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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 6h

Contribution to the romance novel discourse: I was recently the only guy at a bookstore party for the movie premiere of The Love Hypothesis, based on Ali Hazelwood’s book of the same name, about a grad student who falls in love with the scary professor. The book originally began as a Reylo ship.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 22h

As a bearded American it is a strange honor to be placed on a list among friends

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

I am used to discussing Palestine with people of all backgrounds every day for literally 15 hours per day but it will never not bewilder me to encounter someone who is shocked that I and every Arab see it as a colonial issue

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of poasts about how LLMs will enable fraud/scams and that’s true, but my friend has been looking for housing and was able to use an LLM to detect fraud instantly and efficiently

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the love hypothesis movie was good, definitely an adaptation, strange choices made in some parts. one of the charms of the book is that it depicts academics in a realistic way (no surprises, it's written by an academic) as opposed to the Big Bang Theory version; movie doesn't do that quite as well.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

extremely difficult to find divorce content for men that isn’t “gym up, hit the lawyer”. listening to Conscious Uncoupling and theres an extended anecdote in chapter two about a lady that rips a dude’s balls off

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The boss is out, alongside three or four other people, and it’s raining. Really starting to seem like a work from home day

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

as a public service of 'the kind of thing you can get AI to do that is useful' this takes Claude a couple of minutes to run every day: a annotated list of trending stories on the Chinese internet + stories notably missing but in diaspora media. A few days here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Chinese Internet Round-Up — 2026-09 September.md

Chinese Internet Daily Round-Up — September 2026 One entry per day, newest first. Maintained automatically by the daily scheduled task. Chinese Internet Daily Round-Up — Sunday, 20 September 2026 Me...

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I never thought the school would fail MY children," rages woman who placed her child in the Failing People's Children School.

There was nothing exceptional about what I witnessed at P.S. 307. I had observed and reported on similar educational malfeasance in Detroit, in Durham, in St. Louis, in Tuscaloosa, in Birmingham. But I was no longer a mere observer of this system wreaking havoc on other people’s children. Now I was experiencing it with my own.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Minor issue on the whole, but I like his valuing of life based on whether it is "economically productive," measured by contribution to GDP. Measured directly, Paul Erdős's "economic productivity" was basically negative as he crashed on people's couches doing meth. But his true value is enormous.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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New Years Revolution ✊ @tekweenie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nothing to see here, just swearing an oath to a man, not the constitution. 🤷‍♂️

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Hitler Oath - Wikipedia

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Netflix documentary about 9/11 doesn’t mention Trump I’s increase of drone strikes compared to Obama (and explicitly calls Obama the drone strike president) and doesn’t mention Trump’s involvement in the Afghanistan withdrawal (solely credits Biden with it) btw

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

looking at apartments and filtering by pet friendliness because i have a gigantic dog (>120lbs) and found a place that looks neat their pet policy is "service animals only" oh thank you, that's helpful. I mean, it would be illegal for you to disallow service animals.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“LLMs are like NFTs“ no they’re not, hope this helps

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it'll be so exciting when a dem president helps scotus rediscover standing

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026

Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/08/2026

initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Heartbreaking: The task I've been doing as a way of avoiding doing other tasks is almost finished

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The boots theory discourse is like “actually the two birds in the bush are worth twice as much as the one bird you have in your hand”

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

there's a lot of people across the political spectrum who simply cannot process the fact that ethnicity is a social construct, that many ethnicities did not exist within the lifetime of living people, and that nevertheless ethnicity is an extremely real thing that ppl will kill or die for

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

TikTok is losing their shit over Hank Green saying he uses AI sometimes

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

i make no secret about the fact that i like LLMs; i think they have some very powerful use cases. insisting otherwise is an impossible position to defend. but this kind of nonsense is the reason why so many haters exist. it is a terrible and inane application of the technology

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

the odyssey was very good. nolan's additions (sinon, sea people, etc.) make thematic sense and are well-placed.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One for the "Oxford commas don't fix this ambiguity" files

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 14/07/2026

drained a reservoir vibe-coding today, but it’s because i was eating almonds

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

new pet peeve, anti-AI researchers saying "I said X to the AI and it said Y which is totally unacceptable; therefore AI is totally unacceptable" (1) but not saying when, which version, which model, and then (2) I try the same thing and it actually Just Works

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's on Poob. You can withdraw it on Poob. You can go to Poob and withdraw it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Are the Stalinists in the room with us right now, Nom Tickles

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“You have to apologize for winning” really sums up establishment Dem thought huh

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Counterpoint: ONLY people who like puns should be.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

the #editor replaced all instances of "below" in our paper (like "see the discussion below") with "later" resulting in some absolutely fucking insane phrases "see the discussion later"? when will we see it? sometime today?

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/05/2026

Last night it occured to me to wond er if LLMs were any good at gambling tasks. This is important not because it'd be funny for LLMs to gamble but because gambling tasks get used to measure human decision-making under risk /

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I don't get as mad about ai slop writing as some people do because I've read so many academic articles written by humans that say shit like "I am assuming X, which is false, because it's easier than the truth, which I don't understand"

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If your default search engine is still set to Google that’s basically boomer shit

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"why do you like claude more than other models" exhibit a thousand

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

All the scientists are like “Let them fight” 😜

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

a student submitted something so terrifically wrong to a colleague's class that the only reasonable conclusion is that the student used AI to generate it... ...but I can't replicate how the student got it wrong. Every AI tool I ask either gets the right answer or points me to the right resource.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I feel the same way about AI as I do about the internet—both could be incredibly valuable contributions to society if they’re managed for the public good. In the hands of fascist tech billionaires, they’re a threat the civilization. It’s not the tech, it’s the ownership structure.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

old and busted: original public meaning new hotness: direct stochastic meaning

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

They are absolutely setting up JD Vance to run as an antiwar candidate in 2028 with a Dolchstoßlegende blaming Israel for hoodwinking Trump into a war that Vance opposed all along, and anyone who believes that is incredibly gullible. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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The Pentagon May Not Be Telling Trump the Full Picture About the War

Vice President Vance is worried that the U.S. is running low on weapons.

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emily stewart @emilystewart.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I'm working on a story for Business Insider on the 2010s-era guys who supposedly had a great idea for an app and where they are now, given vibe coding. If you used to know one of these guys (or used to be one or still are) and want to chat, email me at estewart@insider.com.

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