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"copyright infringement"
Top 10 Most Infringed Disney Franchises 1) Star Wars 78% 2. Mickey & Friends [image of buzz lightyear] 65% 3. Mickey & Friends 40% 4. MARVEL Cincmetic [sic] Universe [image of Elsa from frozen] 35% 5. Froz [sic] King [image of if Ariel and Grown-Up Simba had a human daughter] 28% 7. [sic; 6 is missing] The Little Merrraid [image of kid Simba that kinda looks like scar] 22% 9. [sic; 8 is missing] Crispres [sic] of Caribbean [image of Lightning McQueen but with headight eyes instead of front glass eyes] 19% 10. Lilo & Sitch[sic[ 12%
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I know there's a lot wrong in the world, but can we stop making fucking images function as links without actually linking them?
screenshot of the Craft sportswear page showing the right-click menu of an image tile on a product listing page. The optons are "Open Image in new Tab" "Save image as…" etc because the HTML element is an <img> that hasn't been wrapped in an <a>
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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😑🙃
Screen shot of Google Gemini. I have uploaded a gif of (MC) Hammer dancing with outstanding style and skill in the U Can’t Touch This video. Gemini has identified the image as “the Carlton Banks dance”
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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On Sept 9, this 2808 sq ft home listed at $895k despite a $1.1MM Zestimate at that time

It sold on Halloween for $865k

individual houses are notoriously unreliable data points, but starting to feel like maybe line goes down
line graph showing a stair-step Zestimate increase from $700k in 2020 to $1.1MM in 2025 before a sudden drop when listed at $895k two months ago and sold for $865k last month
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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That’s not how this works. That’s not how *ANY* of this works.
Google search result for “next 6pm sunset”. Al Overview +3 The next time the sun will set at 6 PM in Carlisle, MA, will be in late December, around December 27th. As of the current date in early November, the sunset time is earlier than 6 PM, and will not reach 6 PM again until after the winter solstice. • Current Sunset: The sun sets earlier than 6 PM in November. For example, in Boston (which is near Carlisle), sunset is at 4:29 PM. • Winter Solstice: The latest sunset of the year in the Northern Hemisphere occurs after the winter solstice, which is around December 21st. • Future Sunset: It takes until approximately December 27th for the sunset time in Carlisle to reach 6 PM again.
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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not sure I want these guys doing my surveying work tbqh
screenshot of a Engineering Firm's website at a ~1024px resolution, showing test and titles overlapping the borders of their own and neighboring bounding boxes because the website was poorly coded
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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bro was in the bathroom for a while. Harlem Shake didn't come out until 2012 and the meme didn't materialize until 2013.
threads post from jeffreycardello One of my best career decisions was hiding in the bathroom when everyone got together to film a Harlem Shake video at a startup I worked for in the mid-2000s.
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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I know there’s a lot of bad stuff going on right now, but why is the iOS weather app still a slab of flaming shit?
Weather app showing what would seem to be two days of chilly rain in the week view The day view of the first day showing overcast conditions with no rain until 6pm, when it will be dark The day view of the second day showing rain exclusively in the early am, clearing with sun.
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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27 homes since 2020, accelerated quite a bit this year and will continue to do so.

All of this a known outcome since at least 2014: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
excerpt from linked article “Under the combined effects of storms, development, and sea-level rise, portions of this narrow, 200-mile island chain are collapsing, says Stanley Riggs, a coastal geologist at East Carolina University in Greenville. "We're losing them right now," he says. "In the next ten years, it's going to be awful." In an area of Hatteras Island between Avon and Buxton, the beach has receded about 2,500 feet in the past 150 years. That portion of the island has narrowed to just 25 percent of its original width, according to Riggs. In Buxton and Rodanthe, and farther north in Nags Head, houses and hotels once solidly on land stand on spindly stilts in the surf.”
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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and I mean, whatever—people spend money on things I consider bad investments every day.

but the part I struggle to get my head around is that that 2024 purchase was MORTGAGED and INSURED.
(screenshot of a mortgage agreement) TRANSFER OF RIGHTS IN THE PROPERTY The beneficiary of this Security Instrument MERS (solely as nominee for Lender and Lender's successors and assigns) and the successors and assigns of MERS. This S@rity Instrument secures to Lender (i) the repayment of the Loan, and all renewals, extensions, and modifications of the Note, and (ii) the performance of Borrower's covenants and agreements under this Security Instrument and the Note. For this purpose, Borrower irrevocably grants and conveys to Trustee, in trust, with power of sale, the following described property locat the COUNTY of Dare: See Exhibit "A"- Legal Deseripeiogy Hereto and Made a Part Hereof. Subject to Covenants of Record. which currently has the address of 46002 Ocean Dr, bon, North Carolina 27920 ("Property Address");
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I've attached a photo of what it looked like in 2011 (at right)

here's an instagram reel of it floundering in the waves earlier today:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQW2WQZADzI/
a robin's egg blue home apparently safely perched, without stilts, on a tall sand dune well above the ocean, viewed from the beach. There are no waves in sight, but wet sand is visible in the extreme foreground. A section of snow fencing stretches down onto the beach in front of the house.
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Mermaid's Rest, at 46002 Ocean Dr in Buxton NC, sold for $580,000 last September.

