While exploring the tropical wilds of Key West, FL I stumbled across this primeval creature which seemed to be guarding the Hilton Garden Inn parking lot. We warily kept eye contact and parted in peace.
Ireland’s is the world’s first permanent basic income program sending direct, unconditional cash payments to professional artists, and it enjoys overwhelming public support – of 17,000 public survey respondents, 97% supported the program becoming permanent... an independent study of the pilot found that artists didn't just get more work done – basic income reduced their levels of anxiety and alleviated depression, too. https://rgmii.org/blog/thousands-more-artists-join-irelands-basic-income-plan/
No, in case you wonder, we haven't changed our minds.
Langrisser for Sega Mega Drive
Source: Beep! MegaDrive 16 (February 1991)
Scan Source: Sega Retro
Crows keep giving 'thank you gifts' to B.C. woman https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/sawatsky-sign-off/article/woman-who-rescued-injured-crow-keeps-getting-thank-you-gifts-from-other-birds/
Spent a couple of days along the Mendocino Coast. Got to go to the Botanical Gardens at peak Rhododendron season. So many colors! Such an amazing place.
#Bloomscrolling
Do you know why you haven’t heard about the guy who set up OpenClaw and six weeks later had a million dollars to show for it?
Because he started with two million dollars.
Luigi is a hero we need more of.
As spotted by Ryan Estrada on Bluesky, HOLY SHIT
Paramount+ created a thumbnail for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" where it genAI-filled a closeup shot of Shatner, giving him a sensible haircut and a suit and tie.
LEFT: Paramount+
RIGHT: The shot from the movie
“According to the Bible…”
No, fuck you. It’s the 21st century. Don’t you fucking quote the deluded ramblings of half-literate goatherds cobbled together through the years as a guide for anything. We’ve had 2,000 years of scientific advancement and we have nuclear weapons and your superstitious magic sky fairy bullshit is going to get us all killed.
Dr. Annie Andrews is running in for Senate in South Carolina to unseat Lindsey Graham. She's a pediatrician, not a politician.
Link to donate to her campaign:
This week I released picoCAD 2! A retro inspired 3d modeler with built in texture and animation tools.
Check out https://picoCAD.net and grab the launch discount! ☺️
> When developers say that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that this is what they’re automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn’t matter, all in an environment where rigour is completely absent.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/
by @baldur
Happy birthday Mastodon! 🎉
From Vivaldi, a big thank you to @Gargron, the rest of Mastodon's team and everyone else who enjoys and breathes life into this corner of the internet!
Here's to 10 more! 🥂
“Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason... a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.”
Or driving any kind of car. AI, like cars, aims to reconfigure everyday life in a way that’s vastly more energy-hungry and polluting… and profitable for a few.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts
Update on Trump's Hormuz coalition (Mon, March 16):
🇫🇷 France: REJECTED
🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED
🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED
🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED
🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED
🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED
🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED
🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED
🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED
🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE
🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE
🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION