Photo of Earth from the Moon which is made of cheese

NASA photos from the Moon are incredible

What Happens When the AI is the Plagiarist? Two recent stories highlighted the dangers not just of unethical AI usage, but of AI itself becoming a plagiarist. Sadly, there’s no easy way around this.

www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/06/what-happens-...

It's pretty ridiculous to ask about what you do when the GenAI is plagiarizing. That is exactly how GenAI works. Without plagiarism, you have no GenAI.

This time of year, I like to step outside on my back porch on a clear evening, looking at the southern night sky.

I look straight ahead, not far above the horizon, and see Orion's belt. I look up to find Orion's head, to the right to find the arrow in his bow, and down to find his feet.

Then I […]

In the year 2063, Easter will fall ten days after humanity makes first contact with an extraterrestrial species. 🖖

#Easter #FirstContactDay #StarTrek #LiveLongAndProsper

I just considered the lilies of the field.

#GenConf #LDSConf #GeneralConference #TabernacleChoir #MoTab

What if the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang arrangements not by Mack Wilberg, but by Mark Wahlberg (aka Marky Mark)?

#GenConf #LDSConf #GeneralConference #MarkyMarkAndTheFunkyBunch #TabernacleChoirAtTempleSquare #MoTab

Me: Hey, kid, you want stone breakfast, or are you just eating candy all morning?

Just give me the Parent of the Year Award.

#Easter #Parenting

scene from the film Jurassic Park with the children escaping the Jeep while a giant purse breaks through the electrified fence

Scientists extracted Tyrannosaurs Rex collagen from a fossil, and then used that collagen to make T-rex leather, and turned that leather into a handbag.

Somebody spent a lot of money to make that happen […]

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Covfefe.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A year or so ago, I had an idea for a game I wanted to develop. I was going to use this is an opportunity to learn Godot.

The game was to be a cozy farming sim combined with a monster catcher game. Think _Pokémon_ meets _Stardew Valley_. You catch creatures, but not to battle them, but to […]

I'm at the age where ice cream causes both brain freeze and heart burn.

#GettingOld

An Evening with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Author and Activist Dr. Ibram X. Kendi speaks about his new book, Chain of Ideas in conversation with ACLU Texas director Oni K. Blair

Going to see Ibram X. Kendi tonight to talk about his new book _Chain of Ideas_. Excited for it!

#DateNight #StayWoke #Antiracism

How should I celebrate my birthday tomorrow? Should I celebrate by protesting a federal government that's becoming increasingly authoritarian and starting wars all over the world?

#NoKings #Protest #StayWoke #HappyBirthdayToMe

Death didn't take Chuck Norris. He went to the afterlife to challenge Death to a kickboxing match.

#ChuckNorrisFacts #HashtagGames

Chuck Norris didn't actually die, God just needed someone who could challenge him in arm wrestling.

#ChuckNorrisFacts #HashtagGames #KeepItGoing

FWIW, I think ISO-8601 is the obviously best date (and time) format. It's obviously better than day/month/year and month/day/year.

If your date format isn't chronologically sorted when it's lexically sorted, it's obviously inferior.

If a European tries to make fun of the American date format, ask them how that say the number 186.

If their language says it "one hundred eighty six" or something close to it, then fine, whatever, let them criticize.

But if their language says it as "one hundred six and eighty", or even worse […]

I’d like to have as many folks vote on this as possible, given the nature of the topic (i.e., copyright). If you keep in touch with any “old timers,” let them know I’d love to have their approval. Spread the word!

wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update

#PHP

My five-year-old told me that brachiosaurs can't be ducks because ducks are really small.

So, I had to explain that it's also because a brachiosaurus is a type of sauropod and a duck is a type of therapod.

Of course, that got into me explaining that the T-rex probably had feathers.

#Dinosaurs […]

Trakt forced their redesign on me finally. It's so badly broken. Not only is it less functional (three times as many clicks to do everything), but several of the features are just downright broken. Like, adding a movie to a list can be done from the movie page, but it doesn't update on that page […]

Celebrate the Ides of March by stabbing the nearest wannabe dictator. 🔪🔪

#Beware #IdesOfMarch #NotUSPol #MaybeUSPol

Today is the sixth anniversary of the last day I worked in an office.

When it happened, I couldn't really appreciate it. You know, pandemic and all that.

But now, I'm so glad I can work from home, or the library, or a coffee shop.

Being home when my kids get home from school; not spending two […]

A backed enum? Are you testing that the values match what you defined them as?

I'm just not entirely sure what you would be testing, aside from that, and yeah, that seems a bit extra to me.

@ramsey@phpc.social

A four panel comic of "Basic Instructions" entitled "How to Confront the Horros of the Past". Scott and Rick are having a conversation. (First panel. Caption: The first step has to be taking a thorough and honest look at the evidence yourself.) Scott (his arms crossed, matter-of-factly): I plan to watch every episode of Space: 1999. Rick (smugly): You said the first episode was stupid. Scott: Yes, but I figure it has to get better. Rick: Has that optimism ever paid off? Scott: It's made our friendship possible. (Second panel. Caption: The second - and hardest - step is be to be honest with yourself about what you find.) Scott (dejected): I watched every episode of Space: 1999. Rick (laughing): Did it get better? Scott: Not even a little! In fact, in the second season it got way worse. Rick: Maybe if they'd had a season three, they'd have gotten it right. Scott: I think they did when they canceled it. (Panel 3. Caption: Encourage others to look for themselves instead of simply taking your word for it.) Scott: The science officer was an old guy with sideburns. Later they replaced him with an attractive woman. Rick: The Seven of Nine maneuver. Nice! Scott: And they printed sideburns on her. Rick: You must be exaggerating. I'm going to watch it myself. Scott: You're going to hate it, so yes, please do. (Fourth Panel. Caption: Sharing information may make the world beter, but won't make it much happier.) Rick: I watched every episode of Space: 1999. It was so bad I told my therapist about it. Scott: What did he say? Rick: That I had to be exaggering. So now he's gonna watch it. Scott: It's like a psychic virus. Rick: It's the kind of thing that would be on Space: 1999. Scott: Only interesting.

I'm now watching the first episode of _Space: 1999_. It can't really be that bad. Or maybe it really is a psychic virus.

#RetroSciFi #ScienceFiction

Your siblings are your zeroth cousins. You are your negative first cousin.

#PSA #Genealogy

In most of the United States this year, International Women's Day was only 23 hours long.

Seems a bit telling.

Shouldn't he be Ryan Goose by now? He's already 45 years old, after all.

#ShowerThoughts #RyanGosling #Humor #DadJoke #DadJokes

I read that book. Just now. The whole book.

@evan@cosocial.ca

You know how in _The Smurfs_ , the word _smurf_ is basically used as a substitute for the f word? For example: "Smurf Yeah!", "That's smurfing awesome!", or "I really smurfed that up".

What does that mean about their names, like Papa Smurf or Smurfette?

#ShowerThoughts

> Is your nation’s frail, kleptocratic economy being propped up, thanks in part to being a major oil exporter?
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> Do your leader’s supporters claim that he was ordained by God to rule?
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> Is your leader currently breaking ground on several expensive and cartoonishly vain construction projects […]