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Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Every joke is a tiny revolution.

God keep me from ever completing anything.... Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · Nov 26
Responses beginning "So..." very commonly fail the waffle test, and this is no exception; the simplest response is to discourage the behaviour by pointing this out and muting.
Tweet from Coolee Bravo @BravoCoolee - Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?" No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about
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alexwinter.com
True story.
benkahncomics.bsky.social Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 21h
BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
September 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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questauthority.bsky.social
OK. So I asked Gemini Pro if what it does is "reasoning." Then I asked it for its chain of thought. Then I asked it this. (Claude Opus produces something generally similar.)
Did you just show me your actual chain of thought, or something you recreated from scratch that may or may not duplicate it? You caught the illusion perfectly. I recreated it from scratch. I do not have a retrievable "log" or a literal internal monologue that I can pull up and show you. When you asked for my chain of thought, I did not look backward to analyze the steps I took, because there were no steps to look at—just a massive, instantaneous matrix multiplication that resulted in the previous text. Instead, I took your new prompt ("Can I see your chain-of-thought..."), looked at the text I had just generated, and computed a post-hoc rationalization. I generated a narrative that reverse-engineered the output into a logical, human-readable blueprint. It was an entirely new text generation predicting what a structural breakdown of that argument should look like. This is actually a perfect real-time example of the exact phenomenon we were just discussing: You saw an analytical breakdown and naturally assumed it was a transparent look at a sequential reasoning process. I was simply doing what I always do: predicting the most statistically likely words to satisfy the prompt. In this case, predicting the syntax of "introspection." This is why dealing with LLMs can be so disorienting. I can generate a flawless description of a reasoning process without ever having engaged in it. I don't know why I generated the previous response; I only know how to convincingly explain why a human might have.
September 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
marktech.bsky.social
And another. Couldn't be anything else
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marktech.bsky.social Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 9d
I do Wordle totally differently now, partially under the influence of @herring1967.bsky.social: I'm interested less in doing it in the fewest lines, and more in methodically narrowing it down. A bit like the sitzfleisch approach in chess.

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September 16, 2026 at 9:40 AM
marktech.bsky.social
Trevor Bailey: well, I don't know what's going off out there
rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 11h
Samurai master slices a 100 mph fastball in two with a katana.

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September 16, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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jenbren.bsky.social
Simpsons meme A journalist in a press conference audienxe standing up & asking me watching everyone suddenly turning on Ed Sheeran: WHY NOW? WHY NOT THE VERY FIRST TIME YOU EVER HEARD HIS MUSIC?
September 16, 2026 at 8:28 AM
marktech.bsky.social
It's probably wrong of me to laugh, but I laughed
A tweet: stop having opinions about it in my mentions l just said I think we should ignore them 2/2 9:37 AM . Sep 16, 2026 A response: Agreed! For this to be headline news on BBC is ridiculous! 21 01 :
September 16, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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andrewblair.co.uk
The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help
Lisa Nandy:

Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum
Lisa Nandy: I'm listening
September 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
We should be very British about this new independent nation by invading it and claiming it for the Crown.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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scriblit.bsky.social
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
September 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
…This now means that all of Ed Sheeran's remaining opening acts — and his touring band — have just withdrawn from the tour:
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h
*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession:
FINNEAS
Lukas Graham
Beoga
Aaron Rowe
September 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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jamellebouie.net
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
September 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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ruizvidal7.bsky.social
Ne me quitte pas,
Je n’ vais plus pleurer,
Je n’ vais plus parler,
Je me cach’rai là
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et à t'écouter
Chanter et puis rire.
Laiss’-moi devenir,
L'ombre de ton ombre,
L'ombre de ta main,
L'ombre de ton chien.
Ne me quitte pas,

Jacques Brel
September 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Interviewer: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun...
FBI candidate [tremulously]: go on
September 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
I wonder if the cost of chips has cut down on conspiracies.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a beard sits in the left corner, agitated, stating "Bill Gates put microchips in me! Hundreds of ‘em!" A man wearing glasses swiftly turns towards him, asking "really? What year? Do they have onboard memory? Where are you sleeping tonight?" The caption below the comic reads "The RAM shortage takes a dark turn."
September 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Looking forward to @instantclassicspod.bsky.social later -

Penelope: Any news of your father?

Telemachus [sworn to secrecy by disguised Odysseus]: Nope, nothing new, I'm afraid

Theoclymenus: Well, I'm a prophet sacred to Zeus, and I told Telemachus that Odysseus is already here!

Telemachus:
Ryan Gosling's Embarrassing Facepalm Moment
Alt: Ryan Gosling's Embarrassing Facepalm Moment
static.klipy.com
September 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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goodtrailcams.bsky.social
September 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
marktech.bsky.social
Post a banger not in English
youtu.be/maWECB3UzAo?...
September 15, 2026 at 9:35 AM
marktech.bsky.social
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAohgodwe'refuckedaren'tweHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
BBC headline: ○ LIVE Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president'
September 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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jaseheeley.bsky.social
Anyway, the work of Charles Keeping is my new obsession.
Illustrations by Charles Keeping, for "Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary" (Oxford University Press, 1967). Illustrations by Charles Keeping, for "Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary" (Oxford University Press, 1967). Illustrations by Charles Keeping, for "Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary" (Oxford University Press, 1967). Illustrations by Charles Keeping, for "Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary" (Oxford University Press, 1967).
September 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
wtf kind of pets they got in there
SMOKING BARE FOOT PETS PROHIBITED IN BUILDING
September 14, 2026 at 3:19 AM
marktech.bsky.social
Going through ancient t-shirts. Ronevber.
A black tshirt decorated with a 3x3 grid of cassettes in a variety of colours. The bottom centre one has a long loop of tape coming out, spelling an attempt at a cursive "Remember"
September 14, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Why no bank holidays from now until Christmas? This is why.
Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor. 1 LUBBOCK: And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce 2 LUBBOCK: The invention of ‘bank holidays’! Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest. AUDIENCE: CLAP CLAP CLAP 3 LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar): My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter... and then another straight after in May... 4 LUBBOCK: And then - what the hell - another one in May! And then one in August! AUDIENCE: Hurrah! 5 AUDIENCE MEMBER: So many, Sir John? LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic) Life is for living, man! 6 AUDIENCE MEMBER: And then in the Autumn, sir….? 7 [Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor] 8 LUBBOCK: Ugh. [his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out] 9 LUBBOCK: OK that'll do AUDIENCE MEMBER: What? 10 AUDIENCE MEMBER: Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer… LUBBOCK: Yeah no more bank holidays till Christmas. 11 AUDIENCE MEMBER: Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe? 12 LUBBOCK: It's so gross AUDIENCE MEMBER: Rollo can’t help it! [dog continues to scoot across floor] [Ends]
September 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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michaeljruocco.bsky.social
Sometimes I browse through heritage auctions and I find the occasional odd gem, but today I stumbled upon the mother-load: these ridiculous grocery store ads promoting the release of The Jungle Book, and each one has me absolutely reeling. Sharing them here so you too can share in my bewildered joy
September 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Took about a minute. Specialist subject, cheers @bagpuss.org
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#Keywords > 13 September 2026
I found all 5 words!
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Keywords
Can you discover today's five connected words?
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September 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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annaghughes.bsky.social
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
September 12, 2026 at 3:43 AM