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Heartbreaking to look up in the sky where I live in the US northeast and see a milky haze, as the ghosts of Alberta's forests pass overhead. Never forget that the oil and gas companies knew this would happen and decided it was acceptable.
Smoke from numerous fires in Alberta will stream down aloft starting Tuesday. Effects:
🔥Milky daytime skies
🔥 Colorful sunrise/sunsets
After a late week front, there could also be a period of near surface smoke. You can monitor air quality at airnow.gov.
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TONIGHT!!! horribly excited!!
Thu at 6PM! @petridishes and @xkcd present 'Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)' at the @BrattleTheatre.
🎟️: buff.ly/42oOEd7
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i am writing a cultural history of wikipedia (with as much of its goofy content as they let me include) and i wanna hear from you! tell me what wikipedia was like for you, particularly in the early days
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Don't miss @andyweirauthor in conversation about his new book, PROJECT HAIL MARY (out now in paperback), with @xkcd coming up on 10/4!
Register for this virtual event below: andyweirauthor.com/#events
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🎉🚨 @xkcd's WHAT IF? 2 is an INSTANT New York Times bestseller! 🚨🎉 Haven't started it yet? Start reading the endlessly entertaining, "absolute delight" (Hank Green) now: bit.ly/3JkxPX9
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I just want to say a little extra thank you to all the people who are squeamish about needles and got vaccinated over the past year anyway
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The edge of the observable universe is about 270,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.
If you drive at a steady 65 miles per hour, it will take you 480,000,000,000,000,000 years to get there, or 35 million times the current age of the universe. nyti.ms/3ByZthz
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Randall Munroe, creator of the popular webcomic “xkcd” and author of a new book, applies true research to wild ideas, Michael Cavna writes.
wapo.st/3L8q8F9
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if you’re thinking “wow, I wonder what the Depths of Wikipedia girl and Randall Munroe like to talk about” and you happen to be near Ann Arbor (or will be 9/26), then BOY OH BOY do I have good news for you. Get tickets to the What If? 2 book tour event!!! eventbrite.com/e/literati-bo…
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You heard it straight from the @dearhankandjohn podcast! 🦖 @xkcd's WHAT IF? 2 is out 9/13-- and there's still time to enter our preorder contest (with a very special prize!): sites.prh.com/whatif2
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And Randall will also be doing ANOTHER signing after the panel at 11:30 at AA07 in the autographing area (in the Sails Pavilion) TODAY. Come join us! ✍️
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Calling all #SDCC22 attendees! Randall Munroe (@xkcd) will be doing a signing of advance reader copies of WHAT IF? 2 at the @penguinrandom booth TODAY at NOON! Come by booth 1514/1515 to pick up a ticket at 11:30AM! ✍️
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Are you at #SDCC? Are you a big fan of @xkcd? Head over to the @penguinrandom booth at 1514/1515 to get an exclusive WHAT IF? 2 crown AND join us for a giveaway of special advance reader copies of the book 🚨TODAY AT 3:30PM PT at the booth! 🚨
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Thank you! Here are some #dalle2-generated posters you can use if your excellent book “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place” is adapted into a big-budget summer blockbuster
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Was trying to help @xkcd figure out how to get #dalle to generate Captchas.
After several minutes of squinting at screenshots trying to decide if any of them were captchas @xkcd was the first to realize that what we'd inadvertently done was create
a metacaptcha
ALT Dalle prompted with "captcha screenshot with a set of photos challenging the user to select the ones that contain trucks" resulting grid of 10 images each contains something resembling a grid of images each containing something resembling a truck
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🚨 Calling all Redditors! 🚨 Our WHAT IF? 2 galley giveaway on Reddit is officially live! Join us and share your favorite What if? answer to date: reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/u…
