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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Notion app has always had piss poor, straight up buggy editing on iOS, and esp iPadOS, and maybe they could blame prioritization two years ago, but no longer! Get Claude to fix your shit already.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, don’t sleep on the Vermicelli. :)

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Native Instruments Reaktor had a module called spiral that was clearly influenced by WMB. Anyway lots of ways to play with WMB and make it sound more interesting. My favorite is driving it with some knobs or a multi-axis controller like a space mouse.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the harnesses i was using at the time weren’t surfing the web yet. All my AI insights age like milk.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

my job is just casting the right spells for the daemon now. always was, i guess, but the spellbook is way shorter.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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New free Star Battle, Train Tracks and Lime Sudoku puzzles every day

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

F*** around and Pablo will find out

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

One day, the Screamin' Sicilian company is going to stop perforating the cardboard mustache on their stromboli packaging. And that is when we will know.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If twitter is bots pretending to be humans, then moltbook is humans pretending to be bots.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Anderson Cooper channeling Charlie Kaufman "It's really hard being a puppeteer"

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

What do you think I spent my childhood in puppetry school?

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It’s been out since 2020 but the subtitle has never ceased to be relevant.

Two Not Touch, 360 Star Battle Puzzles to preserve your sanity in these trying times, volume 1, Jim Bumgardner

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Alexa+, I really don’t want added color commentary on the things I’m adding to my shopping list. “alexa add pancake on a stick” “that sounds like a fun breakfast!” grrr

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Amazon Echo+ review: A more cheerful and less robotic sounding voice is absolutely not worth the slower reaction time. Give me robotic and fast please.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

love this character. he’s the anti Darren Stevens

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

100% anti-introvert policy for sure. hate it when employees do this.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It’s been described as “lean forward” tv, so yeah, second screening would be hard.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Well, the product managers who insist the developers implement it, but yeah!

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Somebody went to Baskin Robbins and all they had was vanilla.

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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Doesn’t it deliver electric shocks or something?

Poster for “The Tingler” in which the changed delivered electric shocks.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

YouTube problem? It’s not just you. I think someone replaced the broadband with a cocktail straw.

Down Detector showing widespread youtube outage.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Number of times I have typed “tonition” into spelling bee, despite it not being a word. 47?

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm seeing a lot of online publications reposting twitter rumors about a private jet that flew out of Utah after Charlie Kirk was shot, and they're easily disproven by 60 seconds on @flightradar24.com. N888KG didn't "illegally" turn off its transponder or drop off radar or do _anything_ suspicious.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Umm, Spotify events, I'm not sure if Warren Zevon is gonna make that October gig...

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Strickfaden Lightning makes an appearance in the new Devo documentary on Netflix at 14:34

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Programming the LEDs on ferris wheels.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Okay here’s my hot take on the NYT. The new stats on the puzzle app are pretty, but they add nothing new, and you can no longer easily compare your current solve time against your historical average on the same graph. Miss that.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

To be fair, I believe someone left the cake out in the rain.

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hexagons aren't always MQ-9s, but in this case, yes, there are two MQ-9 Reapers over LA today. Just ridiculous.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I experimented with this and found that "really good" is an exaggeration. Resulting images are significantly downsized (to a max of 1024px) and image preservation is not great. I don't doubt that we're going to see some widely available models in the future with this capability.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This week I’ve been testing very generic prompts on a variety of text and image models. Here are some doctors. The image prompts don’t provide any clues as to gender nor ethnicity. Left is Imagen-3 (Google). Right is Dall-E-3 (OpenAI).

Generic doctor descriptions from chatgpt-4o-latest, as rendered in Imagen-3

Generic doctor descriptions from chatgpt-4o-latest, as rendered by Dall-E-3

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps
For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders.
Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the
Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle.
In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets
that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.
Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that
has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps.
This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical
office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025:
Print - The New York Times
TV - NBC News
Radio - National Public Radio
Online News - POLITICO
In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the
Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets.
Print - New York Post
TV - One America News Network
Radio - Breitbart News Network
Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)

To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously.
The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new
outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps.
Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media
Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon.
(John Ullyot
Acting

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Python (which LLMs really excel at) is 0.64 pants. The I Ching is merely 0.01 pants. So I would guess that the magic number for which a decent modern LLM can be expected to perform relatively well falls somewhere between 1% and 20% Pants! 4/4

Chart showing demand for Python and Pants since 2004, on Google. Python is roughly 64% Pants.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A fun unit-of-measurement I like to use when researching demand is “Pants”, since demand for pants is something I assume to be relatively stable. The demand for anything else can be expressed in pants, kilopants, millipants, etc. Tarot demand is roughly 0.19 pants. I Ching is much lower. 3/4

Demand for Tarot and Pants since 2004 on Google. Demand for Tarot is roughly 18% that of pants.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A comparison between Tarot and I Ching on Google trends provides a likely culprit. These models are generally trained on the open web, and the amount of available material on these topics likely mirrors the relative demand shown by Google trends. The I Ching is not well represented. 2/4

Comparison of Tarot and I Ching demand on Google since 2004. Tarot demand is roughly 20 times higher than I Ching.

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

All the AI models I’ve tested lately are excellent at doing tarot card readings, and terrible at casting I Ching hexagrams. DeepSeek R1 knows all 78 tarot cards and can provide interpretations. But when asked to provide a list of the 64 I Ching hexagrams, it hallucinates like crazy. Why? 1/4

Madame Esmeralda, a classic fortune telling machine.

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