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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 13h

r/bald in fucking shambles

James gandolfini with a shaved head and normal receding hairline and it is NOT close which one looks better

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

xbox gaming setups (2005) archive.org/details/xbox...

large tvs on tv stands with stereo/dvd/xbox equipment below. in the left hand setup the tv is black, there is a speaker on the left and right hand side of the stand and game cases and posters are standing/laid out on the floor. the right hand setup the tv and stand are silver and the halo 2 title is on the screen.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 15h

chat is this good

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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 18h

i remember when i was reading you are not a gadget (i think that was it at least), jaron lanier was like "the people with the biggest computers will have the most power" and i recall at the time i was like, what even is there to compute? and the answer turned out to be crypto, then ai

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

90+ year old drawing of popeye busting down a door with his massive cock

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Lucilu Lawless @lucilulawless.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

No sé si habéis visto a estos 2 escoceses pero son mis nuevas personas favoritas del mundo mundial.

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 04/10/2026

Very good video: "people sometimes open an app without a reason. They are just ready to receive things, to let go. [...] they don't have anything specific in mind. In that specific case, infinite scrolling is bad, because it prevents users from noticing that they have no aim."

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What "Infinite Scrolling" Was For

YouTube video by Interface Studies

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 04/10/2026

"Wow it would be evil if there were some mass mind-control machine" babygirl we're speaking through its membranes The problem of science fiction is everyone assumes they'll recognise The Thing when it happens based on How It Looks rather than What It Does The reality is always horrifyingly mundane

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every time a disc enters or exits a console this cat will be there. Calcifer will hear the disc tray from across the house and sprint over to face his arch nemesis. He wants to kill Playstation discs the most. Whether it’s PS3, 4, or 5, they’re his most hated foe

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Halloween Henrique @kelzor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Akira Yamaoka (with his daughter cosplaying "Silent Hill f" Hinako) and John Romero. Video games rock.

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The Fiber Farm (Jen) @jjco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So my favorite rooster behavior is they sing a “tasty treat” song for their ladies and the hens come RUNNING over and Walter will sacrifice his OWN tasty treats so they can get as much as they want first and even points it out to them on the ground 🥹 what a guy!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Marty @martincrownover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work.

A screenshot of a post on Threads by Joe Hill. The post reads: "Here’s a thought about the purveyors of AI. They aren’t selling assistance—they’re selling dependency. You give up on acquiring one skill after another, give up on the knotty, meaningful struggle to acquire those skills and AI takes over. It isn’t freeing up time so you can make more of yourself. It’s encouraging cognitive surrender so you can be less."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'anti-software piracy association officials based in hong kong have devised this logo, which the association hopes will continue instilling fear in pirates...' (1985) archive.org/details/apc_...

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This user is a dead body @fuck-my-pissy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*to a person who is doing just fine, arguably even better than myself* i wanna take you away from all of this…

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, we are witnesses one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely that the dark night of AI-Job-Replacement is always descending on the humanities and yet lands only in math and computer science.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

American film buffs love Stalker because of its haunting, melancholic cinematography and dramatic tension that lays bare the human psyche, but that's just what rural Eastern Europe is normally like. This shit would happen to me 2-3 times a week when I was a kid.

Three men are standing in a large bare concrete room. It's run down and the floor is covered with a thick layer of sand.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘 The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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hellojed @hellojed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once AI is embraced you can't do any coding by hand because it's too slow, even reviewing takes too long, and then you lose all purpose and meaning and develop psychosis. Eventually losing the specific knowledge that makes it all work in the first place. sounds awful

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't need to do math. I can go back to what I was interested in doing before I got into math. Playing videogames.

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 21/09/2026

Twin Peaks: Sheriff Truman and Agent Cooper sitting at of a table of donuts.

Sheriff Truman and Agent Cooper sitting at of a table of donuts. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 21/09/2026

In 2001, we really thought this was what the future of web design would look like.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every thing I've ever done in my life, even the things I'm proud of, I did under duress.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The winners of the 2020s are Israel, AI, Trump, Musk, etc. And here I am, stuck being a loser. If I just supported them, I could be a winner too.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I can no longer fully take in Tom Cruise’s face. My eyes move around it, trying to gain purchase, but it’s like a child’s composite of past features. I back away. ‘That’s Tom Cruise’, I tell myself, uncertainly.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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