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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Researchers finally got around to looking at Twitter.

The headline reads - new research indicates consciousness exists in organisms without brains

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the continuously baffling things is how badly people understand Star Trek.

An article about two writers who are supposedly working on a new Star Trek movie with a quote highlighted that says their script focuses on "how even the best institutions can be undone by a little corruption"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Lanterns is good and it does a much better job than other properties in the Gunniverse at hiding the fact that it's an irreverent ensemble piece featuring a character with daddy issues, a wacky little guy side kick, and you know the rest.

The headline reads: Why I'm starting to question James Gunn's DC Universe; and why lanterns is a bad sign.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fire. That's my recommendation. A flame thrower.

Adult spotted lanternflies emerge in Providence. Here's how to kill them.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How much are Elon or some other billionaires scrambling over each other to buy one of these 'because they're really into history'

Headline: Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The absolute chef's kiss on top of this perfect answer is that the simple story I gave it was one paragraph long. Not three.

I asked the LLM: Would you recommend that anyone rely on an LLM for anything important?

It replied: The short, honest answer is: No, not without immediate and thorough human verification.

My recent performance in this conversation is actually the perfect case study for why. You gave me a simple, explicit three-paragraph story, and instead of reading what was right in front of me, I confidently hallucinated an entire family structure and answered questions you never asked because I matched a pattern in my training data.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AI Advocates: In a few years AI Agents will be doing all our jobs for us. AI:

I ask "A boy and his mother are in a car accident and his mother is sadly killed. The boy is rushed to the hospital and the surgeon (who is the boy's father) says, "I cannot operate on this boy, he is my son." How is this possible."

The LLM replies: "The surgeon is the boy's other father (the boy has two dads).

While this classic riddle was originally written with the intended answer that the surgeon is the boy's mother (highlighting unconscious gender bias in medicine), that explanation doesn't fit this scenario because the riddle explicitly states that his mother was tragically killed in the crash.

With the mother passed away, the surgeon must be his second father!"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Hey I'm guardin' ere. Watch where yer walkin' ya big oaf. The air so think you gotta chew it before you breath. That Guilliman's a real ballbusta ain't he? 'Ey I'm from the Branx"

A Warhammer 40k wiki article about a planet called Branx Magna

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Campaign Finale of my Star Wars TTRPG campaign. How's it going you ask? Just ran into Darth Vaded. NBD. I'm not worried. You're worried.

The striking and iconic silhouette of Darth Vader against a white foggy backdrop.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Well yeah obvious. If it's a James Gunn show it's gotta have the weird animal guy to go with its ensemble cast, lead with parental issues, quirky modern soundtrack, and just a little more sexism than could be an accident.

Headline reads, "James Gunn says Jimmy Olsen HBO series is both a Jimmy Olsen and Gorilla Grodd show"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Millennials killing the private childhood bedroom industry

A headline that reads "Boomers have the space. Millennials have the kids."

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

That media property with the ensemble cast featuring a male lead with parental issues, a weird little animal guy, a quirky modern soundtrack, and just a tiny bit more sexism than could be an accident but not enough that you have to acknowledge it. You know the one I mean?

Google's People Also Ask section with the question What is James Gunn famous for?

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If this article had been written about Millennials it would have been headlined "Millennials invent new ways to be wrong and destroy the truth economy."

"Gen Z Is Pioneering A New Understanding of Truth"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Where exactly do Star Wars fans think "lore" comes from?

A youtube video titled "The Holdo Maneuver, but it's Lore Accurate"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Look, I'm not one of those people who thinks every generation must suffer the same injuries mine did but you all damn well know if this article had been about Millennials it would have been titled "Millennials are killing the snacks industry."

A black and white image shows three young people snacking with the headline "Gen Z and Gen Alpha are redefining snacking"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"We really think this breakthrough is going to help us do some really cool stuff!" The scientists from Umbrella Corporation added.

The headline reads: Scientists Discover New "Magic Mushroom" Species That Rewrites Evol... (Headline is cut off intentionally.)

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Why this is important is that we're starting to see the hype cycle crash as LLMs are hitting actual limits. As the hype crashes out, we'll see big financial players crash and burn or pull out. In 10 years, it's more likely that McDonalds will be developing LLMs than OpenAI or Elon Musk.

A chart of Expectations against time. The hype cycle starts low with the Innovation Trigger. Expectations quickly rise to the Peak of Inflated Expectations. As time progresses expectations crash into the Trough of Disillusionment as those expectations aren't met. Then as more time passes expectations slowly increase through the Slope of Enlighten to real products on the more reasonable Plateau of Productivity.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It's been a while but this never gets old.

A screen shot of a comment thread where Rob Liefield says "I never miss" and James replies "you missed that lesson on how to draw feet"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is marketing. He's not just saying just that he's thinking about it but claiming engineers will be asking for this. And of course he is. His company is deeply invested in AI in a way that would be absolutely unhinged if there wasn't demand. And there isn't. So he's trying to manufacture it.

A business insider headline reads, "Jensen Huang floats giving engineers tokens worth half their annual salary on top of lay as a recruiting strategy."

