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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I was just a little more condescending, I'd start a web series where I sit down with someone who thinks LLMs are inherently harmful, help them install one on their laptop, and then we sit and wait for it to do something harmful on it's own. 30 minutes of uncomfortable silence. "Any moment now..."
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FuzzWolf 🏳️‍🌈 @fuzzwolf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.
Centered text reads “The sky above
the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”

Below are 3 versions of the same cityscape labeled 1985, 2005, 2025 with the background changing from grey static, to solid blue, to streaming service logos.
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
War is the continuation of sports betting by other means
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images." Well this isn't good 😮 arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687
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MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding
Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We r...
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
excuse me?!
an email from Nilay Patel, my editor in chief:

We are holding CHIPWRECKED
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Nilay Patel
7:56 AM (2 minutes ago)
to Elizabeth

Elizabeth - as I’m sure you know by now, I have decided to hold your piece on Nvidia, GPU depreciation, and the fundamental instability of the AI economy, which we have tentatively titled CHIPWRECKED. 

To run a story on this subject, we need to do more. And this is The Verge. We need to be able to get a GPU on the record. That is my North Star: talking to computer components like they are alive and asking if they fear death. Please do the fucking news.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
What’s funny about the Disney YoutubeTV fight is that Disney probably doesn’t realize no one at Google is paying attention. They deployed YoutubeTV, earned their promotions, and moved on to the next product.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 08/09/2025
"yes bro eat excel take it away" - a tiny tortoise is trying to eat the green excel logo from the task bar of a pc.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/07/2025
3. Your small dog should get training. Yes, that dog in particular.
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Oh my god. This is art: www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
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From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
Explore this post and more from the ExperiencedDevs community
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
art blakey for all your friday needs youtu.be/fsJ3JjpZyoA?...
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Moanin'
YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is there a more first world problem than not knowing how to tip when the restaurant includes a service charge in the bill?
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
4 fast 4 furious
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Dorothee V. Plessis @dorotheevplessis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Get it, fake American Christians?
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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Tom Friedman looking on as The Great and Powerful Oz is revealed to be an old carnival barker from Nebraska with a big smoke machine: "Stop pulling those levers and use your great and powerful wizardry to save us."
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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Impeachable Offense of the Day could be a regular feature in any newspaper. Literally, every single day. Even on days when he makes no public statements of any kind, some nefarious crime is exposed with his fingerprints all over it.
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Marie-Claire @mariecgould.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Man after my own heart
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So... I know that there's nothing going on that can't be explained by drug abuse and dementia. But after that Oval Office interview, has anyone started running with the theory that Musk has neuralinked Trump? I can't be the only one who has read Interface (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfa...
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Interface (novel) - Wikipedia
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Penguins walking, but I added The Imperial March.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 21/12/2024
me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
We've been saying "See you later, Alligator" for decades, when "Sayonara, Capybara" was right there.
Capybara By Charles J. Sharp - Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44254293
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I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"I can't vote for Harris because of Gaza." Cool, you just got Gaza wiped out of existence. Congrats.
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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
6. Food deserts didn’t materialize for no reason. Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s — the Federal Trade Commission stopped enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act, a key antitrust law designed to ensure robust competition in retailing.
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Does Cheez-It have to pay for each overtime? Cause this would be getting expensive #cfb
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I still think people are nuts to be fighting about campaign message when voters keep telling us over and over they didn’t hear campaign messages.
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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
😡 wapo.st/3Z6fMhu
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Opinion | RFK Jr. to head newly formed Department of Disease Efficiency
We mistakenly thought that finding a dead mouse in your frozen ravioli dinner was a failure.
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Buffy's Blog @buffyblogs.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The Parable Of The Cliff @tomtomorrow.bsky.social #MayNotBeInYourBible www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Cartoon: Over the cliff
Welp. Here we go again. Now more than ever,� if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List .
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
You otter vote!
A river otter pup with a paw up
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/11/2024
Give not this rotten orange to your friend
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
I’m not even a political poster but my prediction is that 1. Kamala wins and it will be obvious on election night 2. Major networks will be too chickenshit to call the result, citing pending legislation, recounts, etc
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
First 10% is technically correct, but I'm going to claim first 5% cause that sounds better
#484,495!
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Close game but somebody has to buy Brian Kelly some sunscreen. #cfb
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
CLAIM: Tim Walz is a Linux user FACT CHECK: What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system
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Eric The Chipher @ericthechiper.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
From a Tokyo's Witness that came to my door.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
Joe Biden is a hero. Now it's time to beat Trump.
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The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Listen, if the Biden campaign wanted to quell concerns about his age, they would have put him out there, like in the post-debate pressroom, a rally, an event at the Stonewall monument, a national address, a medal of honor ceremony, a meeting with governors, another rally, and televised interview.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 05/07/2024
goodie proctor saw the devil
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John @jpterra.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
This dog is smart enough to associate her anxiety medication with oncoming thunderstorms, so as soon as I give her a dose she has a panic attack until it kicks in. Wish us luck with fireworks...
An elderly black lab mix dog looking anxious on a brown sofa.
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Aldi’s is the Linux of grocery stores
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 10/05/2024
Anakin as a little boy: fear leads to anger
Anakin as a big boy: anger leads to hate
Anakin as a crusty old white man without his Darthy marthy helmie: hate leads to suffering 
Calvin's dad: and suffering builds character
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PodKATT @podkatt.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
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