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The world is full of drivers who pass you so they can wait at the traffic light directly in front of you instead of directly behind you.
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The world is full of drivers who pass you so they can wait at the traffic light directly in front of you instead of directly behind you.
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Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
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The amount of coordination between what I assume is the actor in the costume and a tech puppeteer controlling the face so you can do a shockingly convincing “out of breath” bit is staggering.
That or there’s a JARVIS level tech reading the actors face in real time.
Or it’s a real bear.
That or there’s a JARVIS level tech reading the actors face in real time.
Or it’s a real bear.
Days later, and I still can't stop watching this. This song is now burned into my brain. And that Paddington... that's a game changer. Blown away. So want to go to London and watch the new musical!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndl0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndl0...
Paddington Bear and Tom Fletcher perform The Bear in the Ballroom ✨ BBC Strictly 2025
YouTube video by BBC Strictly Come Dancing
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The amount of coordination between what I assume is the actor in the costume and a tech puppeteer controlling the face so you can do a shockingly convincing “out of breath” bit is staggering.
That or there’s a JARVIS level tech reading the actors face in real time.
Or it’s a real bear.
That or there’s a JARVIS level tech reading the actors face in real time.
Or it’s a real bear.
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A French charity is testing an unusual fund-raising approach in the fine art world: Raffling off a Picasso painting worth more than 1 million euros to one winner. Each of the raffle tickets is on sale for 100 euros, and proceeds will go toward research into Alzheimer’s disease. trib.al/Xi9XqjE
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A French charity is testing an unusual fund-raising approach in the fine art world: Raffling off a Picasso painting worth more than 1 million euros to one winner. Each of the raffle tickets is on sale for 100 euros, and proceeds will go toward research into Alzheimer’s disease. trib.al/Xi9XqjE
I like this. Even though I prefer my notebook, I still think this is a good thing. David Lynch said something along the lines of "A lost idea is the saddest thing in the world"
repebble.com/blog/meet-pe...
repebble.com/blog/meet-pe...
Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain
Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain
repebble.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I like this. Even though I prefer my notebook, I still think this is a good thing. David Lynch said something along the lines of "A lost idea is the saddest thing in the world"
repebble.com/blog/meet-pe...
repebble.com/blog/meet-pe...
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The miracle of toothpaste-kah is that a tube of toothpaste that had only enough in it to last one week, somehow was squeezed so it lasted 8
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The miracle of toothpaste-kah is that a tube of toothpaste that had only enough in it to last one week, somehow was squeezed so it lasted 8
FINALLY!
www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/07/m...
www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/07/m...
Midea unveils Miro U, the world’s first six-arm wheel-leg humanoid robot - Gizmochina
Midea unveils Miro U, a six-arm wheel-leg humanoid robot for industrial use, set to boost factory efficiency and debut at its Wuxi plant this year.
www.gizmochina.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
FINALLY!
www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/07/m...
www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/07/m...
I heard a story about wild mountain people hiding in a forbidden mountain in central China.
Would love for these stories to be true
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
Would love for these stories to be true
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
Tiny Humans Are Hiding in Indonesia, a Paleontologist Claims. That Could Rewrite the Story of Evolution.
Fossils of three-foot-tall “ape-men” stunned researchers, and islanders insist they still roam the mountains.
www.popularmechanics.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I heard a story about wild mountain people hiding in a forbidden mountain in central China.
Would love for these stories to be true
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
Would love for these stories to be true
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
This says so much of the time we're living in
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This says so much of the time we're living in
WTF is going on with Sora videos? They look like hot garbage. Not long ago we were all dropping our jaws in disbelief. sora.chatgpt.com/explore/videos
Sora
Transform text and images into immersive videos. Animate stories, visualize ideas, and bring your concepts to life.
sora.chatgpt.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
WTF is going on with Sora videos? They look like hot garbage. Not long ago we were all dropping our jaws in disbelief. sora.chatgpt.com/explore/videos
TFW you ran a pump like fifty years ago and suddenly someone calls you to talk about it and you are the only one to realize this is absolutely absurd but you say nothing because you could use some money and maybe this will help
"You study how that liquid comes out of the hose normally. But then sometimes you have to manipulate the opening on the hose to make the liquid look like it’s actually coming out of someone’s mouth."
