Linh Pham
@linh.social
Wait Wait Stats Person, SW Release Engineer, GenAI Pessimist
#StarTrek #DoctorWho #Python #TBTLTen #Fedora #NoBridge
https://stats.wwdt.me | https://linhpham.org
Pronouns: he/they
Mastodon: https://linh.social/@qlp
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#StarTrek #DoctorWho #Python #TBTLTen #Fedora #NoBridge
https://stats.wwdt.me | https://linhpham.org
Pronouns: he/they
Mastodon: https://linh.social/@qlp
Pixelfed: https://pxl.linh.social/qlp
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It's time for the second annual #WaitWaitStats Wrapped where I highlight some of the statistics from the #WaitWaitDontTellMe shows that aired in 2025.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wait Wait Stats Wrapped 2025
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me Statistics Wrapped with various statistics for the shows that aired in 2025 up through December 20, 2025
www.flickr.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's time for the second annual #WaitWaitStats Wrapped where I highlight some of the statistics from the #WaitWaitDontTellMe shows that aired in 2025.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Move fast, fsck the consequences
Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI
Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI
Sam Altman is hiring a Head of Preparedness at OpenAI to worry about the dangers of AI.
buff.ly
December 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Move fast, fsck the consequences
@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social I first interpreted you saying "four now" as "for now" right after I was referred to as a "super producer" and got confused for a moment. I hadn't been producering for a while now 😅
#TBTL
#TBTL
December 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social I first interpreted you saying "four now" as "for now" right after I was referred to as a "super producer" and got confused for a moment. I hadn't been producering for a while now 😅
#TBTL
#TBTL
Although both phrases includes meat-related words, but "people beefing with each other" and "people porking with each other" have completely different meanings 😜
#TBTL
#TBTL
December 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Although both phrases includes meat-related words, but "people beefing with each other" and "people porking with each other" have completely different meanings 😜
#TBTL
#TBTL
By the way, it wasn't just potential PTSD for Paul F. Tompkins when it came to the two balloon pops, but also for some of us inside the Alberta Rose Theatre. 🥴
#LiveWireRadio
#LiveWireRadio
New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: "Best of 2025 Special" with Paul F. Tompkins, Danez Smith, Riki Lindhome, and more
This "Best of 2025" special episode features some of Live Wire's favorite moments of the year: host...
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This "Best of 2025" special episode features some of Live Wire's favorite moments of the year: host...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
By the way, it wasn't just potential PTSD for Paul F. Tompkins when it came to the two balloon pops, but also for some of us inside the Alberta Rose Theatre. 🥴
#LiveWireRadio
#LiveWireRadio
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New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: "Best of 2025 Special" with Paul F. Tompkins, Danez Smith, Riki Lindhome, and more
This "Best of 2025" special episode features some of Live Wire's favorite moments of the year: host...
Episode Download
This "Best of 2025" special episode features some of Live Wire's favorite moments of the year: host...
Episode Download
December 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: "Best of 2025 Special" with Paul F. Tompkins, Danez Smith, Riki Lindhome, and more
This "Best of 2025" special episode features some of Live Wire's favorite moments of the year: host...
Episode Download
This "Best of 2025" special episode features some of Live Wire's favorite moments of the year: host...
Episode Download
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If you've curious how the effect was accomplished, you no longer have to wonder...
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
How the Macintosh Plus helped make Star Trek history! #VFX
YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
If you've curious how the effect was accomplished, you no longer have to wonder...
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
It's funny to see something that looks like a pixelated question mark and a pixelated exclamation mark in a sea of colored boxes from this chart of #WaitWait shows recorded in Chicago (purple), Away (yellow) and home/remote studios (green).
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#WaitWaitStats #WaitWaitStatsProject
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#WaitWaitStats #WaitWaitStatsProject
December 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's funny to see something that looks like a pixelated question mark and a pixelated exclamation mark in a sea of colored boxes from this chart of #WaitWait shows recorded in Chicago (purple), Away (yellow) and home/remote studios (green).
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#WaitWaitStats #WaitWaitStatsProject
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#WaitWaitStats #WaitWaitStatsProject
My brain: 😈
Me: What?
My brain: You're gonna hate me and I'm gonna enjoy it.
Me: Wait, what? Why?
My brain: [Queues up "Together or Not At All - The Song of Amy and Rory"]
Me: 🤬😕😭
#DoctorWho
Me: What?
My brain: You're gonna hate me and I'm gonna enjoy it.
Me: Wait, what? Why?
My brain: [Queues up "Together or Not At All - The Song of Amy and Rory"]
Me: 🤬😕😭
#DoctorWho
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
My brain: 😈
Me: What?
My brain: You're gonna hate me and I'm gonna enjoy it.
Me: Wait, what? Why?