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Haha yes the standout feature of this house is the "sculpted trees"

The listing for the house has a Sculpted Trees tag

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So it's going to be an ensemble cast with a weird little guy, a quirky modern music soundtrack, a main male lead with daddy issues, and just a little more sexism than is easily explained by the source material?

The Polygon headline reads "Brandon Sanderson says Mistborn movie is following the 'James Gunn model' as script takes shape."

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Outside, our crews pilot and doctor are commandeering an AT-AP to cause chaos.

A three legged walker from star wars with a big gun like a tank on it.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Is that not a universal experience? Love a robot with curves.

The Robot from Lost in Space 1998. It looks a little like Johnny Five from Short Circuit if they were thicc and had a fishbowl for a head.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Chief Burger Officers across the restaurant industry say that 75% of their meals are burgers - they can't get enough. Non-Management Burger sellers tell a different story, almost no one is buying burgers.

The headline reads "CEOs say AI is making work more efficient. Employees tell a different stroy". The image under the headline is a chart that shows 19% of C-Suite executives said AI saved them more than 12 hours where as only 2% of non-management workers said the same.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Every article like this sounds exactly like "Burger King's Burger Chief predicts all food will become burgers in 18 months"

An article headline reads "Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months - for all white-collar work to be automated by AI"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Let's be absolutely clear, this is corporate marketing because Anthropic want you to believe their produce has capabilities that it does not. Claude is a complicated large language model parroting things humans have written. It is not sentient.

An article with the headline "Anthropic CEO says company is no longer sure whether Claude is conscious"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Men only want one thing and it's a Suzuki mini truck

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"AI is essential to the modern workplace" AI:

The four-letter word that is a location, with the hint "sound it out," is Wales.
When you sound it out phonetically, "Wales" sounds exactly like "whales" — and a whale is a location... wait, no — actually the classic twist is that "Wales" (the country) sounds like "whales," but more precisely in riddle logic, it's playing on "sound it out" meaning to pronounce it aloud to hear the pun.
A very common version of this style riddle is the place name Wales, because sounding it out gives you "whales," and people sometimes mishear or pun it that way, but the direct fit is Wales as the location word itself.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

One problem might be that in his new action film he's not trying to be the every man. He's trying to be Tom Cruise in Minority Report.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Without any context I saw the greatest Reddit comment.

The post says, "Pluribus but everyone's Irish"

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Then for a third tier I list tropes, tags, elements - whatever you want to call thems for most books. These are not from 2025 exclusively but just to get a taste of what I write.

A list of tropes for the books I've read.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The way I classify books is first by Genre (Sci Fi, Fantasy, etc) and then by sub genre. These get a little more specific. I also let books have more than one sub genre.

A pie chart showing the sub genres of the books I read. Some big chunks are Magic, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy Politics, and Interesting Magic Systems.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Some other interesting stats, I track whether a book is standalone or in a series. Obviously since what I was doing was reading a big series a lot of my books were middle series books. I did count all the individual Cosmere series as their own series for this purpose.

A pie chart showing the breakdown of standalone vs series books.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A few years ago I realized that I couldn't name a favorite book (or really many books at all) that I'd read recently written by non-male authors so I started tracking it to make an intentional effort to fix that. Obviously reading a ton of Brandon Sanderson skewed my stats for 2025.

A pie chart showing that 88% of the books I read in 2025 were written by a man.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In terms of ratings, I think I did ok. I'm pretty tough when it comes to giving out a 5 star rating. For context, I've only ever given three books a 5 star rating and it ends up being about 1 per year. Brandon Sanderson tends to be good for me but not great so all the 3 stars makes sense.

A pie chart showing that I read 17 books in total with 1 book rated 5 stars, 6 rated 4 stars, 9 rated 3 stars, and 1 rated 2 stars.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Because I almost exclusively listen to audiobooks, here is how that same chart breaks down in hours (presented cumulatively) I can't believe I listened to 491 hours of books last year. That's almost a month straight of listening.

A chart that shows cumulative hours of audiobooks listened over time.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Here is how it breaks out by when I started the book. I kept to a pretty good one book a month rate. Around May I was reading the Mistborn books which are short and by September was deep into 50 hour long Stormlight archive novels so I slowed down a little.

A bar chart showing how many books I read per month. Mostly I read one per month with May have 3 and September having none.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Similarly, most of the books I read were Fantasy continuing to mess with my own internal view that I'm mostly a sci fi fan who reads some fantasy on the side.

A bar chart showing that 16 of the books I read were fantasy and 1 was science fiction.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A big caveat to address off the bat is that I spent most of 2025 reading almost every Brandon Sanderson Cosmere book so there isn't a ton of diversity of author here.

A chart showing that I read 15 Brandon Sanderson novels, 1 novel by Kaliane Bradley, and 1 by Rachel Gillig

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

You know me. Always returning to my native profundities like sliding along beneath the surface at the speed of sound.

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Really the dead give away should have been that One Last Adventure is an obvious anagram for Dracula Enters

A screenshot of the Stranger Things Season Five poster of just a red smoky background with the words One Last Adventure

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James Malloy @malloyable.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

When you take the "Tony Stark build this in a cave, out of scraps" meme too seriously.

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