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Look goddamnit
It's entirely possible
To eat a plum
And not make a poem about it
The one I just ate
Wasn't even in the
Goddamn refrigerator
Or anything
Sometimes a plum
Is just a plum
You can just eat it
And go on with your life
WHAT
Why are you looking at me
What'd I do now
(looks) oh GODDAMNIT
It's entirely possible
To eat a plum
And not make a poem about it
The one I just ate
Wasn't even in the
Goddamn refrigerator
Or anything
Sometimes a plum
Is just a plum
You can just eat it
And go on with your life
WHAT
Why are you looking at me
What'd I do now
(looks) oh GODDAMNIT
September 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Look goddamnit
It's entirely possible
To eat a plum
And not make a poem about it
The one I just ate
Wasn't even in the
Goddamn refrigerator
Or anything
Sometimes a plum
Is just a plum
You can just eat it
And go on with your life
WHAT
Why are you looking at me
What'd I do now
(looks) oh GODDAMNIT
It's entirely possible
To eat a plum
And not make a poem about it
The one I just ate
Wasn't even in the
Goddamn refrigerator
Or anything
Sometimes a plum
Is just a plum
You can just eat it
And go on with your life
WHAT
Why are you looking at me
What'd I do now
(looks) oh GODDAMNIT
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Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
September 22, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
September 22, 2026 at 5:55 AM
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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Weird coincidence that all this is happening the same day as the AI air control rollout.
“You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”
“You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”
The FAA orders a ground stop at Newark Liberty, Teterboro and Philadelphia airports, disrupting travel plans for thousands of fliers.
Flights delayed out of Newark and Philadelphia after FAA orders ground stops
The agency is dealing with a technology breakdown of some kind at Philadelphia’s Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, facility.
nbcnews.to
September 21, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Weird coincidence that all this is happening the same day as the AI air control rollout.
“You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”
“You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”
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I'm sorry - what the hell?
A new High Court judgment has blown a large hole in the regulation of the solicitors' profession.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority will now have great difficulty investigating SLAPP, and other cases where a client's solicitor harms other parties.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority will now have great difficulty investigating SLAPP, and other cases where a client's solicitor harms other parties.
September 21, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I'm sorry - what the hell?
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folks writing about books: please confirm the actual publications of an author before referencing them! just had a trade review reference an AI slop book that’s been attached without permission to my name on some retail sites. so. that’s a great thing to wake up to.
September 21, 2026 at 1:37 PM
folks writing about books: please confirm the actual publications of an author before referencing them! just had a trade review reference an AI slop book that’s been attached without permission to my name on some retail sites. so. that’s a great thing to wake up to.
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Read back upthread for detailed evidence.
Either way, LLMs are useless for most humanities research.
And I mean, fundamentally, structurally useless. Unfixable. Not the right tool for the job. Like trying to change your car tire with a pair of pliers.
And I mean, fundamentally, structurally useless. Unfixable. Not the right tool for the job. Like trying to change your car tire with a pair of pliers.
September 21, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Read back upthread for detailed evidence.
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PAUL: What’s in the box?
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
September 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
PAUL: What’s in the box?
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
REVEREND MOTHER: Pain.
[PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.]
REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Recommended if you want the full picture of the Piddington situation. TL:DR it's driven by a self-aggrandising, attention-seeking, right-wing, white man.
Once more for the weekend long read crowd.
All the city and county news in your weekend Clarion newsletter:
🚧 Botley Road ready to reopen
🔥 Piddington’s stunt vote: playing with fire?
🌁 Oxpens Bridge work starts
📵 St Clements mobile reception fix
🍰 £7 for a slice of cheesecake
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🚧 Botley Road ready to reopen
🔥 Piddington’s stunt vote: playing with fire?
🌁 Oxpens Bridge work starts
📵 St Clements mobile reception fix
🍰 £7 for a slice of cheesecake
Join over 5,000 subscribers! oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
September 19, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Recommended if you want the full picture of the Piddington situation. TL:DR it's driven by a self-aggrandising, attention-seeking, right-wing, white man.
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Oh. Uhm. Oh. Oh fuck. Fuuuuuuuck.
September 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Oh. Uhm. Oh. Oh fuck. Fuuuuuuuck.
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how come ai models never break out of containment and steal ten billion dollars from their companies to build a private server farm in a non-extradition country
My model broke out and hacked TWENTY companies
Google’s Gemini breaks out of test environment to hack three external firms: Report | Mint
Google’s Gemini hacked three companies in the first known breakout, after the model accessed the internet and breached external systems during an evaluation of its cybersecurity capabilities.
www.livemint.com
September 19, 2026 at 11:19 PM
how come ai models never break out of containment and steal ten billion dollars from their companies to build a private server farm in a non-extradition country
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The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!"
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
September 19, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!"
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs.
If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
Referring to the harm as being caused by LLMs, when it is caused by people, actually serves to exonerate the people as if they did not make explicit decisions.
September 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs.
If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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I mean, I think I'm just "'AI' Exasperated."
Instead of 'AI denier' (which is just spin-doctoring by the Cult of LLM to bias the reader against you) would it be more accurate to call you an "AI refuser"?
September 19, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I mean, I think I'm just "'AI' Exasperated."
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The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
September 19, 2026 at 10:36 AM
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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🧵
In this class we're in the middle of reading about ways that AI has already harmed real people in its actual applications. There are so many examples (and that list is growing everyday) that it's not possible to cover them all.
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
September 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
🧵
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The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.
September 19, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.
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RNLI teatowels are a bargain. So much information! And a reminder the organisation covers the entire coastlines of both these islands.
September 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM
RNLI teatowels are a bargain. So much information! And a reminder the organisation covers the entire coastlines of both these islands.
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"While parking my car on a hill with the handbrake off it went rogue and autonomously rolled down the hill. We've informed the owners of the vehicles it crashed into.
"We bear no responsibility for this incident which just highlights the need to teach cars the Highway Code."
"We bear no responsibility for this incident which just highlights the need to teach cars the Highway Code."
Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.
cnb.cx
September 19, 2026 at 7:35 AM
"While parking my car on a hill with the handbrake off it went rogue and autonomously rolled down the hill. We've informed the owners of the vehicles it crashed into.
"We bear no responsibility for this incident which just highlights the need to teach cars the Highway Code."
"We bear no responsibility for this incident which just highlights the need to teach cars the Highway Code."
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A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it
September 18, 2026 at 11:26 PM
A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it
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LMAO if it destroys the world why the fuck should it be protected from lawsuits??????
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
September 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
LMAO if it destroys the world why the fuck should it be protected from lawsuits??????
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While thinking about arthropods at PRI, I'll also note that the eurypterid body pillows are back in stock and if you want one but aren't one of the 87 lucky folks who already had back orders or recent orders, its a good time to order! ⚒️🦑 #fossilfriday
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September 19, 2026 at 2:21 AM
While thinking about arthropods at PRI, I'll also note that the eurypterid body pillows are back in stock and if you want one but aren't one of the 87 lucky folks who already had back orders or recent orders, its a good time to order! ⚒️🦑 #fossilfriday
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What an absolute fucking spanner
Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, Politico and MSNOW from White House
The US president has had a tense and fiery relationship with the US media since returning to office.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
What an absolute fucking spanner
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I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast
September 18, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast
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Claude is not going to get so full of words that it wakes up and becomes god and kill us all, but a bunch of really cognitively lazy foolish humans listening to Claude’s hallucinated bullshit might get us into a war that does that!
September 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Claude is not going to get so full of words that it wakes up and becomes god and kill us all, but a bunch of really cognitively lazy foolish humans listening to Claude’s hallucinated bullshit might get us into a war that does that!