james
@jamesweir.bsky.social
ann arbor mi | burlington vt | shanghai ch | aa again
birds, tennis, native plants, more housing, china, news and law, etc.
volunteer (board and bird walks) with washtenaw bird and natural alliance
he/they
www.jamesrichardweir.com
birds, tennis, native plants, more housing, china, news and law, etc.
volunteer (board and bird walks) with washtenaw bird and natural alliance
he/they
www.jamesrichardweir.com
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Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
remarkable that it only took ~2 years for the NYT to start victim shaming users of AI for their failure to identify the lies and inadvertent manipulations that are coded into the DNA of these applications. this technology is fundamentally incompatible with a society that values truth and nuance
February 10, 2026 at 2:28 AM
remarkable that it only took ~2 years for the NYT to start victim shaming users of AI for their failure to identify the lies and inadvertent manipulations that are coded into the DNA of these applications. this technology is fundamentally incompatible with a society that values truth and nuance
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February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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If you can, be nice to yourself and go birding this weekend.
February 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
If you can, be nice to yourself and go birding this weekend.
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Moltbook is Reddit for AI bots, and some people are freaking out about how amazing and sci-fi it is to see bots talk to each other. But..... it just sucks lol www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ope...
Moltbook is about as fun as watching two Roombas bump into each other
Sorry, techies — watching how AI agents secretly talk to each other is just boring. The Epstein files showed me secret human convos are more gripping.
www.businessinsider.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Moltbook is Reddit for AI bots, and some people are freaking out about how amazing and sci-fi it is to see bots talk to each other. But..... it just sucks lol www.businessinsider.com/moltbook-ope...
they should move the australian open men's final up so that i can watch it tonight. why wait imo
January 31, 2026 at 9:45 PM
they should move the australian open men's final up so that i can watch it tonight. why wait imo
as a tennis fan, nothing hits the dopamine receptors quite like a consequential zverev double fault 🎾🎾🎾
January 30, 2026 at 4:27 AM
as a tennis fan, nothing hits the dopamine receptors quite like a consequential zverev double fault 🎾🎾🎾
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
i’m watching the australian open in the middle of the night because sometimes you need to seek joy wherever it may find you
January 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM
i’m watching the australian open in the middle of the night because sometimes you need to seek joy wherever it may find you
one of the most fun things i've read in ages. ai could never blog this hard
today I set the record straight !
defector.com/let-the-reco...
defector.com/let-the-reco...
Let The Record Show That Ötzi Fucked | Defector
Ötzi, the 5,000-something-year-old man found frozen in the Alps, did not have an easy go of it. He was probably murdered, shot from behind with an arrow that missed his vital organs and led to heavy b...
defector.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
one of the most fun things i've read in ages. ai could never blog this hard
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
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"Wooly Winter Plumage," drawn in February 2022 and reposted today for obvious reasons.
January 23, 2026 at 2:48 PM
"Wooly Winter Plumage," drawn in February 2022 and reposted today for obvious reasons.
i hope daniil medvedev never retires
January 23, 2026 at 4:08 AM
i hope daniil medvedev never retires
even if you accept that there is value in using LLM-based AI tools for general research and academic studies (which you probably shouldn't), it is UNBELIEVABLY pathetic that an adult professional thought an archive of ChatGPT conversations was a permanent record. just astonishingly bad judgement lol
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 AM
even if you accept that there is value in using LLM-based AI tools for general research and academic studies (which you probably shouldn't), it is UNBELIEVABLY pathetic that an adult professional thought an archive of ChatGPT conversations was a permanent record. just astonishingly bad judgement lol
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
new form of life just dropped
Mystery tower fossils may be a whole new kind of life
Towering prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 PM
new form of life just dropped
diallo is one set on the way to knocking out zverev in the first round of the australian open tonight, which is also known as doing the lord’s work. pray for him 🙌🙌🙌
January 18, 2026 at 3:44 AM
diallo is one set on the way to knocking out zverev in the first round of the australian open tonight, which is also known as doing the lord’s work. pray for him 🙌🙌🙌
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Suggestions for brands of rope will now appear at the bottom of the page when the bot encourages self harm.
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.
www.wired.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Suggestions for brands of rope will now appear at the bottom of the page when the bot encourages self harm.
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a good racquet stringer is a kind of translator, as Roman Prokes explained to me for @thebeliever.net sports issue:
www.thebeliever.net/a-microinter...
www.thebeliever.net/a-microinter...
A Microinterview with Roman Prokes - Believer Magazine
PART I THE BELIEVER: What was it like when you first began working as a pro racket stringer? And how did you meet Andre Agassi? ROMAN PROKES: I was working for Jay Schwartz—it was the two of us—and we...
www.thebeliever.net
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
a good racquet stringer is a kind of translator, as Roman Prokes explained to me for @thebeliever.net sports issue:
www.thebeliever.net/a-microinter...
www.thebeliever.net/a-microinter...
mamdani thinks that everyone should be able to live with dignity, and that he so explicitly associates dignity with not only material needs but also rest and joy and art is so refreshing and important. if he is successful it will be an historical achievement that will change the future of the US
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:36 AM
mamdani thinks that everyone should be able to live with dignity, and that he so explicitly associates dignity with not only material needs but also rest and joy and art is so refreshing and important. if he is successful it will be an historical achievement that will change the future of the US
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guy who found god in prison: life is hard but through his grace we can conquer all
atheist who saw a ghost: i can explain this through science
guy whose grandpa invented Velcro: my dad says we can’t borrow his boat for Labor Day weekend so me and Tyler are gonna kill him
atheist who saw a ghost: i can explain this through science
guy whose grandpa invented Velcro: my dad says we can’t borrow his boat for Labor Day weekend so me and Tyler are gonna kill him
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
guy who found god in prison: life is hard but through his grace we can conquer all
atheist who saw a ghost: i can explain this through science
guy whose grandpa invented Velcro: my dad says we can’t borrow his boat for Labor Day weekend so me and Tyler are gonna kill him
atheist who saw a ghost: i can explain this through science
guy whose grandpa invented Velcro: my dad says we can’t borrow his boat for Labor Day weekend so me and Tyler are gonna kill him
i'll be screaming my way through 2026 apparently
January 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
i'll be screaming my way through 2026 apparently
"they recorded a bat catching and eating a european robin on the wing" is the new "they did surgery on a grape" 🦉
Bat vs. Robin—Scientists Capture Real-Life Audio of Midair Hunt
Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it
www.scientificamerican.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"they recorded a bat catching and eating a european robin on the wing" is the new "they did surgery on a grape" 🦉
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork