I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.

The perception that LLM adoption can only grow rests on the intuition that current norms will continue in the future. However, AI companies cannot give away AI services at a net loss indefinitely. blogs.dal.ca/openthink/th...

Software development by agentic AI is unsustainable. The real net costs of LLM inference for agentic use cases are much higher than the flat rate subscription fees paid by customers. If AI companies charge customers the real cost of inference, then LLM usage will drop sharply due to high fees.

This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...

It is surprising to me that none of the major platforms have actual _parental control_ features so that we can limit the amount of time that our parents can spend online, and which apps they’re allowed to use. I don’t worry about my teenager’s use of the internet at all, just my octogenarian dad’s.

just one more LLM discourse bro and we will whip this website into perfect shape I can do it this time bro I promise okay let’s get started here’s my opening: It Is Inevitable And You Cannot Escape It Just Like Market Capitalism. Why are people mad at me again what did I do wrong bro I don’t unde—

When I had a life threatening post operative internal bleed, an ER sent me home three times. All three times they made it clear my “attitude” wasn’t appreciated. That I was “wasting their time”. On the 4th visit they threatened to have security remove me. My then bf got loud & a doctor noticed.

Trump says the people who “thought Epstein was the greatest guy on earth, only to drop him like a dog when things got too HOT” are “sleazebags.” Trump is criticizing people who…stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?

Read this and weep.

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Reposting out of a response thread to remind US people: if you make people mad on the internet, it is a VERY worthwhile investment to add an umbrella policy to your homeowners' or renters' insurance. I recommend a $2m per incident minimum; we increased ours to $5m recently just in case.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

The idea you can only cheat greedy people is destructive and leads to a lot of well-meaning people being cheated because they let their guard down. You can cheat by working pretty much any impulse, greed is just the most obvious lever some people have.

This is a great article that continually steelmans the opponent's arguments and finds that every argument isn't supported by the data.

Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans

Skilled literature researchers learn more from library research than an LLM's balanced summary of a topic. Unskilled researchers learn more from an LLM's balanced summary of a topic than Googling a natural language leading question, unaware that libraries teach people not to do that.

After several decades of software development, tech executives admit they never learned that a successful tech demo does not mean the software is production-ready and ready to ship.

they didn’t think the technology was further along than it was, they thought the technology was something it wasn’t

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

Irish woman with green card, bounced 2 checks totaling $80 ten years ago. For this "crime of moral turpitude," she was held pending deportation, no bond, and put in isolation for asking for low-sodium food. It's great she's out. But also white privilege – 18 Senators wrote to Kristi Noem about her.

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

They confirmed that wheat causes celiac disease during the post WWII Dutch famine (when celiac kids, like all kids, didn’t get any bread but actually died less than before )

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Kind of amazing that outlets are still saying the student cited the Bible in her essay - she didn't! The essay is incredibly short! You could just read it!

You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

One big Holocaust education issue in the US is that people don't know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp (though the two were often linked), so they assume that people referring to a "concentration camp" are being unfairly hyperbolic in a case like this.

She didn’t cite anything

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

“Since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery” should be our new badge of honour :) 🇨🇦

"Since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery" is such a hilarious line because it is in fact 100% backwards. You can't be a traitor to a country you're not from??????

I love that he's explaining the housing crisis from the landlord perspective

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

ChatGPT Wrapped knows exactly what I spend my time on, which makes me worry about privacy and ownership of our cognitive pasts. Self-hosting cannot come too soon.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

"Grab 'em by the pussy" comes full circle with "grab snatch".

Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

This is an introvert app. I don’t have to have my volume up. I can get off thoughts, say what I have to say, and then leave. Text based social media is the introvert dream.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

if hypothetically there were a very common and well known way to screw up redaction and if I hypothetically were a disgruntled FBI employee hauled in to do redaction I didn’t want to do, I might familiarize myself with that common screw-up

It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc. The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies. This is a universal experience.