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Pan

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been thinking about this research paper figure

Fig 1.
Depiction of a lobster undergoing exposure to THC vapor in a sealed chamber. Components of the vapor delivery system are identified.

The components are Vape Canister, Trigger Unity, and Programmable Controller.

November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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lost it when i got to the bottom of this message

November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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this is incredible

November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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learning about several types of guy

Modest reasoner: A modest reasoner is one for whom for every believed proposition p, B_c p → p only if they believe p. A modest reasoner never believes B_c p → p unless they believe p. Any reflexive reasoner of type 4 is modest. (Löb's Theorem)

∀p : B(B_c p → p) → B_c p

Queer reasoner: A queer reasoner is of type G (see below) and believes they are inconsistent—but is wrong in this belief.

Timid reasoner: A timid reasoner does not believe p [is "afraid to" believe p] if they believe that belief in p leads to a contradictory belief.

∀p : B(B_c p → B⊥) → ¬B_c p

November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM

Pan

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this labeler has been eye-opening lol, i feel like im looking into everyones soul while scrolling the tl

stechlab-labels.bsky.social
A research project from Cornell Tech, investigating using automated signals to help users have more context about the accounts they are interacting with.

A set of labels from the stechlabs labeler that indicate when a user has gone 24 hours without a break longer than 1, 2, and 4 hours from posting online

A set of labels from the stechlabs labeler that indicate when a user has posted more than 50 or 100 times yesterday

November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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youtube just showed me what seems to be an entirely automated AI cooking channel, i dont like how frequently im finding stuff like this lately lol

A grid of AI generated recipe YouTube videos

October 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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wow. its like im really Luigi.

A first person POV of Luigi's Mansion, E. Gadd says "You won this mansion in a contest you didn't even enter?"

October 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM

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thinking about how The Dillinger Escape Plan had a single day to mix Calculating Infinity and their bassist (who had recently been paralyzed and didnt have good control of his hands) threw a sauce packet which hit the computers reset button and couldve destroyed all their work

What’s the craziest thing that happened in the studio?

Doll: I almost single-handedly destroyed an entire day’s worth of mixing. You get the bunch of us in a room together and it’s like we’re seven years old.

Weinman: We had one day to mix the whole record. Adam was hanging out in the studio with us and he didn’t have much control over his hands at all at the time. He threw a packet of barbeque sauce from some fast food we ordered—it flew across the room at lightning speed and the corner of the packet hit the reset button on the computer. It shut down the entire computer, restarted it right in the middle of the mixdown, and Steve didn’t know when he had saved last. Dude, I almost rolled him into traffic. It turned out he saved about 15 minutes before and we lost a little bit of work.

Minakakis: Yeah, it mysteriously made a right-angle turn in mid-air and restarted the computer. Everyone just got quiet and looked at each other because Steve couldn’t remember when he saved last. Actually, it was me and Adam fucking around. I was facing where he was in his wheelchair. I said something smart to him, he threw it, some magnetic force took the packet and it made some sort of JFK mid-air bullet-turn, and it hit the computer. We both knew what happened and I was kinda like, “Uhhhh . . . ” and Adam was just like, “Yeah, it was me.” The coincidence was amazing, especially when you’d probably miss this button 999 times out of 1,000 if you were deliberately throwing at it.

Benoit: Seriously, that was insane! How, especially with Adam throwing it, did that thing hit a frickin’ button a quarter of an inch in diameter?! Evetts, being Evetts, started freaking out: “What the fuck?! What the fuck was that?!” That seriously took the cake.

October 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Pan

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you can tell searle is an american philosopher because when he explains the chinese room he asks you to imagine a computer thinking about a hamburger

August 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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something i laugh at whenever i open the Wikipedia app is that the daily highest viewed page on the Simple English section always seems to be the article for the color black. what could possibly be so interesting about this