The Surrealist Fridge
@surrealistfridge.bsky.social
Self-parody non-prof account. In Memoriam The Surrealist Fridge 1988-1989. Donnington Bridge Road.
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The Campus Cafe at the End of the University
The new VC of Campus Cafe at the end of the University is Professor Grindgrads
December 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The new VC of Campus Cafe at the end of the University is Professor Grindgrads
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Coronation Street - written by John Stevenson (26th December 1979). Stan and Eddie are waiting for their latest sumptuous repast. Alas ...
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Coronation Street - written by John Stevenson (26th December 1979). Stan and Eddie are waiting for their latest sumptuous repast. Alas ...
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I love (indeed, need) solitary walks - I look back and think the loneliness of childhood is often exacerbated by being told we must have lots of friends
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I love (indeed, need) solitary walks - I look back and think the loneliness of childhood is often exacerbated by being told we must have lots of friends
Favourite carol ‘O come all ye unfaithful’ by Wham
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Favourite carol ‘O come all ye unfaithful’ by Wham
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I don’t know who may need to hear this, but:
Not every story needs to adhere to The Hero’s Journey template, which is not, in fact, universal, and the quality/value of a story shouldn’t be judged by how successfully it follows that template.
There’s no cheat code. Sorry!
Not every story needs to adhere to The Hero’s Journey template, which is not, in fact, universal, and the quality/value of a story shouldn’t be judged by how successfully it follows that template.
There’s no cheat code. Sorry!
December 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I don’t know who may need to hear this, but:
Not every story needs to adhere to The Hero’s Journey template, which is not, in fact, universal, and the quality/value of a story shouldn’t be judged by how successfully it follows that template.
There’s no cheat code. Sorry!
Not every story needs to adhere to The Hero’s Journey template, which is not, in fact, universal, and the quality/value of a story shouldn’t be judged by how successfully it follows that template.
There’s no cheat code. Sorry!
Schindler’s Naughty List is a Christmas film
December 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Schindler’s Naughty List is a Christmas film
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Watch Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas Special, Featuring a Famous Duet with Bowie, and Bowie Introducing His New Song, “Heroes” (1977)
Watch Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas Special, Featuring a Famous Duet with Bowie, and Bowie Introducing His New Song, “Heroes” (1977)
Bing Crosby died in October of 1977, but that didn't stop him from appearing in living rooms all over America for Christmas.
www.openculture.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Watch Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas Special, Featuring a Famous Duet with Bowie, and Bowie Introducing His New Song, “Heroes” (1977)
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Paging @fourverts.bsky.social.
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Paging @fourverts.bsky.social.
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How do these AI evangelists not understand that part of becoming an expert in any subject area involves developing a personal capacity for discernment?
December 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
How do these AI evangelists not understand that part of becoming an expert in any subject area involves developing a personal capacity for discernment?
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for my PhD exams I spent months reading 300+ books in European intellectual history, modern European history, modern Jewish history, medieval Jewish history, and critical theory. There is a huge difference between the style of reading that accommodates this, and having a computer "summarize" books.
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
for my PhD exams I spent months reading 300+ books in European intellectual history, modern European history, modern Jewish history, medieval Jewish history, and critical theory. There is a huge difference between the style of reading that accommodates this, and having a computer "summarize" books.
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Standpoint Epistomology arose for some very understandable reasons, but I feel like it has some obvious shortcomings.
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Standpoint Epistomology arose for some very understandable reasons, but I feel like it has some obvious shortcomings.
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funny how much "lived experience" has become "I want to ignore your facts in favor of my vibes"
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
funny how much "lived experience" has become "I want to ignore your facts in favor of my vibes"
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Nominative determinism at its finest.
December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Nominative determinism at its finest.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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I was talking to some clients the other day whose graduate kids had found themselves being interviewed by AI avatars. It's insane.
December 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I was talking to some clients the other day whose graduate kids had found themselves being interviewed by AI avatars. It's insane.
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I wish I could remember the paper (from the 50s or 60s I think) but I once read a footnote that said something like ‘On this point see C.L. Stevenson’s recent paper X in Y. It really is very good.’
December 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I wish I could remember the paper (from the 50s or 60s I think) but I once read a footnote that said something like ‘On this point see C.L. Stevenson’s recent paper X in Y. It really is very good.’
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Hey, remember when David Walliams did a stage bit for years where he - in character as a a sex pest - forced himself on people and tried to strip them? Just thinking about that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W...
David Walliams - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hey, remember when David Walliams did a stage bit for years where he - in character as a a sex pest - forced himself on people and tried to strip them? Just thinking about that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W...
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I worked for a big academic publisher and right before I quit they stopped copyediting/proofreading to cut costs. The editors are acquisitions editors; they are not checking citations, and there's no one down-chain to do it in most cases. That's how you get slop citations.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I worked for a big academic publisher and right before I quit they stopped copyediting/proofreading to cut costs. The editors are acquisitions editors; they are not checking citations, and there's no one down-chain to do it in most cases. That's how you get slop citations.
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My preferred form of cinephilia as described by Godard at Cannes in 1968:
December 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My preferred form of cinephilia as described by Godard at Cannes in 1968:
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(1) Clinging on by saying nothing; (2) changing career; (3) relying if they can on a partner's wage; (4) early retirement; (5) spending the redundo payout; (6) freelancing.
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
(1) Clinging on by saying nothing; (2) changing career; (3) relying if they can on a partner's wage; (4) early retirement; (5) spending the redundo payout; (6) freelancing.
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You, a slack jawed Neanderthal: Duhh my tik tok where I make a weird face just made a million dollars. I'm going to eat a gold crusted steak to celebrate
Me, a modern philosopher: I've crafted a magnificent sentence on a website where my only reward is getting yelled at. I live for this shit
Me, a modern philosopher: I've crafted a magnificent sentence on a website where my only reward is getting yelled at. I live for this shit
August 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You, a slack jawed Neanderthal: Duhh my tik tok where I make a weird face just made a million dollars. I'm going to eat a gold crusted steak to celebrate
Me, a modern philosopher: I've crafted a magnificent sentence on a website where my only reward is getting yelled at. I live for this shit
Me, a modern philosopher: I've crafted a magnificent sentence on a website where my only reward is getting yelled at. I live for this shit
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Rodents, whose evolution separated from humans some 80 million years ago, make poor models for medical testing.
Do lab mice, held in stressful, unnatural conditions, make even worse models?
Seems likely ....
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Do lab mice, held in stressful, unnatural conditions, make even worse models?
Seems likely ....
phys.org/news/2025-12...
From cages to fields: Lab mice lose their anxiety after a week outdoors
When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell's campus, something remarkable happens.
phys.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Rodents, whose evolution separated from humans some 80 million years ago, make poor models for medical testing.
Do lab mice, held in stressful, unnatural conditions, make even worse models?
Seems likely ....
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Do lab mice, held in stressful, unnatural conditions, make even worse models?
Seems likely ....
phys.org/news/2025-12...
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that "prep me to discuss this document" is so your boss or professor don't know you didn't write that shit when they question you about it
Is there a way to get this mind-numbing Co-Pilot shit off Microsoft Word?
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
that "prep me to discuss this document" is so your boss or professor don't know you didn't write that shit when they question you about it
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I hate A.I. - quietly, showcasing my hatred, contempt and third abstract noun for the quiet evil it showcases. Not because it's shit. Not because it has quiet, repetitive sentences. But showcasing how it drains the creativity, quiet independence and quiet humanity from all written creation.
December 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I hate A.I. - quietly, showcasing my hatred, contempt and third abstract noun for the quiet evil it showcases. Not because it's shit. Not because it has quiet, repetitive sentences. But showcasing how it drains the creativity, quiet independence and quiet humanity from all written creation.