Bdelloid rotifer, an aquatic microorganism. "These little guys are pretty common in fresh water systems (and activated sludge plants, where I tend to see them). The little chainsaws are not actually rotating, they are extensions with many small vibrating cilia on them that just look a bit like rotating blades. The cilia create water movement into their mouths, which gets free free floating bacteria in there to eat them." (/u/Skudedarude) Also, they reproduce by parthogenesis lol

Wow, Netflix is going to release a remake of the One Piece anime (only the early episodes though) in February 2027!

Just learned that creatine might be the cause of all the damn cramps I've been having the last few months. I'll stop taking it because I didn't notice any performance gains anyway and even if there were any, it's definitely not worth it. I didn't know I could have cramps in my lats.

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/talkie/ "Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you?" Really interesting experiment, an LLM trained only on historical data. Can such models rediscover general relativity? (see also Machina Mirabilis)

1000th episode of the Syntax podcast!

Always take the path of least cortisol

Cub Swanson retires after a flawless final performance #UFC327 I'll always remember his fight against Doo Ho Choi, one of the best fights of the decade

https://x.com/jaffathecake/status/2039632975831191858 https://x.com/kvncnls/status/2040155158848344176 https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas The HTML-in-Canvas proposal is really cool

Artemis II is launching soon!!

https://x.com/karpathy/status/2036487306585268612 How a Poisoned Security Scanner Became the Key to Backdooring LiteLLM Supply chain attack on LiteLLM (97M downloads/month). I really need to start containerizing everything 💀

if i make millions, nobody around me will be broke and i mean that. i will be moving to a very wealthy neighborhood https://x.com/intern/status/2034369777808883852

Why I ditched ComfyUI for Diffusers (Youtube) Mellon (Github) Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines Interesting new alternative to ComfyUI

I kind of want to make myself a cyberdeck

Mic check one two one two

Is this thing on