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I'm happily amazed to learn that hand washers are the majority! I thought I was just being a hypochondriac freak.

It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes

Oy. Sad but true. (Google can't confirm that though.)

A tribute to Flow 🐈‍⬛🌊

I know I’ll carry this film in my heart for the rest of my life~

Sometimes a family is...

a lonely black cat with trust issues

(who has to learn that sometimes it's okay to accept help)

a kind capybara that's happy to share in its luck

(who portrays how even the most steady presence in your life might need a hand once in a while)

a good dog that just wants to be friends

(who has to learn that sometimes making real friends means learning how not to follow bad ones)

a heroic secretarybird that faces bullies for a stranger

(who shows how sometimes constantly fighting for the right thing can leave one exhausted to the bone)

and a kleptomaniac lemur that just wants to stare at its reflection

(who learns how to let go of the things that don't matter and grab hold of the people who do)

Luigi 🤔

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."

- Turkish Proverb

Okay, trees, I know it's hard to understand but those billionaires? That orange stain now in office? They're the axe, honey. They've always been the axe.

And we've never been anything but kindling to them.

Beyoncé wins Best Country Album at the GRAMMYs!

OMG, this is definitely going to become a meme. (Congrats on the win, Queen 🐝!)

US AI companies rn

LOL, so true!

I am very wary of people going "China does it better than America" because most of it is just reactionary rejection of your overlord in favor of his rival, but this story is 1. absolutely legit and 2. way too funny.

US wants to build an AI advantage over China, uses their part in the chip supply chain to cut off China from the high-end chip market.

China's chip manufacturing is famously a decade behind, so they can't advance, right?

They did see it as a problem, but what they then did is get a bunch of Computer Scientists and Junior Programmers fresh out of college and funded their research in DeepSeek. Instead of trying to improve output by buying thousands of Nvidia graphics cards, they tried to build a different kind of model, that allowed them to do what OpenAI does at a tenth of the cost.

Them being young and at a Hedgefund AI research branch and not at established Chinese techgiants seems to be important because chinese corporate culture is apparently full of internal sabotage, so newbies fresh from college being told they have to solve the hardest problems in computing was way more efficient than what usually is done. The result:

American AIs are shook. Nvidia, the only company who actually is making profit cause they are supplying hardware, took a hit. This is just the market being stupid, Nvidia also sells to China. And the worst part for OpenAI. DeepSeek is Open Source.

Anybody can implement deepseek's model, provided they have the hardware. They are totally independent from DeepSeek, as you can run it from your own network. I think you will soon have many more AI companies sprouting out of the ground using this as its base.

What does this mean? AI still costs too much energy to be worth using. The head of the project says so much himself: "there is no commercial use, this is research."

What this does mean is that OpenAI's position is severely challenged: there will soon be a lot more competitors using the DeepSeek model, more people can improve the code, OpenAI will have to ask for much lower prices if it eventually does want to make a profit because a 10 times more efficient opensource rival of equal capability is there.

And with OpenAI or anybody else having lost the ability to get the monopoly on the "market" (if you didn't know, no AI company has ever made a single cent in profit, they all are begging for investment), they probably won't be so attractive for investors anymore. There is a cheaper and equally good alternative now.

AI is still bad for the environment. Dumb companies will still want to push AI on everything. Lazy hacks trying to push AI art and writing to replace real artists will still be around and AI slop will not go away. But one of the main drivers of the AI boom is going to be severely compromised because there is a competitor who isn't in it for immediate commercialization. Instead you will have a more decentralized open source AI field.

Or in short:

I know this is bad for my Roth IRA, but it makes me happy, so oh well! It's hilarious that the US thought they could kneecap China by withholding their fancy chips from them, but they turned that into a blessing instead of a curse. They literally did less with more! Just like AI evangelists want us to do more work with less people! LOL, their philosophy came back and whacked them in the head like a boomerang! And it's my understanding that the head of OpenAI is a manipulative sociopath, so anything that's bad for him is a good thing.

There's so much more.

This is a character in a Don Bluth film who sings in a bass voice.

the description moves this from "sort of funny" to "absolutely perfect"

I'm jealous of how clean this cat's teeth look. My cat does not live up to that level of dental hygiene at all. Yes, I realize I'm a weirdo for honing in on that, but I spend a lot of time worrying about my cat's teeth and trying to smell his breath for decay to see if it's finally time to pony up hundreds of dollars for a cleaning.

There was an interesting thread on Bluesky dissecting Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's relationship

TL:DR - It seems like Gaiman has been exaggerating the level of closeness between them for YEARS

Ugh, this dude just gets creepier every day. I love ineffable husbands, but they should just cancel season 3 and send people to AO3 instead.

No one has figured out how to make money off this lovely little hellsite which is why it has resisted enshittification.

americans are getting bodied

I'd love to see a list of things Chinese people think are government propaganda about the US, but are actually true.

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

Damn, this dude is a plagiarist too? How does this keep getting worse?