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NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
futurism.com
September 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
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They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
September 30, 2026 at 1:45 PM
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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forgot to upload this cute little sketch commission! :)
#slaytheprincess
#slaytheprincess
September 26, 2026 at 12:34 AM
forgot to upload this cute little sketch commission! :)
#slaytheprincess
#slaytheprincess
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Hey, look: the cover of my next book has been revealed. Looks like it'll be out next March.
Details: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Details: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Hey, look: the cover of my next book has been revealed. Looks like it'll be out next March.
Details: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Details: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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This isn't a simple case of incoherent messaging, it's slamming every button on the console at once in desperation as they realize how egregiously they've overspent on this relative to what it can return financially. In six more months they'll be promising it regrows your hair.
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
September 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
This isn't a simple case of incoherent messaging, it's slamming every button on the console at once in desperation as they realize how egregiously they've overspent on this relative to what it can return financially. In six more months they'll be promising it regrows your hair.
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The Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol
The Tree of Life Web Project is back online!
tolweb.org
Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.
tolweb.org
Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.
Tree
of Life Web Project
tolweb.org
September 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
The Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol
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New Past Lives: Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age. The Romans never conquered Scandinavia, but thousands of Roman-made items - largely weapons - were dumped into bogs far beyond the frontier. Why that happened opens the gate to the Viking Age. pod.link/1852618120/e...
Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age
Listen to Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!
pod.link
September 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
New Past Lives: Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age. The Romans never conquered Scandinavia, but thousands of Roman-made items - largely weapons - were dumped into bogs far beyond the frontier. Why that happened opens the gate to the Viking Age. pod.link/1852618120/e...
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at America's Largest Humor Website (at the time) Cracked.com, my job for half a decade was to pick images for the articles. Finding relevant stuff in the public domain was a creative task that often inspired me to write more and better jokes. Even using Getty images was more creative than AI.
We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things, it's called the PUBLIC DOMAIN
September 1, 2026 at 5:24 AM
at America's Largest Humor Website (at the time) Cracked.com, my job for half a decade was to pick images for the articles. Finding relevant stuff in the public domain was a creative task that often inspired me to write more and better jokes. Even using Getty images was more creative than AI.
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my views on AI are extremely nuanced. i have a detailed and deliberated list of specific things that need to happen to these people
September 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
my views on AI are extremely nuanced. i have a detailed and deliberated list of specific things that need to happen to these people
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RIP king…nobody played baddies like you. 💔
August 26, 2026 at 4:21 PM
RIP king…nobody played baddies like you. 💔
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Inner Moons
The small, short-lived moons of the inner Uranian system.
The small, short-lived moons of the inner Uranian system.
August 22, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Inner Moons
The small, short-lived moons of the inner Uranian system.
The small, short-lived moons of the inner Uranian system.
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recently obsessed with Petra Parker all over my timeline, she's so cool
August 17, 2026 at 11:40 AM
recently obsessed with Petra Parker all over my timeline, she's so cool
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Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
August 22, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
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August 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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During times of transition, I always think of the opening of Dune: "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."
When I created this desert world, a drop of a more fertile future was added - a lake full of potential.
#exoplanets from fiction #sciart
When I created this desert world, a drop of a more fertile future was added - a lake full of potential.
#exoplanets from fiction #sciart
August 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
During times of transition, I always think of the opening of Dune: "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."
When I created this desert world, a drop of a more fertile future was added - a lake full of potential.
#exoplanets from fiction #sciart
When I created this desert world, a drop of a more fertile future was added - a lake full of potential.
#exoplanets from fiction #sciart
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What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default.
You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
August 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.
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Tips for UK eclipse-watching later today:
🔖Take white card/paper & a colander with you
🏞️Go to slightly higher ground if poss-for a better view
🌿Look at dappled light under trees-gaps between leaves create loads of tiny images of the eclipse (v cool)
💠Use your colander to project lots of tiny 🧵1/2
🔖Take white card/paper & a colander with you
🏞️Go to slightly higher ground if poss-for a better view
🌿Look at dappled light under trees-gaps between leaves create loads of tiny images of the eclipse (v cool)
💠Use your colander to project lots of tiny 🧵1/2
August 12, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Tips for UK eclipse-watching later today:
🔖Take white card/paper & a colander with you
🏞️Go to slightly higher ground if poss-for a better view
🌿Look at dappled light under trees-gaps between leaves create loads of tiny images of the eclipse (v cool)
💠Use your colander to project lots of tiny 🧵1/2
🔖Take white card/paper & a colander with you
🏞️Go to slightly higher ground if poss-for a better view
🌿Look at dappled light under trees-gaps between leaves create loads of tiny images of the eclipse (v cool)
💠Use your colander to project lots of tiny 🧵1/2
Know the difference!
-When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, it's a solar eclipse
-When the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, it's a lunar eclipse
-When the Sun is between the Earth and the Moon, it's an apocalypse
#Eclipse
-When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, it's a solar eclipse
-When the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, it's a lunar eclipse
-When the Sun is between the Earth and the Moon, it's an apocalypse
#Eclipse
August 12, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Know the difference!
-When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, it's a solar eclipse
-When the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, it's a lunar eclipse
-When the Sun is between the Earth and the Moon, it's an apocalypse
#Eclipse
-When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, it's a solar eclipse
-When the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, it's a lunar eclipse
-When the Sun is between the Earth and the Moon, it's an apocalypse
#Eclipse
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i think we’re going in a healthy direction
August 9, 2026 at 10:54 PM
i think we’re going in a healthy direction
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this is gonna be a really useful clip
August 1, 2026 at 5:34 PM
this is gonna be a really useful clip
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End cretaceus hell
July 26, 2026 at 7:04 PM
End cretaceus hell
@hotgpod.bsky.social I was looking for some information in the podcast archive (I love that every episode is transcribed btw) and noticed something strange: episode 94 (the post-Hohenstaufen Q&A) is completely missing from the archive. It's not found in either season 4 or 5 either.
July 26, 2026 at 8:10 PM
@hotgpod.bsky.social I was looking for some information in the podcast archive (I love that every episode is transcribed btw) and noticed something strange: episode 94 (the post-Hohenstaufen Q&A) is completely missing from the archive. It's not found in either season 4 or 5 either.