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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Morning mood: Driving 80 mph to Beethoven's Pastoral.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cackling: "They blew up the software industry!" (Photo edited with PhotoCraft)

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 05/10/2026

It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored one. They do not express a general ethical law that all information ought to be priced and paid for.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After dinner my nephew and I were deep in conversation about the imminent arrival of his first child. My brother-in-law approaches and says, "What are we talking about?" I reply, "Epidurals. Ya know...guy shit."

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Paul 🍂 @zenzi10zi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm FINALLY going to see Death From Above!!! (And now for my favorite track among their largely incredible catalog...)

youtu.be

"Always On" by Death From Above 1979 (Official Audio)

YouTube video by LastGangRadio

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"trapped in the chinese room with a bag of shrooms" 😭

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"We introduce Dream-RSI, a framework for recursively self-improving exploration. The improved policy is continuously expanding the simulator pool in a self-improving loop. ...Dream-RSI achieves improved discovery quality while reducing discovery cost in several settings." arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14858

Ray Kurzweil waving and shouting "IT'S HAPPENING" in front of shiny green lasers.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As much as I dislike the guy that said it, I have to admit this is a fantastic quote: "...some people look at a blade of grass and don't see a self-replicating solar powered nano-factory. I have a hard time convincing such people of anything"

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

STATUS: Grooving to SaxMaxxing radio at the gastro's office.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There are "federal efforts" to address this problem? Dude, the scam call is coming from inside the house!

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was aware of the hack and aware of the message board. I was not aware of the very large number of agents involved. The future is WEIRD. Is this real life?

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My new hobby: rewriting news headlines to be more accurate.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

DREAM LOG: I was at a family or class reunion in Montana of all places. We went record shopping and the culture there was so strange. They absolutely *loved* U2. It slowly morphed into a stress dream as we realized that someone's young twin boys had wandered off and become seriously lost.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

DREAM LOG featuring @eltonito.bsky.social. I was at a college and met an E. European guy who was into rare books. We found a beautiful antique on the Jewish diaspora and he offered to rebind it using thin wood planks as covers. The format of the book kept changing and I couldn't figure out why.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The quality of discussions on Reddit have deteriorated so much, it's got me clicking on the articles. What is the world coming to?

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Fear of the future irritates me and it's come to infect everything. In some ways it's understandable, but we must always face it directly and do our best to shape it. To give in to chaos and conspiratorial thinking only plays into the hands of those that would do us the most harm.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

News flash: the author who built a career riffing on Star Trek is now *very concerned* about copyright risks! 😮 (PS: Red Shirts is one of the worst pieces of dogshit I've ever had the misfortune of reading.)

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@molalalita.bsky.social - Have you read The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August? I encountered it entirely at random through some internet comment. I've been tearing my way through it over the past few days and it's excellent. I think you'll like it!

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Patron saint of 2026 Star Trek fans: Bruce Maddox

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"The breakthrough came from the image's Fourier spectrum. Inside the static was an unusually strong vertical carrier at approximately 0.15969 cycles per pixel... The apparently meaningless static collapsed into two unmistakable lines: HELLO HUMAN"

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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Cartoon panel featuring the devil surrounded by flames: "I JUST SPOKE TO LINDSEY GRAHAM AND MITCH MCCONNELL!"

THEY BOTH SAID, JESUS! I'M BURNING! OH, GOD!"

PINKOJOE.COM

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

DREAM LOG: Stephen Colbert making trucks from little plastic swords, brain-storming strategies for moving to NZ, reading The Accidental Tourist and deciphering company slang printed on vintage Apple computer parts.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

DREAM LOG: Someone told me their degree was in "Reptile Theology."

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Obsession: a 9 out of 10 movie that I’m unlikely to watch ever again. Direction 8/10, writing 7/10, acting 9/10, premise 9/10, SADISM 11/10. I'd really like to see a bonus short film that tells the back story of the second shop clerk who evidently manages to dodge a bullet.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/06/2026

“Devin Thomas O’ Shea has written the next book that every St. Louisan will be talking about. With “The Veiled Prophet,” he has written an impossible-to-put-down exposé that is destined for water cooler discussions, book groups and civic introspection.“

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

DREAM LOG: It was the early 90s and Sinéad O'Connor was in STL. I was invited to spend the day with her and I was driving to meet up. As I drove I was listening to her new song protesting mass surveillance in the city and she was calling out specific streets. It was almost like GPS in song form.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

DREAM LOG: I spent the day with my daughter. She was small in the morning (about 3 years old) and a fully grown adult by the evening. My wife and I were thrilled as we got to relive her at every stage of life. Happy Father's Day, indeed.

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Agony "Chris" Pants @agonypants.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Agonypants' belated movie reviews: Bullet Train - a film that does not care whose ass was on the screen or why it was farting.

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