Shanth
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The bank robbery industry which sustains thousands will collapse if banks insist on locking their money in those pesky vaults
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The bank robbery industry which sustains thousands will collapse if banks insist on locking their money in those pesky vaults
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July 4, 1776. Read your primary sources, kids.
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
July 4, 1776. Read your primary sources, kids.
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Fun bit of wordnerdery for the day:
So I knew that "butler" was derived from the word "buttery," referring to a type of cellar, but that _butter_ wasn't actually kept in the buttery. But I've just discovered that the words aren't actually connected at all; they don't even have a shared root.
So I knew that "butler" was derived from the word "buttery," referring to a type of cellar, but that _butter_ wasn't actually kept in the buttery. But I've just discovered that the words aren't actually connected at all; they don't even have a shared root.
March 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Fun bit of wordnerdery for the day:
So I knew that "butler" was derived from the word "buttery," referring to a type of cellar, but that _butter_ wasn't actually kept in the buttery. But I've just discovered that the words aren't actually connected at all; they don't even have a shared root.
So I knew that "butler" was derived from the word "buttery," referring to a type of cellar, but that _butter_ wasn't actually kept in the buttery. But I've just discovered that the words aren't actually connected at all; they don't even have a shared root.
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Ha ha WTF
March 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Ha ha WTF
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Acyn
@Acyn • 2h
Trump signs an Executive Order dismantling the Department of Education.
[a C-SPAN video of trump at a desk, with the chyron:
TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO DISMANTLE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.]
next post:
Barack Obama
@BarackObama • 9h
I'm cutting it close, but here are my #MarchMadness picks. Who do you have
winning it all?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mhvcx2z27zq2jtb3i7f5beb7/bafkreibbruwshuqoebnc5hx6mphqmvxhlpjtdku72oybutamfzbc76dtua@jpeg)
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can like walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it🩷
March 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can like walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it🩷
Ah! My time to shine!
«As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“
1/3 ... continued
«As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“
1/3 ... continued
what's the most specifically funny joke you know. as in, you need to know or understand a subject to get why it's funny. the dad joke of your speciality, if you will
February 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Ah! My time to shine!
«As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“
1/3 ... continued
«As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“
1/3 ... continued
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My whole life is a lie. 😭
history is wild, for eg. if Pythagoras hadn't successfully taken credit for a theorem he had nothing to do with, he'd be remembered as a skeevy af cult leader who claimed he could speak to animals, time travel, killed an asp with a venomous bite and insisted that fava beans are literally evil
February 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My whole life is a lie. 😭
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*excited Shesheshen noises*
A Hallmark movie only it’s two disillusioned horror monsters exhausted by high-stress big city life who jointly inherit a bed and breakfast and move back to their small, rural home town, which they slowly depopulate all while rediscovering their joy of murder and falling in love with each other.
January 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
*excited Shesheshen noises*
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Was watching an academic lecture on Caravaggio on YouTube (premium is so worth it) and found myself irrationally angry when people in the audience started asking questions. "I'm not here to listen to the comments section!!!" 🤣
Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time.
Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time.
January 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Was watching an academic lecture on Caravaggio on YouTube (premium is so worth it) and found myself irrationally angry when people in the audience started asking questions. "I'm not here to listen to the comments section!!!" 🤣
Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time.
Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time.
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Here's my 2024 roundup of several of the books I read and loved this year, including titles by @veronicaroth.bsky.social @edenrobins.bsky.social @scalzi.com @katrichardson.bsky.social and more. maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/what...
What MRK Read and Loved in 2024
I read some truly wonderful books in 2024, and I want to share them (and my reviews!) with you. When you click on a book below, it will take you to Bookshop.org, so you can support both fabulous au…
maryrobinettekowal.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Here's my 2024 roundup of several of the books I read and loved this year, including titles by @veronicaroth.bsky.social @edenrobins.bsky.social @scalzi.com @katrichardson.bsky.social and more. maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/what...
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Alt text: Screenshot of a quotation. "Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling." --Greta Thunberg.
December 29, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Alt text: Screenshot of a quotation. "Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling." --Greta Thunberg.
Name a Non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
December 23, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Name a Non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
Also, connecting from the combustibility of hydrogen to hydrogen (fusion) bomb to the more generic atom bomb. I can actually see the way that guy connects factoids and comes up with his dumb electric shark scenarios and it's always like the dumbest thing you'd expect from an LLM.
I’m confused, am I supposed to *dislike* hydrogen cars after envisioning one vaporizing MTG? (Reposting with alt text)
October 29, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Also, connecting from the combustibility of hydrogen to hydrogen (fusion) bomb to the more generic atom bomb. I can actually see the way that guy connects factoids and comes up with his dumb electric shark scenarios and it's always like the dumbest thing you'd expect from an LLM.
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Historians would like to have a word with Mr. Bezos about what was happening between 1933-1946.
October 29, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Historians would like to have a word with Mr. Bezos about what was happening between 1933-1946.
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Let's celebrate #WorldOctopusDay with this lovely jug with an #octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
🏺 AncientBluesky
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
🏺 AncientBluesky
October 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Let's celebrate #WorldOctopusDay with this lovely jug with an #octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
🏺 AncientBluesky
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
🏺 AncientBluesky
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This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky:
September 22, 2024 at 7:55 PM
This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky:
Woot! Look at that
September 17, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Woot! Look at that
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They want no non white people. That's the whole cake and all the ingredients. Everything else is just marketing
One thing I think is important about this sustained attack - Vance is *still* tweeting about it - on Haitians in Ohio, is that it puts the lie to everything a certain sort of immigration restrictionist said they wanted.
"Oh, we just want them to come here legally"
They did!! 1/
"Oh, we just want them to come here legally"
They did!! 1/
September 16, 2024 at 9:19 AM
They want no non white people. That's the whole cake and all the ingredients. Everything else is just marketing
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Maybe you've heard of the #BirdsArentReal movement, but here's an equally wild idea that is nevertheless true:
TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically).
By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.
TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically).
By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.
September 15, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Maybe you've heard of the #BirdsArentReal movement, but here's an equally wild idea that is nevertheless true:
TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically).
By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.
TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically).
By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.
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Me, a person whose memory stretches longer than the racist story that people like Naomi Wolf tell themselves, remembers that she’s actually been good at this the entire time.
September 12, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Me, a person whose memory stretches longer than the racist story that people like Naomi Wolf tell themselves, remembers that she’s actually been good at this the entire time.
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A lot of people miss the point of science fiction. Ursula K. Le Guin didn’t, of course.
September 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM
A lot of people miss the point of science fiction. Ursula K. Le Guin didn’t, of course.
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Certainly while the offender is alive to profit from it. The Death of the Author requires the death of the author.
September 10, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Certainly while the offender is alive to profit from it. The Death of the Author requires the death of the author.
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It's never too late to start creating. It's never too late to actually learn something. It's never too late to realize that the work is the *point.*
September 2, 2024 at 6:37 PM
It's never too late to start creating. It's never too late to actually learn something. It's never too late to realize that the work is the *point.*