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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 9h
“At this point in your retirement, would it take a Nolan film to get you to do this again?” “Well, no. Anything on Imax celluloid will get me out of bed. I did Joker 2. [Laughs.]” @chrisstanton27.bsky.social:
vulture.com
Thank This Retired Projectionist for Those 3 a.m. Odyssey 70-mm. Imax Showings
Running a film in Christopher Nolan’s preferred format is a specialized skill that only a few projectionists left can claim.
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 30/09/2026
“The experts I spoke to agreed that reinforcement learning helps explain why AIs deceive. ‘Fundamentally,’ Bengio told me, ‘lying and deception are rational behaviours to achieve many goals. This is why humans do it. And this is why the AIs do it now.’”
theguardian.com
‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?
The long read: We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing ...
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really enjoying watching the light leave the eyes of Astros batters as they realize they’re facing off against the wrath of the Lord.
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Craig Robinson @flipflopflying.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Axolotl ice cream
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed that Toad is his least favorite character in Mario Kart. Despite this, in all footage of him playing Mario Kart 8, he picked Toad every time. Whether he was joking or specifically picking a character he hates to challenge himself is unknown.
I have an important question. Nintendo has also just released Mariokart 7 for the 3DS. In every iteration of Mariokart, I've always preferred to play as Toad. Who's your favorite character?
That's the most challenging question! I'm sorry that I cannot come up with an interesting answer. Somehow, it's habit to me, but I play with Mario. He's a very balanced character.
Who's your least favorite character?
Toad. [Laughs]
My favorite character is your least favorite character?
I understand that he has some popularity. Somehow.
In a 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed Toad is his least favorite Mario Kart character.
In December 2014, Shigeru Miyamoto and Bill Trinen played Mario Kart 8 against YouTuber Rosanna Pansino. Miyamoto picked Toad.
Also in December 2014, Shigeru Miyamoto and Bill Trinen played Mario Kart 8 against YouTuber iJustine. Miyamoto picked Toad again.
Finally, in January 2015, the two played Mario Kart 8 against YouTube group Smosh Games. Miyamoto picked Toad again.
Whether Miyamoto simply had an enormous change of heart about Toad in the intervening 2 years, or whether he was picking his least favorite to challenge or punish himself, is unknown.
Source: information compiled by @SpriteCell, x.com/SpriteCell/status/1653842781897474048 ew.com/article/2012/02/10/shigeru-miyamoto-zelda, youtu.be/DNUcDkNI24o, youtu.be/3Q2KxS32Q1g, youtu.be/untLD6z6aql
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown
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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cover of U.S. Department of Commerce report "Selected impacts of railroad mergers." A simple illustration shows railroad tracks split around title and converging below.
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nightmare about being insanely late for school but there was an incredible 2 body sunrise I took a picture of. Sadly I cannot show you as for some reason my dream phone won’t airdrop photos to my real one
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 29/09/2026
“All of this struggle is invisible. Even for those who experience a problem firsthand, the hows and whys are opaque. ‘I never received any explanation at all,’ Turner says. Until I reached out to her, she assumed that the incident had been caused by turbulence.” @jeffwise.bsky.social:
nymag.com
The Mysterious Case of the JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall
Why would a perfectly good plane suddenly go rogue? The answer was disturbing enough to ground 6,000 aircraft.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
12/x FitzRoy went back through the observations and produced charts showing the storm's track across the country. His argument: this was not an act of God that arrived without notice. It had been visible, in the data, moving. It could have been telegraphed ahead of itself.
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Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
historians and political scientists now believe that the United States simplified their political system in the early 21st century, replacing factional coalitions with a biannual referendum on gasoline. This "car juice economy" held strong until being replaced by Funko Pops due to electrification.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Road construction is so perpetual in Montreal that the traffic drum has apparently become a pop culture symbol for the city. Love it.
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Paul Dobraszczyk @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truncated pier in Colwyn Bay, opened in 2021
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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 26/09/2026
Usually, rotating a vector by an angle requires complicated math. But for some special angles, the calculation requires just shifts and adds, easy to do in hardware. The CORDIC algorithm breaks down an angle into special angles (using a table), does quick vector rotations, producing the trig answer.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Again, in the future, I’m not going to normal die, I’m just going to be permanently suspended in a Thom Browne suit whilst jumping nimbly over a puddle on a sidewalk. The puddle will also be there permanently, as part of my alt death.
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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Holmes & Yoyo” premiered on this day in 1976. Starring Richard B. Shull as a detective partnered with an android played by John Schuck.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
12/x They went everywhere, including back across the Atlantic: several turrets ended up trading on the Great Lakes, where the type's ancestor had been born, with names like Turret Chief and Turret Crown. A tax loophole had produced an entire world fleet.
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You could find your way along the Nova Scotia coast blind, just by timing the blinks. Every lighthouse flashes on its own rhythm, a set interval and colour no neighbour repeats. Sambro Island off Halifax has burned since 1758, the oldest working lighthouse in North America. #lighthouse #NovaScotia
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WHAT: Marni (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: shaking your head “no” at a poetry reading or quietly, passionately studying architecture on breaks from your government job in Czechoslovakia in 1987 IF IT WERE A SCENT: metal filing cabinet filled with cigars? EMOTIONAL RANGE: visionary/shy #MJMfashionGuide
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 23/09/2026
btw i think the reason i like magical sigils and worlds based around them is because magical sigils are actually real. you open up a satellite LNB and what you find is shapes wrought from metal to manipulate unseen forces. you can't tell me they're not magical sigils
picture of the inside of a satellite low-noise block downconverter (LNB), the circuit in the focal point of a satellite TV dish. this one's a rectangular metal case with inside of it a printed circuit board full of gold-plated traces. many have strange shapes you wouldn't find in other electronics. scientifically you might call them microstrip filters, but really they're nothing more than a well-understood magical rune
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CORRECTION: "Choosin' Texas" by Ella Langley is not the longest-running #1 hit in history. It is still "Oh! Mother May I Have A Lolly" by The Sweetum Boys, legally the only song that existed from the years 1912 to 1916.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
what is 'Latent Space' and how do LLMs get answers from it? The Jargon can be confusing, but the exaplanation is actually relatively simple: It is Hell. The Machine is getting knowledge from demons.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cornucopia of groceries Paw Paw, IL — Pitsburg, OH
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I refuse to go to therapy because it’s bad storytelling. Some guy just tells me what’s wrong with me and how to fix it? How is that engaging for my friends, family, or even haters?
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 22/09/2026
“It does seem like low-level property crime is something that responds to manpower; if the guard goes away, we’ll lose that manpower. But it’s a really, really expensive way to keep low level property crimes under control — and these crimes are trending down anyway.” @maustermuhle.bsky.social:
notus.org
After a Year in D.C., the National Guard Seems Almost Normal
Critics say that's exactly the problem.
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 20/09/2026
“Of course, it would be irresponsible to go straight from these rat results to trials in humans, by which I mean you can buy it for $26.99 on Amazon.”
astralcodexten.com
The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night
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tautologer @tautologer.com · 19/09/2026
Saturn devouring his sundae
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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026
Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad
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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 19/09/2026
Flat illustration of a gathering of warblers in Fall plumage perched on painted colorful flint corn. Warblers are (left to right) Lady Canada, Bay-Breasted, Hooded, Wilson's, and Connecticut on the bottom inspecting a kernel.
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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Americans and Soviets meet in space during the Apollo-Soyuz mission, 1975. NASA art by Davis Meltzer.
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M. David Mullen, ASC @dmullenasc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
La Grande Roue de Montréal
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Max Read @maxread.info · 17/09/2026
unabomber clippy
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come see the pumps.
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 18/09/2026
“Nearly 8 miles beneath the Kola Peninsula, the rock had crossed some bizarre invisible threshold. ‘It would pinch the hole closed. When we pulled the drill string back, the rock flowed inward.’ The engineers had reached the limits of drilling. The rock simply no longer behaved like rock.”
nautil.us
The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever
The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever: What on Earth for?
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Senate to announce Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will be sealed inside an experimental walking prosthesis forever so the citizens of Kentucky will “dread naught” of ever being without his holy protection
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 17/09/2026
“The failure to make much of a difference in the past few years does not look so damning when we look at other Kuznets curves. They began to bend when the problem became undeniable at the same time as a workable substitute existed. What we see now is only a glimpse.” @martinvgould.bsky.social:
worksinprogress.news
Why rich countries treat animals better
What smog, deforestation, and child labor tell us about the future of animal suffering
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 16/09/2026
“Now that the research has been published, it can be understood and recognized that the reality has changed. Threat models from the 20th century rarely survive contact with 21st-century tools and techniques.” @agreenberg.bsky.social:
wired.com
This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight plan.
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bankbryan @bankbryan.com · 15/09/2026
“When you read widely and freely, you are able to familiarize yourself with the work of many people. What you will come to realize is that many of those people are not worth reading. You can move on. You gave them their audition, and they didn’t pass. Not many will!” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social:
hamiltonnolan.com
You Can Ignore the Bad Pundits
One easy trick to make yourself smarter.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 13/09/2026
posting a knitted post appreciation post
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
wittgenstein: if a lion could speak, we could not understand it me: [zipping the fursuit onto the quadrupedal lion drone] you need to start thinking outside the box, ludie. we just gotta get on their level. wittgenstein: ist—is that a mechanical lion me: yeah kinda. yeah. full of radios. yes.
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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Waiting for the YouTube thumbnails for rentable movies to become like every other YouTube thumbnail. "He's RICH but he MISSES his SLED!!!!"
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You asked, we answered: Now in more colorways!
A group of four cats sitting inside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The background features a dark, blurred forest. The text at the top reads "CATS FOR MEN," and at the bottom, it states "NEW MASCULINE COLORS FOR MASCULINE MEN."An orange cat with white paws is sitting against a dark, forested background. The text reads "CATS FOR MEN" at the top and "ORANGE WITH LITTLE WHITE SOCKS FOR THE ORANGE MAN WITH WHITE SOCKS" at the bottom.A cat with a striped coat is sitting against a background of dark, blurry trees. The text reads "CATS FOR MEN" at the top and "DESERT CAMO FOR THE CUNNING STRATEGIST" at the bottom.A dark-furred cat sits in a shadowy forest. The text reads, "CATS FOR MEN. Midnight Black. For the nocturnal soldier.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Big Bend Saw Service Dolores, CO
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In a secret war with blueberries.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sometimes if I see a basket of fresh blueberries, I like to whisper, “Hi, trash.”
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
summer is over
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