Today it fell into the ocean.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/46002-Ocean-Dr-39-Buxton-NC-27920/348506545_zpid/
A teal, three-story house on the beach, lifted ~10ft off the sand on stilts, with well-constructed wooden stairs and porches, and a wood retaining wall along side it.
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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how utterly disconnected from the work of your employees do you have to be to think this technology is a viable replacement?
screenshot of a Google Gemini context blurb: ‘Behind the music: ‘"Drug Ballad" delves into Eminem's struggles with drug use and addiction, with lyrics like "j was high when I wrote this, so suck my dick" [an actual Eminem lyric not in Drug Ballad] and "And if I could rewind, I swear l'd probably do it all again" [not an Eminem lyric; maybe a fusion of Arose and Drug Ballad(?)] hinting at personal experiences.” (Generative Al is experimental. Learn more)
October 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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massachusetts, united states
screenshot of LinkedIn InMail: 'My consulting group helps companies increase productivity and retention through "High Performing Teams" training from Carlisle, Massachusetts, United States. Rather than send you a standard pitch…'
September 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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tired: wash trading NFTs

wired: wash trading GPUs

https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-openai-100-billion-deal-data-centers-d2f85cae
OpenAI will use the cash from Nvidia's investments to help pay for new chips produced by Nvidia, a circular arrangement that allows the chip company to turn its balance sheet cash into new revenue. Such circular arrangements are common in the AI world and have raised questions about the extent to which new sales reflect genuine market demand versus capital recycled within the industry.
September 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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moats
May 4, 2024 'Google: "We Have No Moat And Neither Does OpenAI" // Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI September 14, 2025: "We already have plenty of indication that there is not much of a first-mover advantage. As venture capitalist Martin Casado of al6z pointed out on a recent podcast, OpenAl was the first lab to put out a coding model, as well as generative models for image and video — only to lose all three categories to competitors. “As far as we can tell, there is no inherent moat in the technology stack for Al,” Casado concluded.
September 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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business insider
screenshot of businessinsider.com most popular stories Number 1: We left California, moved to Tennessee to save money; not worth it 4 MIN READ Number 2: We bought a tiny home in a small town 5 years ago; it was a bad idea! 4 MIN READ Number 3: Moved to Portugal and didn't love it;
September 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Downtown Concord MA is a meta-capitalist hellscape. Everything is expensive, and yet also terrible. Cell service is a mess, but nowhere has good wifi. Many of the historic buildings/storefronts serve no discernible purpose justifying a physical presence.
A sign for ROI Advisors in Concord MA’s historic downtown. The logo is literally a line going up.
August 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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fucking a11y, how does it work
screenshot of an email from Coconrd Rec showing fall registration dates flattened into a lossy, low-res JPG, in a challenging-to-read-script font source code for the emailed image in the previous post, showing an alt attribute of "Fall_2025_Session_Registration.jpg''
August 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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you, an AI hypelord: Llama 4 is *so* disappointing

me, a shitposter: Llama 4 fucking rules
me asking meta ai to make something woke, meta ai generating a sleeping person, me asking to make it more work, meta ai making trivial changes, me asking for way more work, meta ai generating a group of people with various diverse traits in pastel colors with the mutli-color title "something way more woke"
August 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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"Hi we updated our privacy policy and the we we decided to tell you about it is by not saving the data that we made every effort to look like we were saving!"

piss-poor work from ‪@concept2.bsky.social‬ whose service is (of course) the only option to get data out the erg.
concept 2 You recently uploaded a workout to the Concept2 Online Logbook that included data from a connected heart rate monitor. Unfortunately, as you haven't given Concept2 permission to store health-related data, we can't save your heart rate data to provide you with any heart rate analysis. If you wish to see such analysis in the future, please grant access to the Logbook to store your health-related data. We only use data from devices that you connect to Concept2 equipment and we will never share this information without your consent. Learn more about our privacy policies. The Concept2 Crew
July 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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chaser
Google search for the direct quote "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." It begins "The claim that political satire became obsolete after Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize is a subjective and controversial one, not a widely accepted fact" and makes no mention of Tom Leher.
July 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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RIP to a real one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html
On another occasion he famously offered another explanation: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
July 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114892061524344398
GIF of Bart Simpson eating on the phone. The caption reads: You have selected “regicide” if you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, press 1 now
July 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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#selfie
a photo looking back at me from the front of my mountain bike as a ride through a tunnel, distorted through lens of a 360-degree camera. The opening behind me is roughly square, as is the exit in the distance. A seam in the concrete wall appears almost circular behind my head. I am backlit by the opening behind me. To the left of the photo (my right), graffiti reads "I taught your mom how to Douggie"
July 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM