Adam Smyer

I will die on this hill, and I accept the friendship ending over that point. That said, basically only soulmates would fall out over something like this.

I support your reasoned and balanced response. Many years ago a close friend and I fell out over class issues in LOTRO. He insisted that Sam and Frodo had an equal relationship as peers, and I was like, "So how come only one of them is calling the other one 'Mister'."

There are many great bands and many brilliant musicians. But none are objectively better than the Ohio Players. #oldhead #fightme #jiveturkey

If you don’t understand a post, sure, you can respond with “Huh? What?,” or you can simply hold your tongue and let it go and move on with the absolute certainty that there’ll be, within seconds, another post that you also don’t understand.

esquire article with headline “why does gen z love rumours so much?”

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

Many people are asking: "Why won't Mamdani just allow the wealth to trickle down the way it's supposed to?"

When you wake from an overly sound sleep on the subway, the announcer is saying shit like this.

Anybody else feel like they are in the first 20 minutes of a zombie movie? You know, the "There sure have been a lot of stories in the news lately about bitings" part?

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis

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You know what idea would never catch on if it came out today? Self-control.

I was totally going to rob the Louvre. But I forgot.

From Smell Loss to Brain Fog: Unpacking the Long COVID Puzzle Highlights from Stanford’s 2025 Long COVID symposium reveal new insights on smell loss, migraines, gut health, blood changes, and whole-person care.

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I can't stop thinking about how one day there will be a name for this time that we are all living in right now.

I love how every drug's selling point is "It's not heroin" and then you get to heroin and its selling point is "It's heroin."

I can't know how much Quincy Jones just knows what I like and how much he is the reason I like it. All I know is TAKE MY MONEY QUINCY JONES

August 20, 2025!

I may be at that stage of life where I have future shock from now on.

KNEE: *hurts*

ME: I didn't even do shit!!

KNEE: I know.

Ooh - Looks like the tsunami's been canceled. I wonder what it said.

YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma Southern Racists Are Nicer Than NYC Racists | SubwayTakes FULL EPISODE

Hot take from @wkamaubell.bsky.social. Based on my visits to Baton Rouge I do not disagree. If nothing else, some of the best "y'all"s I have ever heard in my life came from unlikely faces down there.

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We were supposed to switch off on the verses but I was feeling all of them so I did Chuck's too, and so now as far as I'm concerned that's how it came out the way it did irl.

Last night I dreamt it was 1988 again and I was in the booth with Chuck recording Party for Your Right to Fight. I was kind of Flav and I was kind of me. My brain is fun as fuck sometimes.

This one hit me in the feels today

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At some point I realized that the security guard I said goodnight to had no idea what "Yabba dabba doo" meant. Briefly considered changing my name and leaving town.

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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YouTube video by AudioFile Magazine ONLY STARS KNOW THE MEANING OF SPACE by Rémy Ngamije, read by Janina Edwards, Aaron Goodson, Denn...

What a delight to have Only Stars Know The Meaning Of Space as this week's featured audiobook by @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxC...

Many thanks to Jo Reed and Stephen Cummings for the selection!

In fairness, if you like Netflix docs about egomaniacs causing avoidable disasters, this is a great time to be alive.

Book by Haig N Najariah called "Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones"

trying to understand my ex better

it’s time to replace all doctors with ai

Is it just me, or have "reality" shows gotten even more malicious? Not that they were ever benign. But currently it seems inevitable that there will be a reality show where five people smoke crack for the first time and then we follow them around.