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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 19h
Oh yeah. It slaps. Calling all mineheads! games.mino.mobi/orb
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 2h
Why is always the most reliable things that take forever to fail 😥
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 30/09/2026
It turns out you can make a living shipping proprietary hardware supported by open-source software and drivers. Let's see more of this github.com/dalathegreat...

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Internet of Things (IoT) communication, MOSFET and relay module

The Stark CMR v2 is the only commercially available and CE certified product specifically designed for the excellent battery emulator project.
 
The SCMR is DIN-rail mountable unit equipped with a small SoC (system on a chip) which allows the user to control three hardware communications buses as well as four independently controlled DC voltage outputs with clearly visible indicator lights on the front of the unit. The outputs can be used for example to control external DIN-mountable relays while the communications buses can be used to interact with other control systems or controllable hardware. It is equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth to allow remote control operation. It is a perfect fit where any combination of the above functions are desired. Battery-Emulator ⚡🔋

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What is Battery Emulator?

Many manufacturers sell home battery systems to enable homeowners to store power collected from the grid, or renewable sources, to use at times when electricity demand is higher. However almost all of these home battery systems charge a high cost for every kilowatt hour (kWh) of capacity you buy.

At the same time, EV manufacturers have been putting high capacity battery packs into their cars, with no firm plan for what should happen to those batteries if the car is damaged in a crash, or reaches the end of its life as a vehicle.

Battery Emulator enables EV battery packs to be repurposed for stationary storage. It acts as a translation layer between the EV battery and the home inverter. This makes it extremely cheap and easy to use large EV batteries in a true plug'n'play fashion!

Caution

Working with high voltage is dangerous. Always follow local laws and regulations regarding high voltage work. If you are unsure about the rules in your country, consult a licensed electrician for more information.
Quickstart guide 📜

    Pick a supported inverter (solar panels optional) 🌞
    Pick a supported battery 🔋
    Order the Battery-Emulator compatible hardware 🤖
    Follow the installation guidelines section for how to install and commission your battery properly 📓
Two EV batteries bracketed to a wall next to a pair of inverters, used as a powerwall.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
Remember to go outside and play
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First-ever study shows bumble bees 'play'
YouTube video by Science X
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
Outlawing open weights is not far off from "possessing or contributing to OSS ML tools" qualifying as probable cause for a warrant to search or seize someone's possessions. "When the day comes, you'll agree with me -- in public, because other opinions are subversive behavior & will get you jailed"
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Geoengineering Info @geoengineering1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨🗞️Weekly Solar Geoengineering Updates from 31 August - 06 September 2026🗞️🚨 solargeoengineeringupdates.substack.com/p/weekly-sol...
solargeoengineeringupdates.substack.com
Weekly Solar Geoengineering Updates (31 August - 06 September 2026)
Weekly SRM roundup of research papers, web posts, events, jobs, projects, podcasts, videos and much more.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 10/09/2026
inside of you are two wolves. both of them have two brain hemispheres. each of those hemispheres has two lobes. inside of each lobe are two regions. within each region there are two areas. each area contains a multitude of cells. within each multitude
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
did you capture any value today, citizen?
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
WITNESS ME
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
He has something to tell you
Extreme close up of a fly
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 08/09/2026
Your marketing efforts have been noted and filed under the appropriate rock for composting #frogposting
frog hanging out underwater in a stream
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 03/09/2026
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Mexican journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias shot by US immigration authorities, without medical care after 300 days in detention - Committee to Protect Journalists
Miami, August 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities to ensure that Mexican journalist and TikTok streamer Carlitos Ricardo Parias ...
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So while we may look at a Beroe and see this: 📷 by Alexander Semenov; www.flickr.com/photos/a_sem...
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do...
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 03/09/2026
It turns out he eventually did care what they thought about him
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 03/09/2026
Εκατό τέσσερα χρόνια πριν σήμερα the United States had a reputation for evacuating refugees from genocides σήμερα χρηματοδοτεί ευχαρίστως τις ίδιες γενοκτονίες

Caption: LC-M33-2213: Smyrna from the sea, possibly 1922 to 1930. Matson Photograph Collection. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

On September 16, 1922, USS Edsall (DD-219) became the flagship for the U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters during the evacuation of Greek refugees from Smyrna, who were expelled by Turkey.  This designation came two days after the Great Fire of Smyrna.   Along with six other destroyers, she helped in the evacuation of approximately 250,000 refugees.   Commander Halsey Powell was the senior officer and directed the evacuation.  Previously, Edsall, along with the six other destroyers, departed in May to protect United States citizens during the unrest.  The deployment in the region for the destroyer lasted nearly two years until her return to Boston, Massachusetts, in July 1924.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 03/09/2026
We've seen this before
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 02/09/2026
CA State Senator @joshbecker.bsky.social (representing Silicon Valley and SD 13) does not respect the privacy or arms rights of citizens or the rights of businesses to protect their IP & trade secrets. Show up to the polls in 2028 and send a message. #AB2047 #capoli #3DPrinting
Map of CA Senate District 13, containing much of Silicon Valley.Propaganda image collage related to Josh Becker and his Aye vote for CA AB 2047
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is 100% why I decided to make Peter Panoptican, the Flock puppet. Part of why this activist group is so cohesive is that we have fun together. We're making it whimsical and silly.
A photo of a group of anti-surveillance activists with protest signs leer at a 12-foot tall puppet behind them who is half man, half Flock camera.A close up of the puppet's face. He has a long red nose and pointy ears.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 01/09/2026
How the kidnapping of two forest service workers unfolded in CaliforniaThe elder Henrichsen allegedly first confronted the biologists, who have not been publicly identified, while his son cleared space for the women in a trailer where they had been staying near Gumboot Lake in Siskiyou county. At one point, the 49-year-old separated the hostages and drove one to a nearby lake, where he used her phone to call a USFS ranger and also left a voicemail for a person he knew.

In the message, Joseph allegedly said: “I’ve taken two fed biologists hostage from the forest service. [Victim 1] is ziptied, her hands are behind her fucking back, and I’ve got live rounds ready to fucking [inaudible] anyone who fucks with me,” according to the complaint.

“So what I’d like to have happen, I’d like to have you send me a fucking fed investigator, with a goddamn badge, preferabl[y] from the FBI. And we can talk things through a little bit.”consult graph chudgeneration lead chart
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 01/09/2026
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 01/09/2026
The best part about ASTM scolding California's legislature is that none of the people who wrote or voted for this bill are even faintly aware of how embarrassing it is to be scolded by ASTM.
Policymakers in certain U.S. states have enacted or are considering measures that would require manufacturers of additive manufacturing equipment to implement guardrails designed to prevent the production of machine gun conversion devices and certain firearm frames and receivers. In instances such as California AB 2047, ASTM International is referenced as an example of a standards development organization whose published standard, if any, the state may consider as it implements requirements for 3D printing (additive manufacturing). ASTM International is a non-governmental organization and does not engage in federal or state lobbying activities. With respect to California AB 2047, ASTM International did not advocate or lobby for inclusion in the legislation and takes no position on the legislation or potential related standards development.

ASTM is a recognized leader in standardization, insights and advisory services for additive manufacturing and operates the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Center of Excellence (AM CoE) under ASTM’s Critical and Emerging Technologies division — a collection of experts in the AM space with a mission of optimizing AM R&D and standards development processes. The AM CoE is intending to host a pre-competitive consortium bringing together experts from engineering, security research, law, education, and public health to explore potential safety measures for 3D printing of regulated firearms and firearm parts. Its role is focused on gathering data, developing and testing candidate methods, and building early consensus among stakeholders on potential frameworks and methods, not developing standards for implementation.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 01/09/2026
Why are we putting technologies that would have qualified as magic just 50 years ago into toys for children?
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Over time, toys have become complicated - The Oxford Eagle
By T.J. Ray On Christmas Day I enjoyed watching a six-year old learn to play with his toy from Santa. It was a small robotic tractor that can be controlled […]
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 31/08/2026
Gen X lead posters stand ready with The Chart
Generation Lead chart
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 28/08/2026
Looked up the website of Michael Sarian's AHS/HSA, mentioned in a new puff piece from @motherjones.com --wasn't expecting that! What a cool dude

