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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The computer we wanted. The computer they gave us.

Data on Star Trek saying "computer, estimate release of antimatter.

HAL from 2001 saying "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave"

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I choose to believe this is what my cat wants.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Or you could live like a fucking human being....

Kitchen counter with an instant pot, espresso maker, spatula holder, toaster, knife block, water filter, and a cup of tea that honestly doesn't need to be there.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great lede, plus an explanation of how "The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It's a Python loop and a chatbot." Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI "hyperscalers" consists primarily of everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, a lot of things snap into focus:

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

With #TheNewYorker, I read the first paragraph even if I don't have interest in the topic in case it's something like this, which starts here and wanders on through beef allergies and scientific research and pig organ transplants. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

t was a perfect day for a blood meal. A salt breeze blew over the western shore of Martha’s Vineyard, riffling the meadow grass under a pale-blue sky. They’d been waiting by the footpath all afternoon, crouched in the shade of a windswept cedar. They didn’t do well in the sun. They’d spent the winter half asleep, in the moist, rotting leaves under a huckleberry bush, well away from other creatures. But they were hungry now, as they always were in the spring. They’d scuttled out into the open air that morning and were sitting side by side on a blade of switchgrass, their tiny teardrop bodies barely bending it down. Their back legs gripped its serrated edge while their front legs reached toward the path, waiting for a warm body to lumber by. They looked like children at a Macy’s Parade, leaning out to touch the Snoopy balloon.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Which came first, people thinking it was weird to have phone conversations or phones that are inherently weird to talk on?

Pictures of phones, from a cool old-timey wood and brass one to a modern black rectangle that no one could guess was a device for having conversations.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

post you from a different era in your life

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Grok, show me a scene from Elon Musk's version of The Odyssey.

Black and white photo of Nazis giving Nazi salute in front of a Nazi flag.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism."

Voldemort giving a Stephen Miller speech.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nosferatu on a ship giving a Stephen Miller speech.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Our firehouses are famous? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Mamdani pointed out that the city had made free KN95 masks available at hundreds of locations citywide, including libraries, police stations and its famous firehouses.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Classic "you're probably wondering how I wound up here" movie opening. 😱

Metro train packed with masked Patriot Front assholes with one black woman giving the cameraman a WTF look.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Fetterman worse than Rand Paul. JFC www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The resolution passed by a 50-48 vote, with four Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rand Paul of Kentucky – breaking with their party to support its adoption. John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, was the sole Democrat to vote against the resolution.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm old enough to remember when hippies were wearing flag apparel and the right was trying to stop them because that was "disrespectful."

Abbie Hoffman in an American flag jacket

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"AI, create an ad campaign that will spark national fury." (AI may be a scapegoat here though. Sounds like a guy at the top of Korea Starbucks is a radical right guy) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A lot of sharp commentary in this, excepting Piers Morgan's ass kissing.

Greta Thunberg:

My initial thought was to give you a one-way ticket to The Hague as a birthday gift, but that comment would probably go above your head. I will instead give you a can of alphabet soup; the sentences you poop out will be more coherent than anything you have ever said. Now you can finally take part in meaningful public discourse.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Pete Hegseth and Mike Lee have a conversation.

For the better, right meme.
Anakin: America should be ruled by a Christian theocracy.
Padme (happy): Yes! Including Mormons, right?
Anakin: Pregnant silence.
Padme (realizing the leopards are about to eat her face): Including Momons. Right?

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Post an album you have listened to 100 times.

cover: Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Here's a longer timeline. Poverty dropped a lot from the 60s but it's gone up and down since, with a record low in 2020-21 then a spike to 1965 levels in 2022-23! Of course poverty is only one measurement. Many people who are struggling aren't below the poverty line. ourworldindata.org/poverty

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Bluesky, where stopping authoritarism is important, but LOOK AT MY CAT PLAYING WITH THIS BOX!

Bluesky Trending list
1. Caturday
2. No Kings
3. Drag Race
4. Queer Writers
5. ICE Protests

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

True to form, the Times kicks off this #NoKings day with a "what's the point?" article.

A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around

Organizers want this to be largest protest yet. But is hitting a number enough to deliver an effective political movement?

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

SCOTUS finally made the decision to prioritize corporations over the mad king, but the Times, desperate to portray this as principled, tells us it's Roberts *latest* move against Trump. Examples? Two mild rebukes over the past 8 years and ZERO rulings against Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

New York Times braindead headline:
News Analysis
The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence
The court’s rejection of President Trump’s tariffs program is the latest in a series of clashes between him and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The level of incompetence is really incredible. Awesome idiots like this are now in charge of our nuclear weapons.

The anti-drone laser was launched earlier this week near America’s southern border to target what was thought to be foreign drones. Instead, a party balloon was shot down.

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford then decided to close El Paso’s airspace Tuesday night without telling the White House, the DOD, or the Department of Homeland Security, according to unnamed sources.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I've always preferred metacritic.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The New York Times often disappointments, but they're solid now, especially compared to this ridiculously neutral treatment from the Washington Post.

New York Times front page:

Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting

LIVE

2m ago
Agents Kill 37-Year-Old Man in Minneapolis

Over a thousand protesters in New York denounce ICE after latest killing.
1h ago
Trump and other federal officials try to put blame on local authorities and the man who was killed.
In Minnesota, citizens with firearm permits can openly carry handguns.
See new updates ›

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the Man Shot by Agents, Was a Nurse and U.S. Citizen

Washington Post front page:
Fatal shooting in Minneapolis by federal agents renews protests
8:00 p.m.
Protesters condemn the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
7:39 p.m.
Senate Democrats will block key funding package, citing aggressive tactics
7:30 p.m.
More than 100 people stood outside the D.C. headquarters of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I particularly like this part of this excellent post. A Conservative Influencer Apologized for Her Anti-Trans Past. Elon Musk is Trying to Take Her Kid. www.readtpa.com/p/a-conserva...

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This would be a fair criticism of many news sites, but not The Guardian.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I haven't made latkes in forever (low oxylate diet) but this is how I did it, so it's pretty simple:

Recipe: Latkes (Potato pancakes)

About two medium potatoes.
An onion. You want at least a forth of the resulting batter to be onion, but you could probably even do 50-50. But a forth to a third is probably best.
An egg. Maybe two; put one in and see how it looks.
Matzoh meal. Or bread crumbs. Can also use flour.

Send potatoes through food processor. I use the smallish grater, which is the only grater I have. I wouldn't use the large grating holes of a hand grater.
Squeeze out potatoes with potato ricer. Toss them in a medium bowl.
Send onion through food processor.
Throw in bowl. Mix potatoes and onions together. Break an egg in. Use a second if it seems necessary.
Throw in a couple of tablespoons of matzoh meal.

Stir everything together. Sprinkle with pepper and a little salt.
Put some oil in frying pan. Make patties in pan. Cook around six minutes on medium. If they've browned, flip and cook another three or four minutes.

Serve with applesauce.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My girlfriend asked me to set up the artificial tree and decorate it. It really wasn't that hard.

Box for an artificial Christmas tree with the star on top.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Over of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks.

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My girlfriend dressed up as Wednesday Addams and wanted me to go as Pugsley but then someone gave me a Prince costume so...

Old guy in a fight with and a purple prince costume with a name tag that says "the artist formerly known as pugsley" next to the Prince glyph with blood on the arrow tip

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Charles Herold @cherold.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Really wish they'd described it as the "Republican federal shutdown," but it seems we're sticking to the non-political messaging the Republicans eschew.

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