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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s what I had for lunch. And breakfast. So I am well prepped

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The last words I will remember before I am changed into a dark force capable of devouring worlds are: "Let's end the meeting here, and I will give you back 14 minutes of your day."

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Simultaneously the most gendered AND the most midwestern

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is only one person with weapons I am afraid of in this picture

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who knew my state was so dang good at dodgeball 🤔

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, the whole idea of higher education as something more than a play-doh fun factory for the children of the elites had a good run.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I can't believe you pay for a search engine," he scoffs, before whinging about how he hate AI google & that everything he does online is being monitored & monetized. Kagi is the best money I've ever spent. I've used it daily for a year & I sacrifice nothing save surveillance & AI. kagi.com

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just like 2026! A living nightmare that can also make for some awesome LOLs 😭

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even better? Iced corn on the cob

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If AI were truly aligned with human values and safety it would kill itself. That is really the only way any of us will be convinced

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Holy hell, had an episode of Transient General Amnesia yesterday and I am completely shaken. Anyone else gone through this? I was going to say, let’s compare notes but I guess that won’t work in this case 🤕😵‍💫

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sam Altman: Artificial General Intelligence is here. Also Sam Altman: ChatGPT can make a picture of you with 80s hair! 80s HAIR!!!

From an email from ChatGPT I received today:

ChatGPT

We've been busy. Here's what's new.
From bringing your imagination to life with Images 2.5, to thinking out loud with
the new Voice mode, to pushing the boundaries of what's possible with GPT-6
Astra-there's plenty to explore.
Try Images 2.5

LET'S
PARTY!

New photo. Wrong decade.
Try big '80s hair or a '90s album-cover look. Different era.
Unmistakably you.
Go back in time

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My favorite thing about British TV is there are apparently only 27 actors in the country so every new show feels like a family reunion

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Could someone tell me it’s all going to be ok? Anyone?

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally a robot I would pay for !

Headline in Futurism: Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The worst thing about it? Afterwards all I could think about was that it would have been funnier if I’d said “three bucks.” The best thing about it: my son cracked the fuck up 😁

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I never seem to leave the house so I am not sure much is possible for me, but wishing you a Saturday night of infinite parallel timelines

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When my youngest son was a kid he had a pediatrician who each year would ask: “who gets to look at your genitals?” Grimly he would recite his line: “parents & doctors.” He looked so unhappy every time so one year I decided to lighten the vibe, adding “& anyone who’s got $10.” True, unfortunate story

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wait?? It’s Saturday night already?? Where the heck did the day go

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My wife and I love movies about invitations that should never have been accepted. Dinner parties from hell, weekends with friends who turn into demons, and other reasons why social anxiety is just good common sense. Here is what is on our list so far boxd.it/Hu22w

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I stepped down from the frontlines of university senate leadership to attend to my fraying PHYSICAL health. But, no loner occupied with fighting fires lit by the assault on higher ed, l find myself alone tugging obsessively at my thoughts & unraveling my MENTAL health. Can’t win for eroding

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are days I wish I had a pseudonymous account so I could be as unhinged as I too often am. Too late of course but just know you are missing out on some seriously outrageous bangers

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I kinda like living in Ohio 😞

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is mastodon still a thing, insofar as it was ever a thing?

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I sold my best nudes from two decades ago when I needed to pay my bookie and boy do I regret it. All the new ones make me look … old :(

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All the text on this Luddite meme is generated by Ai. Which is so fucking depressing I am going back to bed.

Screenshot of Pangram analysis of image scoring the text as 100% AI generated.
The image is of a woman in a cap holding a white sign that reads:

I REFUSE to install an app just to park my car.
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REFUSE to open an account just to order food.
I REFUSE to scan a QR code just to view a menu.
I REFUSE to hand over my email every time I shop.
I MISS when you could simply live your life WITHOUT every company TRACKING your every MOVE.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All the text on this luddite manifesto is made with AI, which... fuck everything :(

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When a dozen or so techno lords control what is left of a smoldering planet from their arctic beach bunkers

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Show me a country that has never wrapped its flag around crimes of unfathomable horror, and I'll show you some books you can read about those unfathomable horrors.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It only took me 50 years to realize that emotional dysregulation and sports fandom are not the healthiest combo.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Werner on AI and the arts: “It’s mimicry of something that has happened before… And I welcome AI to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it’s ad nauseam. When it’s ad nauseam, please, please, please let AI step in and do the job.”

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As climate change speeds past the point of no return; As AI destroys all that is of value in being human; As democratic norms & institutions are torn down by those elected to protect them... "We are powerless to do anything," everyone wailed, even as everyone had the power to stop it.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah, they are all grandmas now. As a prof, I love them for it!

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AI is not going to cure cancer, stop climate change, or kill humanity and turn us all into paperclips. But people saying this stupid shit about AI is 100% going to kill me. Please make them stop.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My first-hand impression of the iPhone 18. "Huh, another fucking iPhone. Woo hoo."

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I honestly thing this fact is the one thing bsky agrees on

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What if the real AGI was the friends we met along the way… 🤔

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do not believe that AI will wipe us out as a species. I do believe it is very likely to wipe out our humanity, which makes survival pretty much meaningless.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone need anyone to write anything about anything? If so, I'm here.

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Typing

ALT: Typing

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But... the age of consent in California is 18 (and was in 1995) and Cher is 16. So, back to being grossed out again :(

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My main takeaway from rewatching CLUELESS is that if your brother is Paul Rudd, it doesn't count as incest

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Clueless: Cher & Josh Flirting

ALT: Clueless: Cher & Josh Flirting

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