Ian

@ianpatterson.com

Excellent account of the barley situation by the Dartmoor brewery chap on #bbcpm just now. So English barley is screwed by weather, but scottish barley had a great harvest, and thanks to to the whiskey production slump, they have a surfeit to sell - it just needs trucking south. #swingsNRoundabouts

hunchback from sardinia

@dogfromsinope.bsky.social

i think it would help their cause if prominent anarchists who promote the idea of long, drawn-out, continuous consensus-building processes weren't some of the most combative, thin-skinned, and fastidious people on the planet

nzjanette

@nzjanette.bsky.social

I’m pleased to see Hipkins making a strong statement about this. The coalition’s prevaricating has been shameful.
#nzpol

The Yale Review

@yalereview.bsky.social

"He was capable of taking off from the point of his own minor perversities—procrastination, prolixity—and supplying a far darker setting for them." Emily Ogden on Poe’s imagination.

James Grimmelmann

@jtlg.bsky.social

I am far from an expert on AI alignment and existential risk—I'm a well-read dilettante at best—but recent disclosures strike me as (a) confirming that the actual experts are right to be worried while (b) invalidating a lot of the assumptions in their models of AI agents' goals and reasoning.

Spanish open dictionary

@wordmeaningdic.bsky.social

Meaning of #coronaazul Surely the query is for the common name of the bird Chlorophonia occipitalis (blue-crowned), or perhaps for the Chlorophonia elegantissima (blue-capped euphony) or even the Euphonia cyanocephala (blue-headed euphony). In fact, it appears in.. corona azul

Bruno Pedro

@brunopedro.com

Easy to use and offers a polyglot SDK. That's the OpenAI API.

These two things, combined with the explosive popularity of OpenAI, are what make its API the de facto AI API.

apichangelog.substack.com/p/why-everyo...

Empowering Main St. Before Wall St.

@rchady.bsky.social

"Blue" Was a Good Sculpture outside the Kennedy Center. Trump dismantled it. Blue will carry that obdurate spirit with it—down the National Mall to the National Gallery of Art. David Rubenstein just bought it from sculptor Joel Shapiro’s foundation.

some street rat with a coy smile

@sesel.bsky.social

im seeing everyone backtrack on their criticisms of the oot remake bc now we know its inspired by rococo and japanese puppets and idk why that changes anything

ᔕTEᖴ ᗯITᕼ ᗩᑎ ᖴ 💣 (It goes ᗷOOᗰ💥) 🌊

@picchiboo.bsky.social

Definition of: 'adiaphorous' is: 'doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine.'

Adiaphorous wears a diaphanous gown & is polyamorous, but figures “no harm, no foul”

Use in a sentence 🤗

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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/adiaphorous