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Pyperkub
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University Sysadmin, UCLA Alum, Science/Space geek, Fantasy/SF Fan, College Sports (especially Bruins!) fan.
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It could be flashback worse?
demotivational poster - coolness. You may be cool, but you'll never be 6 popped collars cool. With an image of a bearded guy with 6 popped collars
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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And yet, it does seem as if at least one complaint isn't valid - in this case, the issue is that they aren't growing an 'Ag' product, they are growing a drug, and unlike standard Ag products, if there's a fire there are worse consequences, so fire sprinklers make sense:
snip from article: Back on his farm, Hackett blamed his businesses’ dire future on the continued taxes as well as the county’s expensive regulations, which required him to spend a million dollars creating sprinkler systems for his entire farm. He said if he used his greenhouses for any other crop, he wouldn’t need to pay those costs, and would instead have a profitable business. “They pay nothing. They don’t have fire sprinklers or anything because it’s an ag product. And it is the same type of building,” Hackett said.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This was particularly apropos of our current situation. Only the disingenuous 'gotcha' slant matters.
Snip from article: . It’s the rattle of a person going on and professorially on, quite as if the substance of a discipline, or its intellectual trajectory, or even just the nourishing joy of sustained and serious study, mattered at all to the person he was talking to, or to the majestic institution he represents. And honestly, what could be more feeble? It’s not that those things don’t matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering, and I wouldn’t go on with the whole tedious business of teaching if I thought otherwise. It’s just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A nice evening to make the pilgrimageback to Pauley Pavilion!
Ucla vs Pepperdine basketball UCLA bs Pepperdine tip off at Pauley Pavilion
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Heh.
snip from article: Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Sorry Bill, but McCaffrey is the best RB in the league this year, and arguably Offensive MVP (esp. given the Niners injuries) ( from www.footballdb.com/statistics/n... ) :
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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🤣
snip from article: Walas: When Joe asked me to basically take charge of the creature effects, I was kind of going, “OK, that sounds great. I love creatures.” But it was odd at the beginning because it wasn’t just designing the characters, it was figuring out how we were going to do them all. Joe wanted to do everything stop-motion at first because he’s a huge stop-motion fan, which I am as well, but I’m just like, “Joe, do you understand how much stop-motion you’re talking about?” And he did. He understood. And then he had the idea of dressing monkeys up in costumes. Dante: It’s hard to believe, but yes, it is true. Finnell: We had a trainer come in with a monkey and everything, and Chris said, “No way. No way am I going to be able to put a Gremlin’s costume on this thing.” Dante: We got a rhesus monkey and put a Gremlin’s head on him, and he bounced around the editing room and shit all over everything. And it became quite apparent that this was not the way we were going to do it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I always remember Love at First Bite when Dracula raids a Blood Bank:
quote from the movie Love at First Bite: [Renfield opens a refrigerator at the blood bank that's stocked with units of blood] Renfield: Master! We hit the jackpot! Count Dracula: Only in America! Plastic disposable bodies! It's like a supermarket!
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Not a huge fan of Perplexity and AI agents, but this is the key bit from the article, and Perplexity is not wrong - Amazon doesn't care about sales, only tracking, ads,sponsored products and upsells... kind of like Google. : www.theverge.com/news/813755/...
snip from link: Perplexity says it has received an “aggressive legal threat” from Amazon that demands that it stop allowing its AI assistant to shop for users — something the AI startup claims is at odds with Amazon’s values. “Amazon should love this. Easier shopping means more transactions and happier customers,” Perplexity writes. “But Amazon doesn’t care. They’re more interested in serving you ads, sponsored results, and influencing your purchasing decisions with upsells and confusing offers.” In the post, Perplexity also cites a quote from Amazon CEO
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Important to note that the monopoly is still trying to grow - from the article:
snip from quoted article: Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next. “We’re going after Warners,” Ellison told confidants even before the Paramount deal was approved. “I want to be in the top three, not the bottom three.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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This is an important part of the current moment: @katestarbird.bsky.social you may need to think about misinformation as a cyberattack and infosec...
