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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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We have a big @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social episode this week featuring baker and magician Claire Saffitz. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts.
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We have a big @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social episode this week featuring baker and magician Claire Saffitz. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts.
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AI and Crypto data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out.
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
AI and Crypto data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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I do not claim to know why we are on this planet, but I am very certain we are not born to start a mission where we optimize every single little thing in our lives.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I do not claim to know why we are on this planet, but I am very certain we are not born to start a mission where we optimize every single little thing in our lives.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
I think it's just not good for the spirit.
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these should all be mass-produced. every single one.
October 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
these should all be mass-produced. every single one.
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my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
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The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.
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Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
They could call it Ben and Jerry's.
Hyperfixed is always good, but this one you really must hear.
Just wrapped our biggest reporting project at @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social — if you have ever liked anything I’ve ever done in a story you will probably like this. Also props to Sari Soffer Sukenik the lead reporter. If you believe in audio as a storytelling medium, plz listen!
The Cat Drug Black Market
Hyperfixed · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Hyperfixed is always good, but this one you really must hear.
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I guess you might say brevity is the Sol LeWitt
August 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I guess you might say brevity is the Sol LeWitt
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
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How are we going to replace every paralegal on Earth with an LLM; but the 14th version of an app native to the iPhone will still default to replaying an episode tagged "played"?
July 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
How are we going to replace every paralegal on Earth with an LLM; but the 14th version of an app native to the iPhone will still default to replaying an episode tagged "played"?
Wordle has demonstrated conclusively that there are about 1300 good 5 letter words in English
July 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Wordle has demonstrated conclusively that there are about 1300 good 5 letter words in English
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When I gather up links for my newsletter, I categorize them under a taxonomy of UX sins. But I'm honestly at a loss when it comes to this bullshit, because it ticks so many boxes at once.
It's a little early for a rant, but I hope you'll oblige me.
It's a little early for a rant, but I hope you'll oblige me.
Mercedes-Benz’s new $60,000 luxury sedan lets your boss watch you drive during Microsoft Teams meetings.
The video stream won’t be visible to a driver in motion, but they will still be able to use many new Team features on the car’s central display
fortune.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
When I gather up links for my newsletter, I categorize them under a taxonomy of UX sins. But I'm honestly at a loss when it comes to this bullshit, because it ticks so many boxes at once.
It's a little early for a rant, but I hope you'll oblige me.
It's a little early for a rant, but I hope you'll oblige me.
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Unless you’re under medical care for a nutritional deficiency it doesn’t fucking matter!!!!!
July 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Unless you’re under medical care for a nutritional deficiency it doesn’t fucking matter!!!!!
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I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
July 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published
and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
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A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.
June 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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![• Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of Big Star, recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread'' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it"). [31]
• The Monkees' Micky Dolenz said that when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon, and Harry Nilsson, Wilson played "Shortenin' Bread" on piano "over and over again". [291
• Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended, contumacious Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room proclaiming, "I gotta get out of here, man. This guy is nuts!"[32]
• Musician Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson considered "Shortenin' Bread" to be the greatest song ever written. According to Cooper, when he asked why, Wilson responded
"I don't know, it's just the best song ever written." [33]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreiezoi2xwo35alw7yhztpyuwpiuikzdsnj63tek5fzaspvfj2dxgve@jpeg)