Robert Atkins
@ratkins.net
I miss Usenet. Prompt engineering and other things at https://beams.tech, ex Pivotal Labs. Also @ratkins, @[email protected]
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Strain-deer (Balmain)
December 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Strain-deer (Balmain)
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Wondering whether some enterprising soul will add THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND to the name plates of all the buildings that now have THE DONALD TRUMP prefixes.
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Wondering whether some enterprising soul will add THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND to the name plates of all the buildings that now have THE DONALD TRUMP prefixes.
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For liberal centrism to exist, it needs the promise of some event, just around the corner, that will set things right without anyone having to do anything but post about it.
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
For liberal centrism to exist, it needs the promise of some event, just around the corner, that will set things right without anyone having to do anything but post about it.
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“A massive fever of #MobulaRays migrating off the coast of Baja #California. Footage by Aidan Bedford
#Reddit
#Rays
#Ocean
#oceanSky
#Rays
#Ocean
#oceanSky
December 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“A massive fever of #MobulaRays migrating off the coast of Baja #California. Footage by Aidan Bedford
#Reddit
#Rays
#Ocean
#oceanSky
#Rays
#Ocean
#oceanSky
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every tech guy with an AI “girlfriend”
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
every tech guy with an AI “girlfriend”
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The Christmas comeback we need this year
In Korean, if someone is being foolish you could ask them 니 머리는 장식이냐? It means “Is your head a decoration?”
December 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Christmas comeback we need this year
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tired: hating AI as an entire personality on the internet
inspired: dealing with your unresolved depression, hostility, and labor alienation through productive means
inspired: dealing with your unresolved depression, hostility, and labor alienation through productive means
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
tired: hating AI as an entire personality on the internet
inspired: dealing with your unresolved depression, hostility, and labor alienation through productive means
inspired: dealing with your unresolved depression, hostility, and labor alienation through productive means
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anyone else think they should have made the "for" a bit larger?
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
anyone else think they should have made the "for" a bit larger?
“The guy whose company built the first viable VR headset (the Oculus, sold to Meta), who has a goatee and gets around in Hawaiian shirts, is now building military drones. As a sideline he’s making a hardware Gameboy emulator. He just released one made of the same alloy they make the drones out of.”
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“The guy whose company built the first viable VR headset (the Oculus, sold to Meta), who has a goatee and gets around in Hawaiian shirts, is now building military drones. As a sideline he’s making a hardware Gameboy emulator. He just released one made of the same alloy they make the drones out of.”
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As a kid of the 90’s who grew up loving technology and the promise of a better world by way of it, only to see how bad we’ve fucked it all up in 1000 different ways… but also, I still kinda love it?
I’m really appreciative for people like @reckless.bsky.social and the work @theverge.com is doing.
I’m really appreciative for people like @reckless.bsky.social and the work @theverge.com is doing.
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As a kid of the 90’s who grew up loving technology and the promise of a better world by way of it, only to see how bad we’ve fucked it all up in 1000 different ways… but also, I still kinda love it?
I’m really appreciative for people like @reckless.bsky.social and the work @theverge.com is doing.
I’m really appreciative for people like @reckless.bsky.social and the work @theverge.com is doing.
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decades-long manhunt finally ends
May 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
decades-long manhunt finally ends
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The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win.
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win.
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project.
First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/
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Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
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Bought this book for my two mates’ babies for Christmas and I’m dying.
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Bought this book for my two mates’ babies for Christmas and I’m dying.
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the transformer model is not going to spontaneously uninvent itself. much consternation from this fact
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
the transformer model is not going to spontaneously uninvent itself. much consternation from this fact
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*Speaking of social-darwinism, nobody has yet named the interesting practice of militarily drafting your own underclass and shipping them to the borders to be liquidated by killer robots
*The term "meat wave" scarcely covers it. It's a societal reshaping process
*The term "meat wave" scarcely covers it. It's a societal reshaping process
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
*Speaking of social-darwinism, nobody has yet named the interesting practice of militarily drafting your own underclass and shipping them to the borders to be liquidated by killer robots
*The term "meat wave" scarcely covers it. It's a societal reshaping process
*The term "meat wave" scarcely covers it. It's a societal reshaping process
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2026 is gonna be the atmosyear
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
2026 is gonna be the atmosyear
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It's not just the gun lobby. The entire global illiberal right *despise* the Australian 1996 gun reforms, because they're held up as an example of a govt acting in response to popular feeling. Thus the efforts to block any additional ones, and even try to say "oh well, they failed, reverse them"
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's not just the gun lobby. The entire global illiberal right *despise* the Australian 1996 gun reforms, because they're held up as an example of a govt acting in response to popular feeling. Thus the efforts to block any additional ones, and even try to say "oh well, they failed, reverse them"
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You had me at 125-year-old art nouveau dance hall in Berlin discovered at former discount supermarket (video embedded in the article) www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berli...
Berlins fast vergessener Ballsaal: Wird hier bald eine Zahnklinik oder ein Schlafcontainerhotel einziehen?
Der wiederentdeckte Tanzsaal in Tegel sucht einen Käufer. Zwischen Hotelplänen und Kulturträumen zeigt sich, was in Berlin heute möglich ist – oder eben nicht.
www.tagesspiegel.de
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You had me at 125-year-old art nouveau dance hall in Berlin discovered at former discount supermarket (video embedded in the article) www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berli...
All of this. I hadn’t considered some sites do this to avoid password sharing. It’s a gigantic pain in the arse though. https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/a_request_regarding_magic_link_sign-ins_and_apples_passwords_app
December 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
All of this. I hadn’t considered some sites do this to avoid password sharing. It’s a gigantic pain in the arse though. https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/a_request_regarding_magic_link_sign-ins_and_apples_passwords_app
This is more terrible than I could have imagined.
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is more terrible than I could have imagined.
You really should be listening to Decoder. The Verge is the last website and Nilay is the last journalist.
I do a LOT of different things at work; "producer" is at least 12 jobs in a trenchcoat and I never know what a day will hold.
The scariest thing I do every single year, however, is look Nilay dead in the eye on camera and make fun of his show to his face.
(Worth it.)
The scariest thing I do every single year, however, is look Nilay dead in the eye on camera and make fun of his show to his face.
(Worth it.)
‘It’s all chaos and panic’
We turn the tables on Nilay and make him answer the questions on Decoder for once.
www.theverge.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
You really should be listening to Decoder. The Verge is the last website and Nilay is the last journalist.
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like genuinely I am begging people to have actual nuance here, AI has existed for *decades* and is part of several very important fields of science, if you can't tell the difference between this and the awful plagiarism machine making shitty pictures that is genuinely a you problem.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
like genuinely I am begging people to have actual nuance here, AI has existed for *decades* and is part of several very important fields of science, if you can't tell the difference between this and the awful plagiarism machine making shitty pictures that is genuinely a you problem.
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For the record, he is a traitor, thus ineligible for the presidency, and his entire reign is illegitimate on a legal level. This seems worth stating from time to time.
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
For the record, he is a traitor, thus ineligible for the presidency, and his entire reign is illegitimate on a legal level. This seems worth stating from time to time.