"we wish you a merry christmas": friendly, seasonally appropriate, induces good cheer "so bring us some figgy pudding": unwelcome surprise, things have suddenly become transactional "we won't go until we get some": rude as hell, who even invited you over

I bet this is like the "livvy rizzed up baby gronk" for people that know who livvy and baby gronk are

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

"he looks like an alcoholic california raisin" The House Democrats publicly released a new trove of photographs they’ve obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein via Dropbox and left the comments on... so anyone who is signed into Dropbox can leave their thoughts...

Interviewer: Will you oppose the pee drinking bill? Hakeem Jeffries: I will oppose higher costs. I hope Republicans will meet us at the negotiating table!

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting

the world has changed

I just read a chapter they wrote about you

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

it's that time of year again

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups. This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

The browser has everything you need, why not everything needs to be server-rendered and how preloading can alleviate complexity. jovidecroock.com/blog/platform

I allege that Garrett Michael Berna, a licensed mental health counselor out of West Brookfield MA & practicing in Newton MA (lic. #LMHC10304), is dead certainly a member of Patriot Front and the New England Active Club. He's likely been active with both organizations since April 2024, if not before.

cozy winter mode activated

refusing to believe this is real

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

just got dissed by someone in the UK

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

They should do MyChart Wrapped

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Thank you ACC for always being yourself

important point! AI is ML, but not all ML is AI.

top notch mascottin'

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

management pushing dumb ai policies and tools on you? twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back. don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!

counterpoint: it's extremely funny that a conference as chaotic as the ACC gets a seat at the grownups' table, we should be celebrating and encouraging shit like this

Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)

Once a year, on the day after Thanksgiving, a diminutive figure known only as Governor Mike travels from home to home in Massachusetts in an M1 Abrams tank collecting turkey carcasses that good Greek children leave under their pillows to use for his soup. He cannot be stopped.

oh, great idea. thanks this year to Paxton Animal Hospital, Sarkisian Builders, Oasis at Dodge Park, and Chandler Pediatrics.

You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades

maybe i am going insane

why the actual poverty line is not ~$30K/yr but somewhere around $130K/yr: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... it's not 100% convincing, but there's a lot of good stuff in here.

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

longshot ask: do I know anyone in (or who has contacts in) Sweden? there's a book I'd like to buy from a shop there but they seem to only ship domestically.

I bought this course a couple of years ago and it's great. you should buy it too - you'll learn a lot!

good christ a lot of people on here confuse "emergent property" with "intentional foundational decision" when rageposting about complex systems. not understanding a hard-to-understand thing does not mean you get to fill that thing with whatever strawmen you want.

www.nature.com/articles/s44... "Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat [to a seemingly pregnant woman] when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001)."

what was this guy’s fucking problem

credit-default swaps are back babyyyy

not in my neighborhood tyvm

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

"Haha what if the Pop-Tarts do a frosted/unfrosted schism" is great bc the average schism is due to stuff even less consequential than that

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