Thursday, September 4, 2025

Today's news and jokes

At the Jack London museum. Writing used to be so cool. You got to carry around a little box with every drug in it and once you were fucked enough up on toothache heroin you started saying shit like "I am a brain merchant." You write like 100 books and then die of raw duck and mercury poisoning

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— Chris Kohler (@kohler.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM






("Russia links the problem mainly to climate change but Azerbaijan also blames, opens new tab Russia's construction of dams on the Volga River which provides 80% of the water entering the Caspia")















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— sick public transit, gloria (@seung.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Domino's should renew that fixing potholes campaign







sickening

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— Ronnie Gooja (@yanquigohome.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM

not every wildland firefighter is like this but by and large they are far more to the left than city/structure firefighters. my former coworkers I've talked to about this are incensed.

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— Ronnie Gooja (@yanquigohome.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM

www.reddit.com/r/Wildfire/c...

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— Ronnie Gooja (@yanquigohome.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM

www.reddit.com/r/Wildfire/c...

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— Ronnie Gooja (@yanquigohome.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM








I've often warned the real risk of AI images is giving people the ability to deny the real images more than making them believe things that aren't true.

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM








Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.

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— James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
(You have to scroll really far down in the NY Times' write-up to reach this acknowledgement: "The New York Times reported in July that the university was open to spending $500 million to resolve the matter, but that Harvard was seeking an array of provisions to protect its independence."







FOX: Are you for any green energy personally? ZELDIN: Uh, well, I am for whatever President Trump is advocating for.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM












What makes me skeptical AGI is around the corner is how ChatGPT is now handling prompts that elicit any kind of self-harm info. Gives a hotline warning, even when the request is a summary of Romeo and Juliet: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Reddit is flipping out: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/se...

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— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I'd settle for Word being better at change to sentence case



Hiding away bibliographies at the exact point in time they are filling up with hallucinated slop references seems like a perfect plan that has no downsides if you ask me.

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— Brendan Keogh (@brkeogh.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM




Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

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— Joel (@snufkinlib.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM


















I just found Settings > Privacy > Social Features / Messaging and shut that down

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— Emily⁷ (@emyunks.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Turn your playlists to private while you're at it







(Impossible to hear LA sirens if your window's rolled up)

















You gotta admit, telepathy is a new gambit. www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

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— Chad Moriyama (@chadmoriyama.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I've never seen a pitcher hit his own catcher before, and he's playing for a contract







This (depressingly) (embarrassingly) seems to be a lot of words that amount to US Soccer is trying to create a collection of videos recommending drills for coaches to use at practice































@sinnerlife86

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@pubity Saber had it at first I’m not gonna lie 😮🐶 #RoadTo18M #Pubity ♬ original sound - Pubity








@amqzak These two loved the light rain walk…Monty‘s ears got a great workout… maybe now he’ll listen🤣🤣🤣#weinerdog #dogsoftiktok #dachshund #ivddsurvivor ♬ Fancy Like - Walker Hayes








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