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  I don't get Thanksgiving. If God had intended people to eat turkey twice a year, He would simply have been born twice.

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  From a TV drama: "It's not human blood, it's from a partridge or a pheasant". Presumably, they simply ran the blood through the phasianidaeometer.

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  A few of the nerd religions (I think in particular the TPOT people) used to use 'agentic' to mean, er, I'm not totally sure, I think that they'd cleansed their body thetans or something. I imagine they're quite annoyed that it now means "a computer looking at a website". I do hope so.

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  The most difficult problem in computer science: remembering whether the language you are currently using uses else if, elif, or elsif (I bet something uses elf).

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  Trump expected to retaliate by imposing tariffs on apples, pears. https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-is-keeping-its-dei-program-130033491.html

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  fork(3) - Do AI. https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/114179114881954500

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  After decades of completely ignoring their existence, the media is now taking on Generation X, who have had it too easy for too long, what with being invisible to the media: https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/gen-x-work-jobs-b2727513.html This is because the editors used to be genX but are now millennials.

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  In Dublin Airport. There’s a big ad for a Rolls Royce Trent 1000 jet engine. Are they… expecting me to assemble my own plane?

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  Donald Trump, tiring of Greenland, is off to Antarctica, to have sex with a penguin.

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  All my prompts gone. (Ugh, how long before prompt NFTs?) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art

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  Regulations are written in blood. Or, at least, minor scalding.