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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 16h

For my birthday my husband got me this commemoration of the happiest 5 seconds of Starscream's life and probably the funniest Transformers moment ever

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 10/10/2026

That doesn't seem like an ideal place for a school

Map showing Tesla factory is right next to the elementary school
A satellite view of the Tesla factory next to Lila Bringhurst Elementary in Fremont, Calif.
Screenshot via Google Eart/Illustration by SFGATE

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 09/10/2026

That doesn't seem like the right emoji

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 07/10/2026

Thank goodness for these two heroes

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 07/10/2026

This really doesn't seem necessary

Her lawyers said she still can’t move her arms or swallow, her prognosis remains unclear and that she has a long road to recovery. Her arms were burned and blistered by the attempted execution and she is handcuffed to the hospital bed, they said.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 07/10/2026

Ok I gotta be honest if I was a conservative troll and I saw this I would be like, yup, got em good

If you've built a personality around gleefully "offending liberals," here's what you need to know: we aren't offended. You haven't hurt our feelings or made us cry. You sound like children to us, and we're sick of responding over and over to your infuriatingly stupid talking points, but we keep doing it because people's lives might literally be at stake if the wrong kind of idiocy is allowed to spread too far.
You're not erudite debaters owning the libsiYou're the rotten annoying little kids kicking the backs of our seats while we're trying to keep the car on the road.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 05/10/2026

From "gambling isn't a problem in society" to "everyone I know is gambling on their phone"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry I know there's a whole important story and the Icarus thing at the end but I got distracted because one of my interests is word tricks used to imply humble beginnings. So sweeping is not a job, it's one duty in some low level jobs, and was it even a job or family pitching in on afternoons

John Georges likes to tell you he got his start sweeping the floors of his grandfather's business. He likes to tell you he watches both Fox News and CNN. He likes to tell you he rebuilt the Greek Orthodox church in New Orleans after Katrina, brought the shuttered Greek consulate back after 20 years and was made honorary consul - a title he likes to tell you he never asked for.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 02/10/2026

Ok I do see now that there are also fish in it but I have to tell you that at first I was imagining the strangest creature

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New England Clam Chowder Contains: Fish (Anchovy, Cod, Haddock), Milk,
Soybeans
[Pork]
This dish may contain bones.
Please be mindful when eating.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 01/10/2026

Ok so you know that thing where Facebook shows your friends ads with pictures of your face inserted with AI based on scraping your old photos, well here's the process to opt out of it, which is absolutely insane us.norton.com/blog/ai/how-... you fill out a form from a link buried 3 levels deep

Relevant Prompts
I didn't enter any prompts. Muse used my face in an Al generated ad shown to my friends. I assume this came from photos I uploaded in the past to Facebook or Instagram as I have not posted anything in years.

Screenshot of response
Attach one screenshot that shows yo response from an Al at Meta model, f must be less than 4 MB and saved as WebP file.

Additional context
My friend did not take a screenshot because they were too creeped out.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 30/09/2026

I'm developing a different kind of AI psychosis

end of chat output: (e.g. regarding the status line integration) or review any specific step from that session!

Input box: I swear to god tell me I'm "absolutely right" ONE MORE TIME

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 29/09/2026

Oh I see ok so this business model actually forces him to have to scrape the bottom of the barrel for daily content

ZEPHYR
MOST PEOPLE USE 10% OF AI.
GET THE OTHER 90.
One short email a day. Each one fills in one more square: a feature worth turning on, a setup you can copy, or the model worth your money.
Your email
SEND ME THE 90 →

THE 100
1 SQUARE = 1 THING AI CAN DO FOR YOU

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 29/09/2026

Ok so is this guy's deal that he just make posts where he says "BREAKING: Claude has a feature called [Thing] Mode. You activate it by using this prompt I give you where you say 'claude make [thing]'" and he just inserts a new thing every day

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 27/09/2026

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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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 25/09/2026

Ah crap I touched it up a little after the work meeting. I meant to post that one

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite ones from the last series (bug themed) was silverfish

Fish with medals after a competition. The one in second place looks pissed

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 25/09/2026

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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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 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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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 24/09/2026

Two of the first comments I saw were indignation about the irresponsible press blaming Tesla, which is a reminder of why I shouldn't read comments

Rick-n-HB
1 hour ago
LA Times does not spell out Chevy or Ford in accident headlines but if they get a chance to gig Elon...
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— HAH
9 hours ago
Serious question - will LAT actually follow up on this story or will they leave it as is implying the Tesla is possibly at fault?
They never followed up on that Tesla accident in Texas where it crashed into a house killing a lady. The investigation revealed the driver to be 100% at fault and he was charged with manslaughter.
Just published the initial story implying the car was at fault.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23/09/2026

I was going to say, jump scare, but I'm not sure that's the right term, it's more like all the pieces are falling into place Like obviously all the usual stuff about cops being dumb and mean but also like... I wonder if this is behind any of the "fentanyl exposure" incidents

