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I've been the treasurer of a mainline protestant church in the past, and I can assure you we've been champing at the bit to make big IT investments. Blockchain, AI, all of it. We've got so much budget for this stuff.
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 16d
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)

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October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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jeffstormer.gobirds.online
Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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stefanbc.bsky.social
If you’re placing prop bets on South Park you need to have a conservatorship
September 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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kurohime1988.bsky.social
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September 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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acanuck.bsky.social
Text heavy, but if you're a diehard Star Trek fan it's HILARIOUS! I look around for this thing every few years, and keep thinking I should FRAME it 😂

tldr: Aliens don't understand that the movie "Back to the Future" is a comedy because Doc Brown is how ALL Starfleet Engineers behave
Post by prokopetz Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn't just an artifact of the television serial format. Rather, it's because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don't really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they're as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn't actually happen to anyone else; it's literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis. Post by writebastard So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown. Post by prokopetz Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They're just like "yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience". Post by roachpatrol THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE'S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING Post by roachpatrol vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core humans: we're going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast humans: hahaha yeah humans: it did tho vsa: IT EXPLODED humans: it exploded twice as fast Post by froborr I love this. Especially because of how well it plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much better against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with military tactics is nigh-impossible, but beating them with wacky superscience shenanigans works as long as they're unique wacky superscience shenanigans. Post by megabeeprime Yeah, I love this. Post by underscorex Reminds me of the thing I wrote a while back about Humans in high fantasy realms - they're basically Team Fuck It Hold My Beer I Got This. Impulsive, passionate to a fault, the social structures they build to try and regulate this hotheadedness ironically creates even greater levels of sheer bull-headedness. Even their "cooler" heads take action in months or weeks. All their great heroes of the past were impossibly rash by galactic standards. Humans Just Go With It, which is their great flaw but also their greatest strength. Post by roachpatrol klingons: okay we don't get it vulcan science academy: get what klingons: you vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you're also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way klingons: why do you let them run your federation vulcan science academy: look vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores they don't do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they're offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby sun into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn't want to waste a trip. vulcan science academy: they did that last week. we have the write-… Post by dragon-in-a-fez you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 almost never broke down. minor malfunctions that irritated O'Brien to hell and back, sure, but almost none of the truly weird shit that befell Voyager and all the starships Enterprise. what was the weirdest malfunction DS9 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Bashir, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buffer into the station's core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bit like swapping your computer's hard drive out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard and mouse. Post by dragon-in-a-fez you know what, I'm not done with this post. let's talk about the Pegasus. the USS Fucking Pegasus, testbed for the first Starfleet cloaking device. here we have a handful of humans working in secret to develop a cloaking device in violation of a treaty with the Romulans. they're playing catchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century, and what do they do? do they decide to duplicate a Romulan cloaking device precisely, just see if they can match what other species have? nope. they decide, hey, while we're at it, while we're building our very first one of these things, just to find out if this is possible, let's see if we can make this thing phase us out of normal space so we can fly through planets while we're invisible. "but why" said the one Vulcan in the room. "because that would fucking rule" said the humans, high-fiving each other and slamming cans of 24th-century Red Bull. there must be like twenty different counselling groups for non-human engineering students at Starfleet Academy, and every week in every single one of them someone walks in and starts up with a story like "our assignment was to repair a phaser emitter and my one human classmate built a chronometric- flux toaster that toasts bre…
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Perhaps this is obvious but perhaps not: both my research work and my public-facing writing would be impossible without the astounding resources of university libraries.

My household also makes ample use of our local public library.

Libraries are amazing.
dlgenealogist.bsky.social David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · Dec 21
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
August 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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opalescentopal.bsky.social
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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ubermenchies.bsky.social
Another in the same vein:
Dale Partridge 0 @dalepartridge • 5h Prediction: If they ever remake The Sandlot, there will be a girl on the team, she will play the hero figure, and she will hit the home run to win the game. | ♱ Vicar of Christ ♱ Fire-Breathin... • 4h Not only that, but all the guys will be total losers and she will have to single handily win the game for them all. | Ben K. @bkabak Unclear if you're accidentally or ironically describing the plot of Bad News Bears, a movie that's nearly 50 years old. 3:24 PM • 6/27/23
July 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
This is funny and the whole mascot reenactment thing isn’t even as good as the guy after holding the sign that says, “this *IS* my wife”
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · Jul 19
The Phillies did the kiss cam thing to Coldplay
July 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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ironwhale.bsky.social
Toxic Masculinity is OUT!
Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!

- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes
The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’
July 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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militantnerd.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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trickweekes.bsky.social
I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.
June 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”
June 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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vanvidum.bsky.social
The less you know about homeopathy, the more powerful your knowledge becomes.
June 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
cmanteuf.bsky.social
www.professoraxelrod.com/p/the-tech-j... Cleanest explanation yet for how the Trump tax cuts in 2017 buried a landmine in software development starting in 2023, a cynical budget gimmick which has gutted American software development.
The Tech Job Meltdown
Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.
www.professoraxelrod.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
The real threat of AI to education isn’t just that students cheat but instead that students never learn anything because they no longer have to think critically or understand topics to graduate with good grades.

The intellectual regression we’ve seen in modern life will only accelerate.
The Myth of Automated Learning
AI's real threat to education.
www.newcartographies.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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caliredandgreen.bsky.social
A woman (labeled “Russia”) claims to have never done anything wrong ever, in her life, and a man (here labeled “John Mearsheimer”) replies that he knows, and he loves her. (From the show “Parks and Recreation”)
May 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM