When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

finally won my cultural victory. nzinga mbande is a very fun leader

On this program I have a heavy 9-10 followed by a 4x4 at the same weight. Around the 3rd of 4 sets my body just stops complaining and assumes we have to keep doing this for the rest of our lives. The lifter’s high

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

Highly rec reading Careless People bc she goes into depth on how they spent no time at all on moderation and safety for this program, and how that resulted in it being instrumental in the Myanmar genocide among other horrors

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

The problem that “what if we do good things from here on” overlooks is that the present is contingent on the past and doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Not liking what America is doesn’t mean you can like, uproot it and start over in a new save file

no truth and reconciliation, just empire for ever and ever

God is the original Job creator. One for the Bible fans.

i'm glad people still bother to write long yglesias rebuttals to hopefully convince someone somewhere he's a contrarian windbag even if i personally don't feel the need to read em anymore

Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has entertained a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel.

Two essays to read together: A Kenyan man on pretending to be an AI intimacy bot: data-workers.org/michael/ An American woman on pretending to be a real estate bot: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/ess...

Running a GZCL variation I’ve never tried before (burrito but big) and I hate to say it but I think I prefer it to jacked and tan. Thank you to the two people reading this who have any clue what I am talking about

Just in time for me to potentially RTO

Biggest realization for me with LLMs is that many people are desperate to be flattered

i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"

Just saw a commercial that still had the free video editor watermark

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Worth noting: Marc Andreessen, after whom half of Andreessen Horowitz is named, sits on Meta’s board of directors. Doublespeed’s business would clearly violate Meta’s policy on “authentic identity representation.” Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here:

NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

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Absolute monsters

I think my favorite detail of Gone Girl is that she’s such a New Yorker she tries to buy a gun illegally

my most middle agèd crank opinion is that the NYT crossword has gotten too easy and not enough people are talking about it

Talking with friends yesterday about the current culture around getting rich while "doing good" (and how squishy that is) and in any space that touches Big Tech I do understand that for most people when they're not talking to me they're around guys like this

GIVE FOLKS CASH A lot of people panhandling use that money to get hotels or hostel beds. Give someone a $20 and they are well on their way to getting the amount they need to get inside for the night.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Getting a REAL ID is already extremely difficult and now they’re saying having one isn’t “real ID”? Ok bro

Urbanists will talk about how cars are a machine that makes you selfish and crazy, and I know it’s easy to roll your eyes at that but if you give drivers the ability to comment they will say “yes I am selfish and crazy”

A billion dollars and the idea is basically Star Wars JibJab

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think a big American culture problem is fear of “pointing fingers.” Sometimes we really know who is responsible for something & it’s crazy that people will fight you about “exposing” them

People who designed the common core who attribute this to a misinterpretation of the project are not unbelievably naive—they’re just lying to you

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

Following three elderly people into Little Miss Sunshine after hearing them pick it because it “sounded wholesome” at the box office

A month ago I wrote a piece on how the major forecasting groups were greatly underestimating oil demand destruction. One reason: Electrification of chinese trucking. Since then there have been a lot more articles like this. This one is pretty good. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

Seattle is known for its rain, so to outsiders, this may seem like an ordinary occurrence, but it's not. It is REALLY REALLY wet right now and the rain keeps falling — not the persistent Seattle mist of yesteryear, but a continuous rain that doesn't seem to be letting up anytime soon.

I just badly typed “could” into my phone and it autocorrected to “McDouble”, a word I have never typed until this post in my life

Thinking about the anecdote in Careless People about Xi Jinping flying a bunch of soldiers to a summit with him for the express purpose of not even having to see, much less interact with, Mark Zuckerberg. www.yahoo.com/news/xi-jinp...

It’s so cool to watch serious people run a country

EC has formally opened an investigation into Google for using publishers’ content without meaningful consent or compensation for its AI Overviews feature. Big win for civil society orgs like @foxglovelegal.bsky.social who’ve been asking for this. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Terrible wacky subway surfer in frame woman with a boulder on a glass bridge ass misanthropic bullshit

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Since Elon Musk joined the Trump Administration in January 2025, Starlink has entered 26 new countries, sometimes in places where they had struggled for regulatory approval for years until they were suddenly greenlit https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

$600B valuation and this is the PR lmfao

“Guzmán’s daughter was still in the NICU, unable to eat or breathe independently. The doctors had planned a meeting to review the baby’s prognosis and care plans… As Guzmán went to buckle her seatbelt, she looked out the window and noticed they were surrounded.”

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

libby does though so be careful out there