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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 3h

Tap shoes that connect directly to Suno to use AI to generate songs based on your foot tapping and automatically play them through built in speakers. The only way to turn it off is to stop paying the subscription fee

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 3h

If you're anything like me, a very chorizo time of your life would be any day between 8AM and noon.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 21h

I knew a guy with a PhD in archaeology. To hear him tell it, the job market for archaeologists doesn't support the number of people going to school for it, so it winds up funneling a lot of people into the archaeology professor career path.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Copy at least a few words from the post, search it, sort by latest. The user usually comes up in the first couple results.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Did you read the entire headline? Because the part of the sentence leading up to that makes it clear that what he said was wrong.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Saw your man at the grocery store, which is where I'd expect to see him since he's a cucumber.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

At least for me, part of it is that I use the feed for users I follow almost exclusively. There's not an algorithm shoehorning suggested content and ads into it.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He's not even an AI influencer, how many agents does he run?

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Jesus would have been able to get his message out much more effectively of his execution was livestreamed

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They should also remember that Jesus himself was publicly executed, and at least according to the gospels, it was a source of entertainment for some of the Romans in attendance.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I will say, just in my experience as a casual AI user, instances where it directly ignores or disobeys commands I put in the prompt happens so frequently that it's a major factor in what I'm willing to use it for. I do, however, blame a lack of guard rails hard coded into the model for this stuff.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Except that it hasn't become a societal expectation that people carry machines capable of dispensing liquor on demand.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To be fair I don't think the study itself is bad. I think they just wanted to establish that AI induced cognitive atrophy can happen under ideal conditions and establish a baseline for it, then subsequent studies can introduce variables to get a better idea of how it affects people in real scenarios

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If I remember correctly, they usually turned into pyramid schemes where the only people making money were the ones who had a bunch of down lines in the Philippines playing the game for them.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I put 300 hours into Big Chungus for PS4, and the only compensation I got was a free copy of Big Chungus 2 for PS5.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I read the description of the study in the article, and it looks like both the AI and non-AI groups were given the same set of tasks, so the AI group didn't have the option to move onto something harder. In practice, I think some people use AI the way you describe, others outsource thinking to it.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I looked into it, and I'd say probably not. It looks like the feds aren't pursuing a charge for the suppressor since he plead guilty to murder, and states are generally allowed to have stricter gun laws so NY likely won't be forced to drop their charge for it.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been using AI as a toy for years, and largely have the same sentiment. I got pushed to start using it at work about a month ago, and so far have found exactly two use cases where I get a legitimate benefit, and make checking the results part of my work flow.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Would have been a lot better if they didn't cut Wallet from the script.

A frame from the HBO animated series Animals, which has a bird and two mice dressed in human clothing.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ChatGPT, make a video game where people like me and think I'm cool.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Both things can be true. I think a lot of people don't understand how disturbing it is to watch a person die on video until they've done it. Some who are excited now certainly won't be after the fact.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My issue is that, if adults are going to use AI, a lot of the pitfalls could be avoided if they've had training on how to use it with a healthy dose of skepticism, rather than having it dumped on them at 18. High school classes with an AI system with strong guard rails could be a decent venue.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I worked at a store with a really shitty sound system, and always heard "Hey, Steve, get outta my mouth"

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's called collecting, maybe you've horde of it.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fair enough. I've only ever used it for personal stuff, so I rarely need it to do much beyond summing and multiplying cells so I haven't run into any of the limitations.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not decompiled, but it's a free open source software suite that has the same major functionality as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading the context, this is about George Conway.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was on the news the mroing. A lady in AR who killed her 3 senate candidates. They are being sent back to New York to lady to rest.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As an industrial safety professional, I can say that it is in fact appropriate to do this, as long as you're wearing a fall protection harness.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My man looks like an absolute pigeon fucker.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What is "Sweet Themes Are Made of These"?

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This whole time I thought it was Jorkin Depeanus Vance

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The little things you put on the end of your drill

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw this concept pop up a couple years ago. But then, the pitch was that kids would develop better risk assessment skills by learning to navigate situations that felt potentially dangerous.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

According to sources, it was delicious.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been killed by volcanoes 8 times, which statistically is below average for someone my age.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump in Texas: "Ken Paxton, that guy really sucks, but I came up with this great new word called grocery."

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The woman quoted in the article says $100 for 3 kids.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One theory I've heard recently is that tech companies try to create buzz that makes their product sound more powerful to pump the stock price, even if the premise makes no sense or makes them sound evil. Getting the leader of a religion with a billion members to be your mouthpiece accomplishes that.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After Jack3d gotten taken off the market, I started using 3Jack3d. 100% of the gains, 19% less likely to make your heart explode.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Growing up in the pre-social media age and knowing people who never got into it, the thing I saw frequently was people playing nice face to face, then taking the first opportunity to talk shit on the other person behind their back.

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Johnathan Taylor Goblikon @mrthursday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I turned a corner on it recently. I found that it can be useful if you give it small tasks where you can't get around verifying the results. Like, I won't ask it to summarize what a document library says about a certain topic, but will ask it to tell me where to find the information.

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