My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

I haven't seen such a large crowd in Georgia in a while. This is the 545th consecutive day of nationwide protests. Happy Independence Day, dear Georgia! 🇬🇪

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Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Three signs that bookclub email you just got is probably a scam 🚩 1) Generic gmail (or similar) address 2) The book club, award, or organization doesn’t exist when you look it up 3) The email is overly long, vague, and full of excessive praise (often AI-written)

Apology accepted. share.contiguous.me/share/filthy... I love a good @hotdogsladies.bsky.social dossier.

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Nothing like seeing “From the creators of [inferior product]” to inspire confidence in a new product.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

“You opened this page. It already knows the following.” sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Metadata + custom MCP connector + Claude = 🤯

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

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Day 517 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪🇪🇺

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Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

Captain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined within his cabin.

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Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“We love you from the moon.”

Blank pages invite use. In this 1578 print album by Philip Galle, published in collaboration with the Officina Plantiniana, a later reader used the flyleaves and leftover white space to sketch contemporary faces and figures. #bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜

There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here.

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“Nobody starts in the right place.… That is not how obsession works. Obsession works by taking whatever is available and pressing on it until it either breaks or reveals something.” “‘This is not the computer for you’,” a lovely, Mac-nerdy post by Sam Henri Gold. samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

[Werner Herzog voice] “Every bakery is nature’s bakery. Man’s brief existence on earth, including all his fragile creations, are just a small part of Nature.”

Happy birthday to our pal, Michel de Montaigne, born 493 years ago today! 🎉

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out the rules

Ok y'all. Whats going on is making me cry on the regular. It feels weird to be here at the GRAMMYs - but I want to honor the music of my ancestors by playing it- we gonna do some busking tomorrow, come say hello if you’re in town for the shindig.

Have to share the whole Publishers Weekly review because it's chef's kiss 💜 Snippet: "@drrashadshabazz.bsky.social's innovative music analysis imbued with geography, history, & social science deserves a standing ovation." PRINCE'S MINNEAPOLIS officially drops Feb 17!

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Inconsiderate Woman On Bus Eating Live Tuna https://theonion.com/inconsiderate-woman-on-bus-eating-live-tuna-1819575933/

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

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Modernity is a conspiracy to replace 'thick' desires (community, craft, transcendence) with 'thin' desires (likes, sugar, dopamine). Revolt by doing something slow. Bake bread. Write a letter. Code a tool for just one person.

Alan Dye is responsible for the abomination that is Liquid Glass, the latest version of Apple’s design language. Good riddance!

“What sustains these protests is a clear sense among Georgians that they won’t accept a Russian-controlled autocracy.” Meduza talks to former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze about Georgia’s year-long political crisis. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

“[This scene] confirms to us how workers moved up and down tomb shafts, and it confirms that part of the funeral took place actually in the tomb, rather than the coffin merely being lowered down the shaft and sealed in.” tetisheri.co.uk/artefacts-in...

“This week, seven years almost to the day since the CIA announced the crown prince’s responsibility in the murder, Mohammed bin Salman returns to Washington, invited for an official visit by America’s Temu pharaoh, Donald Trump.”

“[T]hat was the image I had seen always, seen it without quite realizing what I saw, a dynamo finally free of man, splendid at last in its absolute isolation, transmitting power and releasing water to a world where no one is.” Joan Didion, “At the Dam” (1970)

Juana Molina has a new album out! DOGA music.apple.com/us/album/dog...

Pebbling: sending little links and memes to the people that you love. Derived from the behavior of gentoo penguins, who “pick up pebbles in their beak and carry them to their partners or potential partners as a gift”. [redsetteragency.com]

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“Until The New York Times takes accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza, …

Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #BatWeek #31daysofhalloween

“We may wonder whether we prefer to define ourselves by what we cannot resist – breathing, eating, dependence, ageing, death – or by what we can resist. If we describe someone or something as irresistible, …

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