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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 25m

I'm a belieber is what I am

panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 37m

Why hit small button when you can hit big button

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 13h

This eventually got me

panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 4d

Might be getting sick, see what tomorrow brings

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Cofia Soppium @indianloonie.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Sky. I want to go viral.

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 14h

From giga lib to mega lib

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Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 18h

Time to raise the old banners

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[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · 16h

Now playing (07:55 PM PST):
"Mikey and Nicky" (1976)
By Elaine May
Runtime: 106 min.

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 16h

My friend has been watching the hell house series which is incredibly trashy

Not super horrorish but if you want to watch an annoying streamer get tormented by a haunted house dead stream was okay

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Deadstream (2022)

A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event b...

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 17h

Remember the fallen

panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 19h

Depends on the kind of American idiot this is for: if you want it to seem large say 790 acres, if you want it to be roughly understood say 1.2 sq miles

Could also try football fields

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h

This is where American political historians and political science scholars need to take a closer look at how Miller has used what was once the institutional backwater of the Homeland Security Council now staffed with MAGA loyalists to increasingly marginalise the established NSC

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

Story from January. It aligns with similar stories published recently showing how Miller is the most powerful person in the entire White House, and even has a larger role in some US military operations than the Secretary of Defense. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever

www.nytimes.com

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 23h

Glonzo is the noid
The noid is glonzo

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Cutting dough with a razor like a vulva call that the yeast infection

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

"hey can you plan out the week and put it on the board?"
"Yeah sure let me submit it"

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

I did not follow his advice and am now weak and sickly and surrounded by invading armies to my west

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

As Sun Tzu said "While ill merely pretend to eat the greasy, fatty food to fool your enemy into thinking you cannot take care of yourself"

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

These are the sort of things that feel like they'd scare some of the walled garden hopes to me lmsys.org/blog/2025-10...

NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference | LMSYS Org

<p>Thanks to NVIDIA’s early access program, we are thrilled to get our hands on the NVIDIA DGX™ Spark. It’s quite an unconventional system, as NVIDIA rarely ...

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmmm, earth looks a little different

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 2d

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads:

Abstract
A "
'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings.
This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one.
CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind.
Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming
ACM Reference Format:
Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B.
Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
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From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves.
I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I?
What kind of person? What kind of mind?

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Did t like wings of desire so turned it off and switched to the Americans friend which I like more

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 2d

Disco Elysium screenshot, wherein I am extremely rude to Harry (who I would... maybe?... date? but it isn't his looks it's more that he's self-destructive and also wearing piss-stained trousers)

Dialog as follows:

MIRROR - What are you doing with your die, why is your shirt hanging open like laundry on the line...

What does it even *mean*? What is the message you're trying to convey?

YOU - I'm twenty years old. My breasts are juicy and succulent. I am a god damn verdant field waiting to be ploughed, in a *tired 5 acres and an aging mule* kind of way. I possess a certain charm.

MIRROR - That might have been true thirty years ago, but the plot is fallow and the farmer left you for a larger, newer, factory-owned operation.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Impossible: Failure] - It's too late. Like an illuminated masterpiece by the modern master Thomas Kinkade, your value isn't what it used to be. You're dusty, poorly framed, and have lost the fleeting, almost quixotic appeal you had in the 90's.

The jugs have been milked, and you're no dairy maid. You're the mule.

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