Glenn Valoppi

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Bob Karloff?

Ep 100: The National Noise Podcast Episode · Tony Martin’s SIZZLETOWN · 03/12/2025 · 1h 23m

Your only chance to hear an 86-year-old man doing a Taylor Swift number (to perfection). podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

You awake to find yourself in a dark room. Do you...

A) look for a shopkeeper selling quests

B) seek a mysterious stranger giving away maps

C) Listen to Realms Unknown!

Yeah, that's right, this week's episode features @joznorris.bsky.social and choose your own adventures!

tinyurl.com/JozRealm

Flowchart titled “Should you attend that meeting?” with decision nodes leading to “Decline!” in all cases.

Behold: a genuinely useful flowchart #AcademicChatter

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms

you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

We’ve spent a ludicrous amount of time on the 100th episode of #SIZZLETOWN, out at midnight. Pete Smith popped in to supervise the mix of his song, which, by the way, is INSANE. sizzletownpodcast.com

Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions? Banks of servers operating 24/7 generate massive amounts of heat, requiring power to run and cool them

AI is an absolute net negative for humanity. So of course govts are clamouring for more of it.

I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

-Dentist: "You're brushing your teeth wrong"

-Nutritionist: "You're eating wrong"

-Parents: “You're living wrong"

-Liquor Store Clerk: "Excellent choice”

YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW

romantasy fans, meet romorror. meet romience fiction. meet surrealmance. meet postmoderomance. meet tom clantasy

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

The X-Files is genuinely a timelessly good show, because when not focusing on overarching conspiracy plot, they would really just focus on a single concept and quite crucially, it would cast an incredible actor to center the episode around who would be utterly god damn captivating to watch.

Amazing! We love to see it. Props to @risingtideaus.bsky.social for the massive effort in organising the entire People’s Blockade weekend, bringing activists from all over the country to fight climate change and the profiteering fossil fuel industry!

People are (allegedly) mad about electricity bills, which are rising mainly from poles-and-wires costs, in part to connect computer warehouses. The best way to cut poles-and-wires costs is to intervene at the grid edge, so... maybe make tech companies' grid access contingent on doing that? 🤔

"Put your shoes back on, or God help me .."

if you haven’t listened to Jimi Hendrix in a while you should listen to Jimi Hendrix

MOST EXTREME DAYS IN HISTORY ARE COMING
December will start with thousands of records in over 150 countries in
Asia,Africa,Europe,North America,Arctics.

Some places will see their first 30C in December in Iran,Iraq,Kuwait
and others 40C in Cameroon,Chad etc

Will be historic

If you would like to see me live on stage with Andy Zaltzman doing @thebugle.bsky.social, look no further!

The Bugle Live - Brisbane | The Paddo Tavern
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Doors 6.00pm
Show 7.00pm

🎟️ https://www.standup.com.au/event/andy-zaltzman-the-bugle-live/

You can now sign up for my detective-story podcast via the below avenues. I'll be delighted if you do that. It's full of talented people. I'm hoping to prove you can build something like this on @bsky.app like we did in the old country.

This country seems to have a bottomless well of sympathy towards asset rich pensioners and only contempt for anyone under 50 who is putting half their income into paying their landlords fourth mortgage and a big chunk of the rest into skyrocketing bills.

Face/Off remake, Sam Rockwell, Walter Goggins, directed by Bong Joon Ho

YouTube video by HoleVEVO Hole - Violet

Hole was so fucking good.

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

Pope Leo rocking the mic.

INTERGALACTIC
ROMAN CATHOLIC
ROMAN CATHOLIC
INTERGALACTIC

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Mr Poirot in Mischief on the Nile SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Little Kiss Marple in Muddle at the Vicarage SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time