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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 03/10/2026

♻️ tankgrrl: Shared on work Slack today: Number go up.

@SarahStarberry
oh my god read the vertical axis

@ Sashi @ @sashikantsingh - 1day
Open Al's internal benchmarks show GPT-6.1 Sol
crushing Opus 5.5, with Anthropic struggling to
keep up

Explanation:
The graph uses the version numbers to plot the vertical axis, not actual performance. So you endd up with:
ChatGPT 6.1
Opus 5.5
Grok 4.7

johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 10/09/2026

♻️ thegeektribune: OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia… #technology #thegeektribune theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 04/09/2026

♻️ moira: TAKE YOUR BALLOTS TO A DROP BOX THIS NOVEMBER. Don't use a mailbox. Use a ballot drop box, because the US postal service is _already_ fucking with ballots. This is not a guess, theory, or extrapolation, this is an _observed fact_. Here's the Thurston County… mastodon.murkworks.net…

The Problem with Mail Delivery

By law, we must certify the election by a specific deadline. For the primary, that date was August 18, 2026, two weeks after Election Day. Any ballot that arrives after this date cannot be counted, even if it was mailed on time.

We are seeing two main problems with the post office:

* Slow Mail: Many people mailed their ballots well before Election Day, but the ballots sat in post office sorting centers for weeks. In one case, a ballot was mailed in late July but didn't reach our office until after the August 18 deadline. It took 19 days to arrive, so it could not be counted.

* Ballots sent Between Counties: In Washington State, you can drop your ballot into any official drop box in the state. Other counties collect those ballots and mail them back to us using USPS Priority Mail. In the past, this worked well. But this year, mail sent on August 5 didn't reach us until August 24, six days after the deadline.

So far, our office has received 70 va

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 04/09/2026

♻️ jik: "OpenAI’s president claims AI is as capable as humans now" washingtonpost.com/technology/… #ai #OpenAI #HypeCycle

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 04/09/2026

♻️ redsad: REM be like :thisisfine:🔥

Emily Heller @MrEmily Heller says

I gotta say, R.E.M. gave me unrealistic expectations about how good I'd feel at the end of the world

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 04/09/2026

♻️ cabel: life can be good random and bad random, so i really really appreciate good random. this made my day.

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 28/08/2026

♻️ Gte: John Ternus’ first day on the job deciding if Apple Maps will rename Lake Ontario.

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 26/08/2026

...reminded of something I started a while ago #TimCurry #RockyHorror

Illustration of Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, standing behind a microphone, red lips, indigo pencil sketch and indigo shaded background.

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 24/08/2026

♻️ als: How to live in the age of AI - Gautami Reddy

A collection of drawings with suggestions of how to live in the age of AI.
- Read slowly.
- Make ugly things.
- Don't believe everything. (With a drawing of a man with a tie saying "the future is here, while a woman is holding a dog that's pooping while on a lead)
- Eat together.
- Get bored. (With a drawing of someone stargazing)
- Avoid instant replies. (With a drawing of someone playing with a fish in a fish bowl while their phone goes "ting ting ting ting!" on a nearby table
- Call your grandma/grandpa (A drawing of two people next to each other, have a phone conversation "Where are you?" "Right behind you"
- Fall in love (A drawing of two people dancing together)
- Cry every now & then (A drawing of someone lying on the floor, sobbing, while holding a flower and telling it "omg you're so pretty!"
- Memorise a poem (A drawing of someone holding a piece of paper, reading "I'm a phenomenally phenomenal woman, that's me!")
- Trust your gut (A drawing of someone who has freed three

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 24/08/2026

♻️ NovaNaturalist: Thoughts it time we gave this picture some more attention.... #elbowsup #canadagoose #fucktrump

An American Eagle came to attach a Canada Goose, and is getting more than it bargained for. The Canada Goose's elbows are up, and its hissing. The eagle is scared.

