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Seeing multiple stations with $10+/gallon diesel in Los Angeles today.

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Not rogue activity. Design failure. These are systems engineered by people not working as intended. If this was a building we'd condemned it. If this was a single 737, Boeing would ground the entire fleet. If this was a nuclear reactor, we'd evacuate a perimeter & fill the crater with cement.

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`printf "Ouch!"` Do machines feel pain? FFS no.

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Very cool. We used to do an outdoor 3rd Degree once a year in a forest. There's a lodge in LA that performs a French 3rd in full 19th century costume. And, one of their guys did a longform Staircase as a perfect Christopher Walken. It was incredible!

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

"Legendary" was a choice for sure.

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guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Those large bites—the ones that cause brain freeze—require your body to expend more energy in order for it to stabilize its internal temperature. So, the secret to maximizing weight loss is eating *lots* of super-cold ice cream and taking giant bites! The more and bigger, the better!

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But the lower layers of a snowbank tend to re-freeze the surface, which is why you'll have nice, fluffy powdery snow on your lawn but the built-up snowbanks are rock-hard icebergs. Apply this principle to ice cream. Your body can warm/compensate for little bites fairly easily. But big gulps?

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Basically, it's that the snowbank has less surface area. The outer layer acts like insulation. Sunlight (energy) beats down on the outside and melts away the surface, only to reveal a new layer of still-frozen snow.

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Anyone who lives somewhere that gets snow will understand this. A fresh, even coat of snow on your lawn will melt pretty quickly under the sun. But when the plows come through and build snowbanks at the side of the road? That stuff sticks around, because of thermal inertia.

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FACT 2: Thermal inertia can increase the calorie-burning effects of ice cream. What's thermal inertia? It's how cold things "resist" warming.

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When you eat ice cream (or anything cold), absent any other influence, the overall temperature of your body would drop slightly. But, your body wants to maintain a stable temperature, so it has to EXPEND energy to RAISE its temperature back to baseline. That requires *consuming* calories.

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This is proof that ice cream produces a caloric deficit. It's cold, and the environment will try to stabilize by equalizing the temperature of the ice cream and its surroundings. What happened here illustrates that the environment expends energy trying to melt (warm) the ice cream!

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FACT 1: You can't burn ice cream. I dare you to try. Get yourself an ice cream cone and hold it over a lit match. There's something hot and something cold, and the laws of thermodynamics want things to equalize. The ice cream melts at first, then drips on the match, extinguishing it!

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Scientists measure calories by *actually burning stuff to heat water*. But enough with the science-y stuff. You're here because you want to know why ice cream produces weight loss, right?

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And, when we're talking about dietary calories, 1 calorie is actually 1,000 calories of energy, or a kilocalorie. So one "food calorie" is the energy it takes to heat 1 liter (1,000ml) of water by one degree Celsius. (You could also use it to heat 1ml 1,000 degrees!!!) Here's the cool part...

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We determine the energy potential (calories) of food by measuring how much heat is produced by burning it and using it to heat water. A calorie, by definition, is how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1ml (or 1 cc) of water by 1 degree Celsius. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

en.wikipedia.org

Calorie - Wikipedia

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Here it's important to understand things about energy (remember calories measure energy). 1. Physical systems like to equalize. 2. Cold isn't energy but a lack of energy. 3. Consuming fuel (calories) produces heat.

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Flash forward to the modern society. Food is plentiful, and it's often primed with juicy, tasty calories. Our cave-brains crave calories because they're still working on a primitive operating system that wants to stockpile calories for the lean times. But us? We end up getting fat.

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Whenever you eat something, the body uses what it can to power its systems. But our ancestors didn't always have reliable, regular calorie sources. So, the body puts leftover calories into a fuel tank—fat. When you're in caloric deficit, the body eats into its fat reserves for energy.

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It's all about the calories. Calories = energy, and your body needs calories to function. They're the fuel that powers everything in your body—your muscles, your heart, your brain—everything.

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Aaron Helton @aaronhelton.com · 25/09/2026

There's scientific proof that eating ice cream actually produces weight LOSS, not gain. A thread.

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"Oh, but LLMs can do that!" you say, breathlessly. But they can't. No matter how truth shaped their answers, that truth shape is a simulacrum. It's built on a high probability model of correctness, but as we've seen this model can be hijacked pretty easily. LLMs have no relationship to truth.

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 24/09/2026

You can tell by checking the moon's bikini line.

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I for one know where I live. I know every address/phone number I've had since age 3. I've also committed passages of my favorite literature & poetry to memory & recite it to myself to help me sleep. Not sure how Mr Huang sleeps. Maybe his intellectual dexterity debt washes his conscience clean.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

If we let the current crop of "AI" people stay in charge, we are not gonna make it; not because of "superintelligent AI," but because of what the MIT study terms "cognitive surrender": offloading and deterioration of critical skills. And it increasingly feels like that's exactly what they want.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 24/09/2026

Putting "Never burned popcorn in the office microwave" on my CV.

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I mean, you could go through all the effort of removing endorsements and photos from your website, but that's so much work, just cut off the problem at its source, fellas.

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A principled caucus could always vote to impeach.

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Nested threads but if there was ever a case of court proceedings containing foreshadowing, this is it. The attorney here is either doing suicide-by-judge or irrepressibly stupid.

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