Zoox said it doesn't modify the ventilation systems in these SUVs. But making any changes to a vehicle can increase the risk that gases will leak into the cabin. In the Ford investigation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in 2023 that the highest levels of carbon monoxide were found in police vehicles that had added sirens, lights, and other modifications, all of which can create sealing issues.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23/09/2026

You really run into some interesting accounts sometimes when you look through notifications of who has followed you and look at accounts who just did it to get your attention like a free ad. Oh homeless charities, this person seems like a well meaning progressi - hmm

Account with the bio: I created a social network in which 50% of the profits will be given to homeless charities. The social network is
www.thealternative.social Please join and

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www.catholicculture.org/culture/libr.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 22/09/2026

I don't know, "I would never try to stop superintelligence from developing, I love it, here's a poll of 3 really flattering names for it, what do you like best" has the same vibes to me as

“If I can save 7,000 people a week from getting killed, that’s pretty good,” the President said Tuesday on Fox & Friends. “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 22/09/2026

Every explainer on Jev, including official docs, are like, "oh you can ask the model to give you the answer as a Choice, a Score, or a Noul" and everybody is just like "oh of course a noul" and I'm like am I being gaslit? You have to go to a Hacker News comment to find out it's short for Bernoulli

Choice: Pick from a set of options. Returns a probability for each option and an overall confidence score.
Score: Rate an input against ordered levels, such as low, medium, and high. Returns a continuous score, the underlying distribution, and a confidence value.
Noul: Answer a yes-or-no question. Returns the probability that a statement is true.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 21/09/2026

I realize they meant well but it's mind boggling that you'd be a data scientist at DraftKings and bust your butt developing a way to identify potential gambling addiction before it happens and expect management to not throw it away like you brought them a dead rat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...

One was a data scientist named Nestor Hernandez, who in mid-2024 began building a system that would help the responsible gaming division identify gamblers in trouble.
Mr. Hernandez, a computer science Ph.D., had spent years using algorithms to detect unusual patterns in large amounts of data.

In early 2025, Mr. Shannin said, the team prepared to share the new model with company officials, including Ms. Kalani. But the day of the presentation, the meeting was canceled. Two other attempts by DraftKings employees to build similar algorithms have also been shelved, according to two former employees.
Ms. Kalani said that company leaders made a
"collective decision" not to use predictive technology for problem gambling. "We evaluated that it wasn't evidence-based," she said. The company decided that its existing system was a "better methodology."

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 20/09/2026

What the fuck, why would anyone ask that. "is 'America the Beautiful' about France?"

Started a search with the words: was battle hymn of the republic a
The first suggested search was: was battle hymn of the republic a confederate song

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 19/09/2026

I promise I did not fake this to make AI look bad. This is an ad for skin creams or something from the end of a blog post

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 18/09/2026

I have some concerns about what Hegseth's guys are actually using the chatbots for www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

In this particular instance, the analyst queried a chatbot about some intelligence reporting on the ship's manifest that originated with US Special Operations Command Pacific, based in Hawaii. It was not clear whether the chatbot was a commercially available one or a US
government product.
"The internal tools are mostly just copies of the commercial stuff wearing lipstick," a former senior US official familiar with the AI
systems used by military and intelligence analysts.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 18/09/2026

Oh since I'm praising rats, here's something I enjoyed drawing a while ago based on a funny sign typo someone posted on Twitter

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 18/09/2026

Read a NYT article about Trump officials looking into revoking visas over a Charlie Kirk joke event at Berkeley and then read it in the Daily Cal and realized the NYT only quoted one student (with a "both sides" view) and left out a lot of other interesting details www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

with courage and with his faith," said John Paul Leon, president of TPUSA at UC Berkeley, at the event. "You don't have to agree with everything he said, but when you support the literal political violence and action against this man, that is an act of moral depravity."
For most of the event's duration, the speeches, highlighting the importance of free speech and the danger of political censorship, were attended by one person, and were otherwise marked by boos from passersby on Sproul.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 18/09/2026

I think that if campuses become legally required to provide massive security details and 24/7 continuous drone surveillance any time a conservative troll comes to speak then this would greatly reduce the amount of conservative trolls invited to speak on campus, so go for it

The notice states that Utah Valley University and its police department failed to conduct a meaningful risk assessment or take proper steps to oversee a safe event or even write up a security plan for Kirk's "The American Comeback Tour." Only six police officers were assigned to work the event, Tuminez denied a request to add more officers and UVU failed to ask for assistance from other agencies such as the Orem and Provo police departments, the notice states.

