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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49

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Writer, computer-wrangler, musician, purveyor of mirth and silliness, lover of dad-jokes and board games. He/him. 🩷💛🩵 kurtpankau.com unclefluffy.band

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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 21h
We’re rewatching GAME NIGHT. I remembered it being good, but I didn’t remember it being THIS good.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 21h
Poe’s Law gets a little worse every year in the god-forsaken timeline
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 29/09/2026
Hey, I read this! It's great!
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 28/09/2026
Speaking of #Archon49...
Poster with a faded and staticky image of a man playing guitar in the desert. At the top, it says "Uncle Fluffy's Post-Apocalyptic Sing-Along" In handwriting underneath it says "The AI that was supposed to redesign this poster rose up and overthrew humanity instead. Anyway, go see Uncle Fluffy. Saturday 10/3 3:30pm in Mississippian"
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 28/09/2026
Your periodic reminder that "escaped AI" really means "we don't actually know how to secure our sandboxes" www.implicator.ai/openai-anthr...
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OpenAI Pauses Training as Incidents Reach Tens of Thousands
OpenAI, Anthropic and researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which models acted beyond intended limits. OpenAI has paused its most capable models after a Sept. 20 sandbox esca...
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 28/09/2026
Anyone going to Archon 49 this week? St. Louis's premier SFF convention, incongruously held in Illinois? I'll be doing five panels and a concert. www.kurtpankau.com/2026/09/wher...
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Where to Find Kurt at Archon 49
🎸 'Cause I Wanna Be Anarchy... Hey everybody, I'm going to be a panelist at Archon 49 next month. If you're planning on attending, here's ...
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 23/09/2026
I haven't watched GLASS ONION recently, but for some reason the line "Uber for biospheres" keeps popping up in my brain. One of the best throwaway jokes in all of filmdom, IMHO
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 19/09/2026
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 18/09/2026
Awww, that’s sad. I was just listening to “Barely Breathing” last night and thinking I should re-learn the guitar part. It’s a fantastic and deceptively complex pop song.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 16/09/2026
Cannot stress this enough: LLMs are not actually intelligent. They do not think. They do not reason. They are brute-force statistical inference engines. Anyone in the industry who actually believes their creations are capable of murdering us all has been koolaid-pilled, full stop.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 16/09/2026
I mean... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman,...
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Batman, Turkey - Wikipedia
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible Japanese Breakfast Am I doing this right?
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible Food Fighters
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 11/09/2026
I don't usually remember my dreams, but last night's ended with me telling my wife "Next time we disagree, let's just have a conversation, because after you left I had a hard time remembering which cup had the antidote in it." In her defense, I don't THINK she was the one who'd poisoned me
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 11/09/2026
CHICKENBU—oh, the answer was coffee
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 10/09/2026
There are days when it just feels like everything is broken, and today is one of them
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 07/09/2026
On a recommendation from my wife (along with one of her rare 5⭐ reviews) I just finished THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by @slhuang.com and found it deeply affecting. If, like me, you love linguistics and high-concept sci-fi, check it out.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 07/09/2026
After years of griping about how Google sucks now, I'm making the switch to iPhone. That is, replacing a product from one evil monopolist for one from a slightly less evil monopolist. What a time to be alive...
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 03/09/2026
... ... ... BECAUSE IT'S THERE, THAT'S WHY!
A 3000-piece "Where's Waldo?" jigsaw puzzle still in the package
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 02/09/2026
I say time-sink, even though I demonstrably spent less than a minute on it
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 02/09/2026
New time-sink just dropped Wordle in 1 Bonus September 2, 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0:52
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 28/08/2026
Petty bitches gonna bitch pettily, I guess
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 28/08/2026
This breaks the old "HOMES" pneumonic for remembering the Great Lakes. We'll have to use a different word like "SHAME" now.
ground.news
Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
President Donald Trump signed an ‌executive order on Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, ​a change he said ​would take effect immediately.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 27/08/2026
If only a pick-up truck had someplace to put a bicycle
Denali (big ass truck) with a bicycle mounted on top of the bed cover
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 26/08/2026
SPICE!
