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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · Jan 3
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Happy birthday to Mr @johnreppion.bsky.social 🎂 - a fine writer, and an even better person. Follow him, buy his stuff!
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Today’s synchronicity burst: rubber ducks (5 unrelated ‘encounters’ during my day, when I couldn’t tell you the last time I’d come across mention of them).

Make of that what you will, I have no idea. 🤷🏼‍♂️
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Photo of a Nauruan warrior in the Nauruan Civil War around 1880 wearing traditional battle armour.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauruan...
man in scale type armour holding a spear
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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"There's Something About Merit"

I'll see myself out.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Merit's wig: A 3,400-year-old Egyptian headpiece smoothed down with ancient homemade hair gel
Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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"The images revealed two anomalies directly behind the polished granite blocks, which would indicate the presence of air-filled voids."

gizmodo.com/researchers-...
Researchers Discover Two Mysterious Voids in Giza Pyramid
A strangely smooth expanse of granite on the Menkaure Pyramid might be a second entrance.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

The reasons why 3I/ATLAS is probably not an alien spacecraft, Guillermo del Toro's grandmother tried to exorcize him (twice), meet the guru of the AI apocalypse, and much more:

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News Briefs 11-11-2025
A reminder that we do our best to source paywall-free links, but it’s getting harder all the time! (Where we can’t, we do try to provide an ‘Archived page link’ at the end of the news brief linking to...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Undefeated 'Most divorced man on the planet', absolute GOAT. Nobody's ever coming close to this guy.
Elon Musk tweet that says "Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says "I will always love you". Beneath it is an AI video, the still shows a young AI-generated woman with dark hair looking at the camera.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Very cool!

www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/rese...
Researcher constructs 3D interactive map of Tenochtitlan
Thomas Kole, a Dutch born Technical Artist, has constructed a 3D interactive map of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
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November 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Excellent article.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Yeah, fuck this guy.

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Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
He also had strong opinions about people's
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November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Scans reveal unknown 'voids' in Giza pyramid, why it's so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory, world's biggest spiderweb discovered in cave, and much more:

www.dailygrail.com/2025/11/news...
News Briefs 10-11-2025
To avoid misunderstandings, I’ve written today’s Daily Grail news briefs as clearly as possible… Quote of the Day I hate AI. AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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OMG, so perfect.
rohmersimpson.bsky.social Jaime Noir Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 1d
remember when the Roko's Basilisk concept broke nerd-crank containment and someone effortlessly dismissed it as "imagining in the future there'll be a boot of such enormous size that you have to start licking it today"
rohmersimpson.bsky.social Jaime Noir Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 1d
is there a speculative concept that's less scary than the Technological singularity? tech is going to escape human control and everybody dies? that's fucking stupid.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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She's so running.

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November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Nope!

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Watched @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein last night. Just beautiful, perhaps my favourite of his films, and that's saying something.

Shout-out to my fellow Brisbane-ite Jacob Elordi for a brilliant job as the 'monster'...not easy to bring depth while recreating what is now a cultural archetype.
a man wearing a hood and a mask looks at the camera
ALT: a man wearing a hood and a mask looks at the camera
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November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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"We often imagine the ancient Egyptians as obsessed with death and the afterlife. But what if the familiar story of judgment and salvation owes more to modern ideas than ancient ones?"

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The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife - The Ancient Near East Today
We often imagine the ancient Egyptians as obsessed with death and the afterlife. But what if the familiar story of judgment and salvation owes more to modern ideas than ancient ones?
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November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Some especially fun reads this week from @dailygrail.com to dig into:

🛸 Searching for Artifacts of Ancient Technological Species in Our own Solar System 🛸
www.dailygrail.com/2017/05/sear...

🔮 The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program 🔮
www.wired.com/story/the-ci...

#UFOsky #PSIsky
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Gonna try and set up an interview with Sam Altman because people would love seeing me suicide myself from boredom 15 minutes in...
Interview transcript: "ALTMAN: I eat junk food. I don’t exercise enough. It’s like a pretty bad situation. I’m feeling bullied into taking this more seriously again. COWEN: Yes, but why eat junk food? It doesn’t taste good. ALTMAN: It does taste good. COWEN: Compared to good sushi? You could afford good sushi. Someone will bring it to you. A robot will bring it. ALTMAN: Sometimes late at night, you just really want that chocolate chip cookie at 11:30 at night, or at least I do. COWEN: Yes. Do you think there’s any kind of alien life on the moons of Saturn? Because I do. That’s one of my nutty views. ALTMAN: I have no opinion on the matter. COWEN: No opinion on the matter. ALTMAN: I don’t know."
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I feel like a lot of what's wrong with AI can be explained by the fact that the people developing it talk like this.
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Alien probes could be lurking in our solar system, the CIA used this psychic meditation program, the European invention of the ancient Egyptian afterlife, and much more:

www.dailygrail.com/2025/11/news...
News Briefs 07-11-2025
We can’t all be big-brained geniuses, but the Grail news briefs are here to at least fill your head with a bit more knowledge… Quote of the Day The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Soc...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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A lot to parse in this headline. 🤔

nypost.com/2025/11/04/w...
Kim Kardashian invited to join research team for 3I/ATLAS comet — which scientists fear could contain alien life
A Harvard astrophysicist who believes the Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth could possibly be fueled by alien technology has invited Kim Kardashian to join his research team — after she …
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November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The trouble is, so many of us have solar panels on our roof that we already don't need the 3 free hours of electricity use. 🤷‍♂️

(There are plans now though to roll out more two-way EV chargers to allow us to charge during the day, and then use them as batteries for night time use/send to grid.)
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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This is some serious galaxy brain shit right here.
Text from article: "Musk described the Optimus robots, which have not gone into mass production, as the future of the company and of humanity. He reiterated a claim that it would be “the biggest product of all time”, and suggested they could be used in everything from healthcare to prisons. “You now get a free Optimus and it’s just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” Musk said. “You don’t have to put people in prisons and stuff. It’s really wild to think of the possibilities.”"
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM