Chris Ervin
@cpervin.bsky.social
Fan of the SNL sketch "tales of fraud and malfeasance in railroad hiring practices"
This has worked on me. I must have this ham
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This has worked on me. I must have this ham
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"One present on Christmas eve" has turned into mayhem. My children are pelting me with candy canes and shouting "Excess is praxis!" They are quoting Georges Bataille. Please help me
December 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"One present on Christmas eve" has turned into mayhem. My children are pelting me with candy canes and shouting "Excess is praxis!" They are quoting Georges Bataille. Please help me
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Anyway as the year draws to a close, a reminder that in 2023 Microsoft AI's CEO said that "LLM hallucinations will be largely eliminated by 2025".
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Anyway as the year draws to a close, a reminder that in 2023 Microsoft AI's CEO said that "LLM hallucinations will be largely eliminated by 2025".
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December 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
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oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
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I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
This wouldn't even fly on CSPAN Booknotes, and Brian Lamb would interview just about anyone who wrote a book back then. No matter how insane your moustache or wed to the gold standard you were, you could get an hour on basic cable so long as you wrote a book
December 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This wouldn't even fly on CSPAN Booknotes, and Brian Lamb would interview just about anyone who wrote a book back then. No matter how insane your moustache or wed to the gold standard you were, you could get an hour on basic cable so long as you wrote a book
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hey man you don't need to talk about my business this doesn't need to go in the paper
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
hey man you don't need to talk about my business this doesn't need to go in the paper
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I don’t think we as a society have thanked @papapishu.bsky.social for obtaining, ripping, and uploading a master copy of the essential Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Jay’s 1997 HBO special and the best distillation of his one of a kind talent archive.org/details/rick...
Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants [1996] - RF Rip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE COMPRESSED MP4 THAT ARCHIVE.ORG AUTO-GENERATES. This is an RF rip of Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, to date the greatest card...
archive.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I don’t think we as a society have thanked @papapishu.bsky.social for obtaining, ripping, and uploading a master copy of the essential Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Jay’s 1997 HBO special and the best distillation of his one of a kind talent archive.org/details/rick...
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For a while, the first couple of seconds of Abel Ferrara’s FEAR CITY on Tubi was of the movie’s DVD menu and the “play” button changing colour. The greatest streaming service!
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
For a while, the first couple of seconds of Abel Ferrara’s FEAR CITY on Tubi was of the movie’s DVD menu and the “play” button changing colour. The greatest streaming service!
This does not seem sustainable or good
Samsung is one of those big three memory companies. To put it in perspective: Samsung earned nearly twice as much from memory last quarter as from *its entire TV and appliance business*.
Samsung memory is nearly as big as Samsung Galaxy.
Samsung memory is nearly as big as Samsung Galaxy.
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This does not seem sustainable or good
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I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.
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i'd wager everyone regardless of age yearns for an era of tech that doesn't fucking suck egregious amounts of ass
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
i'd wager everyone regardless of age yearns for an era of tech that doesn't fucking suck egregious amounts of ass
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if you were playing console games in the late 90s, it was just inevitable that you’d wind up playing Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes for some reason
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
if you were playing console games in the late 90s, it was just inevitable that you’d wind up playing Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes for some reason
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ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
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If I were a McLaren driver I would simply have won the championship 4 races ago
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If I were a McLaren driver I would simply have won the championship 4 races ago
If you are responsible for… if you minister… a cat with long hair, sometimes you gotta clean their hairy butt. They don’t like it, you don’t like it, but it has to happen.
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
If you are responsible for… if you minister… a cat with long hair, sometimes you gotta clean their hairy butt. They don’t like it, you don’t like it, but it has to happen.
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
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a company that makes up 26% of the consumer marketshare for RAM just dropped out of the consumer market to sell exclusively to AI datacentres
we are so fucked
we are so fucked
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news-release...
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
a company that makes up 26% of the consumer marketshare for RAM just dropped out of the consumer market to sell exclusively to AI datacentres
we are so fucked
we are so fucked
hell yeah
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
hell yeah