Cool Ranch Soda

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Raconteur. Epigrammaticist. Big word user. International man of pancakes. Reply guy. Masshole.

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Yeah sex and drugs are all right but have you ever watched your own kid do something better than you ever could?

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“I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity” ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... > This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course fucking catastrophe. Today’s must-read

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

MARTOK!

YARTEK, LEADER OF THE ALIEN VOORD

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"Tell me you’d never join a cult and I’ll tell you you’ve been lucky. That the savviest representative of the most appealing group didn’t reach you on the worst day of your life. In your thirst on your lonesome road, no one offered you water from a poisoned well." buttondown.email/theswordandt...

On Cults, Part 2: Follow the Leaderbuttondown.email Jim Jones preaching at the Peoples Temple What’s the loneliest you’ve ever felt? The most scared? The most despairing? Was it a period of depression, or...

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I was there at the beginning, when the pinball countdown was first sung. Solemnly now, with me: one two three four FIVE six seven eight NINE ten, ELEVEN TWELVE.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I remember when scientists were worried about global cooling.

Yeah sex and drugs are fun, but have you ever taken a hammock snooze on a spring afternoon?

I found it. The new low.

I want to rant on a street corner – specifically, the one by the Brookings Institution – about what's in this article. I'm so triggered I'm finding it hard to read it all at once. But I'm glad it was published before Memorial Day.

America’s Monsterwww.nytimes.com How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan.

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America’s Monsterwww.nytimes.com How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan.

Eggs: Over easy or medium-boiled Steak: Meatloaf Milk: Whole, over cereal or in a nice cup of Yorkshire Gold Alcohol: English & Czech & German beer styles. Gin. All in moderate amounts. Warm drink: Water is best consumed just above room temp. Tea. Coffee.

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0. me 1. Stevie Wonder 2. Paul McCartney 3. Elizabeth II 4. Edward VIII 5. Hitler

Taking this prompt from Twitter because I think it's fun: How many handshakes does it take for you to get to Hitler? 0. me 1. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd 2. Elizabeth II 3. Edward VIII 4. Hitler

I am feeling like an absolute BOSS for only sitting in New Hampshire traffic for 2.25 hours yesterday on my way back home, seeing all these stories of six-hour traffic jams, 10-hour drives, dead Teslas, etc. I"m going to mark this up solely to my superior intellect and nothing else.

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Sometimes I see a quote and can't believe it. For example, this quote from Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza: kotaku.com/roblox-boss-...

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🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone

REPOSTING MY SPOUSE’S STORY WITH A GIFT LINK SORRY ABOUT THE PAYWALL ON THE LAST ONE

Beethoven’s Secret Codewww.theatlantic.com A violinist believes he has discovered a previously unknown system of dynamics in the composer’s original manuscripts.

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I can’t stop thinking about her.

I just want high speed rail in the US before I die. I beg.

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DO NOT SKIP catandgirl.com/4000-of-my-c...

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My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "Hogfather" 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯 Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit. 5 minutes later: dude I swear I just had a full conversation with a rat skeleton My buddy Teatime pacing: the tooth fairy is lying to us

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MEU DEUS O KISSINGER MORREU E NEM É MEU ANIVERSÁRIO

Doing what I usually don’t and absolutely spamming this website with Kissinger’s supple cans for my own amusement and non others

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In challenging times we need creativity and new ideas, AI fails to offer us the tools we need to achieve this and simply remixes existing knowledge in a bad pastiche of the status quo. From the ever excellent @parismarx.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/parismar...

Generative AI closes off a better futureopen.substack.com Ursula Le Guin said we must be able to imagine freedom. AI traps us in the past.

Rudie can't fail; Rudie can only BE failed.

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idris elba has the chance to do the funniest thing imaginable

BREAKING - Nintendo announces live action The Legend of Zelda film 🗡️🧚🛡️❤️

News Release : Nov. 8, 2023 "Development of a Live-Action Film of The Legend of Zelda to Start"www.nintendo.co.jp Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.

I got one of the jack-o-lanterns done, and I guess I will figure out the other one later.

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"Companies fucking around leaping blindly into the AI hype bubble and finding out they don't have even a tiny fraction of the twisted imaginations necessary to understand what they're unleashing" is my new favorite headline genre

Honestly, awesome.

OK OK so what you all need to do is go see Stop Making Sense in IMAX this weekend or next. It is extremely worth it; the remastered film is immaculate, the sound mixing is immersive, and I mean, the concert itself is, like... you know... not bad.

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When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

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You know how we kept saying when we based the LEVERAGE villains on real people, we always had to rewrite them because the real people were unbelievably evil?