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  Not loving the apparently bipartisan view that the r-word is a great way to express how totally real you are, or whatever.

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  GUYS oh my God I'm on hold for a doctor's appointment and the hold music is In The Hall of the Mountain King!

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  Interesting bit of dead internet: www.reddit.com/r/comics/com... Appears to be a bot. What's interesting, at least to me, is you can instantly tell by style alone that it's Ai. And then you notice the calculator is facing the wrong way, and the packages on the table have weird perspective. From the comics community on R...

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  I don't understand the need to say dickwad CEOs can't make good stuff. This is the world we live in. A lot of my favorite things in the arts and sciences come from absolute bastards. The real argument should be about how to channel dickwaddery into good social outcomes, not whether the stuff works.

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  This is probably just me being in the dead middle of middle age, but I don't understand people who retire and go traveling. I am gonna just sit on a rocking chair and look at trees for 16 hours a day.

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  People seem to really dislike utilitarianism* and I honestly don't quite see why. In my experience, people often dislike ethical philosophers and then assume that somehow they are making philosophy-free choices in their daily lives. *Possibly it's the weird moral dilemmas leaking into public?

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  Seeing this passed everywhere. Appears not to be a Nietzsche quote, which is not that surprising because it doesn't even sound like Nietszche? Like, was he on an episode of Reading Rainbow that week?

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  Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person? fortune.com/2026/08/06/p... ‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk deta...

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  Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

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  Must have been a rough ten years running cooking websites. Spend all that time trying to appease SEO with giant essays before the recipe and the suddenly AI just scrapes the recipe and gives it to users. Journalism's gotta be the worst, though I assume they're all going paywall now?

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  Really appreciated this review: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07... Not a lot of people are this able to dissociate their emotional reaction from reasoning. Though, I'll still argue our book is completely consistent with a Star Trek future. There's just a lot of work to do. Book Review: A City on Mars - ...

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  Every time I see an economist or tech geek saying "the AI future will be better because we'll make our living making stuff for each other" I think, I would like to see you running promo and backend for a Kickstarter, and see how relaxed you feel.

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  If you had to explain why the drawing on the left jumps out as AI before you start noticing the various AI-style errors, what would you note? (feel free to say it doesn't jump out as AI) RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o72ypk5c474zqklkukaphuy3/post/3mpbth3alqk2k

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  Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mission #smbc #comics

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  Favorite new thing learning French was encountering the phrase "un peu trop hexagonale" meaning "a bit too hexagonal" to mean "a bit too French" because France is roughly the shape of hexagon. I'd encountered "l'Hexagone" plenty of times, but didn't know one could be hexagonale.

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  Reading a book by a British author when suddenly she writes "Weighing nearly 1.5 kilograms (close to four tins of baked beans), it contains an extraordinary movement." I am delighted to imagine a country where "like holding four tins of beans" is a more imaginable unit than a kilogram.

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  Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal #smbc #ai #comics

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  Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/joke-5 #smbc #comics #batman

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  Nerd confession: I've read hardly any Pratchett. But yesterday, my 12 year old got loaned a copy of Wee Free Men and read it front to back in, like, an afternoon. And then was quoting it to me for hours. Help me, what does she need next?

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  Hey tech dorks, do you think the book "The Innovator's Dilemma" actually changed how companies respond? Like, I've been surprised how much the megacap companies are pouring into Ai, when at least in principle it should damage core business (e.g. buy eating search)

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  Startling end to comic available here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/witch-2 #smbc #comics #fables