Jeff Rich
@astrojrich.bsky.social
Astronomer in Pasadena & beyond. Posts mine etc. From Bremerton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtB1Oij-Eg&ab_channel=MxPxVEVO). he/him.
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Wife bought some scissors from a trusted brand
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Wife bought some scissors from a trusted brand
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The Financial Times' Bryce Elder (@bryce.lol) wrote up a piece about my newsletter.
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Financial Times' Bryce Elder (@bryce.lol) wrote up a piece about my newsletter.
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
Fan subs from the late 90s/early 00s were peak anime
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
a close up of a girl wearing a blue and white striped shirt
Alt: a close up of a girl wearing a blue and white striped shirt and a blue and white hat, jumping and smiling and clasping her hands together
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Fan subs from the late 90s/early 00s were peak anime
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It is with no small amount of satisfaction that I tell you no, you do not.
I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket
Grappling with difficulties in your career? Try asking an AI-powered advisory panel of experts, suggests Carsten Lund Pedersen.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It is with no small amount of satisfaction that I tell you no, you do not.
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I'm not going to try but I am basically certain that I could get any of the latest "PhD level" LLM chatbots to agree that Timecube is a coherent description of reality with fewer than ten prompts.
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I'm not going to try but I am basically certain that I could get any of the latest "PhD level" LLM chatbots to agree that Timecube is a coherent description of reality with fewer than ten prompts.
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so softbank is selling their shares in nvidia in order to invest in openai... which nvidia was already investing in... and openai uses nvidia's chips to run their company... so they have to pay nvidia...
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
so softbank is selling their shares in nvidia in order to invest in openai... which nvidia was already investing in... and openai uses nvidia's chips to run their company... so they have to pay nvidia...
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we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers
Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers
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seems bad
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
seems bad
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🔭 Road to the Galactic Centre
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔭 Road to the Galactic Centre
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
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Always be reskeeting Cask of Amontillado jokes.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Always be reskeeting Cask of Amontillado jokes.
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It’s such a beautiful museum and garden— thanks for letting me know it is free this weekend! @ Norton Simon Museum
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It’s such a beautiful museum and garden— thanks for letting me know it is free this weekend! @ Norton Simon Museum
Mid century pork tenderloin
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Mid century pork tenderloin
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
August 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
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:’3
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
:’3
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1 Onion Subscriber vs 20 Non-Subscribers on our new series: Encircled. Subscribe at https://membership.theonion.com/?campaign=701a500001bfegPAAQ to get the paper delivered to your door.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
1 Onion Subscriber vs 20 Non-Subscribers on our new series: Encircled. Subscribe at https://membership.theonion.com/?campaign=701a500001bfegPAAQ to get the paper delivered to your door.
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What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
Sometimes my birthday is on Election Day and sometimes it’s good and this is one of those years thanks everyone
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Sometimes my birthday is on Election Day and sometimes it’s good and this is one of those years thanks everyone
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These people are going fuckin nuts partying over a guy who campaigned on affordable housing, and subsidized childcare and busses. Like c’mon man. There is a very obvious path forward to fight the horrors. Praying the right people realize that
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
These people are going fuckin nuts partying over a guy who campaigned on affordable housing, and subsidized childcare and busses. Like c’mon man. There is a very obvious path forward to fight the horrors. Praying the right people realize that
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the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
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D O G O W N E R S A S S E M B L E !
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
D O G O W N E R S A S S E M B L E !
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I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them