Ben
@benhammersley.com
Involved from time to time. The work is mysterious and important. We do not discuss our purpose or plans. Recorded for training porpoises.
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
The Atlantic end of the Panama Canal is further West than the Pacific end.
my least favouritest tables, ranked: 8. the 7 times table 7. being held accountable 6. the periodic table 5. dirty fast food tables 4. flat packed tables from IKEA 3. irritable bowel syndrome 2. vegetables 1. Table Mountain (ᶦᵗ ᵏⁿᵒʷˢ ʷʰᵃᵗ ᶦᵗ ᵈᶦᵈ)
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Mitch McConnell isn’t dead. He’s feeling quite well. It’s just that he almost died, has realised what his life’s work has lead to, and is now pacing around his locked medical suite muttering about impeachment.
This is the way. “Di Mino used Claude Code to build a suite of Python scripts that query, cross-reference, and organize the digitized Linear A corpus … enabling systematic hypothesis testing at a scale that would have been impractical to do manually.” aiclambake.com/clamtakes/li...
AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
aiclambake.com
A new “John Wick’s Dog” just dropped and no one will see anything. Absolutely fucking no. nypost.com/2026/06/12/u...
Boston children’s lemonade stand robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight: ‘Just take it!’
“It’s horrific. I have no other words.”
nypost.com
This Baba Ganoush is delicious. No way it could be grounds for fighting. Wait…zoom…enhance…
Lego Minas Tirith has dropped, and the Denethor minifig is a whole mood www.lego.com/en-us/produc...
A brick of Café Bustelo is now $10. Which for a Class A stimulant is pretty good, but jeeeeesussss
The Tween described something as “it’s giving paper-cut mouth-feel” and anyway language is awesome even if I am, apparently, “Ughhh sooo y2k”
“…including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship…” - the State Dept writing royalties checks for James Mason’s SIEGE by year end. Maybe top billing for the 2083 Declaration of European Independence. www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...
Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.
reuters.com
The EU need to have fun with this. Sell US treasuries every 47 minutes past the hour. Seize his golf courses and sell them to Denmark. Invent some new medals just for him: Welcome to the Order of the Very Special Boy, Second Class, Mr President. A great honour.
Post Malone here making the convincing case of why whoever books the Super Bowl halftime shows should be paid more.
The whole thing about billionaires leaving town if they’re taxed a bit more to pay for free buses, is that why would anyone want to leave a place so good that it has free buses?
