guy who has a world-historic meltdown once a month because he has been bumping his head on the same shelf in the closet for 175 years

We now have Star Trek’s universal translators, and people hate it.

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...

*getting burnt as a Cathar by the church in the Albigensian crusade* this is capitalism's fault

you have to vote for the democrat in november 2028. any other option - voting republican, not voting, voting third party - is completely and totally morally unacceptable and should result in your expulsion from polite society

this seems paradoxical until you realize that pause and elon's stock offerings are both affinity scams targeting weird nerds who feel alienated from corporate culture in silicon valley

Trump has benefitted from tight lips in the Oval Office

I genuinely have a pretty high opinion of Anthropic, I really hope they don't fold on this

god this drives me mad in the UK; hearing transphobic arguments from older liberals *that are identical to the 1990s conversation they were on the right side of*.

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

Whenever I see a Brianna Wu post I'm reminded of that bit in the Boondocks where Anne Cutler turns out to be a crisis agent for black radicals and grifters

Will Stancil and the left resuming their argument about the Biden economy is like how at the end of an episode everyone forgets the comradery of the last 30 minutes and resets to the status quo

HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT! HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT! HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

Yeah. The thread is about you struggling with navigating murky and ambiguous situations. You assume that because someone thinks microplastics are poisoning us, they must not ever drive anywhere. And that if someone is unsure of whether incest is evil, that they must secretly want to fuck their dad.

however racist you think the west is, you have no idea the levels of insane crackpot racism that's going on in asia

When I see angry posts about Democrats' record on trans issues I can't just let them go by. I don't see it as my job to defend them, and I have a lot of problems with how they're meeting the moment, but on trans issues the support really DID NOT collapse the way many expected it to.

I'm pretty sure all the people posting weird LLM responses are just doing it for clicks and might be faking them. I've tried to get free models like Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek to make the same mistakes. And the only way to do it is to tell the LLM to be hyper literal

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I think liberal internationalism, aliances and defence cooperation are good, actually.

Rubio's standing ovation in Munich after he declared the end of the “rules based order” shows how weak many European “leaders” have become. Instead of defending universal human rights they folded to his siren song of blood & soil. I called out Rubio's Trump-lobotomy last March:

“Justice is served.” - Pam Bondi

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

Okay this is a great message and all but he follows up the "trans people are 1% of the population" thing by saying "undocumented people are 1% of the population" and I'm here to pedantically say no, actually, they're a bit over 4% of the population.

“Another common complaint is that xAI is ‘stuck in the catch-up phase’ without shipping anything fundamentally new” Hey that’s not fair, nobody else has shipped a non-consensual child pornography machine with anywhere near this velocity.

The co-founder exodus at xAI is blamed on Elon’s focus on Grok producing NSFW content and being perennially behind leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. I guess being pioneers in AI generated CSAM and deepfake porn was less exciting than they originally imagined.🤷🏾‍♂️

Not with Microsoft's AI products they're not.

A tech founder sent me an explanation of a meeting with Elon and asked for advice on what to do next. Here's how I replied, so everyone can benefit.

we need a public health investigation into TYT's water supply do they use exclusively leaded gasoline to heat the place?

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

this website is a machine for surfacing extremely rarefied internecine beef from toxic friend groups and you need to be able to recognize when it's happening and avert your gaze

Princesses of the Underworld / #Hades / #WonderWoman / #Melinoe / #AbsoluteWonderWoman / #DCcomics / #MyArt / #Yuri /

Every 3rd person was a Hambone virtuoso until they invented Atari in 1977

Hello yes I am AOC's campaign manager and I am asking all tankies to keep saying this shit Say it where normie Americans can hear you, preferably

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Whenever I see a streamer or gamer complain about the "environmental impact of AI" I raise an eyebrow. having your pc running while streaming, with a headset, with a mic, with a ring light, and probably also with a audio mixer, is a much less efficient use of energy.

This is, btw, a banal and reasonable opinion in the scientific literature, and yet it remains incredibly controversial with the broader public.

Every time I hear Trump say "Tren de Aragua" it sounds like he's saying "Trendy Aragua", and my mind automatically goes here.

It shows

I had to rethink a lot of priors during the 6 months last year when LLMs went from “can’t add” to “can’t do undergrad hw math” to “can’t find group isomorphisms it takes me an hour to do by hand” to “Can’t reinvent obscure parts of my thesis from scratch reliably given only a vague description”

I am an anti-anti power scaler. “What matters is the story!” Yes, and for a story to be good, it needs to have internal logic. It is possible to tell a good story where the weaker party wins through luck, cunning, the power of friendship, etc. but you need to have a sense for a fight to sell it.

I'd fuckin' read the hell out of this short story lmao