Daniel Tencer

Editor at Haystack News. Big fan of Dostoevsky. Polish-Canadian expat living in Croatia 🇭🇷🇨🇦🇵🇱

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Klimt Eastwood

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

A young girl practicing wushu at the bus stop while waiting. Sometimes, you need less than you think to stay active...

[sarah サラ @drsarah]

It’s gonna be a long summer.

[Mare @marewho12]

Now that's funny!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Raven @raven_brah]

How about you mind your own business

[Ostrich @OstrichInCrisis]

We are the media now.

[TheLizVariant @TheLizVariant]

Life is way too short to hold grudges.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

A SHORT POEM ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND GERMAN…

English weather is wet
German weather is Wetter

English kids are kind
German kids are Kinder

English mothers mumble
German mothers Mutter

And the English shout the word people
But Germans just quietly Menschen it

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Isaac Newton discovering Pink Floyd (1660)

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Imagine starting with a block of stone and ending with this…

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Researchers took ChatGPT away from workers for 4 days.

They couldn't ask coworkers for help. They described talking to another human being as a burden.

Here is what they found.

Researchers conducted a four-day diary study on 10 knowledge workers who frequently use ChatGPT. They removed access to all LLMs completely and documented everything that happened.

The disruption was immediate.

Workflows broke down. Participants found gaps in their ability to execute tasks they previously handled with AI. Without the tool, they realized how many parts of their process had quietly been handed over to the machine.

But the most disturbing finding wasn't about productivity.

It was about people.

When participants needed help during the withdrawal, they refused to ask coworkers. They described asking another human being for assistance as a social burden. They assumed their colleagues would find it tiring and burdensome.

One participant said they avoided asking people questions because they feared being seen as a "finger prince" - a Korean slang term for someone who burdens others with easily searchable questions.

They would rather switch between different AI services, from ChatGPT to Grok, than have a conversation with the person sitting next to them.

ChatGPT didn't just become a tool. It replaced human interaction entirely. And when it was taken away, these workers had forgotten how to reach out to each other.

The researchers described LLM use as "inescapably normative." The participants didn't even realize how dependent they had become until the AI was gone. It had woven itself so deeply into their daily routines that its absence felt disorienting.

But here is what nobody expected.

When forced to work without AI, participants started reclaiming professional values they had lost. They reconnected with their own thinking. Some found that human help was actually more useful than AI had ever been.

One participant said that if the withdrawal had lasted a year, "discussions between people would be more active."

Four days without ChatGPT and they remembered what it felt like to think for themselves.

The question is whether the rest of us ever will.

[Spaceballs The X Account @Grunt2A]

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

[Art or Other Things @ArtorOtherThing]

The Road Out of Town, Justin Parpan

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

In Sicily, a classical music concert was held at the ancient Taormina Theatre, but the real star of the show was Mount Etna erupting.
A truly magical night!

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Battle of Cesme at Night (1848)
Ivan Aivazovsky (Russian 1817-1900)

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Robert Gillmor (1936–2022)
Swans Flying Over the Reeds

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

Norse god Balder as depicted by Swedish illustrator Johan Egerkrans

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Someone filmed bats upside down and it looks like a gothic nightclub.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot.

Behold! The icy mountains of Pluto.