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In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the most advanced spaceship in the galaxy, The Heart of Gold, gravely endangers its crew by diverting all of its electrical power and CPU to the task of making Arthur Dent a cup of tea. Thinking about this for no particular reason.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 19/09/2026

My condolences to your friend. Brutal.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 18/09/2026

David’s cryptic crossword ploy paid off big time.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 18/09/2026

I know plastic is bad, but man do I love a gallon ziplock. You fill that bad boy up and say to yourself, “I have a gallon of cauliflower” or whatever. Now that’s what I call living.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 17/09/2026

Consider me influenced!

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

not wrong, but seems like this argument really should run more strongly in the other direction? "my computer is having thoughts rn" seems like the sort of claim that should rightly be met with initial skepticism and further questions, even if you can't give a good account of what it means to think

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 16/09/2026

Brooklyn’s got the smells this morning. 🙏

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 16/09/2026

“Let’s organize a union.”

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 16/09/2026

Starting to use 🫀 instead of ❤️ and everybody loves it/me.

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Connie (she/her/auntie) @damemags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every time I see close-ups of this fabric in totally in awe of the spinners! The #spinning wheel wouldn't arrive in Europe for another 200~ years. All that thread, both for the woven background and the embroidery, was produced on a drop #spindle! #yarn

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 16/09/2026

You might say Jamba “has the juice”.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 13/09/2026

Despite years of research by our greatest minds there still exists no human technology powerful enough to stop Pete Buttigieg from texting me.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 15/09/2026

If the world were really about to end, these people wouldn’t be sounding the alarm. They’d be quietly building an investment strategy to profit on the way down.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 15/09/2026

If the world were really about to end, these people wouldn’t be sounding the alarm. They’d be quietly building an investment strategy to profit on the way down.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 13/09/2026

Despite years of research by our greatest minds there still exists no human technology powerful enough to stop Pete Buttigieg from texting me.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm so confused about the theology of this. Are they all also in Heaven? That's some radical universalism right there.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026

Delightful work by the staff and editors at @wikipedia.org. You can see all 230 feet of the Bayeaux Tapestry, all within its Wikipedia page!

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026

Get the fuck out of my inbox—and my city—with this hustle culture 996 bullshit.

This is six days a week in person, and they are blunt that it is not a normal job: long days Monday to Thursday, an ordinary Friday finish, Saturday yours, six to eight hours Sunday.

Worth a short conversation?

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026

Delightful work by the staff and editors at @wikipedia.org. You can see all 230 feet of the Bayeaux Tapestry, all within its Wikipedia page!

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026

Yes, you get Saturday, as a treat.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026

The salary they quoted isn’t even high.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026

What’s the world-changing, live-saving tech these degenerates think is worth devoting 80-hour weeks to, you ask? SEO but for LLMs. (Fart noise implied.)

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026

Get the fuck out of my inbox—and my city—with this hustle culture 996 bullshit.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

Saw this going around. How is the blue category not labeled “Yes, you can”? We used to live in a society. Well I’m gone.

Periodic table of the elements categorized into four categories under the heading CAN I LICK IT?

Blue: Sure, go for it
Green: Maybe, not the best idea
Yellow: Please, don't do that
Orange: See you on the other side

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 08/09/2026

Ok, sure, but tech folks aren’t equipped either. I may have dropped out of my philosophy PhD but I’m here to tell you that “what would it mean for a machine to think?” is not a technology question.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 08/09/2026

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

Ordered and ate the “devil wings” to impress my 10 year old son. It totally worked. Score another one for toxic masculinity! (Also, please send help. For my body.)

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

This is dumb as shit and I want one.

MEGA SPRITZ
THE CLASSIC APEROL SPRITZ
Just completely out of control. Served in a massive 200oz wine glass. Perfect for sharing, but we won't judge.
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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

Yes. So much more of what I read at work now is presented as normative rather than descriptive. That’s a tiring (at best) way to receive information.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

I would go even further and say that the these technologies are nearly unusable in the absence of anthropomorphizing metaphors. The interface requires you (at least) pretend.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

Saw this going around. How is the blue category not labeled “Yes, you can”? We used to live in a society. Well I’m gone.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

You may be right. I think I’d need a lot more information (mostly math knowledge) to have an informed opinion. In its absence, I see plenty of reasons not to give AI labs the benefit of my doubt.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 07/09/2026

My one hesitation about this line of criticism is that (human) academia has always needed assemblers and synthesizers. That doesn’t make LLM math good or right—and holy hell cite your damn sources—but maybe its being a “pasted-together” collage is not, by itself, a reason to condemn it.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 05/09/2026

Catholicism : Protestantism :: Waldorf : Montessori

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 03/09/2026

Post the lady pop singers ep on main, cowards.

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 03/09/2026

This podcast is one of the few I consistently listen to on release day. I recommend sampling a thick slice of the Buffet episode. Maybe you will love it too!

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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 29/08/2026

Previously there were four elements and they just found another one.

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