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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop
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@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "Al" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

5:56 PM • Aug 12, 2025 ® Everybody can reply a57b52f80a25bb82.png Social media post of a news clipping. Subject reads: "The headline's good, but the rest is even better."

Text reads: 

Florida couple arrested for
selling tickets to heaven

A couple in Florida, Tito and Amanda
Watts, were arrested a few days ago for
selling "golden tickets to heaven" to
hundreds of people.

They sold the tickets on the street for
$99.99 (about sh390,000) per ticket, told
buyers the tickets were made from solid
gold, and that each ticket reserved the
buyer a spot in heaven - simply present
the ticket at the pearly gates and you are
in.

Tito Watts said in his police statement:
"T do not care what the Police say. The
tickets are solid gold. And it was Jesus
who gave them to me behind the KFC
and told me to sell them so I could get
me some money to go to outer space.
I met an alien named Stevie, who said
If I got the cash together he would take
me and my wife on his flying saucer to
his planet that is made entirely of drugs.
You should arrest Jesus because he is the
one that gave me the golden tickets. I am
willing to wear a wire and set Jesus up."

In her police statement, Amanda Watts
said: "We just wanted to leave earth and
go to space and do drugs. I did not do
anything Tito sold the golden tickets to
heaven. I lust watched."

Police said they confiscated over
$10,000 (sh39m) in cash, drug
paraphernalia and a baby alligator. 592815d131f16163.jpeg A screenshot from a government page about saving water. It says.

HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME
• Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden.
• Fix a leaking toilet - leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day.
• Use water from the kitchen to water your plants.
• Avoid watering your lawn - brown grass will grow back healthy.
• Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving.
• Take shorter showers.
• Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of
water to cool their systems. e43b9c7d413fbd1c.png Fire proof suit 80edcfba1f95fc2f.jpeg Screenshot from some other social media. Text reads:

millenianthemums

i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick 

iwasrightaboutthesun
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