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Spent a little for a membership at a local science museum and was kind of annoyed that they used some of that money on AI exhibits where you ask AI animal characters questions about their species and they ignore you or say hello repeatedly. Shouldn't they be buying a replacement albino alligator

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A lot of times there isn't anything to be gleaned but also you could have an article that is like "Exclusive details about life inside the Borg Cube, including their one weakness" and people will go "NOT READING A FLUFF PIECE ABOUT THEIR CUTE LITTLE OVERRIDE SYSTEMS, I ALREADY KNOW THE BORG ARE BAD"

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People do this with machines and electronic devices all the time, it's not working so they flip a switch and then it's still not working and you're like "wait, maybe it needs some time to reboo-" and then they flip it again, and again

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Exactly like the story challenge isn't to try to find an alternative to the power of friendship it's to create a group of friends that are so interesting and feel so real that you want them to use the power of friendship

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Every time people want to explain traditional guy hobbies to women they always use analogies like food or pop music or reality tv when this is the correct metaphor the girls crave. I have no idea what you're getting at with that fashion example, which one of these fellas is Yamamoto

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This is awesome. Does anyone know when they start taking preorders

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The character was repulsive, the actor was amazing

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I think Kashi the cereal company should sue Kalshi the gambling company for trademark infringement due to consumer confusion, take it for everything it's got, and use the proceeds to advance cereal innovation a century ahead

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Ok so everyone talks about third places (not home or work) and I was going to joke about fourth places and I guess someone already came up with it as a serious term but only as a combination of 2 of the first 3, which is weak and doesn't count imo, it should be like a pocket dimension or purgatory

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Yeah if you can't (won't) fix things but you want people to keep supporting you then you're going to have to keep inventing a big powerful villain that is stopping you from fixing things

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Occasionally I see someone post some LLM output with comments like "the models figured out how to be funny, it's all over now" and then you read it and, well it's usually posted by a computer person and, well, what's the best way to put it, they're working with a different bar

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I was expecting it to end with the tagline "I think Mike Rogers should leave"

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Sauron didn't really become cool and scary until he died and I think that's a message we should get out to more evil people that like to pattern themselves after Tolkien's fiction

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The lady doth fuck too much, methinks

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It seems like the AI jobs catastrophe everyone imagines is that every worker is replaced by AI, then everyone has no job and starves, disaster ensues, but it feels more like it would be, every company replaces workers with AI, turns out they had some load bearing duties AI can't do, disaster ensues

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I don't think it would be 1000x worse if it was a woman but although I'm sure he means if a woman got her address sent out to strangers, I also am imagining a guy who is paralyzed with fear at the idea that a strange woman could have showed up at his door

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I think the majority of high profile political debate now is just each side immediately falling down and flopping around theatrically like a magikarp complaining about how hard the other side just hit them

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Ok so I really like the Victoria's Secret and Pink clothing lines (the non lingerie outer clothes) for the cut and fit but as a 50 year old woman it's very limited which ones I could actually get and wear to work or even outside the house, not because they're revealing but like

Flare leggings that say "you wish you were here" on the butt

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If I'm being really honest I do actually go out of my way to avoid things if everyone is gushing about how popular and interesting it is. If people gush about it being good, I'm interested, but if they focus on how popular it is ("everybody's obsessed") I'm out. Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, etc

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I'm not even joking when I say that like, all the lofty talk about the meaning of art aside, don't you think there's more to be gained from interacting with a human drawing what they think you would look like as a wasp versus just using an AI face filter to see what you would look like as a wasp

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85% replies riffing on the obvious joke 10% explaining smugly to the OP that he has watched gay porn 5% genuinely upset at this obviously real porn that was against hiring women, usually connecting it to some kind of anti Trump cliche

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This is the exception that proves the rule but there are trees on top of Google buildings and a lot of trees on top of Meta headquarters. In planters of course, and placed at great expense

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 26/09/2026

I think "never heard of him/her/that" is frequently used as a sick burn and also frequently is just true, and the only way to tell is case by case, based on each speaker's deal, and blanket declaring it's all one or the other without considering each speaker individually is just bad social skills

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Haha, I accidentally configured FaceID with a huge smile recently (because I was in a hurry). Now, I can only unlock my device if I smile. Strangely, this has helped me feel better about my 2026 malaise.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 26/09/2026

Me: Haha I hope you don't mind I showed up to this interview with an iced coffee. Line was a little longer than I thought. Hope you didn't have to wait too long! Isaac Chotiner: How many hours late would you say constitutes waiting too long?

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I do these little sketches for our team sprints at work, the current sprint name theme is pairs so we've done Rick and Morty, Batman and Robin, and Lucia and Jason. I think I got a little overambitious on the last one, it's a bit beyond my skill level. I didn't even have a gag for it

A robin being knocked out of the path by a baseball player, or bat man

Stained glass window version of the GTA6 protagonists Lucia and Jason

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Ok so I assumed this was played by the prosecution and after reading the story I confirmed that, but for a moment I thought wait what if this was played by the defense. The guy and his lawyer just going I think this is going to work. I think people are going to be moved by this

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Apparently they didn't just put her in an ad that they showed her friend. They put her in an ad laughing in bed with a strange man, and showed it to her friend? This seems like a recipe for absolute chaos

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Honestly I think when most people say they mentioned an old thing from their childhood and were MORTIFIED when younger people responded "what's that," they weren't surprised, they did it on purpose to OG one-up the kids. But I really did tell a Kmart story once and get thrown when I had to explain

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I have actually thought a lot about how job interview etiquette is a lot like rules about interacting with the fae, especially as a job seeker where you are paranoid about if everything could be a test like is it a plus or minus if I say yes when they offer a drink? Does it matter which soda I pick?

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I like how I go to my timeline and everybody is like "the iced coffee interview thing is so stupid I won't link to or screenshot it or explain what it was because it doesn't deserve any more reach" and this made me of course spend more time than usual searching for it and looking at it

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Not even joking I think this would make a decent impact in getting regular people interested, especially if you were like "disagree? we want to hear YOUR rankings" and there was a little web page to rank the list yourself and share it with your friends

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You can learn a lot about someone by what deity or supernatural phenomenon they attribute this to when they QT it. Maybe a fun icebreaker for social events

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When people say they hate all these things about a Republican candidate but are going to vote for him anyway because a Democrat is unthinkable, that's the power of fear. Not like a sympathetic fear, but they really believe liberals are going to force everyone to be gay or Muslim or whatever

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I am in the office today and still a bit sick so I put on a mask and got a cough drop from the medicine cabinet, but the cough drop is too powerful and it's being funneled up through the mask so it feels like I'm macing myself

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tangent but I hope katzenberg's posting is as good as it was back in the day

Christina Holland
@mortalwombat.info
This also is related to my favorite quote from him. He used to send out informal company-wide emails that he called a
"blog" and one of them was his reaction to a Puss in Boots early screening that just opened with the sentence "puss fantastic"
11:51 AM • Jul 24, 2026

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God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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amdiamanti @amdiamanti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One easy data point is whether their message is “I was wrong then, so now listen to / vote for ME” or “I was wrong then, so now listen to / vote for these people I unfairly disparaged.”

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Can you imagine how smart I would be if I wasn't lead poisoned from being in the wrong generation

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Oh also just noticed the thumbs up icon in the LA Times comment section is labeled "Respect". That's kind of embarrassing

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