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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

lol. The fire truck is stuck making a very loud whine with it’s siren. It doesn’t look like they can turn it off. It’s been gong for 10s of minutes. The truck is just sitting in the parking lot with three firefighters flipping switches and getting nowhere. #danjosr

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

WTF? Mr. Beast is hiring ML engineers? Sure. Why not? It don’t matter. Borne of this matters.

MrBeast
Senior Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA • Reposted 2 weeks ago • Over 100
applicants

Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Primary: Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula) |
Secondary: NYC
The Opportunity
We're doing an Al-first engineering rebuild for a company that already has an audience of 100M+ people. This is a zero-to-one build with no legacy constraints, so you get to stand up ML systems the right way from day one.
You're here to ship machine learning that creates real, measurable value for a massive consumer audience.
The Product
You'll design, build, deploy, and operate ML systems that power the MrBeast ecosystem, bridging data science, software engineering, and platform engineering to ship production-grade capabilities. That means:
• Build scalable ML systems and services that move real business metrics for an audience of 100M+ people.
• Own the full lifecycle: pipelines for data processing, feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Set the bar for Al-first engineering, including how we test new model capabilities and bring them into production.
What You'll Do
• Design and implement scalable ML systems and services for production.
• Develop, evaluate, and optimize models against real business problems.
• Build and maintain ML pipelines across data processing, features, training, validation, and

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Huh. This bitter mellon has bright red seeds. We’ve never got one like this before. They’re usually white on the inside

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

40th anniversary of Transformers: The Movie? There’s only one thing to say to that. “Oh shit.”

Sign inside target for the transformers movie “the apology tour”

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Day 13 (Lucky 13!) of #occultober A quartz crystal ball. I always wanted a crystal ball as a kid. I was disappointed that they weren’t really crystal, but rather just glass. I found this one in a metaphysical shop that ostensibly is quartz. Some people might […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Day 12 of #occultober An obsidian mirror. A “shewstone” if you’re an Elizabethan. I bought this because of John Dee. If you’re not familiar with John Dee, go to Wikipedia. Alchemist. Mathematician. Spy. The literal archetype of fantasy magician. Dee had an […] [Original post on sfba.social]

An obsidian disk sitting on an adjustable stand

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Day 11 of #occultober Another marginal item, and one that’s even less occult and divinatory. The Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. 106 cards each containing a single suggestion for helping you get unstuck in your creative endeavor. I learned […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Image of an opened "Oblique Strategies" box by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, displaying a card describing the contents as "Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas." The box is maroon with embossed lettering. The card mentions it's a sixth revised edition. This is 369 of 500

Are there sections? Consider transitions

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Wife: I learned all about sunscreen and skins cancer tonight. It’s really important. See? You didn’t grow up with that. What level of sunscreen did you grow up with? Thirty? Me: Uhh… four? Wife: Four!?!?!? Me: I remember seeing as low SPF 1/2. Wife: WHAT?!?!? […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Bottle of Coppertone from the 1980s.

SPF 4 “moderate protection sunscreen”

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Day 10 of #occultober I’m rapidly running out of things, particularly of the divinatory nature. So allow me these next two. The Magic 8 Ball. Is this a joke. Yes, but also no. Growing up in Southern Illinois there are a lot of Pentecostals and the like. For […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Day 9 of #occultober Edward Gorey’s Fantod Pack It’s not meant to be taken as real cartomancy, but its macabre art fits the bill for light hearted spooky time. #cartomancy #occult #esoteric #gorey

The Blue Dog — a bulldog looks at you from behind a door

The Burning Head — a floating head is surrounded by fire, but not consumed by it. It’s eyes stare intensely at you

The yellow bird — a wingless bird flies over some leafless trees

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Day 8 of #occultober The Cryptid Tarot by Chris Gabriel Not really a tarot. Not really a lenormand. It’s a bit of both. Thirty six cards divided into a 10 card “cryptid qabalah” (actions), a 22 “cryptid arcana” (12 monsters, 7 locations, 3 “general categories”) […] [Original post on sfba.social]

5 Attack — hands reaching out

18 Werewolf — a large wolf looking at you in the distance

13 Dragon — the famous photo of the Loch Ness monster

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Day 7 of #occultober My Lenormand deck. Associated with French mystic Marie Lenormand, the 36 card deck feature more common symbols than the tarot and subsequently the meanings of the cards are more up to interpretation. Interestingly, the cards all feature […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Letter (number 27) (seven of spades) — it shows a letter on a wax sealed postal envelope

Stork (number 17) (queen of hearts) — a white stork standing in its empty nest

The sun (number 31) (ace of diamonds) — a cartoon sun with a smiling face

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@prahou Wishbringer. Not so much of the title, but the cover called to me.