Snip from the quoted article: This incident between the Akira ransomware group and the Apache Software Foundation exposes a deeper, more strategic evolution in the modern cyber landscape. We’re witnessing a shift from attacks on systems to attacks on trust. The hacker’s claim might have been baseless, but its psychological payload was powerful. Groups like Akira don’t always seek immediate ransom; sometimes, they’re after attention, chaos, and credibility. By claiming to breach a respected institution like ASF — the guardian of open-source integrity — they’re attempting to shake confidence in an ecosystem that runs much of the world’s digital infrastructure.
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Make sure you have your Holy Hand grenade when passing that house!
Image from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the Vorpal bunny facing off against the questers
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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🤣🤣🤣
Image of the Twin Peaks TV show opening shot of the entrance to town with the classic "Twin Peaks" text from the opening. Above the text, a line graph - the really short left hand side "i wonder who killed her" The super long right hand side "what the fuck"
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Maga Tradwife (or maybe husband?):
Image of The Gimp from Pulp Fiction with the caption "The Gimp"
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Uh, for those of us paying attention, we have an 'extractive elite' tho. See #enshittification everywhere, and the new feudalism.
snip from article: “You either have an extractive elite — an oligarchy — or you have a productive elite — an aristocracy — in every society,” he said in an interview in his office in Scottsdale, Arizona. Many innovative periods in history have been driven by such an aristocracy, Buskirk argues, a point he makes in his 2023 book, “America and the Art of the Possible.” “In the classic Greek sense,” the term isn’t pejorative, he says, but “a proper elite that takes care of the country and governs it well so that everyone prospers.”
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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StarCraft Kerrigan - starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Sarah_K...
StarCraft 2 Wallpaper of Kerrigan as the Zerg Queen of Blades
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Impressive, but not Kareem in College ... we forget just how great he was defensively when he was younger...
Image of Lew Alcindor (aka Kareem Abdul-Jabbar later) at UCLA blocking a shot with his head at rim level and his arm not even fully extended
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Tho one believes this guy is why They Live is in the Venn!
"History" channel guy - "I'm not saying it's aliens... but it's Aliens."
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Heh. Kudos to the Maine CDC!
Newspaper ad with a frowning, quizzical mom - "My son can't fold laundry, but he does his own vaccine research?" sub head "If I need expertly microwaved pizza rolls or the perfect meme, I'll ask my son, It's a short trip down cellah. for vaccine advice I'll talk to my doctor." ASK YOUR DOC.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This is the evergreen statement, but fitness trackers don't do that (but the data can be helpful) - but I do expect the tie-in to sell you stuff is the real market...):
snip from article: “There is a really big market shift happening where people want to feel in control of their health,” says Alexi Coffey, VP of Product at Whoop.
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Go for the eyes, Boo!
Image of Boo's 'item' page in Baldur's Gate: "Boo is a fuzzy little hamser. While Minsc believes that Boo is a minature giant space hamster, you are rather certain that the furry rodent is just a normal hamster"
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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So, the original Blacula? ;)
Movie poster for the blaxploitation move Blacula
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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FTFY!
OP calendar with the text "Don't vote on Epstein file release!!!"
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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From one of the replies, the wikipedia page on what happened in 1989 (Caracazo) seems like a pretty good cautionary tale for where the US is currently headed... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracaz...
snip from wikipedia: One army lieutenant, Francisco Espinoza Guyón, said of orders received during the Caracazo:[13] No one gave me a direct order to shoot to kill, but they did tell us that constitutional rights were suspended and that, if we needed to use our weapons to repress a looting, we were authorized to do so because nothing was going to happen to us. In other words, maybe they didn't explicitly order us to kill, but they did insinuate that if we needed to, it was within the rules of engagement to do so. The IACHR said that a "disproportionate use of force" was especially used in impoverished areas
October 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Howloween decoration at the vet
Statue of a black cat standing on it's hind paws, with the front paws up, wrapped in mummy bandages why a spider on the bandages
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM