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January 12, 2026

January 12, 2026

January 12, 2026

she was beautiful, like code that compiles on the first try

but also you just knew that there was something deeply wrong with her, like code that compiles on the first try

— mickey friedman (@mickeyxfriedman) January 10, 2026


So I’m at a NATO conference near Hamburg early last year, and a German admiral gives an entire, oddly passionate speech about using flashing light Morse code at sea.

Now, I’m actually a fan of old tech. I own a sextant. I run HAM radios. I’ve even qualified in flashing light. I… https://t.co/Xsqbeh3V7F pic.twitter.com/FqWoVI85B1

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) January 11, 2026


You either die a disruptor, or live long enough to see yourself become an incumbent pic.twitter.com/uRhbxpNOcU

— Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) January 11, 2026


Even as prisoners in war-torn Berlin on the eve of the soviet onslaught...

The French continued to be absolute menaces pic.twitter.com/dnXoWR8ZY1

— François Valentin (@Valen10Francois) January 11, 2026


An AI program built to write police reports claimed an officer had transformed into a frog

Police discovered the system had accidentally pulled dialogue from a Disney film playing in the background during the body camera recording pic.twitter.com/Mn5zSZ1lgQ

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) January 10, 2026


just in case u somehow aren't aware of this, a random math undergrad with a furry twitter account is producing the first known instances of AI ~end to end solving outstanding mathematical problems posed by Erdos (with solutions that don't just come from literature search) https://t.co/Y9hHEKPN8g

— Tenobrus (@tenobrus) January 10, 2026


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