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Careful officer, this shit is no less relevant than when it first came out 25 years ago and may just open your eyes a little too wide
Excerpt from No Logo by Naomi Klein Excerpt from No Logo by Naomi Klein Excerpt from No Logo by Naomi Klein
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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If you insist ma’am, but this is all you get without a warrant
A battered copy of NO LOGO by Naomi Klein (pub. 2000)
October 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I just got served an ad on YouTube which is, no joke, 6 hours long
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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September 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Batman slapping Robin meme. Robin: "But I was just following orders!" Batman: "Stow it, brownshirt"
August 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Testing tool use in a Claude bot where the tools return random values is fun cos it gets so surprised when the randomizer tells it it's snowing in LA #claude #anthropic
A Claude-powered chatbot expresses surprise when the tools it's using in the testing environment (which return randomized values) tell it that the conditions in LA are snowy
July 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Claude gets me
Claude's reaction to my (a Python developer) joke about Java developers - "If the calendar had been invented by Java developers, every month would have exactly 28 days. Except for December which would have 55."
July 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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My life is complete
July 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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So, Claude seems to think I'm some kind of culinary innovator 💅
June 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Bit of a pivot there, LinkedIn
A screenshot of the secondary tabs of my Gmail inbox. The tabs are labeled "Promotions", "Social" and "Updates" and each contains an abbreviated teaser with the name of the sender of the latest unread email and the beginning of the subject line. Under the Social tab, the teaser says "LinkedIn - Alan, follow Christ..."
June 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Far saner numbers than I expected. They clearly didn't run this poll on Twitter
Screenshot of a poll result (Reuters/Ipsos, April 16-21, taken from MSNBC's YouTube channel) in which 83% of respondents opined that the Trump administration should obey court orders (vs 13% no)
April 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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For any wondering the context

And yes for the record I can do the math myself easily enough but sometimes one just isn’t in the mood
March 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Siri’s in her “I can’t be bothered doing basic math” era
March 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Or how about .. and hear me out here .. downloadable plans for a free-energy device that can collapse the entire oil economy
A screenshot of text that reads: "In 1901, Tesla secured $150,000 from financier J.P. Morgan to build a 185-foot-tall, mushroom-shaped tower on the north shore of Long Island capable of transmitting messages, telephony and images to ships at sea and across the Atlantic Ocean by using the Earth to conduct signals. As work began on the structure, called Wardenclyffe Tower, Tesla wanted to adapt it to allow for wireless power delivery, believing from his experiments on radio and microwaves that he could light up New York City by transmitting millions of volts of electricity through the air. Morgan, however, refused to give Tesla any additional funding for his grandiose scheme. (Some speculate that Morgan cut off funds once he realized that Tesla’s plan would have crippled his other energy-sector holdings.) Tesla abandoned the project in 1906 before it could ever become operational, and Wardenclyffe Tower was dismantled in 1917."
March 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I'm giving feedback
A screenshot of a feedback report to Anthropic.ai (the makers of Claude) in which the user explains that Claude misidentified a handwriting-style font as actual handwriting
February 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Me when I discover that salami can be equipped as a weapon #baldursgate3
September 16, 2023 at 2:12 AM