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Willard
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· Nov 27
Reply Guy Waiting for Main Character
Acrylic on canvas
Partial gift of Snottie Drippen to the Tate Museum in memory of Twitter, 2024.
Acrylic on canvas
Partial gift of Snottie Drippen to the Tate Museum in memory of Twitter, 2024.
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🎶 I’m feeling great unease
Demand for food, fuel, and feed
And also wood, it seems
It’s leading to a great land squeeze
With all the love from me
With all the dyin' trees, I scream
The angels in my dream, yeah
Have found solutions like these, yes please 🎶
Demand for food, fuel, and feed
And also wood, it seems
It’s leading to a great land squeeze
With all the love from me
With all the dyin' trees, I scream
The angels in my dream, yeah
Have found solutions like these, yes please 🎶
How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore
By 2050, an area of land twice the size of India will be converted to agriculture. A four-pillared approach can ensure the world meets growing demand for food and fuel without destroying the environme...
www.wri.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🎶 I’m feeling great unease
Demand for food, fuel, and feed
And also wood, it seems
It’s leading to a great land squeeze
With all the love from me
With all the dyin' trees, I scream
The angels in my dream, yeah
Have found solutions like these, yes please 🎶
Demand for food, fuel, and feed
And also wood, it seems
It’s leading to a great land squeeze
With all the love from me
With all the dyin' trees, I scream
The angels in my dream, yeah
Have found solutions like these, yes please 🎶
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checkmate, Mars
The Sun: ha ha I will blast charged particles at the humans and fry them! 😈
Mother Earth: I will protect my children with my magnetic field, which will also give them beautiful lights 😇
Mother Earth: I will protect my children with my magnetic field, which will also give them beautiful lights 😇
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
checkmate, Mars
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okay so not this, but sort of this--my skills are rusty and the thought was intrusive
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
okay so not this, but sort of this--my skills are rusty and the thought was intrusive
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*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
January 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
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NEW COP30 TEXT: COP reform is on the official agenda in Belém as "arrangements for intergovernmental meetings" (AIM)
But…here's the 1st draft text on AIM.
"Agreed to continue consideration…" 🥱🥱🥱
unfccc.int/sites/def...
But…here's the 1st draft text on AIM.
"Agreed to continue consideration…" 🥱🥱🥱
unfccc.int/sites/def...
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
NEW COP30 TEXT: COP reform is on the official agenda in Belém as "arrangements for intergovernmental meetings" (AIM)
But…here's the 1st draft text on AIM.
"Agreed to continue consideration…" 🥱🥱🥱
unfccc.int/sites/def...
But…here's the 1st draft text on AIM.
"Agreed to continue consideration…" 🥱🥱🥱
unfccc.int/sites/def...
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Great news: Johns Hopkins makes tuition free for most undergraduate students. ($200k/year or less is about 85% of American households.)
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...
Johns Hopkins becomes tuition-free for undergraduate students from families earning up to $200,000
New tuition promise program will offer free tuition for students from more than 85% of American households and tuition plus living expenses for families earning up to $100,000
hub.jhu.edu
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Great news: Johns Hopkins makes tuition free for most undergraduate students. ($200k/year or less is about 85% of American households.)
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is fragmenting on its way back out from the Sun. 🧪🔭
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is fragmenting on its way back out from the Sun. 🧪🔭
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...
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"Our findings highlight how market-driven optimization pressures can systematically erode alignment, creating a race to the bottom ...
Safe deployment of AI systems will require stronger governance and carefully designed incentives to prevent competitive dynamics from undermining societal trust."
Safe deployment of AI systems will require stronger governance and carefully designed incentives to prevent competitive dynamics from undermining societal trust."
⚠️ Fascinating new research shows LLMs become misaligned when optimized for audience—even when explicitly instructed to remain truthful
Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06105
Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06105
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Our findings highlight how market-driven optimization pressures can systematically erode alignment, creating a race to the bottom ...
Safe deployment of AI systems will require stronger governance and carefully designed incentives to prevent competitive dynamics from undermining societal trust."
Safe deployment of AI systems will require stronger governance and carefully designed incentives to prevent competitive dynamics from undermining societal trust."
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the kind of posts where the nurse looks at the doctor and asks, "time of death?"
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
the kind of posts where the nurse looks at the doctor and asks, "time of death?"
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![[Correction, August 8: A previous version of this update said that Franklin County officials did not respond to a
query about whether a referral had been made. In fact, an email the county spokeswoman sent was inadvertently
missed during the reporting. This piece has been updated with her response that the agency was prohibited from sharing information regarding specific cases.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4gbfe34dbyxc7ewy5ie7uvml/bafkreihlkzqmfayp47s5tic5hfvosjawchsnychry2yd5bmw6fcd7ir5xa@jpeg)
July 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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If my time zone math is right, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler published this gem about two hours before the WSJ published their story hahaha
July 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
If my time zone math is right, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler published this gem about two hours before the WSJ published their story hahaha
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Interesting quote from this 2019 article about why he was ousted.
“Thomas' actions were first revealed after he was asked to interview Epstein about rumors that he was advising Tesla CEO Elon Musk”
www.businessinsider.com/new-york-tim...
“Thomas' actions were first revealed after he was asked to interview Epstein about rumors that he was advising Tesla CEO Elon Musk”
www.businessinsider.com/new-york-tim...
A former New York Times staffer quietly left the paper after revealing he had solicited charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein
Former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. told his editors he became friends with Epstein after profiling him in 2008, NPR reported Thursday.
www.businessinsider.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Interesting quote from this 2019 article about why he was ousted.
“Thomas' actions were first revealed after he was asked to interview Epstein about rumors that he was advising Tesla CEO Elon Musk”
www.businessinsider.com/new-york-tim...
“Thomas' actions were first revealed after he was asked to interview Epstein about rumors that he was advising Tesla CEO Elon Musk”
www.businessinsider.com/new-york-tim...
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We could all probably do with a 72hr suspension a few times per year, if we're being honest.
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We could all probably do with a 72hr suspension a few times per year, if we're being honest.
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Ultimately, it all comes down to 'this is too many millions'.
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Ultimately, it all comes down to 'this is too many millions'.
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Poem
leaves orange on the trees
leaves yellow on the ground
bloodbath in the Senate
leaves orange on the trees
leaves yellow on the ground
bloodbath in the Senate
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Poem
leaves orange on the trees
leaves yellow on the ground
bloodbath in the Senate
leaves orange on the trees
leaves yellow on the ground
bloodbath in the Senate
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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Malcolm Roberts has been a conspiracy theorist for a long time so draconian predictions that never happen isn’t a surprise.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Malcolm Roberts has been a conspiracy theorist for a long time so draconian predictions that never happen isn’t a surprise.
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it's becoming clear the epstein was a manosphere guru for the richest and most influential losers alive
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
it's becoming clear the epstein was a manosphere guru for the richest and most influential losers alive
The wildest thought experiment or a leading question
Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The wildest thought experiment or a leading question
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This Day in Labor History: November 12, 1928. Workers for United Fruit in Ciénega, Colombia went on strike over the horrible conditions of their work and life. The response from United Fruit? Kill them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 12, 1928. Workers for United Fruit in Ciénega, Colombia went on strike over the horrible conditions of their work and life. The response from United Fruit? Kill them.