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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 18/02/2026

A big day for very legitimate accounts.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 17/02/2026

“I’m not nervous, maybe you’re nervous, you ever think about that?”

Martin Short as an old SNL character, a nervous lawyer smoking a cigarette.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 14/02/2026

Or you can slip the maître d’ a twenty but you didn’t hear it from me.

Waffle House: Once again, Waffle House is offering their special Valentine's dinner and reservations are actually needed at many locations. You can see the participating locations (including many in the Triangle) and make a reservation on their website.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 14/02/2026

If you’re wondering why it’s all curling, all the time.

Tabular data.

Dates 4-22 February 2026
No. of events 3 (1 men, 1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors 112 from 14 nations

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 11/02/2026

I’m so confused. Are we looking at the same account?

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 11/02/2026

Presented without comment.

Kid Rock says he watched Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show but ‘didn’t understand any of it’

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 11/02/2026

Replacing it with the townsfolk from the Twilight Zone episode with the omnipotent Billy Mumy.

Black and white still from The Twilight Zone. A young Billy Mumy sits in a living room with chin on hand. A man in a suit speaks to him: "It's good what you've done, Anthony, it's real good, it's swell."

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 08/02/2026

The reason for the season. Happy Superb Owl Sunday to those who celebrate! #SuperbOwl

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 06/02/2026

Totally normal financial instrument.

Two news panels.

Trading View: Crypto Analyst Warns Bitcoin Could Hit Zero, Lays Out 16-Step 'Doomsday' Scenario

Yahoo Finance: Bitcoin Price To $266,000?
JPMorgan Sees BTC More Attractive Than Gold Long Term

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 01/02/2026

When it snows in North Carolina, part 2. (In Charlotte.) www.reddit.com/r/Charlotte/...

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 28/01/2026

Today, in "AI is going great," I searched for "Steph Curry trade request" and Google gave me a fake video of Curry requesting a trade. Bonus: the video is on YouTube, owned by Google. The account is called DangerousAI and declares itself a parody account.

Al Overview

As of January 2026, rumors regarding a Stephen Curry trade request from the Golden State Warriors are driven by speculation, social media, and hypothetical scenarios rather than official, confirmed demands. While some reports suggest frustration with the team's performance, others, including comments from coach Steve Kerr, indicate Curry's commitment to the Warriors. This video discusses a social media post regarding a potential trade request:

WARRIORS 131-136 TRAIL BLAZERS 00:59
"I WANT A TRADE" DangerousAl YouTube • Dec 15, 2025

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 23/01/2026

His defense is that he's dressed like a Nazi since the 90s. www.newsweek.com/border-patro...

Bovino said the trench coat at the center of the dispute is a standard-issue Border Patrol winter uniform he has owned since the late 1990s. Speaking on NewsNation, he said he has worn the coat publicly for years, including at official ceremonies, without objection.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 20/01/2026

Zenni’s advertising glasses that interfere with face recognition technology. Interesting, but could also be the kind of thing that gives people a false sense of security. Maybe ok against marketing applications, not against sophisticated adversaries.

Advertisement: a picture of a smiling woman. The left side of her face has her name, date of birth, and city. The right says “ID Guard on lock anti-infrared lens.”

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 20/01/2026

Did a ChatGPT write this?

ChatGPT Magazine on a supermarket rack with a friendly-looking robot.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19/01/2026

Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, Calif: home of the Free Speech Movement.

A plaza lined with ginko trees ending in a green arched gate.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 15/01/2026

Project 2025 is obsessed with China as our biggest international threat and their solution to that problem is to attack US higher education. That’s thinkin’.

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling further behind their global peers.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 06/01/2026

If you're ever in LA, check out the Bradbury Building; it's magnificent. And ride Angels Flight while you're there, the world's shortest privately-owned railway, 300 feet!

An orange trolley car, built at a 30 degree incline. A furnicular.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 06/01/2026

But this illustrates a larger point: how do you correct LLMs when the data they're trained on is confident but wrong? The entire internet believes the Bradbury Building was in Double Indemnity. You'll find it all over the place, including many legit sources. It was, however, in Blade Runner.

Beautiful picture with chiaroscuro lighting. A person in silhouette climbs stairs in the atrium of an eerie building.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 06/01/2026

One of my pettiest complaints about LLMs is that they'll tell you that the Bradbury Building was in Double Indemnity. The Bradbury Building's atrium is open to the glass ceiling, so the office from the film wouldn't be possible.

Al Overview

The Bradbury Building, a historic Los Angeles landmark famous for its stunning Victorian atrium, served as a key location in the classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944), representing the Pacific All Risk Insurance Company, where insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) works before getting entangled with Phyllis Dietrichson. Its distinctive ironwork, ornate staircases, and skylit interior perfectly matched the film's dark, suspenseful tone, making it a quintessential backdrop for noir and a recurring movie star building.
Key Details about the Bradbury Building in Double Indemnity:

Black and white photo of a two-story office with a catwalk on the second floor.

Interior of the Bradbury Building, an Italian Renaissance Revival style building with rich wood, wrought iron railings, beautiful stairways, and catwalks. A glass ceiling covers the atrium.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 03/01/2026

Meanwhile, over at The Guardian:

6m ago

David Smith
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few but what I’d really like to talk about is my disastrous predecessor and some pathetic city mayors,” is what Winston Churchill didn’t say during Britain’s war against Adolf Hitler.

