Cyrus Peterpaul

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

nightmare blunt rotation!

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

Winners suffer from preventable diseases

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

This is such a wild story that the fact the guy were talking about is named Bum Farto isn't even the most insane thing about it

[Dr. Diocletian Blobb 📯 @DrBlobb]

On September 9, 1975, the Key West Fire Chief was arrested in a DEA sting operation for trafficking cocaine.

Five months later, while awaiting sentencing, he drove to Miami and disappeared forever.

🧵Where is Bum Farto? - A Thread

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

@PLanzing It's definitely not bad, but I wouldn't ever take it over just a bowl of chili with cheese or spaghetti with an Italian-style meat sauce. The pasta is a strange addition.

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

@zillowgonewild All these contemporary interiors look like shopping malls or hotel lobbies. I don't see the appeal of living in a blank space that seems designed to recede from your attention, unless you're an avid art collector who wants a museum more than a house.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

“Mathematics and music, the most sharply contrasted fields of scientific activity which can be found, and yet related, supporting each other, as if to show forth the secret connection which ties together all the activities of our mind, and which leads us to surmise that the manifestations of the artist’s genius are but the unconscious expressions of a mysteriously acting rationality.”

—Hermann von Helmholtz , Vorträge und Reden (Presentations and Speeches ), 1884. Image: https://t.co/8aqzg4T1BQ

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

Six Rankin County local government police officers in Mississippi who called themselves the “goon squad” have plead guilty after breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing the occupants for two hours with guns, tasers, and a dildo.

https://t.co/XECk77QKyx

[Dr. Tara Taylor @tara_taylor]

Ummmmm...🤣😳🤣

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

@MotherJones Heat Tsar sounds like a band that would open for Gogol Bordello

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

Good thing he already had discovered relativity, Brownian motion, and the photoelectric effect, otherwise he'd never get through a job interview in the USA

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

When Einstein Failed Edison's Aptitude Test

In 1921, Albert Einstein visited Boston, where reporters handed him a test of knowledge designed by Thomas Edison based on memorized scientific facts

Not recalling the speed of sound, Einstein flunked the exam

https://t.co/2W6zfCPoT5

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

"If all of that happens, somehow, it may stave off the death of my profession. But it doesn’t solve the larger, more important issue: what will happen to me ... ? What will I do with my days when the world no longer requires my creative contributions?"
https://t.co/XEYvvzPFz2

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Barstool Sports' owner is upset at his employees Smitty, Nate, Glenny Balls, Marty, Rico, Tommy, Klemmer, Rico (listed twice, or maybe a second Rico) for not showing up to work on time this morning.

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

Using a CNC machine to carve a sculpture is great, and definitely art! A person created the design, and used a tool to physically render it.

This is in contrast to generative AI, where no one is really in control. It's the manatees with idea balls from South Park.

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

@Bitcoin Coup in Niger. No one's sure if their neighbors and/or overseas powers will intervene.

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

@Nexuist If you're in high earth orbit you don't need a nuke, just drop something heavy that can survive reentry. And unlike a fragile nuke, there's essentially no way to intercept it https://t.co/Ztrp2sWA59.?wprov=sfla1

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

Conservatives have unveiled a new climate change “battle plan”: make it worse. Indeed, Project 2025 calls for shredding regulations to curb emissions. It makes sense. As @materialist_jew wrote in 2020, plenty stand to profit from business-as-usual.
https://t.co/Y3s055XXyJ

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

@FlagsMashupBot The flag of Jello Biafra's ancestral fiefdom

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

Maybe AI is The Great Filter, but not the way people think. Generate a fully automated heaven of hyperstimuli for the elite; reduce the rest to slavery enforced by robot weapons. Why build a Dyson sphere for slaves, after all?
https://t.co/ADGYdd7IBy

[Miss Distance @softminus]

simultaneously safe for work and not safe for work

[Cyrus Peterpaul @CyrusPeterpaul]

“Years ago, all the universities had two or three people,” Briening said. "... you're not bringing up those young glass blowers anymore.”

Huge problem in many fields. Cost cutting and lean production means there's no room for training anyone new.
https://t.co/NGroYeQ7Z4