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I am a babbling brook

probability of tiger woods dad type of parents making their kids do short form horror to try to make that backrooms money is rising and i couldnt be happier. wake up son, you need to explore liminality with this vintage handicam we got you. A24 doesnt reward lazy boys

real art isn't in the cinema. it's not in books or libraries. it's definitely not in the TV. real art only exists on youtube channels with 3,000 followers where a guy who calls himself MicrowaveBen reviews tv dinners on a strange but internally consistent 7-point scale he calls the Flavornator

“In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, laying out for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints. Earlier tests yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected.” @raphae.li, @deepa.bsky.social, @kenrick.bsky.social:

EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week

OpenAI noticed after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, people familiar with the investigation say.

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Café. It’s bananas hot here and a lady ordered a cappuccino from the handsome barista with the fashion forward (untrimmed! untamed!) eyebrows, & while at the espresso machine, steaming foam, he looked over at me & mouthed, “I WANT TO DIE.”

BREAKING: The elaborate set built in Malta for Robert Altman’s deeply weird Popeye movie was turned into a theme park that still exists today.

Popeye Village, a theme park in Mellieħa, Malta.

“The Jeanette was lost, but the discovery of her wreckage proved the existence of currents crossing the Pole, and inspired Fridtjof Nansen’s completely insane expedition of 1893-1896, where he deliberately froze his ship into the ice and let her drift for three years.” @goldwagnathan.bsky.social:

Visualizing the Past (Part Four)

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human …

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When you’re trying to help your second most difficult aunt into the car & she’s having trouble & being extremely dramatic & not allowing you to help, I hope you, like me, get the assistance of two bearish gays who say, afterwards, with a hug, “We’re not going to stand by & let a twink suffer.”

All I heard of the grocery store conversation between a sixish-year-old girl & her mom with beachy waves was the girl saying, “Do Labubus live in trees? In water?” & the mom with beachy waves saying, “Mommy would love it if you didn’t talk for a little while.”

PLEASE back my yakstarter so i can purchase 1 yak. ROI will be bonkers: a picture of me braiding yak’s fur, a podcast of me talking to yak about my problems, a coffee mug (not yak themed), platinum tier patrons will be visited by yak late at night when yak is hungry

Café. I thought I was the only one who heard the kitten-heeled woman in cream say, “I grew up on a dairy farm. I’m hyper-focused on early morning solutions,” but I made eye contact with the handsome barista with the fashion forward (untrimmed! untamed!) eyebrows & he did a subtle jerk off motion.