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Well that’s some weird spam. Someone hawking hacked databases from sketchy online casinos. Times are tough all around I guess

An advertisement for the sale of two databases: one from a large online casino (1win) containing 63 million records priced at $900, and another from a crypto casino (cryptorino), also priced at $900. The seller provides contact

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Day 6 of #occultober We’ve finished my tarot decks, but I do have some tarot cards left. Uel Aramchek and Lays Farra created additional major arcana cards picking up where the originals left off. They looked to extend the pantheon to include he modern cybernetic […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Day 5 of #occultober Suzanne Treister’s Hexenr 2.0 Tarot Another full replacement of the card, although the names remain. Instead of replacing the drawing she replaces images with references to things, people, and organization associated with the advent of […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Five of wands (William Blake) (reversed) — his bust appears over… flames? The way flame contains words describing his work. “Father of modern anarchism”, “influences Aldous Huxley”, etc

Six of chalices (Dream sharing) — two rings of clouds surround the words, “thought based networks”, “network enabled telepathy”, etc

Four of chalices (Castle clock by Al-Tazari) (reversed) — a drawing of the medieval Arabic clock. It’s like a small building with five musicians outside. The word say, “earliest programmable computer”, etc

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Day 4 of #occultober My favorite deck, the Science Tarot. What I like about it is that everything is changed. The suits, the names, the face card names, everything. And yet, the suits still correspond to the original suits and alchemical elements. The minor […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Six of Beakers (Cups) (Return to the Sea) — two humpback whales dive under the water after breaking the surface. Dolphins cavort on the surface.

Queen of Magnifying Glasses (Pentacles) (Frank Oppenheimer) (storyteller) — Frank Oppenheimer stands in front the of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco hold a wooden board on which two beveled gears attached to hand cranks are mounted

Ace of Candles (wands) (Nebula) — The nebula from supernova is seen in the middle. surrounding it is a the outline of an ouroboros. It’s eye is a bright star

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Competing at Botgeddon in the plant class, and wow. We took some liberties and just got shredded. Did not see that level of destruction last year. Holy shit. We lost a motor this time. #battlebots #robots

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Day 2 of #occultober The Marseille Tarot, or Le Tarot de Marseille if you’re nasty. The first tarot deck from Italy (thus the French name). Made for game, with no #esoteric meaning at all. Perhaps the trumps were used for some sort of cartomancy, but the Golden […] [Original post on sfba.social]

The Star (reversed) — a nude blonde woman kneels and pours two liquids into a a stream or pond. In her right hand is a yellow pitcher pouring a white liquid. In her left hand, a red pitcher dispenses a blue liquid. Above her eight stars are in the sky: three small yellow ones, two small blue ones, two small red ones, and a large multicolor star that looks like a red, blue, and yellow were overlayed onto each other.

Ten of Batons — It’s ten batons similar to what a drum major would hold weaved together. The pattern doesn’t mean anything. The weave is just a motif that that the swords and batons have.

Knave of Chalices — a young man holds a chalice in right hand. He’s dressed like a knight’s attendant

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I discovered my ideological profile on the 12 Axes Political Quiz! 💡 Most compatible ideology: Democratic Confederalism - 91% compatibility 🌎 Most compatible country/nation: Illinois (United States) - 91% compatibility 👤 Most compatible personality: Albert […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I’m going to regret doing this for multiple reasons. Let’s kick off #occultober with the first #esoteric #tarot deck, Waite-Smith deck. (Why do we even mention the publisher? He’s just some rich dude with a printing press. He didn’t do shit.) Arthur Edward Waite […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Waite-Smith tarot three card draw