On Saturday, Donald Trump fancied himself at his most Churchillian as he hailed the derring-do of US military heroes who toppled Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in an audacious overnight operation.

But far from the gravitas of London’s cabinet war rooms or the White House’s situation room, Trump was luxuriating at his winter retreat, the gilded Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he whiles away the days playing golf and the evenings playing DJ.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 02/01/2026

The fact that he thinks it's challenging isn't a great sign, either.

A test. In the left column: connect circles containing letters and numbers, "Copy a cube," Draw clock with ten past seven. Right column, labeled "Naming" a picture of a lion, rhino, and camel.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 01/01/2026

Grammarly has a "plagiarism or AI writing" checker, and I regret to inform you that it is not good.

9% of your text matches 29 external sources. Matches were found on the web or in academic databases.
15% of your text has patterns that resemble AI text. These patterns may show AI text or occur in your writing.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 24/12/2025

“Have you seen the tattoos?”

White man with baseball cap, sunglasses, and FBI shirt has “Don’t tread on me” and “Jan 6” tattoo on his arm.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 22/12/2025

One of the most important sites on the Internet and they’re vulnerable to power outages.

Temporarily Offline
Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.
Please check our official accounts, including Twitter/X, Bluesky or Mastodon for the latest information.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 18/12/2025

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

Psychedelic cartoony fresco from the Middle Ages depicting the Christ child riding a dog-headed St Christopher.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 18/12/2025

The tech industry is so awful I can't tell if this is parody. nurtureos.ai

You're a Bad Parent, but you don't need to be. Powered by AI.

You're a bad parent. Let's fix that. Smart parenting for Smart Parents. Our AI parenting tool takes away uncertainty, removing emotional and suboptimal parenting from the picture.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 17/12/2025

I’m about to read this so if my head explodes it’s been nice knowing you.

Ross Douthat There’s a simpler explanation for the rightward shift of young men.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 05/12/2025

Annnnnnd they retracted their "exposé" that accused an innocent person of being the DC pipe bomber. They've scrubbed it from their site, and it doesn't appear in archive.org.

Dec. 4, 2025: Blaze News considers fairness and accuracy to be the defining goals of any news organization. Our report posted on Nov. 8, 2025, about the Jan. 6 pipe bombs was based on sourcing from individuals in a position to know this type of sensitive law enforcement information who have a demonstrated record of reliability and accuracy. Of note, the sources continue to stand by the information they provided to Blaze News. At all times, the reporting adhered to professional journalistic standards and was published with a good-faith belief in its truth. Even so, in light of Thursday’s developments and the FBI’s arrest of another individual, Virginia resident Brian Cole Jr., in connection with the Capitol pipe-bomb incident, we consider the values of fairness and accuracy to require retraction of this article.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 04/12/2025

New York Times, 1908. Super pissed off that kids are getting fed.

" Yesterday I found that some people had opened a lunchroom at Forsyth and Canal Streets, and tickets were being given out to the children. One man bought a number of tickets at 5 cents a plece and distributed them among the children who had collected there out of idle curiosity.

Now I want to know who authorized these people to open such a place.
I think it is time for this board to make an inquiry into what these people have taken upon themselves to do, and I move that a committee of three be appointed to make a full inquiry of all the conditions and report to this board at its next meeting.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 04/12/2025

From the New York Times, 1929. Mancuso was evidently addressing public concerns about Italian criminality. A hundred years later, and recent immigrants are still being accused of criminality despite evidence to the contrary.

Judge Mancuso said that the most recent statistics for New York and Massachusetts show that the crime rate among the foreign born is only about half that among the native-born citizens of the two states.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 01/12/2025

Piece in TV Guide, June 12–18 1982, complete with homophobic slurs. Quotes from a CBS programmer: "These women on Cagney & Lacey seemed more intent on fighting the system than doing police work. We perceived them as d***s." "…Starsky & Hutch or Redford & Newman aren't considered f**s or h***s."

TV Update: CBS Alters Cagney & Lacey, Calling it "Too Women's Lib." Hollywood -Cagney & Lacey, a cop show about two women detectives, is being "softened" because CBS believes the main characters are "too tough, too hard and not feminine." A CBS programmer, who declined to be named, said the first step in renovating the series was to replace actress Meg Foster, whose character in the show was unmarried. No replacement for Foster has been named.
"We decided to keep the character who was played by Tyne Daly," said the official, because she was less threatening.
The CBS programmer said the show was being revised to make the two main characters less aggressive. "They were too harshly women's lib," he said. "The American public approves of women getting the same pay for some jobs, but the public doesn't respond to the bra burners, the fighters, the women who insist on calling manhole covers people-hole covers, These women on Cagney & Lacey seemed more intent on fighting the system than doing police work. We perceived them as d***s."
Richard Rosenbloom, the producer of the series, said he was aware that the characters of Cagney and Lacey were too strident. "There were some scenes in which they seemed to be more man than the men," said Rosen-
bloom. He said that he had to overcome the feeling that two women who worked in a male-dominated profession could be perceived as being gay. "Two guys, Starsky and Hutch, or Redford and Newman, aren't considered f**s or h***s," said Rosenbloom. "They are pals, buddies. It's strange, but if it is two women, people say, What's going on?' I think that is unfair and unfortunate and had nothing whatsoever to do with the show, but it seems that some of CBS's research picked this up."

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 13/11/2025

These are the people in charge of a university that’s 40% male and 55% non-Hispanic white.

Six white men in blue or gray blazers sit at a conference table.

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