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the alien name for Earth translates as the labyrinth of swine

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · Feb 3

“Well Harry,” said Hagrid, “a translation is a lot like a plane crash. The smartest people in the world can recover 100% of the pieces and tell you exactly what happened, but that bitch ain't flyin.”

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 2d

"cheeseburgers cause heart attacks" is true. but the statement omits the several thousand steps you'd need to understand in order to address the problem in a person who won't stop ordering five guys.

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of people who are not scientists love to break out the word “polycrisis” but global warming is one of the most monocausal crisis ever: the vibrational modes of CO2 have an absorption peak around the same wavenumber the earth’s surface has a reflection peak at. We’ve known this for centuries!

Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 2d

name @lazenby.bsky.social · 5d

Cure

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 5d

terrifying slop was appearing on yt ten days before he died www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5J...

Dodging the Draft at Harvard

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 5d

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 5d

it looks like Henn's stunt double, Louise Head turning 11(?)

name @lazenby.bsky.social · 8d

bsky.app/profile/weed...

Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 13d

So a thing quietly happening in the background for awhile now is rich parents dosing their kids with growth hormone.

I think it's hilarious we're gonna have a generation of seven foot three ogres who claim a working class background and get mad when you ask how they paid for that trip to Europe.

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 12d

the world's secretest picnic boy

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 13d

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 13d

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 14d

With Ai the fascist unreality state can hallucinate false evidence of a crime you never committed.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 18d

for what it's worth, someone yelled at the BFI about this and they responded that "it was supplied by the licensor/owner of the film". AI still seems like a great bet, especially if the licensor couldn't come to an arrangement with palladini's estate. that wolf is so dumb tho...

name @lazenby.bsky.social · 18d

I don't get why they'd even try to improve the poster. the palladini is such a gem

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 18d

Here's a post I've wanted to write up for awhile, tracing the history of the idea of a "Doomsday Machine," from fact to fiction (or maybe it was always, to some degree, fiction): doomsdaymachines.net/p/inventing-...

Inventing the Doomsday Machine

Tracing the idea of a weapon to automatically destroy the world

doomsdaymachines.net

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 18d

no way I'm getting a word in edgewise or finishing a single cigarette before he does

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 18d

bulgakov, buster keaton, eileen may, john cazale, mirko basaldella, josé orozco and, who am I kidding, gabo

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 21d

This is what I do when I think about the Confederacy's humiliation

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 21d

Des Moines has you all beat

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · 22d

is it on a lanyard yet?

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 29d

why so looking back?

we're in our heads about the past — wondering about whizzing back into the kingdom of regrets, shattering the laws of thermodynamics in the process.

oh and — the thing that happened that you totally forgot about? don't worry about it. if it were important, you'd remember it.

The Inevitable Curse of Regret | Stanley Picnic

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · Sep 15

right, but how big is that mountain? or the boulders in the foreground? is it 16km to the cliff face?

name @lazenby.bsky.social · Sep 15

what's the scale of the foreground and background? intuition doesn't feel very helpful in this landscape

name @lazenby.bsky.social · Sep 13

I think that's right. It would explain why the term "thunderbolt," meaning the electrical arc, has the sound at the front and identifies the arrow ("bolt") as belonging to the thunder. The term preserves the backwards causality of older times.

name @lazenby.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Lightning" is a contraction of "the lightening". We are biased by understanding and see the detonation caused by the electrical arc as the primary phenomenon. In earlier times the sound was the primary phenomenon. Thunder lasts much longer and is far, far more audible than the arc is ever visible.

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · Sep 11

pressing boiling hot phone screen to my cheek: listen pig there is a word for novelists who dare to write with lower ratios of summary to scene than i, claudius or master and margarita and that word is lazy
hostage negotiator, covering mic: he's right...... fuckkkkk

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · Sep 9

coming around to this interpretation... this one looks quite red, but the website is totally broken. www.dhgate.com/product/wome...

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