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@tesel8s.bsky.social
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Stewman in an ether factory. He/they. Los Angeles adjacent.

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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The McCormick spice packet does a really good job here. I used coconut milk in place of cream, worked fine. I also fried onions first, too. www.mccormick.com/blogs/recipe...
mccormick.com
Butter Chicken Recipe | McCormick
Master this Indian classic at home! Butter Chicken is rich, creamy, perfectly spiced, and features tender chicken simmered in a decadent tomato cream sauce.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The psychology of doomerism is that the Doomer is the smartest boy in class because he can see the Real Problem, which obviously negates the primacy of Other Problems. For totally mysterious reasons, the Real Problem is never poverty or discrimination.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
substack.com/@terminusest...
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TerminusEst (@terminusest00)
Finally found a sport I can get excited about. First to park on the trailer wins.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Got my flu shot and covid shot today RIP my arm lol.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t disagree, per se, with Doctorow’s points here, but it’s another thing to see it all written to the page in one long screed. pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...
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Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Added another four feet of planted garden today.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Couldn’t resist the deal! youtu.be/NP2Q3szTvhY?...
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Cooking With H-Mart's $25 Hot Pot Kit
YouTube video by emmymade
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The perfect response. And they still don't understand how tariffs work. Or anything else for that matter. 🙄
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is so tedious to hear people on TV saying over and over again that “AI is going to do things that human didn’t tell it to do” because that’s just false. Everything that software does, it does because a human told it to do that. “AI” is not hacking other companies, people are using AI to hack.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When people say “ai will kill us all”, how is that different than the economic system we currently live in?
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
mathandai.org
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
organizingmythoughts.org/grief-is-not...
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Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem
We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You know, I've "never had a tab of chatgpt open" either, but this kind of purity-testing is pointless, imo. If you've gooogled in the last year, if you've ever used voice recognition or text to speech of late, on and on, you've used a LLM or some kind of similar CNN (that is, a trained neural net).
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Big “get out and vote… no, not like that” energy all around.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Admittedly, I wasn't paying close attention during the 30 seconds they covered all of feminist history at my all-boys catholic high school, but, Gloria Steinem was CIA?
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.reddit.com/r/askanythin...
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Conducted my last official act of my career today: system shutdown.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Stolen from the instawebs.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
shocking levels of AI slop: www.amazon.com/Practical-El... This is being sold as $40 hardcover book!
Screenshot from "look inside" showing three batteries connected in series in a short circuit to a single inpot on the meter.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Agree with this...
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Excellent new comedy special by @ninadicker.bsky.social : youtu.be/VS1x9PjAw6g?... (all the content warnings without spoilers: its not easy growing up queer, or female, or...)
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Nina Dicker | Tangerine Vagina (Full Comedy Special)
YouTube video by Nina Dicker
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
CUBAN: “.. James Talarico. Let's go. I'm a big fan. He's honest, trustworthy, he cares. .. To Texans, do what's best for Texas. You've been voting for Republicans all these years, what have they done for you?" #TXsen @karaswisher.bsky.social
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When I was an undergrad, 2nd semester org lab was unknown ID. I got my vial, uncorked it, and said “huh, isoamyl acetate” under my breath. 🧵
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Don’t know if I can say the same. Fewer, maybe?
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
MW triggers in me such a turn on, the same way that Marisa Tomei’s character in My Cousin Vinny is so hot. Women who are 10x smarter than me are so hot. Sorry if that’s TMI, but, yeah.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Data … is not a synonym for fact” -Meredith Whittaker youtu.be/qYVeyhxLF7s?...
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Signal’s President Says You Have Plenty to Hide | The Futurology Podcast
YouTube video by Futurology
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Mars Attacks - Lady Walk In
YouTube video by Top Clips
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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This was a fun one! Very classic Newscripts. A friend and I have been texting each other pretty much every morning with our multiplet.app daily puzzle times for a couple months now so I am super curious how the #chemsky #chemchat community will find it!
multiplet.app
Multiplet — Daily NMR Spectrum Puzzle
A daily puzzle game inspired by chemistry and NMR spectroscopy. Build a structure whose spectrum matches today's target.
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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
they called Obama a communist in 2008 and here we are, 18 years later having learned nothing, still shitting our pants over being called communists stop giving a shit what the right wing freaks are going to say about you and gain some principles to stand by
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Amy Shira Teitel @amyshirateitel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Is it just me or does nothing feel serious anymore? I don't think it's just me, and I went on a big ol' rant about it. The latest on my second channel: youtu.be/p--gjNI6Lqk
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Why Nothing Feels Serious Anymore
YouTube video by Amy Shira Teitel
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Coworker: hey, your wife sees a lot of new books, does she have one that tells a programmer how to be successful in business? Me: well, she specializes in science fiction Coworker 2: burn.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Without disrespect, I feel that giving the Nobel for this was like giving the Nobel to Noah Webster for "solving" spelling. It's a monumental effort, and kudos, but a really good educated guessing machine isn't a "solution". It provides no reductive laws or insights.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I don’t know the first thing about “fambushing” but I’m 100% behind kids turning the nanny state around on their parents.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If I were a man, I wouldn’t ever want to be the man.
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DeLaine ✨NSFW 6’1 Giantess @delaineinla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In case you’re in need of a long series of chuckles today, may I present:
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Oh the jails on pickaxe mountain They all are made of tin And you can walk right out again Just as soon as you are in
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If anything, I think there should be more conceptual space for a pro-Israel-as-idea, anti-things-currently-happening-there position. But I would think this, as someone who, uh, thinks this.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Demis Hassabis seems to exhibit all the signs of what I'd like to think of as "Intelligence Chauvinism"...
open.substack.com
A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away.
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hopemaxxing, Hypemaxxing, Fearmaxxing unsequenced.life/2026/05/15/h...
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Hopemaxxing, Hypemaxxing, Fearmaxxing
Did you know that synthetic biology is going to save the world? Or possibly destroy it? Maybe both! Or neither, you know, whatever. It depends. But it’s going to change everything, and you be…
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Gabrielle Harbowy, Literary Agent 🌈 @gabrielle-h.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.humblebundle.com/books/pathfi... So pleased to announce my new Humble Bundle exclusive short story! "From Author Gabrielle Harbowy (Gears of Faith) comes a new tale of the fan-favorite heroines (and their loyal riding dog companion, Appleslayer) set in Pathfinder's Lost Omens setting."
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Humble RPG Bundle: Pathfinder Second Edition Bundle of Frogs! By Paizo Inc.
Set a course for adventure with this Pathfinder bundle featuring Dawn of the Frogs, Extinction Curse, and more! Pay what you want and support the Craft Emergency Relief Fund!
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Compton Scatterbrained @comptonscatter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
alt: a drawing of the "components of benzene" with a circle inside the ring. The circle's ring is labelled "benzene membrane," the outer ring layer "benzene wall" and the inside "benzoplasm."
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
There’s this window in the corner of a room at the Huntington that contrasts perfectly against the marble.
Marble statue, Huntington Library, Pasadena
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
open.substack.com
Better Words
The Ephemeral Beauty of Toddlerspeak
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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.
the-independent.com
Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’
‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media
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