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I couldn't think of anything to put here on the bird site, I couldn't think of anything to put here on the elephant site, and I can't think of anything to put here.
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LLMer Fudd.
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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At last, scientists believe they have an answer to 'why did the Minidisc fail'
Sony’s Japanese MiniDisc ads with Jamiroquai
December 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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New print for Sac Anime! #theowlhouse
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Andrew Milne's Letterboxd review of Avatar: Fire & Ash is very good; definitely the review I've read that comes closest to my opinion of the film:
boxd.it/c9siWF
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH - Another effort of top notch craftswork and competence abound, but admittedly some recursive trip-ups on the well-worn ground of the prior entries. Wrote all about for free here: www.patreon.com/posts/146325...
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH and The Trials of (Re)Treading | Film Crit Hulk
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December 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The third Avatar film has only just come out, and judging by Reddit and Letterboxd, I think it's already becoming clear what's going to become the Internet's consensus shorthand summary of it.
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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ME: Internet, I am sad. Make me happy.

INTERNET: Here are five terrible things. If you come back in an hour, I will have more.

ME: Jesus Christ.
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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her shield stops the quick strike, while the slow blade may pass
Here is Bjork for no reason
December 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Chrome on Android no longer displays an image's full alt text when you long press an image - it gets truncated.

Looks like this bug was first reported in 2019, but that bug report thread has received new replies in the last week:
bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/i...
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Remember how biased and leading the questions were in favour of the AI companies? And this was still the response.
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:

- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)

🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.

NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Epic Games Store. Mystery game is the next title buff.ly/HE94Ti2
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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December 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Ever since the Sad Puppies, right up to this week's FIFA travesty, it's been astonishing to me how much the far right is motivated by wanting awards, but not wanting to do the things you have to do to get them.
The funniest part is that it became clear that Ben Shapiro REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wanted to get nominated and spent a bunch of money on it only to not even get a nomination. www.status.news/p/ben-shapir...
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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When my wife told me Scandinavian languages don't have the letter 'R' I immediately thought: No way!
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Sonic CD US Metallic Madness is mostly just riffing on top of this sequence preset from Korg Wavestation
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Thank you for such a thoughtful analysis! I also wanna shout out our other amazing pilot character designers, @dindu99.bsky.social, @seanandcoe.bsky.social, and our incredibly skilled AD @eyecager.bsky.social. 🙏🏻💙💫
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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NEW VIDEOS: The character design of Knights of Guinevere

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-op...
The character design of Knights of Guinevere | TBSkyen
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November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A thorough comparison of the differences between the DVD and Disney+ versions of the first episode of The Beatles Anthology:

earwicker.com/beatles-anth...

(Via www.reddit.com/r/beatles/co... )

Now if only someone could do a similar comparison to the ITV/ABC broadcast versions as well...
Beatles Anthology - DVD vs Disney+ Comparison
earwicker.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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new insult: "I hope an american makes a misinformative video essay about your favourite thing"
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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October 25, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 22nd 2025 (Hard), in less than 12 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

No mistakes, and not a terrible time. Pleased with that one!
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM