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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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may @maysuser.name · 01/10/2026

6/10 men don't know this but it's actually really easy to not rape someone

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

chips: we put more air in the bag cookies: we put fewer cookies in the box fruit cups: we have bent the laws of time and space to fit 4 litres of juice in this 250ml cup. God himself told us "stop, that's too much juice" and then we flipped him off and added more juice.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The thing about Bayes’ Theorem is that while you can use logic to propagate probability distributions through chains of thought, doing so without data just makes the result a new set of priors. The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 02/10/2026

Put this in the Louve. And every textbook on the dangers of the misuse of data and data via. Gonna use this in class for sure.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

donald trump has seen the golden path and knows that human survival is contingent on a war in the middle east shutting off hydrocarbons

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Has there ever been a Doctor Who story about people substituting human capabilities with machine replacements that lack any genuine human feeling or emotion? If they did, remind me, was it good or bad?

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

4 am is a stupid time to be awake because now you have to answer "Will I feel worse by staying up and going into work early or sleeping for 4 hours?" Neither is particularly appealing.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the ways I know I'm growing as a person is because this looks obviously true to me now, but I can remember a time being the guy they're talking about. I can even remember defending those creeps. I'm proud of my progress, but I'm sad about who I used to be :/

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One day, @ryannorth.ca is going to be on Jeopardy, and the category is going to be "Historical families" and the clue is going to be "This family was known for ruling the majority of modern-day Austria during the Medieval period." and he's going to buzz in and answer with "What are the Habs?"

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, I don't know who needs to hear this, but this↓ is executive dysfunction and if it's you on the regular, talk to your doctor. As an adult, this is a pretty major symptom of ADHD.

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I grilled me a cheese and it turned out perfect by my standards. It's a good day.

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No one No one at all Not a single soul Me: lightning bolt

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Niche gripe: Power armor in fallout shouldn't still be functional. I'm accepting that their 1950's had huge leaps forward with nuclear tech and power's cheap and compact. They even do something right in the game - very few plastics. Why?

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's some good TV on here. The rankings are nonsense, they left off a lot of good TV, they included a lot of bad TV. Mostly, it looks like engagement bait.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

You can take my puns from my cold deadpans.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

Once you go 36 hours without sleep a few times a month you start to wonder why peonpl enev need selp atall

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i have said it before and ill say it again every single financial institution would benefit from paying a pink hair communist with a septum piercing to walk around the office all day saying “how fucking stupid are you people that you actually believe this shit?”

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Imagine the dumbest way for something to happen, and you'll still be surprised how often how things actually happen are even dumber than that.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A screenshot of a Tumblr post about scientists wanting to tell people about their science

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So I'm doing that adult thing where my kid gets a diagnosis and they're describing their symptoms and I'm like "lol, that's just Tuesday" and everyone around me is like "no, it's not" and I'm like "oh."

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"From 2010 to 2016, San Francisco permitted one unit of housing for every 13 new jobs." 😨 Listen, I don't expect anyone to have played Cities: Skylines, but the takeaway here is that if you want to kill job growth that^ right there will guarantee it.

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austin @aparker.io · 14/09/2026

if you wonder 'why does it feel like all the expertise is draining out of the public sphere' then you kinda have to grapple with the fact that displaying expertise is often an all expenses paid trip to the omelas hole

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ceej @ceej.online · 11/09/2026

you guys are pretty judgy about someone falling asleep during an important meeting because they stayed up all night posting

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope this Ishmael finds you whale

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It has never ended, it will never end

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10/10

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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mattoween @matt.tasty.computer · 02/09/2026

Thinking about creating something super cool and then once everyone loves it descending into madness and Fascism.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@xkcd.com Shouldn't they be falling through the asteroid after that?

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Mr Coyote sues Acme for so-called 'dangerous products' and the moralists laugh, they want him to win. But what if he then sues you? Because you *might* be dangerous? Or an orphanage because there *may* be dangerous orphans? Now I don't think that's funny I think thats bloody terrifying."

A rare photo of Jordan Peterson outside of a meat coma. He's getting very animated and verbose about something pointless

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026

‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is not the way I wanted Macon to be the Cherry Blossom Capital of the world.

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Peter Kwint @peterkwint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Uitstekende uitvoering

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