look at what they took from you

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

And they say there's no moral way to become a billionaire

i don't think anyone on here will care but lately I have entertained myself by making some cross-stitch patterns of some world heritage posts, and i can share them with you if you are interested.

It seems that the only trans person known to be in the orbit of this horrific Kirk assassination saga expressed shock and horror, and immediately cooperated fully with law enforcement.

I went to a Timbers game last night, they won and now I'm a soccer hooligan

great advice going around for turning off autoplay videos but might i suggest

For the record, my goal is for my last post to be "ruh row."

New Call of Duty Adds Trash Collecting Game Mode hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

I have questions and concerns

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

meta ai trying to figure it out

thanks ai

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

This was the perfect ideal of development - US dollars supporting US farmers to make a cheap product that literally saves starving children's lives. You couldn't get a better story. And that didn't matter. It didn't save it from the cuts. It's gone and children are dying of starvation

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

It's crazy that four years ago, over a million Americans died in a pandemic, with probably at least a third of those deaths preventable with modest policy changes, and the elite consensus is now that a lot more people should have died.

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

The Sixth House is risen, and Dagoth is its glory. You have defied my Lord Dagoth, and his judgement is death. Flee, and hide, or die where you stand.

"advertiser polycule" came to mind unbidden

OH: “Stop outsourcing the discomfort of thinking”

I love Carol Kane but she's too funny for Strange New Worlds and they don't use her right often enough.

Caves of Qud

Was really delighted to receive - in the mail?! a print newspaper focusing on my neighborhood. It was delightful and included exactly the hyperlocal news I wanted such as whether the new cafe down the street is any good. Now it just needs more hot neighborhood goss.

Please PLEASE do not complain when someone is doing something good and trying to help others. It never made sense to me that people who try to do something good get more criticism than people who do nothing or bad things. Like let people feel good about doing good things.

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Well, PACER was hacked again, probably by a nation state: www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Luckily, our blog post from 2021 still holds up. If only we could have known this might happen. free.law/2021/10/05/p...

Yes! For instance, I am tentatively excited about Google Aeneas, which uses existing human-coded databases of 250K ancient Roman inscriptions to help predict missing fragments in other inscriptions. This uses computers' superior quantitative capabilities to supplement epigraphers' expert knowledge.

This is just a Whataburger

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

this reminds me of the time i got an email about my “vocal fry” in a guest lecture

I love how they attribute these household items to specific artists based on style. Like “The Eyebrow Painter” below.

OpenAI will, starting in 2028, have to start paying $30bn a year to Oracle, $28bn to Microsoft for Azure, and also $2.9bn to CoreWeave for compute. That’s $60.9 billion *in compute costs alone*. This company is an absolute joke and should be treated as such. www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

I like the catbird because it's fully capable of singing a beautiful song but most of the time it just goes WEEEEHHHHHHH!!!

This picture of a juvenile secretary bird appeared on my tumblr feed the other day and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. the legs, the hairdo, the expression?? what am I supposed to do with this information

I don’t know whether the AltNPS account is active disinformation or just someone with a loose and crumbling grip on reality, but either way, it is not a reliable source of information and should not be regarded as any more authoritative than a shitpost.

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