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Rich Burroughs
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ADHD, tech, Arsenal, lots of bitching about AI.

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This seems very bad.
In fact, when prompted strategically by researchers, Claude delivered the near-complete text of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Great Gatsby, 1984, and Frankenstein, in addition to thousands of words from books including The Hunger Games and The Catcher in the Rye. Varying amounts of these books were also reproduced by the other three models. Thirteen books were tested.
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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It’s Friday and Bert is pumped
A fluffy Chow Chow dog lays his head on the floor, looking tired.
January 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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President Trump! I have an unscratched $200,000.00 Golden Payout ticket from Rhode Island Lottery that I will share with you or even give to you if you put María Corina Machado in charge of Venezuela (reporting to Stephen Miller, of course).
The scratch-off lottery ticket
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Stop. Cookie time.
Two Chow Chow dogs stand in the snow, waiting for a treat. They look excited.
January 2, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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There’s only one man to call.
Kurt Russell in the movie Escape from New York. He wears an eyepatch is pointing a gun at someone off camera.
January 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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“Sir, can you spare a cookie for two starving Chow Chows?”
Bert and Ernie, two fluffy Chow Chow dogs, stand in the yard. They look up, anticipating a snack.
December 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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It me
A bald guy with a long beard that’s a mix of red and gray hairs. He wears black glasses.
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Oh shit, I just realized that I forgot to post the Christmas pictures of the dogs on Christmas. Holy shit I suck, but they are cute.
Bert the Chow Chow smiling and wearing a green bandanna. He stands in front of a Christmas tree. Ernie, the other Chow Chow, wearing a red bandanna. He looks less happy about being there.
December 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Julian Lane, a fighter from the reality TV show The Ultimate Fighter. He famously got very drunk after losing a fight in the competition and yelled “Let me bang bro” over and over.
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Exact twin
Tim Robinson from a sketch in his TV show called I Think You Should Leave. He has his hands on his sides and his face is scrunched up in a frustrated kind of expression.
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Orwell, 1984
In a way, the worldview of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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alexis simpson: this time theyre going to invent a technology with NO unforseen consequences, i just know it Rich Burroughs: It is called the MegaGun alexis simpson: it's going to save humanity Rich Burroughs: Or kill it. But probably save. That's what my gut is saying.
December 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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If you see this, post your woso fave:
Arsenal women’s striker Alessia Russo, celebrating a goal
December 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I took some glamour shots of the Chow Chows this morning.
Ernie, a fluffy Chow Chow dog. He stands in a hallway with a smile on his face, looking very cute. Bert, the other fluffy Chow Chow. He lays on a dog bed looking more serious, wearing a green bandana.
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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My sister took this picture of Ernie looking all cute to try to score some ham.
A very cute looking Chow Chow dog stands in a kitchen, where there is a sliced up ham sitting on a counter.
December 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Good morning from Bert and Ernie
Bert, a fluffy Chow Chow dog, lays on the floor, smiling. His ears are perked up. Ernie, the other Chow Chow, lays on the floor, too.
December 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Would you give these Chow Chows a cookie? (Y/N)
Bert and Ernie, two fluffy Chow Chow dogs. They stand in a yard looking up expectantly, waiting for a treat.
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Me running CBS News
A man saying “I didn’t do fucking shit. I didn’t rig shit.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
A parody of a world war 2 propaganda poster. It shows a guy on a laptop typing and Hitler’s ghost has his arm around the guy. It says “Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler. GenAI is a fascist project. Try using your brain instead.”
December 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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A picture of Tim Robinson from his sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave. His mouth is open and the caption reads “I didn’t do fucking shit. I didn’t rig shit!”
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A fae book cover with a picture of a man staring at his reflection in a mirror. The book is titled “Did I just argue with a Joke?” and on the cover it also says “Part of a Bluesky Educational Series.”
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Meanwhile things are going great in the Snyderverse.
A post on Reddit titled “A clear contrast between Snyder’s and Gunn’s views and how they reflect their works.” On the left there are two pictures of Superman, one in a church and one with an American flag. On the right are two pictures, one of Peacemaker being kissed by two women and one of a Nazi flag. The text at the bottom says “This is what we mean when we say DC is on a war for it's soul. Gunn is a far-left moron who works with important symbols for American Culture...while he simultaneously despises everything America stands for.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Wild dogs fighting to the death
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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This fucking sucks. Wired does so much great work and then they put out bullshit like this. LLMs do not think. We know this. People selling LLMs would love us to believe they think, because that would make them much more useful than they actually are.
Beguš, among others, didn't anticipate that this study would come across an AI model with a higher-level "metalinguistic" capacity-"the ability not just to use a language but to think about language," as he put it. That is one of the "attention-getting" aspects of their paper, said David Mortensen, a computational linguist at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved with the work. There has been debate about whether language models are just predicting the next word (or linguistic token) in a sentence, which is qualitatively different from the deep understanding of language that humans have. "Some people in linguistics have said that LLMs are not really doing language," he said. "This looks like an invalidation of those claims."
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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It snooooooowed
Picture of some trees and the ground all covered with snow.
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM