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Sheogorath's Lost Pinecone @daedricnonsense.bsky.social · Jan 13
You can take my puns from my cold deadpans.
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza

Server: that comes with three sides

Me: I know what shape it is
September 16, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
i have said it before and ill say it again

every single financial institution would benefit from paying a pink hair communist with a septum piercing to walk around the office all day saying “how fucking stupid are you people that you actually believe this shit?”
ljkawa.bsky.social Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 14h
JPMorgan’s commodities team:

“For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
September 17, 2026 at 1:08 PM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
Imagine the dumbest way for something to happen, and you'll still be surprised how often how things actually happen are even dumber than that.
dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d
Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
golikehellmachine.com GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d
a lot of people think that faillison hired bari weiss to deliberately destroy CBS news and i think all of you need to consider the possibility that he hired her because he genuinely thought she would be successful.
September 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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drkatfish.bsky.social
A screenshot of a Tumblr post about scientists wanting to tell people about their science
September 15, 2026 at 11:27 PM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
So I'm doing that adult thing where my kid gets a diagnosis and they're describing their symptoms and I'm like "lol, that's just Tuesday" and everyone around me is like "no, it's not" and I'm like "oh."
September 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
♫ They were all in love with dying
♫ They were drinking from a fountain
♫ That was pouring like an avalanche
♫ Coming down the mountain

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, long at odds with each other, found common ground in calling for a slowdown in the advancement of AI amid mounting fears about its dangers.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
"From 2010 to 2016, San Francisco permitted one unit of housing for every 13 new jobs." 😨

Listen, I don't expect anyone to have played Cities: Skylines, but the takeaway here is that if you want to kill job growth that^ right there will guarantee it.
dpherriges.bsky.social Daniel Herriges @dpherriges.bsky.social · 3d
Boomtown without the boom: During the 2010s, when San Francisco's economy was a juggernaut growing 10% per year, the SF metropolitan area was only the 26th-fastest growing US metro (and San Jose was 29th).

From 2010 to 2016, San Francisco permitted one unit of housing for every 13 new jobs.
alfredtwu.com Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 3d
Do you ever think about how San Francisco basically went through an economic miracle, with multiple years of double-digit growth, and about the only thing they have to show for it is a world-famous housing crisis?

Data from fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPAL...
September 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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aparker.io
if you wonder 'why does it feel like all the expertise is draining out of the public sphere' then you kinda have to grapple with the fact that displaying expertise is often an all expenses paid trip to the omelas hole
September 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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ceej.online
you guys are pretty judgy about someone falling asleep during an important meeting because they stayed up all night posting
September 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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dly.bsky.social
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
September 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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jasonaw.bsky.social
It has never ended, it will never end
September 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
10/10
September 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
Well, that's awful
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
arstechnica.com
September 9, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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matt.tasty.computer
Thinking about creating something super cool and then once everyone loves it descending into madness and Fascism.
September 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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fuliginflipflops.bsky.social
Liz Lemon saying “What a struggle to be born into the new world, huh?” and Jack Donaghy replying “Lemon, it's the time of monsters.”
September 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
@xkcd.com Shouldn't they be falling through the asteroid after that?
September 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
Well, that's amazing.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+.
Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
arstechnica.com
September 4, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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jackinpogform.bsky.social
"Mr Coyote sues Acme for so-called 'dangerous products' and the moralists laugh, they want him to win. But what if he then sues you? Because you *might* be dangerous? Or an orphanage because there *may* be dangerous orphans? Now I don't think that's funny I think thats bloody terrifying."
A rare photo of Jordan Peterson outside of a meat coma. He's getting very animated and verbose about something pointless
September 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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astrokatie.com
‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’
September 3, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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ceej.online
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
September 3, 2026 at 4:50 AM
daedricnonsense.bsky.social
This is not the way I wanted Macon to be the Cherry Blossom Capital of the world.
September 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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peterkwint.bsky.social
Uitstekende uitvoering
September 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Bros.

American Cheese isn't made of plastic. It's typically actual cheese emulsified with sodium citrate, and you know what? Europe started it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process...
Processed cheese - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 31, 2026 at 6:04 PM