Notorious RBMK

@comraderobot.bsky.social

2405

Followers

648

Following

8777

Posts

equal parts shitposting, left politics, physics, DIY science, and photos (space/birds/stuff). formerly astroparticle physics, now astrodynamicist. "dr" in certain extremely specific professional contexts. ohio for 3 decades then west coast (sfbay, now pdx)

Posts Replies Media Feeds

Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

*a bunch of dragon drama finally happens* WE ARE SO BACK BAY-BEE

very excited for Dragon Show tonight because I am a basic bitch funko ass nerd

yoooooooo

yep exactly. can press left, right, or both

Reply to

Claire 🐝

in this house we believe in science peanut butter

Reply to

Claire 🐝

yeah one is bad

hot take but life is too short for peanut butter you have to fuckin prep and babysit. do you hate science just get the fuckin skippy

Save money on a gym membership and just stir natural peanut butter instead.

Reply to

Symbo1ics

lol just relieved the tension here haha check the timeline

behold the Covid Lockdown Keyboard. designed the PCB, wrote the firmware in the Arduino IDE, autocad’d the case, and soldered it myself. kind of a weird cul de sac of a project, but keep meaning to open source it properly

using a very bizarrely layed out keyboard I designed from the PCB up during covid lockdowns, and not hating it! maybs can be my daily driver again

Reposted by

Notorious RBMK

if you see me in the kitchen at 3am no you didn't

Reply to

JayIsPainting

man I knew this had a smell but couldn't put my finger on it

Reply to

Ian Boudreau

wow im humble't

discord dnd night selfie. in my natural element with all my fuckin gadgets

Reply to

a.a. de levine

“touch cellulose”

very excited for Dragon Show tonight because I am a basic bitch funko ass nerd

Reposted by

Notorious RBMK

history is just learning the lore of real life

dnd night. rolling for damage on fireball NEVER gets old

Reply to

Audley: leftover wizard

hell yeah

late-teens drinking bullshit aside ive only not made it to a toilet to puke like once and i was 5

sun and mosquitos and projectile blackberry vine gore from weed whacking means I have gods itchiest legs rn

Reply to

Kate Violette

yeah puritans still messing with our heads real bad 400 years on

Reply to

Kate Violette

also labor organization. we straight up can't strike the way the French do when they feel like they have no other options

Reposted by

Notorious RBMK

fun Me Fact this is my absolute favorite shuttle because i spent a tax refund in grad school on a solo trip to see it launch (STS-127)

i remember when they moved that shit through LA! also endeavour (it’s named after a ship that uses the pre-reform spelling)

kamala or get off the pot. do it this week or do it never. anything else is fuckin LUDICROUS

look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

Reply to

Blue Heron Farm

god i wish we had the climate for a tortoise

Reposted by

Notorious RBMK

The reason the Pacific Northwest is so fascinating and eerie to Americans is because it functions as a gateway to an uncanny realm of magic and terror (Canada)

Reposted by

Notorious RBMK

Reply to

Cooper Lund

Mr Skinner and Ms Krabapple were in the closet selecting candidates and I saw one of the candidates and the candidate looked at me

mark of the beast

Reply to

Father Jim's Flapjacks

yeah looking like we’re on a downright thermodynamic trajectory. “cooked,” as the kids say