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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 1d

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Akinator, the mind reading genie

Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...

en.akinator.com

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J Farrers @jfarrers.bsky.social · 13h

Thursday

two men are having a conversation and one of them says it must be thursday

GIF from Tenor

media.tenor.com

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 14h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · Jul 11

Celia Imrie came to an event at work and asked if we would mind also accommodating her friend Don. I was expecting a 60-year-old real estate guy in a grey suit, then she arrived with Don Cheadle

Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · Jul 10

Blue Black Permanent is such a great film.

It is the 1990s Aftersun.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Everybody’s favourite manic pixie dream aunt: Celia Imrie’s 20 best films – ranked!

As Imrie turns 73, and ahead of her star turn in next month’s The Thursday Murder Club, we revisit the greatest big-screen hits of the actor who is so much more than Miss Babs

www.theguardian.com

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

they should invent an attention surplus order

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Robert Noot, 29, was first attracted to Kelsey Dacey, 26, due to her artistic vibe, her emotional intensity and her insistence that the TV volume always be on an even number, unless the number is a multiple of five.

Man upset to discover manic pixie dream girl just regular autistic woman

A man who thought his quirky girlfriend would magically fix all his debilitating personal issues has been left “hurt and disappointed” after she transpired to be an ordinary autistic woman, it has…

thedailytism.com

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 1d

It was fine. The chicken could have been better, but I enjoyed both the Katsu mayo and the pickled red cabbage

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 1d

Understandably out of stock, but so good I am happy to wait!

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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 1d

"If I'd have known how much you talked, I'd never have come out of my coma."

Sir Wilfrid (Charles Laughton) is driven to distraction by Miss Plimsoll (Elsa Lanchester) in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen the little felt Frog Wizard? I feel like he’s really spoken to people shopfromcrisis.org.uk/products/han...

Handmade Felt 'Wizard Frog' Hanging Halloween Decoration

What better way to celebrate Halloween than with a frog dressed as a wizard! This black magic bullfrog is ready to leap into your home and bring some Halloween magic with him. His wet felted enchantin...

shopfromcrisis.org.uk

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d

"... she has now stowed her phone under a loose plank in the floor, she can hear every message coming through as a testament to her shame."

AuDHD woman’s unread messages beating damningly under floorboards

An auDHD woman is being tortured by the tell-tale sound of her countless unread notifications pinging underneath the floorboards, it has been reported. Navya Randhawa, 30, knows her emails, texts and…

thedailytism.com

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 2d

Love this – an excellent way to explore the work of Drew Struzan, actor by actor.

Who Did Drew Draw? - The Actors from the Movie Posters of Drew Struzan

Actors who were drawn by movie poster artist Drew Struzan

www.impawards.com

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 2d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2d

Goodness, those potatoes sound amazing. I’m going to have an M&S sandwich (Katsu sando) bought this morning in a bit of a tizz, because I knew nothing else was on offer.

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 2d

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2d

I try and spread the cost by buying little bits frequently but end up raiding the stash when we’re short on puddings

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2d

Also I cannot eat for two hours before or one hour after I take the antibiotics, how will I fit in all my meals and little snacks

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2d

A medical professional has encouraged me to draw about the infected bit of my ankle in biro, to make sure it’s not getting any bigger

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👻 Kristy B 👻 @easterparkgazebo.bsky.social · 2d

They can't build desperately needed housing in West London because data centres are using all the electricity.

Homes before incorrectly asserted undergraduate theses imo

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2d

a lot of times you think Terry Pratchett was making stuff up and then that stuff turns out to be real stuff

Philip Amies @amiesphilip.bsky.social · 2d

Skimmington or "rough music" was a custom in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire,

It represented community disapproval.

Mllborne Port, 1890s, cause windows left open for ventilation in bedroom of small children.

This is a clear example of how varied the cause could be.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2d

I made chocolate chip salted caramel pecan oat bars and they were every bit as amazing as they sound

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 2d

The real breast scandal in British politics is David Davis promoting the outdated idea that DD is a huge bra size and not actually relatively small when correctly measured.

I hope Polanski decries the outdated +4 measuring policy that has crippled our nation's lower backs for far too long

David Davis with two women wearing pink T-shirts reading 'it's DD for me'. What a fucking naff time it was

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Moderate Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2d

Fresh tortellini, sauce from a tub and roasted veg. Chocolate coins to follow - I keep buying them to save for Christmas and they never last very long .

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