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made video games once but is doing something else now • cannot be killed • cannot be destroyed

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cat

me holding my small finger cat on my shoulder and shifting my eyes sideways to glance at him

November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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placard reading "bidh fàilte air fògarraich an seo"

November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM

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"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...

10. The baby announcement

At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.”

19. The equipment

I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb.

This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense.

The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine.

1. The fake initiative

Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind.

Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative.

16. The scam

We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website.

You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.

November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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It's me!

me with me head tilted left in a bright red rabbit mask and giant norwegian knit jumper

me in the same mask but looking directly at the camera

same outfit, smiling with my arms clasped together

November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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assigned girlboss at birth

Text from a form, asking:

1. To which gender do you* identify?

*by you, we mean the owner of at least 51% of your business and a leader (CEO, COO, etc.) of your business

November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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♥️♦️♥️♦️♥️

top down view of a shiny red leather rabbit shaped mask, surrounded by colour swatches and scraps of leather

zoomed in view of the strap - red leather with a metal belt buckle

zoomed in view of the V (church window) shaped join where the strap is stitched on

November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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respectfully disagreeing with the vet's assessment that we should try turning his heating pad down

ginger cat sitting huddled up on an electric heating mat, looking at camera, unamused

November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM

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PREVOSLY

graphic from the opening of The traitors with flames at the bottom and red writing which reads PREV [image of a someone in a hood] SLY

November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM

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not a serious country

November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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emergency knitting supply box at inverness airport

small picnic hamper with colourful yarn, crochet hooks and knitting needles on a wooden shelf

November 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM

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mmmm, delicious

Hare mask made of leather sitting on a wooden table. It's wet formed so 3d with long ears pinched together at the base

3/4 view of the mask showing a w shaped muzzle formed from two bits of leather curved inwards

November 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM

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just baking my halloween costume in the oven

a leather hare-shaped mask sitting lit by a warm yellow light on a tray in an oven

November 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM

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Congrats folks I know you've been working hard for this

Nicely lit photo of an Edinburgh skyline with the headline on it: Edinburgh has official been crushed the UK's puppy play fetish capital

October 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM

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imagine if you carved the pictish beast thinking it's obviously a horse and found out that 1500 years later people are still arguing over what it's meant to be

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictish...

line drawings of the pictish beast, a sorta dolphin/horse looking thing

October 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM

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wait, you can do that?

checkbox with the text "I do not have an email address"

October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM

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Full excerpt:

Nearby there is Leum nam Fiann and this is where Lord
Walter Comyn of Ruthven met his terrible end. Having
decided to force all the women of Badenoch between the
ages of 12 and 30 years to work naked in the fields, he
was returning from Atholl to make sure that his sensual
deeds were carried out when retribution caught up with
him. As the manuscript says "He ended miserably, being
torn in pieces with a horse in Badenoch, where falling from
his horse, his foot stuck in the stirrup and was brought
to Blair by the said horse." It appears that the horse was
found, foaming at the mouth, with no rider on its back,
but dragging one of Walter's legs which was banging from
the stirrup - found on the banks of the Tarf, at a place
called Lechois which means "one foot". A search was
promptly made, and his body was discovered here, with,
so the legend says, two eagles who represented the mothers
of two of the girls in the fields, preying on it. It is a
desolate, awesome spot and Walter's terrible ending is
recalled by the Gaelic curse in Badenoch: "Walter's fate
of Gaick on you."

October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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Excuse me?

Exert from book:
"Nearby there is Leum nam Fiann and this is where Lord
Walter Comyn of Ruthven met his terrible end. Having
decided to force all the women of Badenoch between the
ages of 12 and 30 years to work naked in the fields, he
was returning from Atholl to make sure that his sensual
deeds were carried out when retribution caught up with
him. As the manuscript says "He ended miserably, being"

October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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but the big takeaway was that while knotwork can be seen as regular, formal and obeying strict geometric rules, the primary characteristics of Pictish art are novelty, innovation and creativity. they were just going wild with it!

Pictish carved cross stone with asymetrical knotwork patterns

October 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM

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went to a workshop at Groam House Museum yesterday on Transmutation - the way pictish art mutates continuous stands between knotwork, key pattern and spirals. it was so much fun!