Welcome to Midnight Snack where I interview celebrities in my kitchen at midnight and they have to eat whatever I'm eating

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[shopping for Christmas decorations] you have any of that long glitter

Concerned AI is coming for my human slop

I’m not succumbing to my wounds we’re collaborating

Put it on the blockshame

The heartwarming show with a strong moral message: there is no “I” in “Tied Lasso”

The so-called 'Mandela effect' artefact "Shazzam," a beloved and fondly remembered but non-existent genie movie, starring the comedian Sinbad, is often explained as a misremembering of Shaq's "Kazaam." A more likely source is the BBC's Bernard and the Genie (1991). In this essay I will

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Check out the janky first prototype of our Digital Sustainability Game (in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition): franciscrot.github.io/Digital-Sust...

for this study we used grifter elicitation, an established methodology for domains where data is scarce, to derive a set of values

nowadays anyone can vibe, it's called vibe vibing

In the same way as there is Critical AI Studies, is there a Critical Quantum Studies, or the beginnings of that? And/or are there people working on quantum computing from a STS or other social and political perspective?

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

I have a feeling this is the week Wile E. Coyote finally kills Jürgen Habermas

legally changing my name to however it's in your phone

The way it slips into everything, emails from friends, amazing artists applying for tiny grants, meltdown messages on mutual aid forums, interesting articles by experts on the interesting thing ... it's like a medium I didn't even know I needed to live is being slowly poisoned

seems like that should be the main focus then huh

The votes are not in, the judging panel is not assembled, for the 2025 Baseline Award for Speculative Fiction

This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.

"Clear Joe" they call me because of my communication style or maybe my conscience

There exists a girlfriend in Canada that which than no greater girlfriend in Canada exists. Now that which is in the flesh is greater than that which is merely in the fancy

Only three emojis (in Unicode 17.0, & discounting numbers set) are perfectly to scale with the corresponding real thing: ladybug, far away Eiffel tower and laughing crying hunting sideways head 🤣

To go to sleep in an egg and awake in a murmuration

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

Is Rosalia dropping Lux right after the Mamdani win a sly allusion to Rosa Luxembourg 'The entry of a socialist into a bourgeois government is not, as it is thought, a partial conquest of the bourgeois state by the socialists, but a partial conquest of the socialist party by the bourgeois state'

AI is resurrecting the dead. Should we be worried? NOPE

Recommended read: Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wrote in the Guardian ahead of COP30 about the need to act “with the urgency the climate crisis demands”.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

elections should follow mario rules

probably not huge in the grand scheme of everything happening, but it's so funny and sad and stupid how much of politics is reported as gambling odds now

substack.com/@jolwalton/n... Part 1 here: Midas and the Golden Touch. These are Diet-zschean Ecce Homo titles btw, Why I Am So Rich and Why I Am The GOAT fell off

Take me down to the pair of guys city Neil Degrasse Tyson Carson Kressley

Two guys getting into a fistfight over whether "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys counts as a Halloween song

King Midas was not just the guy who turned everything to gold open.substack.com/pub/jonlyfan...

What if where we go when we die depends not on what we do in this life, but on what we did before it?

Time for a refresh Nike. How about Never Stop Eating

Cricket

Ha — a fair suspicion! And you’re right to ask.

Autumn is the most citational season

In the history of automation, there is always this odd thing where miraculous breakthroughs are accompanied by charlatanry, grift and scams. We talked about it in Ghost Fictions www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

We assume a ghost is evil when it knocks things off shelves, but maybe it’s just really clumsy

One must imagine Sisyphus horngry

Mondoweiss Fall fundraiser final day: mondoweiss.net/tag/fundrais...

The Bristol / South-West "he" of inanimate objects. What's the logic to it? My hunch is it happens more often in sort of technical or practical situations, when you're talking about how to do something? Also is it ever "she"?

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

There sure are a lot of sad songs

All lactose is tolerable for the pure of heart