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 26/08/2026
I'm not here to tell anyone how to grieve, but I will share what comforts me. I made a choice a while back that if someone I never met dies of natural causes, beloved, and at a ripe old age, they do not need me to mourn them. But I will HELLA celebrate that they had a long life, well-lived!
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 22/08/2026
This time with the #314quartet musicians (during the song where people were allowed to use their phones)
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 22/08/2026
Tonight's entertainment: Candlelight string quartet plays music from #LordOfTheRings
Auditorium stage with candles and seats for a string quartet
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 21/08/2026
Look at you being all smart and shit
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 19/08/2026
Don't mind me, just out here doing some tech blogging. www.kurtpankau.com/2026/08/meas...
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Measuring Success in the Age of A.I.
⚙️ "You are technically correct, the best kind of correct..." Today I ran across an article from tech blogger Dan Luu about "The Benchmark-...
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 18/08/2026
Yes, yes, this is an ish-me, not an ish-you (issue, get it?), but also GAH!
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 18/08/2026
I don't know which of my neurodivergences is triggered by this, and I acknowledge that it is completely irrational but... Stop saying "big spoon" and "little spoon" SPOONS ONLY STACK THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME SIZE!!!!
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 15/08/2026
The good news: I fixed the form for my Romanian Deadlift The bad news: Oh, god, my hamstrings!
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/08/2026
I'm not saying I'm better than y'all. I'm just saying that I got today's Wordle in 2. Wordle 1,881 2/6* ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/08/2026
And then a few years later EXIT TO EDEN came out...
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 13/08/2026
I don't know if it constitutes a full-blown crush or not, but I had some very confusing feelings about Sister Steve from FATHER DOWLING MYSTERIES.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026
It's been a few hours since I cooked this and yet...
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Ava Ryan: I Smell Like Beef
Alt: Ava Ryan: I Smell Like Beef
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026
2. I should have gone to a deli instead of getting corned beef in a tin. In my defense, we're short a car this week, so extra trips have been tricky.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026
Some lessons learned! 1. Just use the big pan. I started in a pan that was too small, which probably contributed to the issues with the potatoes. I ended up having to transfer to a bigger one midway, which only slowed everything down and left me with more dishes to do.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026
The potatoes didn't brown properly and the meat had more of a paste consistency than I wanted. Oh well. Like I said, it tasted good, which is fortuitous since I have two meals worth of leftovers 🤣
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026
I'm cooking more these days, so I'm obligated to share the photos on the socials, so here's a corned beef hash I made for lunch. It's pretty ugly, but at least it tasted good.
A bowl of corned beef hash topped with a fried egg. The potatoes are too light and the meat looks questionable, in the poster's opinion.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026
Current state of the gmail ads: 1. My employer 2. A webstore I visited once and immediately decided not to buy anything from 3. A game I already own but googled recently because I was checking availability for a friend 4. A concert for a band I don't like in a city where I don't live
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 12/08/2026
12yo to 15yo: "You don't have to aura-farm that much." My dudes, you're playing MarioKart.
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 11/08/2026
I am perpetually amused at how bad targeted advertising is at doing its job. Every single ad in my gmail right now is something I googled once and then decided not to buy.
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Johnny Rose: Keep Up The Good Work
Alt: Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose in Schitt's Creek giving a thumbs up and saying "Keep Up The Good Work"
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 11/08/2026
I fired up the Wii and have been playing some DR MARIO ONLINE RX lately and now I very much want a Switch port of that. I realize there are already several flavors of DR MARIO on NSO, but that Wii version was pretty excellent.
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Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This whole thread is a delight.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
not to be confused with quesadilla
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Quesadilla.
Ķ (k-cedilla) is the 17th letter of the Latvian alphabet.
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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just attended a friend's zoom baby shower. Was informed that 5 years ago when I attended a zoom baby show for another friend I won all the baby shower games. I was like, nah, that can't be right. This time, I also won all the zoom baby shower games. Useless hidden talent revealed!
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Kurt Pankau🥞 is going to Archon 49 @kurtpankau.com · 08/08/2026
Torment Nexus Sent from the fridge I am good at hug Monkey journalist pose
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