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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 3h

arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon

WindBorne says its balloons are compliant with all applicable airspace regulations.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 16h

I bet it will be a subscription service tied to your life insurance
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Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 1d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/t...

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening? | CNN Business

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 1d

gizmodo.com/no-kings-pro...

Went to the Protests Over the Weekend? Here’s How You Might Be Surveilled Now

A couple things to keep in mind about the surveillance state. Your location data is out there, and so is your photo

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 1d

www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-...

The Surprising Power of Boredom: It Lets You Confront Big Questions & Give Life Meaning

The twenty-first century so far may seem light on major technological breakthroughs, at least when compared to the twentieth. An artificial intelligence boom (perhaps a bubble, perhaps not) has been t...

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 2d

viewfromthewing.com/united-capta...

United Captain Says His Plane Was Hit By Space Debris At 36,000 Feet — New Photos Show Cockpit Damage - View from the Wing

The captain of the United Airlines 737 that diverted to Salt Lake City says his plane was struck by space debris while cruising at 36,000 feet. Newly surfaced photos of the cockpit show impact damage ...

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 2d

ifcomp.org

The Interactive Fiction Competition

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 3d

grammarphobia.com/blog/2025/10...

The Grammarphobia Blog: ‘Allude’ and its playful history

The verb “allude” has been a work in progress since it first appeared in English in the 15th century. And it’s not at all surprising that it still is.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 3d

www.techradar.com/pro/internet...

30 years on, Internet Archive hits 1-trillion preserved pages

Internet Archive is still adding about 500 million pages a day

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 3d

daily.jstor.org/enchanting-i...

Enchanting Imposters - JSTOR Daily

Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 3d

spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday...

Caltech's M4 Robot Walks—and Transforms to Fly and Drive!

The kid in me sees this as the beginning of the transformers story: A humanoid robot that walks, drives, and flies. The engineer sees the possibilities.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 4d

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 4d

www.openculture.com/2025/10/why-...

Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, at least according to a statistic often cited in recent years. But what, exactly, comes to their minds — or those of any other believers around the wo...

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 4d

If this keeps up it won't be long before we have an anthology set on Stephen King's 'The Raft'...

Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 4d

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74

Ace Frehley, the Spaceman of Kiss who played with the group from their formation in 1973 until 1983, and then again in the Nineties, has died at 74.

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 4d

Headline from The Economist I've been waiting for www.economist.com/culture/2025...

The Antichrist: he’s back!

Evidence of him is everywhere—or so says Peter Thiel

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 4d

chuckpalahniuk.substack.com/p/the-shinin...

'The Shining' Anthology

Yes, Today We Can Openly Discuss It!

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Jeff Patterson @jeffpatterson11.bsky.social · 4d

End of the World as We Know It was a REAL mixed bag for me, and I can't see the same formula working for The Shining. I'd rather see an anthology around The Gunslinger or Holly Gibney. In fact I want every King novel re-written with Holly as a character in it.
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