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2026-07-22

``` @Fromzionshill (orange (psalmist) 🦌) — 12:53 AM · Jul 21, 2026 · 1M Views I watched a youtube video last week that explained that we've never caught a colossal squid on camera because we kept shining floodlights into the ocean that would blind all marine animals at that depth and then when w... [truncated by platform] ```

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Unrelated viral Twitter/X thread (not AI-safety content) about marine biology — a claim that colossal squid weren't seen on camera because research vessels' floodlights blinded them, with a linked YouTube video as the source. A quote-tweet by the well-known AI-discourse account "janus" (@repligate) reacting to the colossal-squid thread from the previous screenshot; no engagement counts visible in frame.

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Juxtopposed @juxtopposed

2025-12-30 — quote-tweeting @beeeemooooo

Juxtopposed @juxtopposed · 15h you know they took it pretty seriously back then when they made a fictional UI have actual functioning logic just to help the actors perform more realistically in a TV show (LCARS by Michael Okuda for Star Trek) [Image: mockup UI panel labeled "USS Plymouth NCC-1865", showing sections for flight control, warp drive systems, impulse systems, home automation, sensors, gauges, weather, event log ("2 ALARM ZONES TRIGGERED", "14.3 kWh USED YESTERDAY", "1.3 Tb DATA USED THIS MONTH"), stardate 87430.21, time 08:37] > QUOTED: びーも @beeeemooooo · Dec 28: "what the fuck happened in Namco's UI design department in 1998-1999" [with attached image collage of retro sci-fi UI screens]

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A design-nerd Twitter thread about Star Trek's LCARS interface (designed by Michael Okuda) being built with real functioning logic for actor realism, plus a tangent about late-90s Namco UI design. Not related to AI safety/welfare; general aesthetic/design-history interest.

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norvid_studies @norvid_studies

2025-09-06

it's brussel*S* sprouts? what the hell 💬 8 🔁 2 ♡ 35 📊 1.3K

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A trivial, unrelated joke tweet about the spelling of "brussels sprouts" — no substantive content connecting to the archive's themes.

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