Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely. Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.

ICYMI: Keith Rosenthal's reappraisal of Fiorello La Guardia's historical legacy is still live on our website.

Incredible how much dirt the Dems had on Trump and never used it 'cause the Epstein case hits a bunch of their own guys. Their donor class and the guys they advance as major candidates have so much more in common with him than with you.

America continues to pay for its crimes by being subjected to the Kennedys

Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

This isn't "reminiscent" of 2008, this is LITERALLY the same type of gambling except actually worse with SPVs being used on a much greater scale: "(data center) asset backed securities" are the same thing as "(subprime) mortgage backed securities"!

If people want to claim that Zionists don't wield limitless power in every Western nation, I feel like the whole Tisch thing—ie. her being what amounts to a shadow mayor that a wildly popular now-mayor-elect in the biggest city in the US needs to bend the knee to even before winning—isn't helping...

"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch received advance notice from the Trump administration last month that ICE agents were about to conduct a controversial immigration enforcement raid along Canal Street... In response, sources say Tisch directed NYPD officers to stay away from the ICE agents"

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Okay I could've sworn mould meant to mold and mold was like... mold.

1/As Trump prepares to meet with Xi in China, tech is one of the thorniest topics on the table. Our investigation shows Washington repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police. apnews.com/article/chin...

fuck gavin newsom

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

The US is seeing the largest number of layoffs since 2020, with nearly 1 million people losing their jobs so far this year.

Zoteroers' make sure you're regularly backing up/syncing your library to the cloud! I had signed up originally using a grad school email. Now that I've lost access to it, I couldn't even log in on a new device (luckily was still logged in on my main). Had to export, start a new account, import.

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

And I think there's the long and short of it I don't think he knowingly got it as a Nazi symbol, but my bet is he found out pretty quick, and his emotional attachment to a certain code of military machismo meant he wouldn't get rid of it Nazi symbols weren't a deal breaker

The Bernie Sanders who went on Lou Dobbs and sounded like a xenophobe was the real Bernie Sanders.

Can’t go to bed because I’m doing an experiment where I stay exhausted for my entire life

I’m fully prepared to dive head first into my conspiracy theory that Trent Reznor was replaced by a compliant clone after Year Zero for getting too close to the truth

Intentionally triple-tapping a group of easily identifiable journalists who are IN A HOSPITAL can in no possible scenario be described as an "error".

It's actually quite bad and a lot of people are just in denial about it

The genocide continues.

Lest I be tagged as a killjoy I won't say what I'm really thinking about the inflatable animal suit protests....

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

Still remember when Grayzone tried to use this (amongst other things, like knowing how to build barricades) to "discredit" HK protesters

Wishing all the Israeli "hostages" a very happy **** ** ***** ************!

University of California & Cal State campuses have together shared the names of thousands of employees with the Trump admin as it probes antisemitism allegations. Faculty are demanding schools, which say they are legally required to share data, push back: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

It really sucks how the key to writing is really to just be stressed out for days before you actually sit down to write, obsessively thinking about the topic to the detriment of your health and personal life.

missed the anniversary of this by one day, sorry, but still

This just seems like selection bias: those who use LB and log every view are more likely drawn to niche horror and art films. Though I can also imagine for anyone who wasn't alive in the 70s who is interested in 70s film, you're more likely reaching for House over Close Encounters.

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration. MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon. The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

I LOVE AUTUMN

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

Do I dare ask what Agamben has said since Oct 7 2023

George Ibrahim Abdullah ❤️

Moving to bsky just to be visually assaulted by the dumb words of a Elon-lite millennial CEO has me apologizing to all the new platform adoption skeptics.

more guidance from the AAUP; GET IN FORMATION www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR...

On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was killed at the Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip during widespread protests and riots across the Palestinian territories against Israeli military occupation. Jamal al-Durrah and his son Muhammad were...

Happy to report that Hacks is nowhere close to being groundbreaking but actually well written, funny and rock solid sitcom fare

We don’t learn until the last second of this video that Joseph Gordon Levitt’s wife was a board member at OpenAI. Kind of think they should have put that disclaimer towards the beginning.

(rich elites uproarious laughter meme)

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

THE MEME IS REAL

No one, least of all Coates who is one of the greatest public intellectuals of the 21st century, should still be legitimizing Klein as anything close to public intellectual by appearing on his show.