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 24/08/2026

♻️ owlsintowels: A short clip of a Snowy Owl being inspected for injuries at Wild North in Northern Alberta 🇨🇦. Want to donate to Wild North? wildnorth.ca/support/donate/… Source: fb.com/reel/1238805331486611… #owlsintowels 💛🦉

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 21/08/2026

♻️ duskcomics: Help me celebrate my 20th Year in Comics! DUSK A DAY! dusk #duskcomics #dusk20 #comics #comicbooks #horror #vampires kickstarter.com/projects/rsbco…

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 21/08/2026

I enjoyed this episode far more than I thought I would. #STSNW 4.5 Level-Five Transporter Accident. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

Fuzzy puppet of Carol Kane playing her character, Pelia, on Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Short puppet with red Star Trek uniform and big, bouncy, and curly, yellow hair.

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 18/08/2026

♻️ rooniecomics: I should get SOMEthing. | Get free comic emails: patreon.com/portermason/?rr_id…

MEL: If I listen to your problems, what do I get in return? PETER: Nothing, Mel! But it'll HELP me, and I'm your FRIEND. | MEL: How about you throw in ten bucks? PETER: This isn't a NEGOTIATION, Mel! MEL: Fine! FINE. (sigh)... Tell me your thing. | PETER: So, Peter gets coffee without me and did I stop drinking caffeine during my cleanse? Yes. But I want to be ASKED. So I confront Peter, and I'm like, "I want to be ASKED." And he's like, "Of COURSE." But I don't think he MEANT it. And I think he THINKS I think he didn't mean it. On top of all of that, Starbucks is TOTALLY anti-union, you know? | MEL: $7.50. Final offer.

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 16/08/2026

♻️ redsad: get in loser, we're going caring

Care Bears driving their cloud car in a pink and purple sky

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 16/08/2026

♻️ airspeedswift: Bluesky has been down for hours. Me: goes to mastodon wondering if anyone knows why Mastodon:

The elevator scene from Mad Men where, in reply to someone telling Don Draper "I feel bad for you", he replies "I don't think about you at all".

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 14/08/2026

♻️ Natasha_Jay: The professor is absolutely correct 🔥 #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

#1 Pouch Pediatrician

@ZachsCubClinic

Today in one of our med classes we talked about LGBT patients and the professor isn't taking anyone's shit

Student: What if we don't feel

comfortable treating someone following that lifestyle?

Professor: Find a different career

10:12 AM 05 Apr 18

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 12/08/2026

♻️ jaykuo: The 2026 writers delivered another insane plot line. Trump secretly hid on a catering truck to swap planes and thwart a possible assassination attempt, leaving AF1 and his press corp as a decoy. And that could explain why the DOJ subpoenaed NYT reporters in July.… universeodon.com/@jayk…

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 11/08/2026

♻️ briankrebs: The fastest way to get VIP treatment when you land...seriously, how dumb do you have to be to try something like this? This person on Reddit stole my thoughts verbatim: "committing federal crimes from inside a sealed metal tube that lands exactly where the feds… infosec.exchange/@bria…

A screenshot of a trending post on Reddit

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DL591 LAS-ATL arrival met by federal agents following mid-air WiFi

hacking

News
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A wild scene just unfolded at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport (ATL) after Delta Flight 591 landed from
Las Vegas. A group of passengers returning from the DEF
CON cybersecurity convention allegedly used a portable
network hacking tool (like a Wi-Fi Pineapple) to launch a
mid-air "de-authentication" attack. They successfully
jammed the plane's official in-flight Wi-Fi, kicking everyone
offline, and broadcasted a malicious clone network named
"Delta WiFi Fast." The fake hotspot served up a phishing
landing page designed to harvest passengers’ personal
credentials and Google login data, prompting the captain to
send an emergency ACARS alert to the ground. Upon
docking at Gate A18, federal authori

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 09/08/2026

♻️ catsalad: Thwarted again

This person tried to unlock your Phone
2016/07/23 15:51

[Photo of a diluted calico cat with wide eyes and tongue sticking out.]

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 08/08/2026

♻️ strangequark: @rk @bms News of the World album cover art was painted by sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas, who had painted a similar illustration for the cover of Astounding Science Fiction (October 1953). Queen approached Freas and commissioned him to paint the same robot… dice.camp/@strangequar…

The cover of Astounding Science Fiction (October 1953) illustrated by sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas. The painting depicts a giant robot holding dead body of a man, with caption, "Please... fix it, Daddy?"

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johnofrobotz @mastodon.girolab.foo · 06/08/2026

♻️ pluralistic: I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking… mamot.fr/@pluralistic/…

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