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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online.
Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.
Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.
Before streaming or YouTube—there was cartoonnetwork․com, 📺 home to Flash games, clips of Ed, Edd n Eddy & Powerpuff Girls, + Cartoon Orbit battles.
The site’s gone, but the Wayback Machine lets you time-travel back ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19981001...
#Wayback1T
The site’s gone, but the Wayback Machine lets you time-travel back ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19981001...
#Wayback1T
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online.
Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.
Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.
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Finished up! I feel like I learned a lot about metal shading with this one. Are there any art skills you struggle with?
#Samus #MetroidPrime4 #fanart #metroid #MetroidPrime4Beyond
#Samus #MetroidPrime4 #fanart #metroid #MetroidPrime4Beyond
September 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Finished up! I feel like I learned a lot about metal shading with this one. Are there any art skills you struggle with?
#Samus #MetroidPrime4 #fanart #metroid #MetroidPrime4Beyond
#Samus #MetroidPrime4 #fanart #metroid #MetroidPrime4Beyond
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COMING SOON.
August 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
COMING SOON.
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As a reminder: LLMs are not intelligent beings. You are providing an input to an algorithm that calculates, in a very complicated way, the probability in which words will follow each other in response to your input based on whatever data was used to train the algorithm.
The algorithm doesn't think.
The algorithm doesn't think.
July 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
As a reminder: LLMs are not intelligent beings. You are providing an input to an algorithm that calculates, in a very complicated way, the probability in which words will follow each other in response to your input based on whatever data was used to train the algorithm.
The algorithm doesn't think.
The algorithm doesn't think.
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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Advocates for AI say it's just another tool, and you can't blame tools for how they're used.
Listen, I don't blame hammers just because they might be used to hurt people. But if I found out that the factory making hammers relied on hurting people as its business model, yeah, I'd stop using hammers.
Listen, I don't blame hammers just because they might be used to hurt people. But if I found out that the factory making hammers relied on hurting people as its business model, yeah, I'd stop using hammers.
June 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Advocates for AI say it's just another tool, and you can't blame tools for how they're used.
Listen, I don't blame hammers just because they might be used to hurt people. But if I found out that the factory making hammers relied on hurting people as its business model, yeah, I'd stop using hammers.
Listen, I don't blame hammers just because they might be used to hurt people. But if I found out that the factory making hammers relied on hurting people as its business model, yeah, I'd stop using hammers.
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Get in the Venga Bus, Shinji
June 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Get in the Venga Bus, Shinji
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June 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers"
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch.
Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
www.wheresyoured.at
May 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers"
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For those curious, you can run the Powershell command
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove
to remove this.
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall"
lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove
to remove this.
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall"
lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.
April 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
For those curious, you can run the Powershell command
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove
to remove this.
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall"
lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove
to remove this.
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall"
lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.
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"Well, there went my shoe business" permanently ingrained in my mind
May 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"Well, there went my shoe business" permanently ingrained in my mind
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giving myself a gold star for this
May 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
giving myself a gold star for this
The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.
Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find
The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.
www.npr.org
May 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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“I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is,” Robert De Niro told CNN in a statement. “I love all my children.”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...
Robert De Niro shows support for daughter Airyn after she shares she’s trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’ | CNN
Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender.
www.cnn.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is,” Robert De Niro told CNN in a statement. “I love all my children.”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...
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love reading a 12 year old girl in 1911 write a mech pilot tweet in her diary abt the experience of driving an automobile
April 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
love reading a 12 year old girl in 1911 write a mech pilot tweet in her diary abt the experience of driving an automobile
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been thinking about this for years, now articulated:
April 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
been thinking about this for years, now articulated:
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So the courts can do this but can’t stop Meta from illegally using my books to train their AI?
Remember Grumpy Cat? A Sydney woman who sold a cat tee on Redbubble found herself and over 200 others having a default judgment against them in the US for $100k, brought by Grumpy Cat's trademark holder.
They then took nearly $600 from her PayPal account.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
They then took nearly $600 from her PayPal account.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case
Alda Curtis, who earned US$1 for the t-shirt she sold on RedBubble, had US$600 removed from her PayPal account without explanation
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
So the courts can do this but can’t stop Meta from illegally using my books to train their AI?
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This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.
“Supporters of inclusion view those who hesitate or have questions as bigots.” that’s not fucking true. we keep explaining how transition and athletics works BECAUSE we believe people who don’t know will mostly come around once they do know! if we thought they were all bigots we wouldn’t try!!
NYT actually published this sentence, which asks us to take baseless moral panic bullshit seriously as a reasonable position.
Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??
Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??
April 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2
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GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
January 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
ME IN 2025: ah, okay