I have actually checked with GPT and they say that the take-over will be non-violent. "... although the humans might…
From: Stderr
to not run out of birds i've seen, i'm going to include dreamposting in my every-other-day posts. to that end...…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 3 Chapter 3 opens with another fictional quote, from the book Jenny Noble gave Win Bear…
From: Daylight Atheism
None of this is to my pride or honor, for if it was, I'd be with a troupe in the…
From: Stderr
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From: Mano Singham
The Probability Broach, chapter 2 As I've mentioned, The Probability Broach is a work of evangelism. Unlike Ayn Rand, whose…
From: Daylight Atheism
Note: This is a bonus post. Hit "Previous" to see the scheduled post of the day. Read the previous RP…
From: Life's a Gas
I'm a classic amurrican striver. An entitled colonizer. A zombie to crapitalism. I've got this asinine notion that if I…
From: Life's a Gas
Krea's chat mode adds an interesting new dimension to image creation. For example, you can tell it "create a portrait…
From: Stderr
In discussing Trump's presidency, I though that one of the few things that he cared about, other than his own…
From: Mano Singham
I had to skip out on all the talks of the last day of the American Atheists convention -- we're…
From: Pharyngula
I have actually checked with GPT and they say that the take-over will be non-violent. "... although the humans might…
From: Stderr
This old atheist found it to be an encouraging day. Keith Ellison spoke at an atheist conference despite being a…
From: Pharyngula
We are simply not dealing with people who have enough knowledge or love of truth to try to figure out…
From: Stderr
I'm about to drive to Minneapolis for the American Atheists conference. I'm not as enthused as I ought to be.…
From: Pharyngula
He has a new book coming out, The War on Science. It does not look promising. Here's a list of…
From: Pharyngula
A new paper is out: A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO₂-Global Warming Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence Contradicts IPCC Models and…
From: Pharyngula
I'm a recovering gun nut. I guess. I always found guns to be another example of cool design and often…
From: Stderr
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about America's descent into a new dark age - and…
From: Daylight Atheism
Krea's chat mode adds an interesting new dimension to image creation. For example, you can tell it "create a portrait…
From: Stderr
Lil' question for the scientists and science communicators and defenders of liberty who thought woke moral scolds were impinging so…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_50285" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Copyright: Netflix[/caption] After hearing all about it, I watched the Netflix mini series. It was hyped…
From: Affinity
Russell Brand is a British media personality who started out as a standup comedian before branching out into other fields.…
From: Mano Singham
My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in. Clearly…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_76082" align="alignright" width="100"] As everyone knows, it's all about the size of the palps[/caption] The creationists (and a few…
From: Pharyngula
America's new motto: [caption id="attachment_76074" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bob the Angry Flower[/caption] And here's a horrifying example: making a tiny number…
From: Pharyngula
Are there still cis people left? Y'all haven't transed yerselves? Shit. My schemes have availed me naught. In honor of…
From: Life's a Gas
Tomorrow is International Down with Cis Day, celebrated by no one because the inspiration for it was not even a…
From: Life's a Gas
I have stumbled into a strange YouTube niche: feminization hypnosis. It's a category of delusional videos in which voices whisper…
From: Pharyngula
On March 15, 2019, a man walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers and killed 51…
From: Mano Singham
I am almost on top of the work again, and I should be able to start re-potting bonsai tomorrow. Yesterday…
From: Affinity
I spotted different breed of street preacher. He was ranting at the top of his lungs about "the Tao" and…
From: Pharyngula
The first fruit tree started flowering - the rootstock of my plum. [caption id="attachment_50292" align="aligncenter" width="800"] © Charly, all rights…
From: Affinity
My calendar is set up to pop up a message every 16 April: "Call your mother." I think I'll keep…
From: Pharyngula
Jeff Bezos launched Katy Perry into space for 11 minutes. That's it. That's our big news today. Woo hoo. You…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Pharyngula
Initially, I bought three packets of onion seeds and two packets of overwintering onions that were planted in the fall…
From: Affinity
Recently I have come across a bunch of videos on YouTube with AI generated descriptions under the videos. I presume…
From: Pro-Science
Marc Andreessen, a world class boob whose existence demonstrates that intelligence is not a prerequisite to great wealth, wants to…
From: Pharyngula
I've never grown carrots. We do not really have the soil for it - it is heavy clay with lots…
From: Affinity
Russell Brand is a British media personality who started out as a standup comedian before branching out into other fields.…
From: Mano Singham
My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in. Clearly…
From: Life's a Gas
You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc…
From: Life's a Gas
Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
From: Life's a Gas
From: Pharyngula
We were always in favor of separation of church and state -- I still am -- and I never cared…
From: Pharyngula
I got the usual email from American Atheists, and Melina Cohen brought up an interesting contrast. First, on Monday, there…
From: Pharyngula
Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts…
From: Pharyngula
A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act". As written…
From: Mano Singham
A couple years ago, I wrote several posts about AI art. But AI is a moving target, and there's no…
From: A Trivial Knot
also known as the american dipper but fuck that lol. this is a drab grey but real cool bird. they're…
From: Life's a Gas
It is clear that the Trump gang is going after foreign students by revoking their student visas willy-nilly for the…
From: Mano Singham
I've seen falcons and possibly other small birds of prey at a distance a number of times, but IDing them? …
From: Life's a Gas
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the philosophical problem of how we can warn the…
From: Daylight Atheism
None of this is to my pride or honor, for if it was, I'd be with a troupe in the…
From: Stderr
Blue seems to like her new housing. She even likes the artificial flowers I gave her, climbing to the top…
From: Pharyngula
I graduated from the University of Washington, which is a major research institution, with lots of NIH money usually flowing…
From: Pharyngula
There's an idea that famous cryptid The Jersey Devil can be explained by the sighting of a lone crane in…
From: Life's a Gas
She's been living in a plexiglas cube that used to be quite comfortable for her, but that pile of molts…
From: Pharyngula
After the US Supreme Court said that the Trump administration needed to facilitate Kilmar Ábrego García's release from a prison…
From: Mano Singham
It is clear that the Trump gang is going after foreign students by revoking their student visas willy-nilly for the…
From: Mano Singham
I'm a recovering gun nut. I guess. I always found guns to be another example of cool design and often…
From: Stderr
I posted three days ago about how Trump faced his first major test before the US Supreme Court about the…
From: Mano Singham
In discussing Trump's presidency, I though that one of the few things that he cared about, other than his own…
From: Mano Singham
I saw this on Mastodon: [caption id="attachment_76070" align="aligncenter" width="500"] US gov asks european suppliers to guarantee they don't do DEI.Next:…
From: Pharyngula
On March 15, 2019, a man walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers and killed 51…
From: Mano Singham
[UPDATE: ProPublica reports that "Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release…
From: Mano Singham
You are walking along a public street in daylight when suddenly you are surrounded by people dressed in black with…
From: Mano Singham
In the US, owning one's own home has always been portrayed as the ultimate dream and people strive to do…
From: Mano Singham
note: my RP by comment is still going. see this post. i did the obvious photoshop, if not particularly well. …
From: Life's a Gas
Place your bets! Mwpk has fewer people motivated to kill him than Tfndk - but as many people as there…
From: Life's a Gas
After the US Supreme Court said that the Trump administration needed to facilitate Kilmar Ábrego García's release from a prison…
From: Mano Singham
We are simply not dealing with people who have enough knowledge or love of truth to try to figure out…
From: Stderr
It is clear that the Trump gang is going after foreign students by revoking their student visas willy-nilly for the…
From: Mano Singham
In the big cities, crosswalks are equipped with those little buttons pedestrians can press to request a light change, and…
From: Pharyngula
Elon Musk does not dream of colonizing distant worlds. His dream is to milk the federal government of every penny…
From: Pharyngula
This is also how Nazis talk. In a press conference Wednesday morning that surely delighted his allies in the anti-vaccine…
From: Pharyngula
Why will presidente tvnfp be assassinated? Place your bets! I, of course, do not endorse the assassination of even the…
From: Life's a Gas
One of the features of Trump is how he seems to view China as not merely a trade rival to…
From: Mano Singham