Read our interview with the special effects foreman who unexpectedly went viral:
Read our interview with the special effects foreman who unexpectedly went viral:
We talked to the guy running the Mad Men puke hose
“I had to watch a lot of videos of people vomiting.”
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
TFW you ran a pump like fifty years ago and suddenly someone calls you to talk about it and you are the only one to realize this is absolutely absurd but you say nothing because you could use some money and maybe this will help
Oh come on! Of course it was tele operated. It's a Musk venture, it's all fake.
interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...
interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...
Tesla Optimus's fall in Miami demo sparks remote operation debate
While falls are not unusual in robotics development, a specific hand motion has raised questions about the current level of autonomy in Tesla’s system.
interestingengineering.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Oh come on! Of course it was tele operated. It's a Musk venture, it's all fake.
interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...
interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...
No seriously, hear me out. Glasses with built in air tags
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
No seriously, hear me out. Glasses with built in air tags
PRO TIP: If you are a medical doctor, make sure to ALWAYS wear your stethoscope, otherwise people won't recognise your profession.
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
PRO TIP: If you are a medical doctor, make sure to ALWAYS wear your stethoscope, otherwise people won't recognise your profession.
One of these days we will move past the Mechanical Turk.
Any day now...
Any day now...
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
One of these days we will move past the Mechanical Turk.
Any day now...
Any day now...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
You know that thing where people don't like hearing about other peoples dreams (I do btw, and I find it sad that people don't).
But I HATE hearing people telling me how they use LLMs. Snorefest galore.
But I HATE hearing people telling me how they use LLMs. Snorefest galore.
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
You know that thing where people don't like hearing about other peoples dreams (I do btw, and I find it sad that people don't).
But I HATE hearing people telling me how they use LLMs. Snorefest galore.
But I HATE hearing people telling me how they use LLMs. Snorefest galore.
Imagine being able to do whatever you want, and then you insecurities and ruined childhood gets in the way, so you end up being a pretty liar.
Parents, invest in you kids.
Parents, invest in you kids.
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Imagine being able to do whatever you want, and then you insecurities and ruined childhood gets in the way, so you end up being a pretty liar.
Parents, invest in you kids.
Parents, invest in you kids.
Wait till you hear about Andor.
The best thing Disney has done since Aladdin. Maybe the only thing that could get me into a movie theater on opening day ever again.
www.theverge.com/news/839434/...
www.theverge.com/news/839434/...
Star Wars’ original theatrical cut returns to theaters in 2027
See Han shoot first.
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Wait till you hear about Andor.
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Cloudflare said the outage was caused by a change made to how the platform’s firewall worked.
Cloudflare Slips In Premarket After Brief Outage Hits Zoom, LinkedIn And Fortnite
Cloudflare said the outage was caused by a change made to how the platform’s firewall worked.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Cloudflare said the outage was caused by a change made to how the platform’s firewall worked.
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Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
I love showing this to people saying "but there has always been changes in temperature"
A timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age. Spoiler alert: It’s definitely getting warmer. And it’s happening increasingly, scarily fast. xkcd.com/1732/
Earth Temperature Timeline
xkcd.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I love showing this to people saying "but there has always been changes in temperature"
Am I missing something, or is"Trust but verify" the douchiest saying ever?
Why would you verify someone you trust? What's the point of trust in that saying?
Why would you verify someone you trust? What's the point of trust in that saying?
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Am I missing something, or is"Trust but verify" the douchiest saying ever?
Why would you verify someone you trust? What's the point of trust in that saying?
Why would you verify someone you trust? What's the point of trust in that saying?
The "Pick Me" stage of enshittification
Google chrome seems desperate to tell me about tab groups, and I just don't have the energy to care...
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The "Pick Me" stage of enshittification