"What is a woman?" Jim Haggerty knows the answer to the question liberals refuse to ask.
twitter is your bank. yahoo is your doctor. delta airlines is your divorce lawyer. your child goes to daycare at northrop grumman
“F4 felt like it was reading my mind. There were no options; Repeat just always seemed to do the thing I expected from it. As I understood this kind of functionality more, years later, I learned to appreciate the deeper thinking necessary to make it work.” @aresluna.org:
Unsung Heroes: Repeat in Excel 97 – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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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.
reuters.com
HALDEMAN: He's a merry fellow, Tom Bombadil, sir. HAIG: [indecipherable] and his boots are yellow. NIXON: Christ.
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.”
The flag of Neapolitan ice cream/La bandera del helado napolitano/Die Flagge des Fürst-Pückler-Eis
This account warns us on the label, never disappoints.
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.
“If we could choose anything, then we'd have like our own RV, and the riders would always sleep in the RV. But you're not allowed to do that. Otherwise it just becomes an arms race." @redford.bsky.social:
How Cycling Solved Sleep | Defector
AURILLAC, France — Is the Tour de France the most competitive sleep environment in sports? “Probably, yeah,” answered Dr. Jon Greenwell, EF-Education EasyPost’s Head Doctor when I asked him. Every ath...
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“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.”
“Unlike in most places, in the United Kingdom it seems to be perfectly legal for people to give each other medical advice, provided they don’t misrepresent themselves as licensed doctors. This is not legal advice.” @dynomight.net:
You're probably taking the wrong painkiller
Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what doctors may want you to know.
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What if I end all interactions tomorrow with: “Is this lush enough for you? Are you fulfilled?”
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
THE WHALES ASCEND. THEY HEED THE CALL. Only ‘Emergency’ knows the truth.
“We’ve done a pretty good job as a nation of making vehicles more efficient, having more renewables, switching to cleaner fuels. There could be more progress on that, but really, it’s mostly all about wildfire smoke.” @mollytaft.com:
How to Protect Your Health as Skies Fill With Smoke From Canada’s Wildfires
Roughly 100 fires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming 1,000 miles to the south and east.
wired.com
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.
“Some American films were huge successes in France and failed everywhere else. American studios very often keep an eye on which similar films worked well in France over the previous 30 years to get ideas of title changes and make callbacks.” @manilazic.bsky.social:
Lost in Translation: the mechanics and motivations of film title translations in France • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
How does The Hangover become Very Bad Trip, or Arrival become Premier Contact? With another Cannes film festival on the horizon, Manuela Lazić digs into one of French film culture’s most fascinating t...
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A pair of fine brown hares, Cock Hill, Peak District