Furthermore, the Kirk family contends that surveillance cameras were not monitored in real time and drones were not used for rooftop security. At Robinson's preliminary hearing, prosecutors presented campus security video that "showed the shooter running across the roof of the Losee Building to a 'sniper's nest.' If such footage had been monitored in real-time, Kirk's tragic death could have been avoided," according to the notice.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 17/09/2026

Regular people won't understand, but I lived it (scrolled social media when it happened)

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 17/09/2026

I know this is going to be hard to believe, but a very very long time ago, Dilbert was actually funny sometimes and "good lord! another circle has formed around us!" has stayed with me since, uh, wow, 1991

Dilbert comic strip from 1991 that starts with a reporter saying "I'm standing at the wickford wheat fields outside of London, the site of mysterious giant circles, possibly caused by aliens." Next panel the reporter asks "how do you find these circles of crushed wheat?" and a researcher says "my team of experts starts at one point and searches outward until..." and in the final panel the researcher says "good lord! another circle has formed around us!!" and it has.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 15/09/2026

Just to be clear I don't think Peter Thiel should be burned at the stake but I think that we should have the debate. I'm fair minded enough to listen to unorthodox ideas I disagree with instead of just silencing them for being wrongthink

Patheos, the nondenominational religious publication, said it was "better to ignore" Thiel's "twisting of scripture" while the Franciscan friar who serves as the Pope's chief advisor on AI called Thiel a heretic and suggested that his role in the Big Tech oligarchy qualified him to be burned at the stake.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 14/09/2026

Also this is a uh interesting take on AI data centers, that they'll figure some way to shrink the computers because they always do I guess?? Moore's Law still humming along swimmingly right

"I have a hugely contrarian view of three things:
I'm not afraid of AI necessarily. I'm not really afraid of data centers because I think at some point no one's going to need them. Like, we don't need a giant Texas Instruments calculator. It's all going to shrink, and they'll use them for skate parks or housing or something" Wald said. "And I don't think Bari Weiss is automatically bad for the news business.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 13/09/2026

We put on Wicked For Good the other day for some background noise we could ignore while we talked but then the involuntary cries of "Oh my God" and "why would they do that" drew the kids and we all heckled the whole movie together but my unanswered question is, how would these guns have fired

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11/09/2026

It's that time again when I think about a possible malapropism and go searching for it in the wild

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11/09/2026

This is a truly bizarre response to a thoughtful post that more or less says that a narrow focus on the destination causes us to lose all the additional insights, techniques, and connections we could have gained on the journey. Look I didn't enjoy math homework either but "slavery" seems a bit much

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11/09/2026

This type of person is weird to me because they like to act very savvy by pointing out the irony of Google doing something evil despite the old "don't be evil" slogan but this is like the exact opposite type of evil thing that Google has been supporting (submissively AVOIDING offending the admin)

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

I really don't like this stuff they are putting in my kid's school planner

SKILLS TO AVOID BULLYING
DON'T EMBRACE
VICTIM THINKING
The world is a fair and just place.
If you feel like the victim, you will act like the victim. Bullying does not define who you are.
www.about.com/bullying

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 08/09/2026

I know text spammers like to fake mistakes (like address you by a name that's unlikely to be yours) to get you interested and reply to correct them, but I think this one's an actual blooper. But also I haven't been to [place] in years that takes me back

Spam text that says "How about dinner tomorrow at [place], if you're free;?"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 08/09/2026

I saw a typo that made me go hunting for other examples of the phrase "pubic appearances" and well, you're welcome

I wonder every day how that elderly man in that condition is still breathing. Pumping him up with drugs for pubic appearances should also be hastening his demise.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 07/09/2026

This is from a thread about "I'm not MAHA but I can explain why people like me go MAHA" and finding out this person is a poli sci PhD, this really rubs me the wrong way like how is it even relevant here, is it a badge that you're a general smart person so doctors should especially respect you

But what do I know, I'm just a woman who has *also* been dismissed & talked rudely to by my kids' docs, despite my PhD & citing NIH literature.
Getting dismissed for real concerns about your kid is an EASY way to send a Mom to bad places on the Internet who seem to "care" and offer "help."

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 05/09/2026

I guess the use of the term in this story actually is in dispute though www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

The Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, which manages the preserve, disputed the sheriff's use of the term "stalking," telling KRON4, "the lack of other behaviors like crouching or following ... for any sustained period of time is suggestive of typical, and not aggressive, lion behavior."

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 05/09/2026

Ok well the mountain lion just shared a bunch of friendly texts the hiker sent to it after the alleged "stalking"

KRON4
San Jose hiker says he was stalked by mountain lion
Yesterday

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 02/09/2026

This person is sending monthly payments to like 10 scams right

yeah. so if I was like 12, I would have fallen for that. but I'm very grown and know better. I know there are real people scammers. I would not befriend one. I think yall don't give people enough credit. it's like insulting to our intelligence. we know what a damn scam is.

have you ever heard of an exaggeration lol. but WWW was not for the general public until I was born and the year after. my father started teaching me how to use a computer when I was 2. so am I really that far off. I literally used dial up as a toddler

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