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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the person who was part of coining the phrase "stochastic parrots" is someone I could listen to for hours I actually might! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUIQ...

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Stochastic Parrots | Emily M. Bender - Professor of Computational Linguistics

YouTube video by Humans in the Loop

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Amazing to me that publications do a story on Musk 'letting go' of his baby-mom, mother of four of his 18 children, without furnishing any sense of Musk's relationship with his eight concubines and his rejection of traditional notions of marriage and family in favor of Lebensborn-style eugenics.

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the spine it takes to do this, and to do it with such dignity, while also not shrinking even one inch my jaw is on the floor

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"No Jewish person in NYC is responsible for actions of Israel... critique of genocide is not antisemitic... we need a politics of humanity, not just at home but for people we're bombing." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells Theo Von the genocide must stop & Bibi should be arrested

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

before there was slop, when interesting quirky things were still quirky and interesting www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjo...

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YouTube video by Kosuke Sugimoto

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"a sChOoL is A ciViLiAn ObJEcT" "hey, this looks like an apartment block to me, any context?" "LOOK AT THE SOLDIERS WITH CUTE CATS!"

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Math. Logistics. Etc.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Jörg @realkachelmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Die Verunsicherung des bildungsfernen Schwurbeljournalismus wird greifbar. Mangels Hitzewelle™️ geht man jetzt dazu über, die tiefen Flusspegel nur zu beschreiben, ohne 1 Satz darüber zu verschwenden, wie sie zustandekommen und was etwas an der Situation ändern könnte www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

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Niedrigwasser: Rhein-Pegel vielerorts unter null gefallen

-3, -6, -15 oder gar -29 Zentimeter: Das Niedrigwasser am Rhein hat die Pegel vielerorts in den negativen Bereich absacken lassen. Für die Industrie hat das handfeste Folgen.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

these project of AI is so intrinsically based on destroying solidarity that its proponents don’t even understand that music is a communal experience

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evangeline63.bsky.social @evangeline63.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I AM JUST ASKING EVERY HUMAN BEING ON THIS EARTH WILL YOU DIE FOR OLIGARCHY PROFIT AT ALL COST??? WILL YOU LET THE OLIGARCHY CRAWL INTO THEIR BUNKERS TO WATCH US SUFFER AND DIE IN THE CATASTROPHE THEY CREATED FOR US??? IS THIS WHAT HUMANITY IS IN THE END??? A PLANET KILLING BLACK HOLE OF EVIL?

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Dominic Toretto & Letty: F9 - This Is Who We Are

ALT: Dominic Toretto & Letty: F9 - This Is Who We Are

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evangeline63.bsky.social @evangeline63.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

YOU ARE WAITING FOR A MIRACLE WHILE WE ALLLLL BLEED OUT. WE ARE THE MIRACLE. NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US BUT US. REPUBLICANS AND CORRUPT CORPORATE DEMOCRATS HAVE BETRAYED US. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT 99% OF HUMANITY WHO WANT LIVE IS> 1% WHO ARE SLAUGHTERING US AND OUR PLANET. MATH IS A FUCKINGTHING

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Bookio: Confused Man with Math Equations

ALT: Bookio: Confused Man with Math Equations

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

how is any of this shit legal too begin with (thinking mostly of gambling, but also targeted advertising) If NO company can target ads, NO company falls behind the competition for not doing it. And that goes many other such practices, they just make life worse for all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am so glad I clicked on this, even though I expected something I won't care for about a show I don't even know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ahd...

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Fleabag's Fourth Wall Was Never About Us

YouTube video by Hanu's Hem

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"If I am just still pursuing something to prove something, to use up this time on Earth just to use it up, it feels empty, it all feels empty, and it's like I can't see the point of anything anymore." www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuD2...

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I don’t understand what we’re living for

YouTube video by Keepswim

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marian Kamensky

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For context: Palantir isn't named that because he's a Tolkien fan. It's because he's a fan of the uber-reddit Russian fanfic "The Last Ringbearer" which recast Sauron as a progressive industrializing force.

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wrote a book last year showing how tech companies' values and goals show up in the rhetoric of their products themselves — including through AI chatbots. People questioned that; maybe it seemed too dystopian? Well, I've been collecting other examples in the wild, and here's the latest.

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

> We can’t save those broken men from themselves. We have way bigger tasks in front of us. One of those tasks is pushing back on those claims, pointing out how fucking weird those statements are, how they do not make any lick of sense. tante.cc/2026/09/24/t...

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The Test

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being sa...

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I heard about WW2 slop but the first one I encountered in the wild instantly broke my brain. I want to get angry but there is no real target for the anger. It's like a dog who chewed through something, even if I could make it understand it "did something bad", it will never understand WHAT it did.

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Taylor doing the bit, but sincerely

Screen shot of a social media interaction.
OP: Can't wait to gamble today. Literally shaking. That's called dedication.
7:29 AM • 30 Nov 22

Replying to @sloprules
That's called an addiction
8:56 AM • 30 Nov 22

OP: Buddy, I've been gambling everyday for 20+ years. It's all I think about and I still haven't gotten addicted so doubt it's happening.

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

> If all the young ladies were hares on the mountain / The men with their guns would be out without countin' soundcloud.com/beoga/blackb...

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Blackbirds & Thrushes (Elaine Mai Remix)

“the best new traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century” WALL STREET JOURNAL

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NDNchick4Decency @fedtfupofthemall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And PayPal they ripped off too right?

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cartoonist: Slyngstad

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Random weird Windows thing: There's this program I always forget to exclude in AltDrag and that doesn't like when I press alt-RMB, the window just goes bye bye haha. And the ONLY way I found to recover it (and I tried) was to bring up the super useful menu that is so useful Microsoft totally hid it.

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Let’s Be Frank @frankedson24.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seriously, get gambling, legal or otherwise, the phuck out of sports. Now, before it’s too late. It’s entirely possible gambling could be the undoing of sports as we know them. There are too many bad actors, including people and athletes involved in and around sports, who could ruin it for everyone.

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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

SAN DIEGO activists at Otay Mesa Concentration Camp‼️

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I remember how Bush was seemingly welcomed back into polite company when he gave Michelle Obama some sweets at a funeral that Trump wasn't invited to. As she said about him then: "I love him to death. He’s a wonderful man. He’s a funny man." Starting a war of aggression based on lies. Who cares!

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Clown Pie In The Face

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Johann Lau @johannlau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

> 1. (politics) A purported opposition party that the ruling party actually uses as a hegemonical tool to serve as a red herring to constituents.

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