I regret to inform you that "relaxation" has been rebranded as "nervous system regulation."

(the fediverse seems much better about this than other platforms though)

I feel like 80% of all text posted online now is malformed. About half of the time I can kind of decipher it and the other half I have no idea what someone is trying to communicate. I guess it's gonna be all emojis from here on out.

Just saw someone ask if the fediverse was going to talk about a planned public execution in the US, and I've seen people & various publication accounts post and talk about it today, but nothing trends here, so...it's not going to feel like other social networks. No topic is ever going to be THE […]

It was good there was no tsunami warning in Hawaii from the Panama earthquake that very few people would've listened to anyway. Tsunamis are a difficult risk management issue here...their size can be very hard to estimate and there might be 8-12 hours warning of a possible tsunami from quakes […]

The Alaska Airlines app is asking for my passport for travel from Hawai'i to Arizona. This is new & exciting! I've flown to the mainland many times and this is the first time any airline's system has decided it's an international trip. The rot is accelerating...

An AI scam got a news article published in Science magazine and the problems editors now face sound overwhelming. In this case, the scammer used the name and credentials of a real writer, harming her reputation. The unintended negative consequences of LLM-world are enormous. Good of my buddy […]

I find the story plausible because 'merica but also this wasn't a superstar. He was more of a journeyman.