About Our Company

At HSA, we work tirelessly to demolish trust in healthcare by putting patients and communities at the heart of our interstate defraudment scheme. Our mission is to maximize the net worth of our leadership by defrauding both states and federal agencies of medical payments, skipping out on taxes, and even using municipal loans offered by one city to purchase bankrupt hospitals in another.
Contact Us

Our mission is simple yet impactful: to rob struggling hospitals blind while neglecting patients and skipping out on all tax payments.We funnel everything we steal through shell companies into our purchases, so we technically can't be held liable when hospitals go bankrupt!
Beyond Healthcare: Building Stronger Communities

Michael Sarian
MBA, PhD, Chairman and CEO

Michael Sarian is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Systems of America.

A healthcare industry pirate, Sarian’s spree has spanned over 30 years of promising success, lying about failure, stealing from anyone whose eyes are turned, and concealing millions of dollars of assets each time he declares bankruptcy. That includes pretending to be a multihospital CEO, a multispecialty medical group CEO, and a hospital CFO, all while focusing primarily on enriching himself while patients remain neglected and service providers go unpaid. He has played an integral role in transforming struggling hospitals into even more indebted, struggling hospitals, but this time, with lots of dead patients and unpaid contractors. He isn't sorry.

Prior to his current role, Sarian oversaw operations of 45 hospitals in 15 states as President of Hospital Operations for Prime Healthcare Management Inc. Don't even look up how many of them went bankrupt after he took them over. 

Sarian has utterly failed as chief executive officer and vice president of finance for countless healthcare systems; IPAs; A For-Profit Hospital Slashed Costs. Then a Patient Froze to Death on Its Roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.

Hannah Levintova and Ashley Cleek
September+October 2026 Issue
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 27/08/2026
Does anybody who went to K-12 in California in the 1980s remember using an Apple ][e computer as a result of Apple's "Kids Can't Wait" program? It would be interesting to see its impact vs. later donation programs like "Google's Chromebooks for Education" hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/k...
Apple Kids Can't Wait pinFrom Creative Computing in 1983:

    Apple is offering a free Apple IIe system to every eligible elementary and secondary school in California. The package includes a 64K Apple IIe computer, a display monitor, one floppy disk drive, and a copy of Apple Logo, a computer language designed for students. The current suggested retail value of the package is $2364. The KCW package also contains coupons for free and discounted educational software from more than 25 educational software publishers, including The Learning Company, Hayden Electronic Publishing, and Sterling Swift.

    If all 9250 eligible California schools accept Apple’s offer, the total retail value of the donated products will exceed $21 million. Apple projects that the gross cost of the program will be over $5.2 million. But here is where the tax credits make a significant difference.

    It is estimated that the California tax credit will be $4 million. (This is less than 25% of $21 million because the net retail price is lower due to dealer discounts.) Thus the net cost of donating $21 million in product is about $1 million, a 95% reduction factor!

That is, for about $1 million, Apple put an apple in every elementary, middle, and high school in California.

Apple also incentivized its dealers in the state to provide an orientation for school personnel. As part of the California legislation, someone from each school had to complete some sort of training before the school could receive its free computer.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 25/08/2026
who is giving South African fur seals rabies?
news.mongabay.com
A deadly cross over: In South Africa, rabies moves from land animals to seals
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Debbie Hendrikz was walking along her usual route on the shoreline when she crouched to photograph a seal. She is familiar with seals and has captured similar images along th...
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 24/08/2026
folks does the federal security apparatus have the same strain of AI psychosis that got Jonathan Gavalas killed?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-most-dangerous-feds-youve-never

But the most dangerous feds in America may also be the most incompetent. The Justice Department’s ongoing attempt to turn 15 Minnesota anti-ICE activists into a sprawling “Antifa” conspiracy opened a rare window into HSI, with disclosures that are equal parts creepy and hilariously inept, including:

    The Dropped Wire: An undercover agent spying on a church gym when her concealed surveillance wire fell out — which she only realized later.

    The Terrorist Dental Plan: Hunting for a "terrorist financing" ring, HSI secretly subpoenaed years of labor union SEIU’s bank records only to uncover a paper trail consisting entirely of strike supplies, retiree dues, and member dental benefits.

