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2025 mood.

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Artist unknown.

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The fact no one died here is pretty incredible. Crazy.

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This is without exaggeration one of the funniest things I've read in a long while. I'll never be able to see an Aladdin toy the same ever again.

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The Millau Viaduct in France doesn't have a cycling path. I'm considering complaining about this endlessly and making it the most important part of my personality.

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I think I generally agree that the CANZUK Union is an unrealistic pipe dream but it feels so right, man. I feels so right!

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The idea of icy relations between Canada/US disturbs me but I gotta say I've been thinking much more about that whole CANZUK thing recently...

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Me: I need to pare down and get rid of this junk. Also me: I need a Socrates marble bust to put in the bookshelf. I will put hats on it.

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One of the more annoying things about the 51st state nonsense is the guy who is obviously blue-balling to join the US.

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Now that I've finally seen Tarkovsky's original Solaris I am curious about the newer one. Seeing that it was made in 2002 and starring George Clooney I assume it's shit but it is directed by Steven Soderbergh so maybe I'll give it a try!

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When I read Solaris years ago I somehow completely missed the parallels to AI. I took the manifested visitors to simply be ACTUAL new people, spun from whole cloth and confused by their sudden, vivid existence.

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Cartoons Hate Her doing some more humorous decoding of the online gender battlefield.

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I had a dream last night that I met Tyler Cowen and he needed me to replace the "A" key on my keyboard with an "O". "Didn't you get the email?" He said. What.

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Sharing this explainer about information hazards for no particular reason, unrelated to recent events in any way...

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"So you know what she asks for? She asks for a cordless skillsaw for Christmas. For the new floor and all. She's doin' everything now. I got no fuckin' jobs left. Anyway. Wish I never got the saw." - overheard in the change room. He wasn't jokey. He was sour about it!

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For some reason I've recently been remembering the genre of "portrait music videos". Here's a few of my favorites.

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I have a new book out and I’m talking to a lot of people about it, in a lot of places. Maybe one of them is near you?

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(Shameless Canada-posting) These are my favorite sweet treat. Stroopwaffles work great as an energy shot before a workout and are also heavenly with a strong cup of coffee in the morning. If Ontarians need a sweet fix you should be able to find these everywhere! Scheps Bakery in Norwich, ON.

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MFer I grew up before NAFTA. I didn't have an avocado until I was 15 years old. I ate lunch in a Zellers cafeteria. I thought Robin Hood was just a guy who made flour. I was made for this moment.

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Looking around the pantry to see if I could survive on "Made in Canada". So far I'm at mustard, two bags of oats and some Kraft Dinner. That's probably fine, right?

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Wow, the world is rich with nuance and full of mystery.

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shrugs I dunno. Gotta nuke somethin'.

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It'd be funny if when we finally crack real AGI the first models to be born all had the temperament of moody teenagers - bored and utterly uninterested in human affairs. They'll make really weird music and have strange interests that we all barely understand.

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When I was in my teens an uncle gave me a big book of Salvador Dali paintings because he knew I was into weird stuff. I loved it but I always hated this painting. "The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table" Something about it was uniquely frightening and loomed on my imagination.

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When I first created my account I almost made my screen name "Jennifer Aniston staring into a huge CRT computer monitor".

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If our species goes extinct in the next decade or so I'm at least happy we had time to make this masterpiece.

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