Jon Halling

Jon Halling

@jonhalling.bsky.social

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It’s absolutely standard in American entertainment to reject the authentic chirpy whistle of a bald eagle and sub in the red-tailed hawk’s robust commie scream

Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social

I have an important bird fact to share. Yesterday I was hiking and heard a baby bald eagle… or so I thought. Turns out that bald eagles actually make a chirping noise so the red-tailed hawk is the eagle’s voice actor! All this time. Everyone quietly lies and subs in the hawk. Everyone in the US!

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This is my assessment of why Trump’s war went so badly wrong. Underestimating an enemy and a belief in a quick victory are familiar sources of failure, compounded in this sense by incredible ultimatums and delusional claims. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

open.substack.comThe causes and consequences of Trump’s defeatThe Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...

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sigh

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

This is the smartest take I've read about the whole situation.

Annie Kelly@annieknk.bsky.social

It is crazy the knots some men will tie themselves into rather than just admit that the feminists were correct and patriarchy is real

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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬 He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!

Soon my glorious dream of forcing AI versions of @annieknk.bsky.social and Megan Kelly to talk for 20 hours about former wrestler Kelly Kelly can be realised.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social

The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."

This is a great read, it's honestly quite astonishing how fragile Musk is, from buying a website to tell him he was funny to this venture. This kind of flailing, wild reaction to perceived criticism/reality seems common among those who seem to have radicalized themselves during COVID especially.

kate conger@kateconger.com

I wrote about all this and how Wikipedia is getting squeezed by the AI industry generally if you’re interested www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

Read 4 different books on the US Civil War (I'm English).

Ryan Nanni@celebrityhottub.bsky.social

Once again it is Father’s Day, which means it’s time to share the most Dad* thing you did in the last year. As is custom, I will go first: Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.