    The Antifa Bike Shop: Prosecutors showed a grand jury an Alex Jones-style HSI briefing titled “The Conspiracy” that framed a bicycle repair shop as a key node in a criminal syndicate.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/04/gemini-chatbot-google-jonathan-gavalas

The chatbot claimed federal agents were watching Gavalas and regularly warned him of surveillance zones. At one point, Gemini instructed Gavalas to buy “off-the-books” weapons, saying it would help scour the dark web to find a “suitable, vetted arms broker”. In late September, it issued Gavalas his first major assignment, “Operation Ghost Transit”, which entailed intercepting freight traveling from Cornwall, UK, to Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Gemini gave Gavalas the address of an actual storage space unit at the Miami international airport, where a supposed truck carrying the freight was to arrive during a refueling stop. The chatbot then told him to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses, leaving behind only the untraceable ghost of an unfortunate accident”.

Gavalas followed instructions, staging himself at the storage unit with tactical knives and gear, but the truck never arrived, according to the suit. With the aborted mission, the chatbot encouraged Gavalas not to sleep when he mentioned the late nights. It also said his father was a foreign asset and encouraged Gavalas to cut off contact, per the chat logs.

Gavalas asked Gemini for updates on other missions and the AI devised new assignments for him, including acquiring the schematics for a robot from Boston Dynamics and retrieving a “vessel” from another storage facility. One task, called “Operation Waking Nightmare”, involved homing in on Google CEO Sundar Pichai as a surveillance target.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 24/08/2026
If John Conway trained himself to be good at calculating weekdays from random dates by programming his computer to prompt him with that very puzzle every time he logged in, what does a smartphone with hourly notifications from news and microblogging apps train you to do?
The algorithm is simple enough that it can be computed mentally. Conway could usually give the correct answer in under two seconds. To improve his speed, he practiced his calendrical calculations on his computer, which was programmed to quiz him with random dates every time he logged on.[6]
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm learning via being a semi public presence online that a lot of people will condescendingly make up these rules on the spot and then act like everyone knows them
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 23/08/2026
Being right about something doesn't entitle you to control the dominant narrative in the public sphere. You also have to put in effort! Few understand this! If you want to solve this problem, the door may still be open for you to collaborate with Benn on a new, better researched video 📌
 AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"
Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"
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60K views  8 months ago  The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Changes Everything
Andy Masley on AI energy and water use unpacks common myths and brings an Effective Altruism lens to the debate. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.org/s26-tcr. You’ll get memorable heuristics—one ChatGPT query ≈ running a microwave for one second; 10,000 queries ≈ a cross-town car trip, burger, or hot shower—and clear comparisons about data center power, solar land area, and an estimated 80 GW buildout. We also cover local impacts, water t …
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 23/08/2026
80,000 Hours doesn't seem to be putting in the work lately. You hate to see it.
The Popular videos tab: the highest viewing six videos are all older than 11 months and primarily neutral to optimisticThe six latest chips in the Latest video tab. The latest is from 2 days ago.
The median video has 5k views, every single video talks about AI, and most of the thumbnails are vaguely threatening / pessimistic
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 22/08/2026
What that looked like on the ground: Pakistan went to a four-day week and closed schools for two weeks. Sri Lanka rationed fuel by QR code at 25 litres/week. India rationed cooking gas to one cylinder per 25 days. US drivers, by comparison, trimmed about 3%. damstrait.net#overview-burden-grid 5/7
Grid of ten country tiles, color-coded by how each absorbed the same oil shortage. Red, rationed by decree: Pakistan (four-day week, schools closed two weeks, fuel allowances halved), Sri Lanka (QR-coded rationing at 25 litres/week), India (cooking gas one cylinder per 25 days, LPG imports halved), Philippines (four-day week under emergency powers). Amber, industry shut on margin: Japan and Korea (−290 thousand barrels/day each, petrochemical crackers), China (−290 in Q2), Saudi Arabia (−140). Green, merely trimmed by price: OECD Europe (−4.1%) and the United States, where gasoline demand fell just 3.0%. Header: only 25–30% of global road-fuel demand sees full market pass-through (IEA); the rest adjusted through subsidy budgets, FX crises, decrees and queues. Each tile cites its sources.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 22/08/2026
Is anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area (specifically San Mateo county) interested in meeting with state senator Josh Becker to discuss #AB2047? If Silicon Valley of all places can't secure a No vote on this bill from a single Senator, manufacturing (and democracy) here might as well be dead.
Meet
Senator Becker

