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My 14yo tells me kids who use ChatGPT are referred to as "third-party thinkers"
January 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
My 14yo tells me kids who use ChatGPT are referred to as "third-party thinkers"
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APP NOTIFICATION: MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
APP NOTIFICATION: MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
EMAIL: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
TEXT: CHECK APP FOR MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR CHILD
MESSAGE REGARDING MY CHILD: Remember the winter concert is tomorrow!
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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Might as well be an alien to me
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Might as well be an alien to me
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Humans are pattern-finding machines & some patterns call to us more
This neat paper finds that, across 27 cultures, we tend to name the same patterns of stars, mostly because our perceptual systems are drawn to similar paterns (e.g. Pleiades, Orion, Dipper)
link: charleskemp.com/papers/kemph...
This neat paper finds that, across 27 cultures, we tend to name the same patterns of stars, mostly because our perceptual systems are drawn to similar paterns (e.g. Pleiades, Orion, Dipper)
link: charleskemp.com/papers/kemph...
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Humans are pattern-finding machines & some patterns call to us more
This neat paper finds that, across 27 cultures, we tend to name the same patterns of stars, mostly because our perceptual systems are drawn to similar paterns (e.g. Pleiades, Orion, Dipper)
link: charleskemp.com/papers/kemph...
This neat paper finds that, across 27 cultures, we tend to name the same patterns of stars, mostly because our perceptual systems are drawn to similar paterns (e.g. Pleiades, Orion, Dipper)
link: charleskemp.com/papers/kemph...
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I learned today that our sun is a third generation star, having been formed from the remnants of at least two previous stars.
In other words, it’s a grandsun.
In other words, it’s a grandsun.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I learned today that our sun is a third generation star, having been formed from the remnants of at least two previous stars.
In other words, it’s a grandsun.
In other words, it’s a grandsun.
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
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Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
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I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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"Only you can post about a turtle you saw" feels quite profound to me. Bookmarking that thought.
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
June 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"Only you can post about a turtle you saw" feels quite profound to me. Bookmarking that thought.
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“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.
June 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.
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best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want
May 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want
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dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
May 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
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Me, after explaining the $5 coffee a lawyer I’ve known for years and went to law school got me was a gift from someone I had a pre-existing non-business relationship with and not a conflict of interest to the government’s auditors:
“THE PRESIDENT WAS GIVEN A WHAT?”
“THE PRESIDENT WAS GIVEN A WHAT?”
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Me, after explaining the $5 coffee a lawyer I’ve known for years and went to law school got me was a gift from someone I had a pre-existing non-business relationship with and not a conflict of interest to the government’s auditors:
“THE PRESIDENT WAS GIVEN A WHAT?”
“THE PRESIDENT WAS GIVEN A WHAT?”
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Nobody warns you, but raising children is terrible for your health. I had nearly 20 years of booze, drugs and partying under my belt when my son was born, but physically and mentally I was still in pretty good shape. But after 5 years of clean & sober parenting? I'm a WRECK.
May 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Nobody warns you, but raising children is terrible for your health. I had nearly 20 years of booze, drugs and partying under my belt when my son was born, but physically and mentally I was still in pretty good shape. But after 5 years of clean & sober parenting? I'm a WRECK.
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There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).
May 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).