“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

it’s insane to me that we’re just letting these assholes ruin everything

Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it

That is 100% correct. I am so sick of Europeans expressing exaggerated horror at ICE when pushbacks, ‘accidental’ drownings, and incarceration of migrants have been policy here for years.

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution

In general the idea that Christianity was an "imposition" of some kind on like two thirds of Europe rather than a conscious political choice is just downright silly and I can say this because I come from the other third

I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.

That's not to say that the existence of GLP-1s are directly making people more bigoted in their anti-fatness. But their marketing relies on extremely anti-fat tropes, floods the airwaves with anti-fat messages, and sends the message that anti-fatness is not just pro-health, it's morally righteous.

There's a short video clip of Pinker and Epstein on the plane and a girls voice says "where are you taking me" and this is the still from it. So I don't know what he's talking about.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

we are not, in fact, only interested in 'what is the most of this that can be done'. we are interested in other humans, what we do and how we can learn to do it best. the failure of Sora is at least partly down to this, I think. the purpose of watching movies is 'connecting with other human minds'

v good point from the Economist Boss Class podcast: chess-playing programmes have been beating chess grand-masters for decades. But people are still watching humans playing chess not AIs. Also however fun F1 is, it's still not OK to compete in the 100m sprint by getting into a car

This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing

11 years ago, they took down the confederate flag at the South Carolina state house and it actually got support from a wide majority of people across the political spectrum. Even Trump at the time said it was the right decision. We live in a completely different world now.

Like I said a couple years ago, leftist antisemitism is getting worse. Like, we're at the Naming The Jew stage and next I guess will be the triple parentheses

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

CW- murder, racism Just read an article about 4 Haitian women deported from Puerto Rico. They've all been found dead, left in a river. This is what republican immigration policy does "Deporting anyone to a place where they had fled for asylum is murder" www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-abductio...

*hearing about a horrific, bonkers-sounding conspiracy theory* me in 2010: lol people will believe anything me now: and honestly that's probably only the tip of the iceberg. that's just what they're letting us know about, i bet it's way worse

Not only the world’s most prolific sex offender, but also owner of the world’s most prolific kompromat archive. No wonder he switched off all those security cameras outside his locked cell then hung himself.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

The people who thought Bad Bunny was divisive are, if anything, more incensed by “we are america,” in their terms it’s the most offensive and outrageous thing he could have said

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was the most-watched halftime performance of all time with over 135 million viewers.

I come back to this open letter (from 2020) a lot, and I’ll give it the last word. amazonemployees4climatejustice.medium.com/amazon-emplo...

Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:

There's a fun game I like to play in my flat called Where's That Water Coming From?! 🤔

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

This is not at all breaking news at all and many have pointed out as such but this is also the key reason why many folks will not partake of your Substacks (because it is hosted at THE Nazi bar)

Taking your own food when you’re going TO ITALY. truly the sign of a demented mind

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

My piping hot take on PLURIBUS is that it’s one of the most Ghibli-esque shows on TV today, and people who think its pacing is too slow ought to really sit with and examine why they feel that slow pace = bad. Its first season has several minutes worth of “mā”, and is much stronger for it, IMO

For a lot of art, the thing you need is paper and pencils and/or pens, and a desire to love and appreciate the world you live in and other art. That's it.

(seen a bunch of people sharing this/talking in general about how "normal" Mamdani is but imo this doesn't show a normal person, but an *exceptionally* skilled communicator - a normal person wouldn't react like that to having a speech interrupted by a child! give him his due!)

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

He's such a good communicator. And seems genuinely normal and decent?? Refreshing!

I mean!!!!

Immigration does not cause low wages: restrictions of the ability of any group of workers to bargain & demand better wages causes low wages. It so happens that we justify doing that to migrant workers “because foreign” & this govt is increasing those restrictions massively.

This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that.

i decided they needed a statblock

The example I use: if you had a *mere* $1b — a fraction of what Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg have — you could spend $25,000 every single day of your life and you would never run out of money. Your children would still be extremely rich. It would take over a hundred years to deplete your wealth.

if the whole genocide thing wasn't enough for you, another good reason to get AIPAC money out of democratic politics is that the organization now exists to move republican donor money into democratic races to sow chaos and get the most republican-friendly democrat elected

In case anyone thinks OP is exaggerating the point

This. Ultimately, the idea that bad people can't make good art is the old fallacy that beauty equals goodness, just at one remove.