Wyatt Mackey
machinations.bsky.social
Wyatt Mackey
@machinations.bsky.social
Lies about word etymologies
Postdoc in applied math, NeuroAI at UTK
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[documentary narrator] against all odds, groundhogs remain the only rodents working in the field of meteorology today
February 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I for one welcome our new mushroom overlords
www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-m...
Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body
Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say
www.the-independent.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Domdom gives a big sniff of approval to pistachio ice cream!
September 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM
So… someone in Baltimore lose their pet marmot? Because this guy was just strolling!
August 29, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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A small Hasidic story from Kafka’s diary, October 1915. My translation.
August 15, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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I mean. Denmark != Italy, but I’m also not opposed to it
June 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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I have a new story out today and I am so excited to share it with you!!!!

I wrote this story with the deliberate goal of making your brain do a thing that human brains really do not do. Give it a try and let me teach you a whole new way to read?

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
Editor's Note: This story, "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" is one of the most amazing stories I've ever read. I urge everyone to read it, & I'm so excited to finally share it with you all. —John Joseph Adams lightspeedmagazine.com/HowToRead
May 9, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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April 21, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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I just need people to understand, as this poem has been circulating where I can see it since October 2023, that it was first published in August 2014
March 27, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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obviously it was pea-hacking
No-one has ever been able to replicate Gregor Mendel's observations of pea plants. They're a little "too perfect", lacking even random statistical noise that would have been expected from small sample sizes.

The big question: was it scientific fraud?

(Art: Harald Ritsch)
March 1, 2024 at 10:55 PM
The secret to being good at fencing is every time you lose a point you have to say “Rats, foiled again!”
February 6, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Anyway I want to point out that the reason why Zuck is raising a very small number of extremely pampered cattle is almost certainly because he’s claiming his compound as a farm and taking advantage of extremely favorable tax breaks on personal land that will never feed as single person in Hawai’i.
This post reads like rich people satire
January 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Happy zero year anniversary to the time a girl told me she was ta kinderwhore, and I asked her what she the best kinder chocolate was 😭
January 9, 2024 at 10:03 PM