Reminder: students can be a source of joy!

#PaperClipCollection #paperclips #CatsOfMastodon #catodon

#paperclips #resistance

https://thepaperclipresistance.com/

In this riveting article, we're informed that keeping secrets out of logs is just as easy as solving world peace with paperclips—no silver bullets here, folks! 🤦‍♂️ Just a "blog version of a talk" complete with #screenshots, because who doesn't love reading transcript rehashes when a video exists? 🎥🙄
https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs/ #secretsinlogs #worldpeace #paperclips #blogtalks #transcriptrehash #HackerNews #ngated

Musical biography of John von Neumann #filk #filkmusic #vonneumann #paperclips #universalpaperclips #mathematicians

Tune: Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode" (https://youtu.be/Y-9Y4CCIWnM)

(guitar solo)

Deep down in Central Europe where the Danube flows,
In the basin where the Magyar kingdoms rose,
Of all the math and science nerds, he was the best,
At the Lutheran gymnasium of Budapest.
He was Neumann János Lajos in his land of birth,
And Johnny von Neumann on the rest of Earth.

Go go, go Johnny go, go,
Go Johnny go go go,
Johnny v. N.

The theory of sets he handled with aplomb,
Then quantum mechanics and the atom bomb,
And in Philly, Pennsylvania, he came to hack
On an early computer called the ENIAC.
Then self-replicating interstellar ships,
To turn the universe into paper clips.

Go go, go Johnny go, go,
Go Johnny go go go,
Johnny v. N.

So good! If an #AI ever comes after us with #paperclips, we can strike back with #tungsten cubes: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

Life is a box of paperclips
__________________________

Not all of us will be the paperclip
taken from the box
and used to keep things together.
Most us will be bent out of shape
and used to fix a problem
used as a bored person's distraction
and then tossed in the trash.

-- W. O. Henry

#poetry #paperclips

Ask 8bitguy #paperclips

The operation to fly German scientists to America after the second world war to ensure that their expertise didn’t fall into the hands of the Soviet Union, was called Operation Paperclip.

10 things you might not know about paperclips.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/05/29-may-paper-clips.html

#NationalPaperclipDay #Paperclips #Stationery

🚨BREAKING: A government agency, known for mastering the art of making paperclip sculptures, has put its entire staff on a taxpayer-funded #vacation. 📚🎨 Perhaps they needed time to reflect on their groundbreaking work in...funding libraries? 😂
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services #governmentagency #taxpayerfunded #artsandcrafts #fundinglibraries #paperclips #HackerNews #ngated

It's Funny Because It's True, coming out in 45 days, if there's a world left for it to release into. Honestly, they'll be lucky if they make it to press proofs, the way everyone's talking.

ChatGPT will be reading it one way or another. Every copy *you* buy, buys humanity time until we all get turned into paper clips.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/christine-wenc/funny-because-its-true/9780762484430/

#ai #paperclips #theonion

→ L'horreur existentielle de l'usine à trombones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7T6WAK3Ow

“[M]ême si vous en douterez au début, Universal Paperclips raconte une histoire. À vous de voir si vous arriverez à la comprendre.”

#trombones #Paperclips

Wow I finally completed Universal #Paperclips and got the message from the Emperor of the Drift. If you want to play: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ but it will take up your time!

It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #PaperClips #LewdOfficeSupplies #PaperClip #AtTheVet #OfficeHumor

Right now I'm finishing a round of #universalpaperclips #paperclips - and this time it's my first time, where I actually am finishing to the bitter end with no clips and no drones left at all.

I'm wondering, if a single drifter will survive.

PSA: if you don't know the game yet, DON'T GOOGLE IT!

Veterinarian got some stylized paper-clips. I am not sure if this is a UX or UI error ;> #paperclips #uxui

@David_Hollingworth they have management issues and a grossly overvalued p/e but that is just what i heard through grapevine, am sure they work well for most but in biz you have to be careful and if they pressure then you need a parachute #sales #paperclips

Oh no #paperclips

It's the circle of life!

#paperclips

Things got a little out of hands....

#paperclips