Ace of Cups — The Hand of God (hand coming out of a cloud) holds a chalice with the letter W on it. Four streams of water erupt out from the cup like a fountain filling a pond covered in flowering lily pads. A dove descends into the cup holding a eucharist in its beak

Queen of Wands — A queen dressed in yellow sits on a throne holding a wooden staff with leaves coming out of it in her right hand, while her left holds a sunflower. She looks slightly to her left. At her feat, a black cat with a red collar looks at us. Behind the yellow throne is a tapestry showing two rampart lions standing holding a sunflower with two sunflowers beneath them

The Hermit (reversed) — An old man dressed in a grey robe with the hood up stands looking down. In his left hand is a staff. In his right held aloft is a lantern. The lantern is lit

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@paninid they have a website! They didn’t update it. This text is almost unreadable, but it’s there. Certainly better than a notification from Apple Wallet saying “date TBD”

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The 12yo and I went to see the ARM Cuauhtémoc yesterday, but we didn’t go on. The ship was at the Exploratorium but then line stretched back to the Ferry Building. Apparently it was a four hour wait. We went to the front, took some pictures, and then hung out at […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Part of the figurehead on the bow. It’s a statue of the namesake, the last Aztec emperor

The hooded 12yo touches the orb ominously at the exploratorium. (It’s some metallic sphere just sitting there)

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Yemeni latte from Delah Coffee. It’s a latte with cinnamon and cardamom. It’s very mild tasting. The spices smell stronger than they taste. It’s a very pleasant taste. I like it. It tastes flat. Not flat like a soda that’s sat out too long, but rather like the concept of flatness

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Jesus, San Francisco is terminally uncool. Even the expensive ice cream shops are collaborating with techbro AI startups

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Interesting! The Chicago Tribune does encrypts its articles with rot1 when displaying the “please give us money” pop up. Jokes on you. I also can subtract one from an ascii code

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Wikipedia’s otaku contingent does not disappoint. This is a real image in an Wikipedia article commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wik…

Wikipetan, Wikipedia’s official anime mascot, in a leather bra, thigh high stockings, elbow length leather gloves, holding a whip. She sits seductively on a wooden stool looking at you blushing.

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I have to say, this ad could easily be very horny, or a high school sex ed film.

An animated ad (there is no text) of these super stretchy plastic wraps for bowls and things. They're condoms. They're giant condoms for bowls. They first open one up. Then they show stretching one over an upright watermelon. Then they show putting one on a bowl.

All that was missing was showing how they were spill proof by shooting it full of whip cream or something.

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Whoa. I’ve gone decades without ever seeing a car fire, and now I’ve seen two on the same stretch of road in a month. #sanjose

A black 1980s or 90s cadillac with its engine on fire, sitting on the side of the road

The entire engine bay is engulfed in flames. The black paint has burned off revealing white metal. The tires are gone, and the car slumps forward.

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Good news everyone! Beastiality is no longer disqualifying to be an FBI agent! Go get ‘em pigfuckers!

Durbin: "Do you believe those who have previously stolen from employers, solicited sex, or engaged in bestiality are qualified candidates that the FBI is losing?"

Patel: "We did not want to punish victims of bestiality."

Durbin: "You dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who have engaged in bestiality, not victims of bestiality, applicants who have engaged, do you disagree with that?"

Patel: "Applicants who've engaged in bestiality means they were victims of bestiality."

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

The average weight of a newborn cat is 75 grams. Assuming mammals have density close to water (1 g / mL), this means that a single cat has a volume of 75 mL This means you can not have a liter of kittens unless you have 13. The average number of kittens born […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I’m sure glad that the WTA has banned the Belorussian flag. I’m sure Minsk and Aryna Sabalenka are broken up by it.

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Truly, a multitrillion dollar industry. I don’t even remember creating an account.

Email from open ai trying to get me to use ChatGPT images. Their example? You can turn a picture of someone into a soccer bobblehead.

Why would I do this?

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I took this guy to the vet, and thought he was going to be real nice. I doped him with gabapentin, and we there he was meowing and rubbing up against everyone and want scratches. I felt really good about his annual exam. 10 minutes later, the vet tech comes out […] [Original post on sfba.social]

A yellow short haired tabby cat sitting a chair at that vet

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