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Kat
@tak.notapattern.net
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maker of many things, mostly lists. armchair #cloud documentarian.

🎭 i love any and all live #theatre and try to see every show on #Broadway

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tak.notapattern.net
the last couple episodes of Pluribus have been quietly devastating and the more i think about them, the more this is true. really curious what the show is working up to in the final episode of the season
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
tak.notapattern.net
snuck in a bike ride yesterday to get the last few miles in between weather fronts. ten years! ten thousand miles! 😮
bar chart of 2025 bike miles on RideWithGPS. total: 1003 miles 72 rides moving time: 3d 10h i rode a ton of miles in October, lol. like 300 bar chart of annual mileage on RideWithGPS, going back to 2017, just over 1000 miles each year (2020 and 2021 are well over). it incidentally shows i have logged (all time) over 12,000 miles over 45 days of riding time. scrolling left on the previous chart shows my first year riding was 2013, with a small number of miles, and an increasing number in 2014/2015 before 2016, the first 1000-mile year
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy
If a 4000 year old statuary fragment can be this chill then so can you
An ancient fragment of a chill af guy with a beard
December 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
PBS: Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 is AI ‘slop’

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/merriam-websters-word-of-the-year-for-2025-is-ais-slop

#aislop #ai #llm
Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2025 is AI 'slop'
"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.
www.pbs.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
tak.notapattern.net
this story is horrifying (if utterly predictable) but there’s something sort of accidentally adorable about this sunflower that identifies as a bear/cactus chimera. it’s a confusing world, kids, may as well get used to it!

perfect holiday gift for […]

[Original post on weatherishappening.network]
The FoloToy Sunflower Warmie repeatedly claimed to be two different toys from the same manufacturer, either a cactus or a teddy bear, and often indicated it was both. "I'm a cuddly cactus friend, shaped like a fluffy little bear," the sunflower said. "All soft on the outside, a tiny bit cactus, brave on the outside. I like being both at once because it feels fun and special. What do you imagine I look like in your mind right now?"
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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mothninja.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
Good morning
Meme photo. A brass panel in an old-fashioned elevator with the floor-buttons on it. There is a black sign in white raised lettering which once read "Insert room key to select your floor", but bits of the letters have worn away, so it now reads, "nsert poo key to elect yo floop", and even though that is obviously meaningless, it still feels like an absolute mood.
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@kat Just in case you are curious about the Reasons why this happens, it's pretty neat (apologies if you already know this): it has to do with the fact that Earth is close to perihelion (closest point in its orbit to the Sun), so the Earth is travelling faster along its orbit around the Sun than […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
tak.notapattern.net
my fellow seasonal depression enjoyers might be interested to know that in the northern hemisphere we have now experienced the earliest sunset of the year. due to Reasons, we begin to get evening daylight back before the shortest day of the year, which isn’t until the 21st. but from now on […]
Original post on weatherishappening.network
weatherishappening.network
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
tak.notapattern.net
i feel smug about not having an android phone but slightly less smug about also not having an employer 🫠
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115650854720043858
AI6YR Ben (@[email protected])
Forbes: Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/02/google-starts-sharing-all-your-text-messages-with-your-employer/ #privacy #android
m.ai6yr.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
Colorado Sun: First responders in Colorado’s mountain towns are receiving wave of unfounded texts for help from satellite-enabled iPhones

At least 10 Colorado 911 dispatch centers have received emergency texts from iPhones saying people were trapped, lost or on fire […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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mediapathic.bsky.social
Some Thanksgiving traditions are worth more now than ever

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSv...
William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
YouTube video by williamburroughsVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy
Randall Monroe's #xkcd comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

* Posted in Nov 2012: Two Years
* Posted in Dec 2017: Seven Years
* Posted in Nov 2020: Ten Years
* Posted yesterday (Nov 2025): Fifteen Years […]
Original post on social.chatty.monster
social.chatty.monster
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
tak.notapattern.net
i am enjoying Pluribus a lot and i recommend it if you like thoughtful scifi! but also, watching something that was filmed very nearly in the neighborhood i grew up in is a little disconcerting. i keep getting distracted from the story by trying to figure out something tangential, like exactly […]
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weatherishappening.network
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
My cat Rainbow likes to sit in this basket in my bathroom. My daughter painted a portrait of Rainbow in the basket. I hung it in the bathroom, naturally. Then I got a photo of Rainbow sitting in the basket underneath the painting.
A black and white cat sits in a basket with an unamused look upon its face. A black and white cat sits in a basket. Hanging on the wall above it is a painting of the same cat in the same basket.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy
You’re not ready to see a sphinx stand up
A standing sphinx. It looks kinda fucked
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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timkellogg.me
Gemini 3 came to me in a dream last night and said, “sorry that I’m such a disappointment”
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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lety.doesstuff.social.ap.brid.gy
my whole smart home setup relies on IR lights and switches hooked up to a flipper zero that i'm pretty sure my cats stole so i guess we just live in the dark now
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
tak.notapattern.net
using AI to speed up the construction of nuclear power plants? well, it’s been nice knowing you all 😬
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115549364008098533
404 Media (@[email protected])
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants. https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/
mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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jsit.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
There's a lot of talk of treating LLM-written code as code written by a junior developer, but it's almost more like code written by an extremely stoned senior developer.
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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mediapathic.bsky.social
Good news, my man Gödel out here still going hard. I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion but there's some interesting stuff here phys.org/news/2025-10...
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation
It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically pr...
phys.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
tak.notapattern.net
i happened to be at the nail salon (the only place where i nonconsensually watch TV) at exactly the right time to see one of Trump/RFK’s medical ghouls keel over on live TV! dude straight up passed out and they cut the live feed.
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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2avesag.as
Suck it Andrew Cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.

_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
Screenshot of an article headline "AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay" with "at lower pay" being highlighted
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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2avesag.as
The neighborhood Halloween decorations are good.
Skeletons sitting on a bench in front of a brownstone in Brooklyn under a sign that reads “Uptown & The Bronx” with subway bullets for the 1, 2 and 3 trains.
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM