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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

And somehow people were convinced *I* was the biggest nerd on the Vikings

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 11h

The Rick Springfield book is frustrating because he clearly has a lot of guilt and pain over all the fucking around he did and I expect every chapter to end "and that's how I learned to be a faithful husband" but the next chapter always begins "so here's how I started cheating on my wife again"

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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 7h

how soon we forget

a sim stuck in a pool with no ladder to get out

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 9h

This is how Putin was talking in March 2022 while Ukrainian teenagers were killing entire Russian tank crews by putting banana peels in their path

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 9h

John Madden (via Death Generator): You see this coach here, he keeps saying playoffs like the Giants are going to the playoffs, like they didn't just trade for J.J. McCarthy. Boom!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11h

I decided to re-do this old calculation + LLMs test, and now it seems the big models just create a piece of code to do the calculation instead of brute-forcing it. IE: LLMs work best when they're doing at little LLM as possible, and every advancement is just less LLM and more stuff-that-works

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num1 = 4679865
num2 = 1346792
result = num1 * num2
print(f"Result: {result}")
print(f"Formatted: {result:,}")

Code output
Result: 6302804743080
Formatted: 6,302,804,743,080

4,679,865 × 1,346,792 = 6,302,804,743,080

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My Day of the Dead clock finally came This isn't where I'm going to keep it I don't think because it has the good life/good death wooden arch but I like it there until I can install it where I want it. I might keep it there anyway. Looooooove it The artist: www.instagram.com/gabbiecustom...

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"and...and the twine?" "A belt of course" "...yes I see."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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👻 L.T. Vargus, disgraced author👻 @ltvargus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

welcome to middle age you have a favorite ibuprofen tablet style now

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t think boys are being taught about importance (for lack of a better word) of consent at a young enough age. My son is 4, and he was throwing stuffed animals at my daughter yesterday and she kept saying “no” and I pulled him aside and gently walked him through how “the person saying no’s …

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 29/09/2026

This is what's been so jarring about the evolution of any kind of "verbal commands" technology. It was advertised as being able to parse our sentences, but really ended up training US how to speak to IT. Which completely breaks when they change the programming and we start all over again.

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Gazing longingly at a framed picture of my bed that I keep on my work desk

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

getting in a fight with the tech support from pizza hut's book it! app

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Given the recent headlines, I’m surprised this hasn’t happened until now. Florida’s Attorney General has asked for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, claiming the company doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its own technology.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 29/09/2026

budget tip: fill your gas tank with pretend gas in matchbox city

Sign at a toy gas station. Prices are $3.49 to $3.65 a gallon

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

I had a diagnoses for over 15 years before I got prescribed stimulants and that first week was the first time I understood that other people can apparently think "I should bring this to the kitchen" and then they can get up and bring something to the kitchen. just like that. like magic.

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Roberto Rojas @robertorojas97.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Brazilian Portuguese commentary on that Tyler Loop field goal for the Ravens is exactly what everyone needs to hear right now

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m dying over here

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kitsch better have my money @kitschbetta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

two out of four cat teams won, one by a landslide, one felt like a squeaker against a bad team, and the other two were squeaker losses to middling-to-bad teams cats what are you doing

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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trevor Lawrence kneeling at the 1 with 9 minutes to play is everything to me.

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comrade @nowarbutclasswar.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

Sign in a grocery store

Do not touch yourself ask the staff for assistance

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

new train just dropped

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm reading a book where a family moved from NYC to a rural house in Georgia. They pulled up to their new house and their cat immediately jumped out of the car and ran off and the mom was like, "Don't worry. He's just an outdoor cat now! He'll be fine." to her kid. I might have to stop reading it.

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Perfectly spooky addition to the party: The Dip No One Touches

USA Today headline: Hidden Valley gears up for Halloween with new black ranch dressing

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

these agents require extremely detailed parameters explicitly establishing guardrails in front of every possible Forbidden Shortcut individually to stop them from driving through hospitals, but are intentionally being provided parameters that fail to do this. it's not rogue AI, it's rogue companies

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not a good decision

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

POV you are a GRU fuck fuck squad in a Lada announcing the union people's democratic republic of slavjank

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 27/09/2026

COUNT IT

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

N'SYNC'D Cycles I'll see myself out now

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

extremely not a fandom person (it’s just not how i engage with things) but a) just sort of observing them anthropologically the idea that they were not always some level of toxic is untethered from reality. also it contradicts human behavior

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We desperately need these guys to maintain various exotics hobbies. Without them, in their opinion, The Hobby Is Dying. It is nice for them to self-sequester themselves in The Hobby for the well being of the rest of us.

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

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Lalita Chemello @lalitachemello.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Calling it like it is. Masterpiece. 😂

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