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eli
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a hairless cat wearing commercially available clothes

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWvDpnCcem1P6i8pZm2x7KHp5iaxwrK_P
there's nothing like a good machine to get the imagination going
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
imagining my cat in a lucy-and-ethel-at-the-chocolate-factory situation but it's here
Fish sorting line.
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
imagine pitching this machine. people would think you're out of your mind and they'd be right
Weremczuk Agromachines Felix/Z apple harvester.
December 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.
December 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
i am always surprised to discover that jackie chan is still alive
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
man these are all really good
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
shopping for your parents feels so funny. you're just picking out enrichment activities to add to their enclosure
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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llm-brain-rot.github.io

This rules. Feed social media engagement garbage in and LLMs perform worse on benchmarks.
LLMs Can Get Brain Rot
New finding: LLMs Can Get Brain Rot if being fed trivial, engaging Twitter/X content.
llm-brain-rot.github.io
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
remember when social media was kinda good?
December 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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imagine if they find luigi not guilty and he goes out and immediately kirks another one
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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yes, tell your friends you love them. more importantly, tell pictures of animals you see online you love them
December 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.

The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
in an essay you lay out your premises and then you connect them to build up to a conclusion. in a video essay you lay out your "premises", perform superficial reactions to them as you mention them, act like you're building up to a conclusion, then cut the video off right as it's about to get good
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
i feel very lucky to live in the same era as some of the greatest distractions ever invented
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
as a kid i used to think that a phd meant you're smart but it turns out that's only true like 20% of the time
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
good read imo. of course the main points have been well established for some time but this piece is humanizing in a way that academic papers on bias really aren't
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
people can hate on em dashes and semicolons and rule-of-threes all they want. they're wrong though. the only real bad one is overusing ellipses. it's just... tedious
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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bluesky needs a captcha where you pick five actual riffs out of a grid of nine replies before you can interact with others
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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three wise men... don't see much of that nowadays
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
you nauseate me, mister grink
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
shit's crazy out there. it's mostly normal in here though.
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I like games that give you tough choices
December 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The people whose political compasses largely revolve around trying to kick people out of places are getting lonely?
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM