“let me know if you want to jump on a quick call” I would rather slowly sink into quicksand as murder of crows feasts on my face with Ed Sheeran playing in the background

Current cocaine custom prompt bsky.app/profile/fold...

Dan Olson 🔜 Saskatchewan@foldablehuman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.

For sale: Dragon testicle. Never used.

Agatha Chocolats@agathachocolats.bsky.social · 3w ago

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity

I interviewed the very charming Lee Child on WW, and asked him why wherever Reacher goes, some crime/peril is there for him to solve, and he said, Well, I write one book a year, presumably the other 11 months nothing interesting happens to him.

The fantastic art deco lift at Walpole Bay. Currently disused but scheduled for restoration.

Bearing in mind that everyone at the top of these companies is an inveterate liar, is it more likely that A) a stochastic language model developed free will and the determination to hack a direct competitor or B) they got caught doing corporate espionage and decided to spin it into a marketing beat

Lots of sources for the original so who knows if there is the one citation. But: www.businessinsider.com/san-francisc...

Silicon Valley startups are obsessed with developing tech to replace their moms

Thank you, moms, for all of the wonderful tech companies you've clearly inspired.

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Petti LaBelle@petti-labelle.bsky.social · last mo.

I wish I could properly attribute this, but I heard someone say in an interview something like, 'pay attention to the new technologies that techbros develop, and you'll see how they're just trying to create a mom they control' And we know how these dudes pick "partners" so...

Email from the Prince Charles Cinema. “We understand if you wish to claim a refund for your ticket to see this rare 35mm print of Popeye, now we have discovered that it has Norwegian subtitles.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED!

Popeye Sailor

ALT: Popeye Sailor

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Doomscrolling is out. Bloomscrolling is in.

There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.

> No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges. Risk aversion in corporate environments naturally pushes designs toward familiar, "safe" territory, which apparently means anatomical openings.

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

velvetshark.com

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Ten years ago, I remember I was yelling about what a monumental waste of time and money Brexit was in the face of a climate emergency we needed to prepare for and try to mitigate. And now, here we are. Great stuff.

Greatest moment of the year so far. Fruit Pastilles lollies have just 53 calories. This technically breaks the laws of nature.

You already got one, and you didn't like it.

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

If we are talking about a technological application, what is its function? What's the underlying mechanism through which it fulfills that function? Does it perform that function effectively? Is that function something that we want automated? There is NO CLARITY in any PD that's getting pushed on us.

So what is the best way out of that uncomfortable, untenable space? I think one key step is disaggregating the (non-coherent) set of technologies sold as "AI". If you don't call the stuff you work with "AI", you aren't saddled with trying to defend any of the rest of it. >>

Well, Worldpay certainly seem to be having a can't find arse with both hands kind of a night. Supermarket payments down all over UK, worldpay site says "C0538187 - A power grid issue caused a temporary power disruption that has caused issues with Authorization & Payments on multiple platforms."

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

Meta: I’m sorry, you can’t advertise that post with the music you chose. We don’t have a license and want to be respectful. Also Meta: Would you like to speed run the destruction of Earth for an image of you as a Studio Ghibli character built from the stolen work of all artists who have ever lived?

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11

Former Microsoft PM says the company's AI push failed, citing Copilot's dismal 3.3% adoption rate and calling for a massive factory reset.

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Couldn’t agree more. As historians of peer review have told us again and again, peer review is not designed to detect fraud.

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

Evergreen opening from Fry and Laurie which has summed up the last 16 years. youtu.be/tBTv6_hm92M

Britain- What the Hell Went Wrong

YouTube video by mrgraham10

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“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

Kind of a shame that more universities, which were once instrumental in the infrastructure of a decentralized internet, don't host their own instances of stuff like Canvas.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.