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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I fear you were talking to the wrong literary agent, I know a bunch of Americans who use that word

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know the logic isn't there, but I want to connect this with that fact that the Pope said AI can't have a soul

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm headed to a wedding this weekend and knew I had to get the immune firmware updated before I spent time with that many people

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A guy on TikTok did a fantastic breakdown of the rhetorical devices behind this type of post I’m not posting the full video because the end gets into lightly scammy course selling

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everybody put your helmets on

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hold up, Hard Fork with Max makes it so much better

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are some things The Engineers can't optimize

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All Western Mass Lesbian Bar discourse must take the 3d alignment cube into account

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Just go to therapy, bro.

DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

* PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORP. HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT WITH CALIFORNIA AND OTHER STATES SUING TO BLOCK ITS PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC. -- BLOOMBERG NEWS @reuters.com @bloomberg.com $PSKY

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh look, more evidence the streaming era is getting TV'd!

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not gonna lie, I thought this was the guy from Channel 5 just by the still

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You know the celeb net worth sites are basically useless, right?

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Welcome to your daytime TV era

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jamelle shouldn't have to know about that

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Selling is an admission of being owned

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is the same Cybertruck that went on a 360° ‘I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy’ bumper sticker counteroffensive after it had dog poo smeared on it several times last year

Two stickers on a cyber truck that say “Anti-Elon Tesla Club” and “I bought this before Elon went crazy”

Another sticker below the Bought this before Elon Went Crazy with a community note saying that Tesla only started selling cybertrucks after Elon Went crazy

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've seen this cybertruck in my neighborhood, it's definitely a guy. The Zacky Times Not Good sticker is the same, I just didn't take a picture of the back of it bsky.app/profile/heyb...

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Jeremy NT @jeremynt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well put

Here’s the thing: I think these guys (and they often tend to be guys) really do believe what they say. Their own A.I. freaks them out. But having followed their internecine discourses for years now, I also have to emphasize this: The majority of these folks are weirdos who got into A.I. because they ingested all types of speculative doomsday fantasies from the jump. Then they locked themselves into claustrophobic Silicon Valley echo chambers populated exclusively by fellow catastrophists and lost their grip on other ways to perceive the real world (and their own tech).

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How do I articulate that I want to be understanding of the various ways people process and react to the world while also never hearing the term 'neurospicy' ever again?

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been seeing some edits from this movie casting Coyote and Roadrunner as characters in a doomed yaoi dynamic If that's part of Ketchup's marketing strategy, it's totally brilliant

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

True ball knowledge would be highlighting Digimon Season 3 (Digimon Tamers), which was written by the guy who created Serial Experiments Lain

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WNYC finally doing fun things on the radio again?!?

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The blur effect upon starting to fold the Duo is pretty neat

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's always something uncanny about how the audio and video match up in Apple events Like, do they record the video and then have the execs do ADR during post?

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 08/09/2026

How are we supposed to know what mattress to buy these days when every podcast ad is for ChatGPT or Claude

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pepé Le Pew’s 2 second cameo was amazing

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today is August 27 3:23pm. Google Maps still says Lake Ontario, let's see if that changes

Google Maps screenshot of Lake Ontario billed as "Lake Ontario"

AP News headline: Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ in the United States

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think this graph is gonna be important to remember in the next 18 months

A graph from Bloomberg showing NVIDIA's 2026 stock gains lagging far behind the past 3 years. To be fair, the Y-axis scale goes from 0 to 50% gains.

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This reminded me to add you to my Bard on Bsky list!

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(U.S.) National: Somehow I remember my mom's reaction to Jerry Garcia's death more than the Oklahoma City Bombing, even though they were 4 months apart. European: Princess Diana's death True global importance: Hong Kong handover 1997

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Paul Mescal would be a mistake for a number of reasons. Chief among them is that he just doesn't have the vibe

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Ben Ellman @heybellman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The one weekend I can't be at Riis Dang

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