Really good point. I can think of GitHub, ArXiv, Wikipedia as places where human-curated results are still put back into circulation on a grand scale...not a lot else comes to mind

John David Pressman@jdp.extropian.net · 5h ago

I think this is one of the major shakeups of LLMs in general. We're all dependent on some kind stranger having put the solution to your issue on the Internet, and they usually did it because they asked a forum question and people answered. If I ask an LLM, how do I get it back into the corpus?

I know I am just being a grouchy elder but how is it 2026 and writers are still out here saying "we" think of the Internet as "immaterial"—who is this "we" and where have they been for the last decade

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

bloomberg.com

iirc somebody worked out that Palpatine's "Uh, all Star Destroyers are Death Stars now" plan makes scientific sense, if their artificial gravity can be aimed and projected outward--enough energy to disorganize absolutely everything in its path, like a container ship hitting that bridge in Baltimore

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · 2d ago

I love Star Trek, but I've become concerned that no one ever thought of adding seatbelts to the command room chairs. Just folks constantly skittering about the room in every battle and turbulence event.

Toronto has discovered Biidaasige Park. Packed tonight for on the way back from Cherry. Maximum city. More of this, I think, is needed.

remember in 90s star trek medical scenes they would always opaquely refer to “neurotransmitters” lmao

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 2d ago

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

What's fascinating about this is Stoker couldn't have possibly known that every decision he made here decided the template for the modern Western European vampire. So in the universe next door a century of movies and TV have made "green candle burns blue in the vampire's presence" a familiar cliche

Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

Cuphead taught me to kill things like this

old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 3d ago

freezo ice cream sign, knoxville, tennessee, 1984

Jareth is still in the wrong; his contract doesn't specify the venue and definitely isn't legal in New York State. "I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Goblin Kingdom in all matters arising in relation to this Agreement."

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 4d ago

Lots of arguments for Magneto, Ozymandias and Killmonger, but my money’s always on Darth Revan. I will also argue that Jareth the Goblin King was neither right nor wrong but behaving exactly the way that an ancient fey acts when some dipshit teenager invokes him to steal her brother.

And here's a little breakdown of the visuals in that last animation, and how they're made with p5: www.davepagurek.com/blog/video-e...

Arguments over the BOM aside, this is how I learned my hometown voted to become a panopticon last month. "Montani semper observantur"

Notorious RBMK@comraderobot.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m sorrry “pounds”???? wtf how big are these fuckin cameras

it's natural to be concerned because this seems like a step backwards to people but the key thing to understand is while tanks made sense until around the year 2000 they're less prevalent because lobsters had to keep up and adapt for the changing battlefield most of them today are trained for drones

cedar longpenis@guypussy.bsky.social · 4d ago

(waking up from a cold sweat) the grocery stores used to have lobster tanks

actually the plural is sponges bob squarespant

They would like to try cake

glue@delightedbutdying.bsky.social · 5d ago

happy birthday to all horses in the southern hemisphere

Really enjoyed Altman’s Popeye at the Prince Charles Cinema this afternoon - a movie I’ve never seen. Delighted it forms a Brawling Sailorman Double Feature with the last film I went to see, The Odyssey, and to discover that the films share a common star in Bill Irwin (Ham Gravy / The Cyclops).

bsky.app/profile/jon-... just perfection

megan targaryen back in team black@jon-snow-420.bsky.social · 2y ago

freeze frame on man running through bazaar Jason Statham (VO): yeah. thass me. aladdin runnin frum the fuckin fuzz again

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

Help me out, I don't get it

Glennyrodge@glennyrodge.bsky.social · last wk.

ME: let's pretend to be composers ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: okay, I shall portray Franz Lizst ME: do you know the trouble I've been to for this joke?

Huh I had no idea

“Brandon,” a Bluesky commenter@bedubble.bsky.social · last wk.

Don’t make me tap the chart

You better not find a third

After Centuries of Research, Betelgeuse Turns Out to Be Two Stars, Not One

The companion is hotter, brighter and more massive than astronomers expected.

zmescience.com

How have we had keyboard innovations like the Windows key (lol) or the Fn key, but still haven't made the Caps Lock key change the capitalization of highlighted text?? If I highlight a sentence and hit Caps Lock, it should cycle through ALL CAPS, all lower, And Title Case like come ONNNNN

It wants to be Sol LeWitt

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last wk.

Just opened Miro for the first time in a little while to find that it won't let me just draw a diagram, it wants to me to hang out with its little chatbot friend. So I ask it to draw three concentric circles.

This is imo a lot easier if you think of the prompts as more like file paths in a vast archive. If you discover something cool there, you might be film historian Kevin Brownlow, who found the missing reel from Napoleon (1927). Neither you nor the computer are Abel Gance, director of Napoleon (1927).

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · last wk.

this will take a while to diffuse, but the idea that LLM results derive primarily from the expertise of the operator is fully dead www.anthropic.com/research/dis...

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

god I miss those days, going to a fancy hotel to interview to Famke Janssen about Hemlock Grove—not because it was good or bad (it *was* terrible), but because it existed and things that exist are worth talking about

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · last wk.

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

Well, I guess that explains why asteroids leave such big craters! 😬

@lakecountynews-sun.bsky.social, we agree that high-speed electric motorcycles, involved in 3 recent tragic deadly crashes in the suburbs, need more regulation. But please *don't* call them "e-bikes." They're not pedaled, and shouldn't be confused with, say, 20 mph e-@divvybikes.bsky.social. Thanks!

Column: For Lake County pedestrians, e-bikes becoming pests

Slapping an electric motor on a bicycle or scooter seemed like a good idea.

chicagotribune.com

"when Spider Man is in the outer boroughs with smaller buildings does he web swing from utility poles and does Con Ed hate that"