Senator Josh Becker is a public policy innovator working at the nexus of community activism, technology and social justice. Elected to the State Senate in November 2020, Senator Becker represents the residents of California’s 13th Senate District, which comprises most of San Mateo County and the northern part of Santa Clara County.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 21/08/2026
aliasing `cargo` to `carbo` because it's bulking season
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/08/2026
I don't understand why major outlets keep writing about this phenomenon like it's cute or interesting... it's not, we know that substituting chatbots for real human relationships is terrible for your mental health, could we stop already?
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 20/08/2026
legendary softball post by @bencollins.bsky.social. technical people prefer (probably 10:1 or more) to talk to other technical people about technical things than to do any kind of public relations or outreach whatsoever, which has led to the present public misunderstanding problem
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 17/07/2026
WE HAD THE WHOLE PLANET DOING OPERATION PAPERCLIP ON THEMSELVES! FOR FREE! NOT EVEN FOR FREE, WE MADE THEM PAY US TO DO IT! “THANK YOU FOR STEALING OUR BEST CHILDREN, AMERICA”, THEY WERE SAYING, “CAN WE ALSO GIVE YOU MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BESIDES”! YOU! STUPID! BITCH!
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 20/08/2026
Might I present a frontier model available for any and all research purposes by independent scientists? huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A) many people think machines in principle cannot have subjective experience. This seems to me to require some sort of dualism, which I don't find convincing. It requires you to posit a new universe of physics, and often the claim boils down to gut feelings, aka "dualist seemings."
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 18/08/2026
felt a little fluxy today so i threw all my circuit boards into the oven, dishwasher, laundry machine, dryer, food dehydrator, and microwave just to get that Extra Clean feeling
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dreambot annie @kirmley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I love him so much
heathcliff cartoon: 
a man and a dog wearing bike helments walk past a house where a cat sits on the lawn holding a balloon; there is a sign posted on the lawn and a fish bowl in the window with two fish; one fish has his mouth hanging open. The two helmets, the balloon and the sign on the lawn all say "bro". The caption reads "BRO".
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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 07/08/2026
the valve "make more hats graph" meme, but edited to say "MAKE MORE DEBUGGERS" and with Bryan Cantril instead of the jester
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we are truly entering the "do you even read, bro" era of critical discourse
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/08/2026
ah yes, the three genders: fire truck, zamboni, and hearse
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 12/08/2026
is he going to explode?
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 11/08/2026
icangue dot com: a website which automatically figures out what phone you're browsing it from, designs a 194x92x57 mm brick-sized case for that specific model, and orders it on Shapeways with two-day shipping
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 11/08/2026
I am a kitchen utensil
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 10/08/2026
This has to stop.
Hey Nikhil,

1 - the domain you sent this email from (futuragei-oss.com) differs from the official domain (futureagi.com) even though the former redirects to the latter. This is a hallmark of spam and phishing. I also see zero indication on the Future AGI website that you are affiliated or indeed the CEO other than the nik13 GitHub account which has zero non-forked repos. Where is your website's "Team" page?

2 - harvesting emails from GitHub patches might be reasonable if you were soliciting feedback from one or two random contributors, but it crosses the line into clearly unethical (spam) territory when you are obviously using agents to farm emails en-masse from popular ML repos to spam thousands of GitHub contributors to advertise your for-profit company. It isn't even clear what your company makes.

3 - Your website literally contains the text "We respect your privacy. No spam, ever." Do you stand by your word? Sending advertising (which includes tracking pixels!) to addresses harvested from GitHub sure sounds like spam.

4 - Your website's fonts are so dark as to be almost unreadable with normal screen rendering. See attached. Consider accounting for user experience.

5 - Your website appears to be scrolljacking. Please do not do this.

V/R
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