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Pyperkub
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University Sysadmin, UCLA Alum, Science/Space geek, Fantasy/SF Fan, College Sports (especially Bruins!) fan.
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Heh. Happy Turkey Day to all who celebrate!
Meme image of 3 Turkeys gabbing to one another. Caption - Something's Up - the Farmer just unfriended me on facebook.
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The ONLY book to steal! ;)
Image of an early cover of Abbie Hoffman's steal this book
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Any idea where we can find the Treasure Goblin? ;)
Image of a Diablo 4 Treasure Goblin hunt
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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with bonus AI deepfake shenanigans to undermine elections:
Snip from article: AI-generated political content ahead of the 2026 elections MEPs are concerned by the increasing use of unlabelled AI-generated political content in Hungary ahead of the 2026 elections, notably the deliberate posting of deepfake videos on social-media channels closely linked to the prime minister’s political party and campaign, and their coordinated amplification. They note that these materials are concerning in the context of the Digital Services Act and the EU’s data protection rules as well as the AI Act, while stressing that the deliberate use of AI-generated content to mislead voters, discredit opponents and distort the integrity of electoral processes may contravene national electoral standards and pose a serious threat to the fairness of democratic elections.
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Heh - good one for a fun show!
Plur1bus ad - Hi, Carol. We'll be seeing you a bit earlier than usual this week. Looking forward to Wednesday. With apple tv logo and Carol yelling to the skies against a yellow background
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Heh. I guess that's still true for this generation! 🤣🤣🤣
image of a tweet by Jeff Sharlet - "Few days shy of 50 and when I ask my super goth 13-year-old what they're listening to they tell me it's a band I probably don't know about called The Cure.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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And the image to go with all of that? Yeah, this!, because that is what they are doing to all of America:
January 6th image of the US Capitol on fire.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Even the MAGA mouthpiece WSJ Op-Ed Page is better... www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
snip from above the paywall: Who decided to leave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. home alone at the Health and Human Services Department? Without adults to supervise the Secretary, he’s damaging public trust in immunizations, and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been conscripted into his anti-vaccine campaign.
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Yup - a Russian Nesting doll of bullshit seems about right:
snip from article: This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The best moment had me in tears from laughing so much. A TV timeout bit featured 2 students at halfcourt connected by a bungee cord, each running in opposite directions to retrieve monopoly money and pulling each other in a reverse tug-of-war! It was a riot!
Image of the reverse tug of war starting Image of the reverse tug of war with one student in the ground being dragged by the other
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I'm the Queen of the Laundry!
Gray kitty Gracie on top of the clean laundry pile
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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January 6th would seem to apply...
Image of the US capitol building on fire from the January 6th Seditionists.
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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At least it wasn't an Analyst-Therapist! ;)
Image from Arrested Development - Tobias Fünke M.D. 's Analrapist business card.
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Otherwise known as lied about it:
Snip from article: From the start, Jamerson maintained his innocence. Over the following decades, he repeatedly requested DNA testing of the rape kit. Tulsa police and prosecutors consistently told him the evidence had been destroyed. Those claims were false. In 2022, Smolen, discovered the rape-kit slides in a police property facility. Smolen told The Frontier in 2023 that prosecutors had checked out the rape kit from evidence files weeks before, but did not reveal its existence or notify the court. DNA testing showed that the semen did not belong to Jamerson.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Mr. Hand agrees!
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Neat article, and this bit struck me as pretty relevant to our infrastructure, overall:
Snip from article: So the network that worked wasn’t the Internet; it was the social network. It was the dynamics between friends and that we not only cared about this project but that we cared about, like, the thing that we had built because it was friends working on it together. And that was key to the whole thing, I think. I don’t know if it would’ve worked if it would’ve been, like, three strangers. We might still have cared about the thing, but at some point, even with that, if you care about a project but it’s not your job, you don’t care about these other people, I imagine it probably would’ve fallen apart.
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Played a Sunday afternoon game of bike ride to beat the rain today -I won! (Unlike the list time when I got drenched at the end of the outward bound leg)
Bay trail photo showing ominous clouds in the west Pyperkub in his cycling gear on the Bay Trail
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Holy Crap, what a titanic battle in '93 quarters:
Image of the 1993 bracket showing #1 seed Nirvana, In Utero with 1653 votes beating #8 seed Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville's 1588 votes
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The longest lasting and most successful Spice Girl? ;)
Cartoon of the Spice Girls, with an additional Pumpkin Head: Caption: Although initially unpopular, Pumpkin went on to become the most successful of the Spice Girls.
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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It could be flashback worse?
demotivational poster - coolness. You may be cool, but you'll never be 6 popped collars cool. With an image of a bearded guy with 6 popped collars
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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And yet, it does seem as if at least one complaint isn't valid - in this case, the issue is that they aren't growing an 'Ag' product, they are growing a drug, and unlike standard Ag products, if there's a fire there are worse consequences, so fire sprinklers make sense:
snip from article: Back on his farm, Hackett blamed his businesses’ dire future on the continued taxes as well as the county’s expensive regulations, which required him to spend a million dollars creating sprinkler systems for his entire farm. He said if he used his greenhouses for any other crop, he wouldn’t need to pay those costs, and would instead have a profitable business. “They pay nothing. They don’t have fire sprinklers or anything because it’s an ag product. And it is the same type of building,” Hackett said.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This was particularly apropos of our current situation. Only the disingenuous 'gotcha' slant matters.
Snip from article: . It’s the rattle of a person going on and professorially on, quite as if the substance of a discipline, or its intellectual trajectory, or even just the nourishing joy of sustained and serious study, mattered at all to the person he was talking to, or to the majestic institution he represents. And honestly, what could be more feeble? It’s not that those things don’t matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering, and I wouldn’t go on with the whole tedious business of teaching if I thought otherwise. It’s just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A nice evening to make the pilgrimageback to Pauley Pavilion!
Ucla vs Pepperdine basketball UCLA bs Pepperdine tip off at Pauley Pavilion
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Heh.
snip from article: Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Sorry Bill, but McCaffrey is the best RB in the league this year, and arguably Offensive MVP (esp. given the Niners injuries) ( from www.footballdb.com/statistics/n... ) :
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM