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some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

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Just incredible meme potential #2: "You are barely smart enough to breathe"

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

“Omg they blocked me over a joke.” I’ll block anyone, idec. I’d block my mother if she sent an emoji I didn’t like. I never developed object permanence I wouldn’t even miss her.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

I am halfway through Hail Mary and don't want to judge it too harshly but my impression of Weir as a writer is someone who isn't really interested in the abstract or metaphorical and that's not a super interesting way to read about differences in language lol

It's also highlighting what a fucking miracle of a writer Ted Chiang is, this kinda thing is so so hard to do well

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

“Grok says” - you might as well be quoting a Magic 8-Ball, what the fuck is wrong with you

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

I do not "have trouble" with this and am increasingly disturbed by the idea others do

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

wait this is INSANE all the new slang online is just incel psyops?? why aren’t we calling this out more often?? i feel insane??

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

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Palantir. Sauron. CyberDyne. Blackrock. Mr Beast Inc. Cerberus. Blackwater. Anduril. Citizen. Citadel. Gilead. Bain Capital. Darktrace. Oracle. Umbra.

It’s really funny to see people get mad about historical accuracy in the Odyssey adaptation because there’s a cyclops in that story. There’s a witch who turns men into pig. gods are literally real and manifest physically. It’s okay if there’s a black guy.

What Big Motivational Poster doesn't want you to know is that we can just make out own masterpieces using ms paint

[16/n] I choose to give authority to the my fellow citizens when it comes to their right to tell me who they are. Biology is complicated. Law is messy. But kindness and respect do not have to be. [End of Thread 🧵]

Friendly neighborhood biologist here again. I’ve been seeing lots of post on how simple biological sex is. Since sex in society is such a hot-button issue these days, we should be able to find the basis of biological sex in law, right? Let’s do it! Let’s find the basis of sex, round 2! 🧵

We are NOT the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn. Historians pushing back against a flawed narrative. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

“Everything I say leaks. And it sucks, right?,” Zuckerberg said at a Meta all-hands meeting this year. This came after Meta's $25 million settlement with Trump and the company agreeing to pay $22 million for the Trump Presidential Library. From January: www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

recalibrate your bullshit meter if this doesn't set it off at least 3 times

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

I wrote about Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes, CBS News, and what all of this says about the state of mainstream media. www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

I’m sorry ezra but I could swear you told me the cruel folks were doing this the right way

Almost like putting heavy construction on beach fronts is... Causing the erosion...

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

@anyaustin.bsky.social got a bunch of people to guess how many trees are in skyrim and then donated $10,000 to Palestine Children's Relief Fund so that at least warrants watching him derive forestry sciences from first principles

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

As the gift-buying reaches a fever pitch, consider the Southern Reach series for a loved one, friend, or even just the boss you hope to confuse long enough to quit on your own terms. Buy now while there's still money. Intros by Julia Armfield, N.K. Jemisin, Karen Joy Fowler, and Helen Macdonald

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

It was never about protecting women, it was never about women's sport.