Reposted by PamelaTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41119483105
Reposted by PamelaLark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Extremely randomly: did you know there are no machine made clothing? All garments are handmade! Every dang one, from the luxury atelier dresses to the overseas-sourced threadbare undershirt, is handmade. 011036
Reposted by PamelaThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 441719334
Reposted by PamelaHisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The experiment has been run. In Quebec low cost daycare resulting in tens of thousands of additional women joining the workforce. The increase in taxes to both provincial and federal governments were more than the cost of the subsidy.ippr.orgLessons from Quebec's universal low-fee childcare programme | IPPRThe Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society. 524766
Reposted by PamelaKevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools? 1072264535
Reposted by PamelaMollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO 6254397608
Reposted by PamelaSam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system 10150121524
Reposted by PamelaThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 03/09/2026Hilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands metthebeaverton.comHilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands metMISSISSAUGA, ON – Earlier this week Canadians noticed that Hilroy had excluded Newfoundland and Cape Breton from the map of Canada on the cover of their latest notebooks. Today, the company confirmed ... 23755134
Reposted by Pamelaslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026he got him. he finally fucking got him 8657861300
Reposted by Pamelamtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This is such an important point about speed cameras. We have overwhelming data that the vast majority of drivers quickly learn where they are and adjust their driving habits to avoid getting ticketed. This makes them a bad way to generate ticket revenue but a super effective way to reduce speeding 521648252
Reposted by Pamelalauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi 154128883254
Reposted by PamelaRuby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Here's what it looked like in case you would also like to send a message to AI companies 0809338
Reposted by PamelaAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak 1021141022573
Reposted by PamelaShayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 02/08/2026"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald 2552138
Pamela @pamelalehmann.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This article on how LLMs are just the psychic's con is excellent and should be required reading before anyone uses an AI chat bot. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...softwarecrisis.devThe LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour 000
Reposted by Pamela👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 02/07/2026In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls 382218532
Reposted by PamelaCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/07/2026I do not understand the "fairness in sports" thing, in part because it isn't a thing, but also "fair to who" is always the question. People who are taller have an advantage in basketball. Does that mean we ban tall people? Why would THAT be fair? 502667446
Reposted by PamelaKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10/06/2026Ok so a cool thing about milk and pasteurization specifically. You ever notice the way you can tell if milk is bad is to sniff it? We don't routinely rely on our sense of smell like that for other foods. Why is milk so special? The answer is pasteurization. 1835955
Reposted by PamelaMicah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2026there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless 7197942408
Pamela @pamelalehmann.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Well, looks like we'll need to stop buying clothes online now that AI is involved. Only clothes you can try on in front of a mirror from here on! 000
Reposted by PamelaShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience. 1633683602
Reposted by PamelaDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).proelectrica.substack.comElite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy DisruptionNotes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026 241130914160
Reposted by PamelaACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports. 86110714471
Reposted by Pamelaarr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs. 437153864209
Reposted by Pamelamaybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026"why use google?" webpage from 1999 8069951813
Reposted by PamelaBassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer 130198284938
Reposted by PamelaMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The waits between seasons doubled in last 10 yrs — & this piece doesn’t get into it, but when execs also demand shorter seasons, in some cases way too short, the end result = audiences that just don’t engage with shows/characters the same way. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...hollywoodreporter.comThe Wait Between TV Seasons Is Getting Longer, It’s Not Your ImaginationA study says the average gap between seasons of TV has reached a new high, with scripted originals on streaming taking an average of 21 months to return. 3721163
Reposted by PamelaShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/05/2026dude it can do your job right now how hard is it to fuck up everything about Google www.reddit.com/r/artificial...reddit.comFrom the artificial community on Reddit: Google's Sundar Pichai says AI could do his job one dayExplore this post and more from the artificial community 20869126
Reposted by PamelaNash @radiodeadair.com · 19/05/2026"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfaowindowslatest.comFormer Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11Former Microsoft PM says the company's AI push failed, citing Copilot's dismal 3.3% adoption rate and calling for a massive factory reset. 15046371343
Reposted by PamelaDuncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Yes, calling a liquid "gas" used to bug me no end. Then I discovered that it ought actually to be "caz," not "gas." It's based on a trade name. A thread... 1/6 919778
Reposted by PamelaCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents. 9235481780
Reposted by Pamelaniqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 11/05/2026every so often I pick the “lemonade is not fucking Sprite” fight on some of my more international Discord servers because I am mostly at peace with being a descriptivist and there simply being many Englishes in this world, but I do have a very few linguistic hills I’ll die on and, well. 4414
Reposted by PamelaJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff. 351416712
Reposted by PamelaPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com) 6571542710
Reposted by PamelaDylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 01/05/2026"Moran spent last summer visiting 272 school streets and found that ones with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets" 110530
Reposted by PamelaHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this: 9473051609
Reposted by PamelaCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/04/2026This is both evil and boring. 26651123
Reposted by PamelaLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees 181312337
Reposted by PamelaThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23/04/2026Unstoppable technology of the future still begging people to use itthebeaverton.comUnstoppable technology of the future still begging people to use itSilicon Valley, CA – Generative AI, the technology every company with a vested interest in saying so agrees will soon take over the world continues to have to beg users to try it. “AI is coming. There... 6426136
Reposted by Pamelaold uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS 3684202224
Reposted by PamelaBecky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job" 151613436
Reposted by Pamelascary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew 3349511437
Reposted by PamelaKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/04/2026Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.theguardian.comAI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce SchneierLarge language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own 692178829
Reposted by PamelaKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/04/2026I'm going to be honest, I didn't know diphtheria was so nasty (I'm vaccinated this isn't about that! )projects.propublica.orgThe Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines VanishResearchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. 105921