My brain: [Queues up "Together or Not At All - The Song of Amy and Rory"]
Me: 🤬😕😭
#DoctorWho
Me: What?
My brain: You're gonna hate me and I'm gonna enjoy it.
Me: Wait, what? Why?
My brain: [Queues up "Together or Not At All - The Song of Amy and Rory"]
Me: 🤬😕😭
#DoctorWho
It's time for the second annual #WaitWaitStats Wrapped where I highlight some of the statistics from the #WaitWaitDontTellMe shows that aired in 2025.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wait Wait Stats Wrapped 2025
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me Statistics Wrapped with various statistics for the shows that aired in 2025 up through December 20, 2025
www.flickr.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's time for the second annual #WaitWaitStats Wrapped where I highlight some of the statistics from the #WaitWaitDontTellMe shows that aired in 2025.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Full set of infographic images have been posted to Flickr, which have been published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
December 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Governments: EVs are pushing the electrical grids to the limit!!!!1
Also, governments: We're investing [insert a number with way too many zeros] into AI!
AI companies right as the bubble bursts: We're too big to fail! Give us bailouts!
Also, governments: Sure!
🤬 🖕🏼 🤬
#Rant
Also, governments: We're investing [insert a number with way too many zeros] into AI!
AI companies right as the bubble bursts: We're too big to fail! Give us bailouts!
Also, governments: Sure!
🤬 🖕🏼 🤬
#Rant
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Governments: EVs are pushing the electrical grids to the limit!!!!1
Also, governments: We're investing [insert a number with way too many zeros] into AI!
AI companies right as the bubble bursts: We're too big to fail! Give us bailouts!
Also, governments: Sure!
🤬 🖕🏼 🤬
#Rant
Also, governments: We're investing [insert a number with way too many zeros] into AI!
AI companies right as the bubble bursts: We're too big to fail! Give us bailouts!
Also, governments: Sure!
🤬 🖕🏼 🤬
#Rant
I don't know why, and it doesn’t mean I think I'm better than everybody else.
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I don't know why, and it doesn’t mean I think I'm better than everybody else.
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New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Susan Orlean and David Ramirez
Acclaimed writer Susan Orlean (The New Yorker) reflects on her storied career through the lens of he...
Episode Download
Acclaimed writer Susan Orlean (The New Yorker) reflects on her storied career through the lens of he...
Episode Download
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Susan Orlean and David Ramirez
Acclaimed writer Susan Orlean (The New Yorker) reflects on her storied career through the lens of he...
Episode Download
Acclaimed writer Susan Orlean (The New Yorker) reflects on her storied career through the lens of he...
Episode Download
There is nothing humanist about GenAI and no amount of polishing up the massive turd sandwich that are the resources being hoovered up and burned to make it all happen (not to mention the shady AF financial bulls***)
AI companies are sick of their favorite buzzword
AI companies are sick of their favorite buzzword — so they’re inventing new ones
It’s the great AGI rebrand.
buff.ly
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There is nothing humanist about GenAI and no amount of polishing up the massive turd sandwich that are the resources being hoovered up and burned to make it all happen (not to mention the shady AF financial bulls***)
No sh*t, Sherlock... Fashies are gonna fashy.
Brendan Carr doesn’t regret his threats to broadcasters
Brendan Carr doesn’t regret his threats to broadcasters
The FCC chair denied his comments about Jimmy Kimmel’s show were even a threat.
buff.ly
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
No sh*t, Sherlock... Fashies are gonna fashy.
GenAI slop to pump scams... and I don't mean the sketchy af products the ads are shilling.
I'm talking about the GenAI bubble/scam itself.
I'm talking about the GenAI bubble/scam itself.
NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
GenAI slop to pump scams... and I don't mean the sketchy af products the ads are shilling.
I'm talking about the GenAI bubble/scam itself.
I'm talking about the GenAI bubble/scam itself.
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In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal cited a study estimating that “electricity prices have increased by as much as 267 percent in the past five years” in “areas located near significant data center activity.”
Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.
arstechnica.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal cited a study estimating that “electricity prices have increased by as much as 267 percent in the past five years” in “areas located near significant data center activity.”
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Underrated feature in #Fedora Workstation and #GNOME:
After pairing my iPhone with my two laptops via Bluetooth, there is a tether button that appears in the System Menu that allows me to quickly use the mobile hotspot feature without having to remember my dingus hotspot Wi-Fi password 😅
#Linux
After pairing my iPhone with my two laptops via Bluetooth, there is a tether button that appears in the System Menu that allows me to quickly use the mobile hotspot feature without having to remember my dingus hotspot Wi-Fi password 😅
#Linux
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
People having a nuclear meltdown about taking shoes off in people's homes could be entertaining... if it weren't such a personality.
December 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
People having a nuclear meltdown about taking shoes off in people's homes could be entertaining... if it weren't such a personality.