗 a rabbit hole www.theourcade.com/rabbithole/t... “Before the internet was five websites, it was millions of small ones, and a surprising number are still sitting exactly where their owner left them...”theourcade.comThe Old Web — pages that outlived their era | OurcadeBefore the internet was five websites it was millions of small ones, and a surprising number still sit exactly where their owner left them. Go and look. 1348
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026True of basically all online platforms these days, unfortch :( 130
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026About 10 years ago, North Korea inadvertently borked a vaccine production line that caused months of stock-outs because their ransomeware hit the ICSes. Been thinking about that a bit lately. 030
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'm being vulnerable and starting an essay series on how mission-driven organizations can plan for their data and tech innovations to have maximum impact (licensing strategy, ecosystem integrations), so if you are interested in following along, I set up a free Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/LastMilepatreon.comOrigin Note | Last Mile for ImpactI am writing this series because I spent more than a decade on a journey of strategic innovation with one goal in mind: to end modern slaver 171
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 29/08/2026‘Mayor Humdinger launches an ICBM at Adventure Bay’ sounds like a shitpost and yet, that is the opening sequence of the Paw Patrol movie 280
Reposted by Dr. OrchidJames Neckbeard III @qsalt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Rogan must be stopped. We need antitrust-like protections against too many morons socializing. 082
Reposted by Dr. OrchidDr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I am going to bite the grim reaper 0141
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I went to the tarot exhibit at the Morgan Library tonight, so I have to do the tweet: [a mysterious old lady turns over a card revealing the Shield of Cockroach] Me: is that good 1162
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I ordered the veggie schmear, so technically it’s on me for not thinking “A jalapeño is definitely a vegetable,” but nevertheless… pain 080
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Pyspark solves a lot of the problems of Python, but I have to look up every time whether strings are indexed on 0 or 1 000
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The college town I live in has undertaken what I can only describe as Adversarial Street Resurfacing during move-in week this week 090
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I took calc at Cal when it was still using the Kaczynski* syllabus, and half of the class failed then, too. Plus ça change. Anyway, the answer seems simple and they seem to already have it: require a math placement exam *Better known for other work 2190
Reposted by Dr. OrchidMichael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I need a flock of six dour, Connecticut doyennes of a certain age to be the first ones in the White House after he leaves. They will be our hazmat team, design-wise: pointing toward objects that need to be immediately removed, frowning at the vulgar. This is how we will begin again. 2037874
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I have begun to develop a complicated relationship with the Vanessa Hudgins song Sneakernight (2008). What is, at first, a floridly bad pop song in the key of 😵💫 is, on a deeper listen, recognizably a Rachmaninov interpolation, also in the key of 😵💫 141
Reposted by Dr. Orchidcafkafk @cafkafk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Why are blue sky users always like ohh email, no I use homoskeeter, it's a post-quantum post-agi reimplementation in gleam that lets you send messages telepathically over atproto and you open the repo and it was made like 3 weeks ago and has about ~2000 active users 1419620
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I knew Jonah Lehrer was doing self-plagiarism the instant the redundant articles came out and I thought everybody knew and thought it was fine. There’s at least one other pop-science writer who was doing it but never got caught 120
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Fugazi, save these children, you’re their only hope 140
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This honestly works so well if you're a woman, especially 170
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I’ve never done online dating, I have no idea what you all are talking about when you swipe left/right 290
Reposted by Dr. Orchidyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 08/08/2026renaissance painter: hey man i finished your commission for an icon of saint sebastian, its real fuckin sexy just like you asked catholic bishop: yes, this IS just as i asked. Gloria in Excelsis Deo 321817401
Reposted by Dr. OrchidPaul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Nothing connects us with our forebearers like the knowledge that they, too, needed leashes for their toddlers 1143
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I say this all the time, but companies are never doing exactly one (1) egregiously unethical thing that shows they have no regard for the harm they do to others futurism.com/science-ener...futurism.comThe Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced LaborThe lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak. 0120
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Guys, I think some of you might be a lot happier if you made peace with the idea that some people can be wrong on the internet, and that's fine 080
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I thought having twins there would be at least *some* economies of scale, but I am here to tell you that there are essentially none. The hospital charges you for two births! 26010
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Today I rubber banded two oranges together and put bath finger paint soap on them to teach my daughters how to wipe their butts before they start kindergarten, and they kept calling it poop class 3292
Reposted by Dr. OrchidNight of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Date: What do you do? Me: I'm a kleptozoologist Date: Isn't it cryptozoologist? Me, stuffing my pockets with lobsters from the tank: that's a common misconception 1241261114
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026James Franco, who doesn’t look all that handsome onscreen to me, but I used to pretty regularly pass him on my way to my 8am Chinese class and feel annoyed that he was so pretty so early in the morning 1141
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026One of my favorite facts to bewilder people with is that the animal trainer from this movie later rose to the highest ranks of one of the largest drug cartels ever prosecuted by the U.S. 2365
Reposted by Dr. OrchidAustin Gilkeson @osutein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026My favorite part of THE ODYSSEY is the post credits scene where stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead and said, “I’m putting together a team.” 1134
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026There are fireworks going off in two directions, and I keep checking CNN, but sadly… 040
Reposted by Dr. OrchidAri Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Claude Fable tell me how to not fumble this baddie. Make no mistakes. 3347
Reposted by Dr. OrchidGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Showing up on the good trailcams account sitting in a beautiful meadow eating a Culver's burger in my underwear 39519
Reposted by Dr. OrchidMarielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 16/07/2026Raffi you’re so right 3255841096
Reposted by Dr. OrchidRikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just putting it out there that we probably wouldn’t have a Diarrhea Lettuce problem if farm workers had BATHROOM ACCESS AND REGULAR BREAKS 24714
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I interviewed for a data science job at NASA, and the guy who would be my boss had done a time use study of his data scientists and found they spent upwards of 85% of their time cleaning data. Nothing I've experienced in the subsequent 10 years has refuted this. 3394
