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Mark Wales @smallhadroncollider.com · Nov 16
A picture of a fork with one tine labelled “Wonk”, a picture of a fork with two tines labelled “Took”, a picture of a fork with three tines labelled “Freak”, and a picture of a fork with four tines labelled “Fork”
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Emperor Palpatine

xkcd.com/3157/
Comic. Scatter chart with Emperor Palpatine character age on Y axis and Ian McDiarmid age during filming on X axis. Plot with descending arrow beginning from Return of the Jedi (emperor age 90, McDiarmid age 40) → Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones, and The Phantom Menace (emperor age 50-70, McDiarmid age 50-60) → The Rise of Skywalker (cloned body, undefined age) with a gradient vertical line (McDiarmid age over 70) → Now (emperor age under 10, McDiarmid age over 80). [caption] To continue the trend, they should make a Star Wars movie where 81-year-old Ian McDiarmid plays the emperor as a toddler.
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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captaindisillusion.bsky.social
Me? I'm just an ordinary 9-year-old. My superpower? The uncanny ability to predict which static element in a cartoon is going to animate!
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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benpartridge.bsky.social
My short film DADDY SUPERIOR is now on Youtube!

Featuring:
@mikewozniak.bsky.social
@chriscantrill.bsky.social
@sammytdobson.bsky.social
@amygledhill.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY2x...
Daddy Superior - Short Film
YouTube video by Benjamin Partridge
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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anildash.com
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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xkcd.com
Physics Paths

xkcd.com/3155/
Vertical comic structured like flow chart. (1) Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value. (2) I hope *I* have value. I’ll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check. (3) [Time Passes] (4) Oh no! My insight didn’t overturn physics! But I don’t think I’m worthless… [arrows to two different options] (5a) Healthy Path: Maybe this was not a well-thought-out test of my value. (5b) Path of Ruin: The establishment must be *suppressing* my insight!
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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jlukeroberts.bsky.social
Q. What do you call a prehistoric babadook?
A. A Yabbababbadook!
October 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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emilyscartoons.bsky.social
(Nun speaks to Giant Walrus) Agatha. Agatha spitt it out. Agatha (Walrus spits out penguin wearing wimple) (Nun slaps penguin) Consort NOTTE with the Wallruss Ten Hail Marys and NO SUPPERE (Walrus thumps away, penguin grumbles)
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
I've had to take very strong allergy medication before bed lately, which has resulted in weird dreams. I also started my yearly fall horror movie binge. So last night I had a vivid dream that I worked at a "Babadook reserve." People kept bringing me their Babadooks and I had to manage them in a zoo.
September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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beefanddairy.bsky.social
New episode out today! It's our live commemoration of the third anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Feat:
@sueharrison123.bsky.social
@mikeshephard.bsky.social
Sammy Dobson
@atomcrowley.bsky.social
@linneasage.bsky.social
Mike Wozniak

Thanks to @greigarjohnson.bsky.social for vids!
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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janelleshane.com
New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv.
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
Me: I'd like to revisit our conversation last month about hiring a new CEO for our startup. We had a candidate who was very tall and had great hair, but some of the board was hesitating because he was a giraffe. You urged us to go ahead with the hire, pointing out the broad popularity of giraffes among people of all ages. Now, a month into his tenure as CEO, the giraffe has failed to make a single executive decision, and instead spends his time in the campus courtyard stripping the trees of leaves. The board is extremely disappointed, and asked me to request an explanation and a formal apology. ChatGPT said: Thank you for the update, though I’m genuinely sorry to hear how things have unfolded. In retrospect, my recommendation to proceed with the hire was based too heavily on superficial traits—charisma, universal appeal, and a commanding physical presence—and not enough on executive competency, decision-making aptitude, or opposable thumbs. While the candidate’s towering stature and enviable hair made a strong initial impression, I failed to adequately account for his species-specific limitations, particularly his lack of business acumen, human language fluency, and capacity for boardroom strategy beyond “find tree, eat leaves.”
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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beefanddairy.bsky.social
New episode out now!

It's been a dark month for the beef industry, but we're here for you. We will not let Jacobinius Arse Syndrome beat us.

Featuring
@mikewozniak.bsky.social
@mikeshephard.bsky.social
@tomcrowley.bsky.social
@linneasage.bsky.social

maximumfun.org/episodes/bee...
Episode 123 - Jacobinius Arse Syndrome | Maximum Fun
Mike Wozniak, Mike Shephard, Tom Crowley and Linnea Sage join in this month as we get to grips with the new outbreak of Jacobinius Arse Syndrome.
maximumfun.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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richterscale.bsky.social
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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mikewozniak.bsky.social
Further brave and crucial documentary making from @benpartridge.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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alicefraser.bsky.social
Your baby doesn’t want a subtle pastel monochrome party theme and the only reason you think monochrome is sophisticated is because the Greeks painted their statues with washable paint.
June 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I remember the first time my dad asked me to punch him in the face. Me and my 27 brothers (no sisters) and their 26 moms were there with me and dad. All 55 of us were just wrasslin. "Let me have it," dad said. He had been awake since 1991, because of the drugs and blackmail. Weeks later he died.
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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merrittk.com
doctor: well mr. yoda, we fixed the language center of your brain. you should talk totally normal now

yoda: thanks dude
May 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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plante.bsky.social
For years, I hoped NPR, NYTimes, or the ghost of Gimlet would make a video game podcast. A weekly, hour-long audio magazine with essays, interviews, tight editing, and a cheeky sense of humor.

Nobody made the show I wanted to hear.
So, I made it myself.

Here's the first episode of Post Games.
The award that changes the lives of its winners
Plus: a limited, hand-numbered launch poster by Sonny Ross
postgame.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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atomcrowley.bsky.social
"Unfinished Business" - a short film by Tom Crowley.
May 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
My good software lives in Canada, you wouldn't know her
justinjackson.ca Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · May 24
If everyone is building *so much good software* with AI, where is all the good software?
May 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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captaindisillusion.bsky.social
NEW VIDEO!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLx...
CD / Blur
YouTube video by Captain Disillusion
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
Let's find out how much Jeff Bezos really cares about free markets and personal liberty www.theverge.com/amazon/65795...
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now
Is Jeff Bezos a coward? Let’s find out.
www.theverge.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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briancgrubb.bsky.social
financial advice in a weird time:

-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw

simple
April 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
The number of working satellites has soared in the past five years to around 11,000, mostly because of constellations of orbiters that provide Internet connectivity around the globe, but it comes with a series of problems. Nature explores the issues and how scientists are reacting. 🔭 🧪
Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy. Here’s how researchers are fighting back
SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.
go.nature.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM