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Chris @akamarkman.com · Aug 8
terrapin-trail.com 🐢🚐🌎🎤📼👀
Terrapin Trail - a long strange trip simulator
A comedic Oregon Trail-style RPG following the Grateful Dead's Spring 1977 tour. Tape every show, work the lot, keep the van alive, and don't get dosed.
terrapin-trail.com
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swiftonsecurity.com
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS NEITHER ARE WORKING
September 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest for @newscientist.com
Two scientists walk past numerous enormous shelves, each divided into sections containing a huge array of weird items. One says: “We still don't know what any of this is, where it came from, or what it does, but you have to admit we've shelved it all beautifully.”
September 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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taraocomics.bsky.social
I think we owe comic sans an apology. 😭
katietiedrich.bsky.social Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 8d
I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now
photo of a white truck with the logo for Bob’s BBQ Emporium, which is written in comic sans and has a charming rudimentary illustration of a pig
September 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
August 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
akamarkman.com
Soon the tyranny of my youtube "watch later" playlist will be over 🌄
August 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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terrapin-trail.com 🐢🚐🌎🎤📼👀
Terrapin Trail - a long strange trip simulator
A comedic Oregon Trail-style RPG following the Grateful Dead's Spring 1977 tour. Tape every show, work the lot, keep the van alive, and don't get dosed.
terrapin-trail.com
August 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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ecppdx.bsky.social
omg I found the picture ❤️
An image of The Villeneuve Scale of Air Pollution (aka the Milleneuve) Arrival < 100 milleneuves (normal particulate levels) Prisoners 200 milleneuves (chimney smoke and rage) Sicario 300 milleneuves (gunsmoke and drugs maybe?) Enemy 600 milleneuves (C'mon, Toronto, you used to be cool) Dune 750 milleneuves (stillsuits are a must!) Blade Runner 2049 900 milleneuves (omg why are you even outside, Ryan Gosling??) [each entry has a still from the film showing the sky color, from clear to deep orange]
August 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Yes yes yes
July 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Those assembly turn cranks that won't get thrown in the trash
July 19, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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wordwatcher.bsky.social
“Self-Portrait” by Haruka Kawakami
July 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
akamarkman.com
hey so... I dunno if you've noticed this... but bluesky is kinda entertaining?
July 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)
July 2, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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videajames.bsky.social
do u see the vision
June 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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moultano.bsky.social
Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
Cairo Smith: There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
May 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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paperpile.com
What if your AI assistant could search your library like you do?

MCP allows researchers to connect LLMs directly to academic databases or personal libraries. This moves the AI from a simple search to a real research assistant, via @aarontay.bsky.social
aarontay.substack.com/p/creating-y...
The agentic researcher - building custom, transparent and extensible workflows with Claude & MCP
Why generic LLM + academic MCP servers might be as good if not better than specalised Academic deep research
aarontay.substack.com
February 24, 2026 at 4:44 PM
akamarkman.com
Lifehack: speed-running Youtube news using the "ask Gemini" button for timestamps
January 22, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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theguardian.com
The pulmonaut: how James Nestor turned breathing into a 3m copy bestseller
The pulmonaut: how James Nestor turned breathing into a 3m copy bestseller
It is the most essential thing we do - yet many of us arguably breathe badly. The author of Breath explains how that can be changed
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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archive.org
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎

🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
January 1, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler!

You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work."

Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.
Diagram illustrating the BookReconciler workflow. On the left, a book cover of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong appears alongside “Minimal Metadata,” listing Author: Truong, Monique and Title: The Book of Salt. An arrow points to a box labeled “BookReconciler” with book and diamond icons. A downward arrow leads to “Enriched + Clustered Metadata,” showing multiple editions of the book cover and expanded metadata, including several ISBNs, subject headings (e.g., Vietnamese–France fiction, women authors, household employees, gay men, cooking), and an author VIAF identifier.
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
akamarkman.com
concert tour t-shirt spoof that just lists different LLM model drop dates in a year
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
akamarkman.com
The hilarious idea of combining www.copyright.gov/vcc/ & DeepSeek OCR
Virtual Card Catalog | U.S. Copyright Office
Virtual Card Catalog
www.copyright.gov
October 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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10/20/25, a day forever known in the public library world as the "Hooplapocalypse"
October 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Don't be fooled, "Agentic AI" is "Daemonic AI" in sheep's clothing 🤣
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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geoffreyfowler.bsky.social
What happens when you show up for a Zoom meeting ... and the only other participants are AI note takers?

It happened to my colleague:
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
why did this make me laugh
July 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM