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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
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January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
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GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
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Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
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Me to dog: keep the house safe while we're gone
Dog: i am afraid of wind
Dog: i am afraid of wind
December 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Me to dog: keep the house safe while we're gone
Dog: i am afraid of wind
Dog: i am afraid of wind
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
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The Billy Woods verse on Dogeared by Armand Hammer is maybe my favourite piece of writing of 2026. "I dreamt of boats loose from their moorings..."
armandhammer.bandcamp.com/track/dogear...
armandhammer.bandcamp.com/track/dogear...
Dogeared (feat. Kapwani), by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
from the album Mercy
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December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Billy Woods verse on Dogeared by Armand Hammer is maybe my favourite piece of writing of 2026. "I dreamt of boats loose from their moorings..."
armandhammer.bandcamp.com/track/dogear...
armandhammer.bandcamp.com/track/dogear...
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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"Farage’s concern for women is more than a hollow performance. It’s dangerous."
Nigel Farage’s hollow, dangerous concern for women
Reform’s radical plans for mass deportations won’t make anyone safer.
www.newstatesman.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"Farage’s concern for women is more than a hollow performance. It’s dangerous."
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Demolition of Cockenzie Power Station, East Lothian in 2015.
August 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Demolition of Cockenzie Power Station, East Lothian in 2015.
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
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Finnish artist, author and illustrator Tove Jansson painting in her home studio, 1956 #womensart
July 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Finnish artist, author and illustrator Tove Jansson painting in her home studio, 1956 #womensart
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great work by the loons here, takes a lot of effort to make so many kids needlessly dangerously ill like this. i hope they're happy
Reported measles cases surged from 60,756 in 2023 to 148,974 last year in the WHO’s 53-country European region. https://on.ft.com/4nPZELk
July 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
great work by the loons here, takes a lot of effort to make so many kids needlessly dangerously ill like this. i hope they're happy
I did not expect to get teary eyed reading this, but Marie has articulated some things I've been thinking of recently, specifically relating to post lockdown isolation, and probably some things I haven't yet considered. A lovely essay.
in this week's newsletter! one of my hideously personal essays, on my long journey towards loving people and why I'll never take human connection for granted, and I don't think you should either: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-pro-huma... [free to read! and I'm running a subscription sale!]
July 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I did not expect to get teary eyed reading this, but Marie has articulated some things I've been thinking of recently, specifically relating to post lockdown isolation, and probably some things I haven't yet considered. A lovely essay.
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New NOURA MINT SEYMALI is superb: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYH_...
NOURA MINT SEYMALI - “Guéreh” كيره
YouTube video by Noura Mint Seymali
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July 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New NOURA MINT SEYMALI is superb: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYH_...
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OK, so here’s my JJ Abrams story…
Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…
Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…
Happy birthday to the composer of the theme music to the nonexistent 70s private detective TV series “Chuck Taggart, Private Eye!”
That’s one hell of a story. I suppose it’s about time I told it…
That’s one hell of a story. I suppose it’s about time I told it…
Happy birthday J.J. Abrams, born June 27, 1966.
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June 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
OK, so here’s my JJ Abrams story…
Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…
Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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I genuinely think this particular aesthetic trend (Good Art Is Didactic And Also Assumes You Are Very Stupid) is a non-trivial source of anti-woke backlash, like unironically. It is really really annoying, and I think it has provided wedges by which anti-wokes can radicalise nerds.
Reading a fiction book rn which is *so* obnoxiously didactic bc the author is *so* anxious you might draw the wrong political conclusion that it's making me anti-woke. Catch me on the Tim pool podcast
June 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I genuinely think this particular aesthetic trend (Good Art Is Didactic And Also Assumes You Are Very Stupid) is a non-trivial source of anti-woke backlash, like unironically. It is really really annoying, and I think it has provided wedges by which anti-wokes can radicalise nerds.
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May I present the mascot for the Halifax Oyster Festival, Pearl
June 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
May I present the mascot for the Halifax Oyster Festival, Pearl
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A Tesla dealership in Manhattan has been occupied by protesters chanting “Zelenskyy is a hero.”
March 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A Tesla dealership in Manhattan has been occupied by protesters chanting “Zelenskyy is a hero.”
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Celestial has a new Shaw Brothers YouTube sharing full movies with subs in glorious DVD quality! Lots of rare titles so far, like the 1st film Chang Cheh directed for Shaw (co-directed w/ Yuan Qiu-Feng), the musical The Butterfly Chalice. Haven't seen it yet (or any of the others), so this is neato!
Shaw Brothers Cinema
Your free destination for the best of classic Chinese cinema — Welcome to Shaw Brothers Cinema! Enjoy full-length films from the legendary Shaw Brothers Film Library, owned by Celestial Pictures. With...
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February 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Celestial has a new Shaw Brothers YouTube sharing full movies with subs in glorious DVD quality! Lots of rare titles so far, like the 1st film Chang Cheh directed for Shaw (co-directed w/ Yuan Qiu-Feng), the musical The Butterfly Chalice. Haven't seen it yet (or any of the others), so this is neato!
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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
February 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies