this is only sort of true, a huge number of companies resisted raising prices (too much) in anticipation of this exact outcome and did things like making deals where wall street gave them money (defraying the cost of not raising prices) in exchange for rights to the refunds if they were issued

I genuinely hate how many Trumpisms have worked their way into my daily speech. He operates at the perfect level of buffoonery.

Who’s feeling agentic today? 🖐

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*very* striking to me that trump's two big losses at SCOUTS--first the fed, now tariffs--are both about core macroeconomic institutions, namely free trade and an independent central bank. "go nuts on culture, go nuts on immigration, but DO NOT TOUCH the neoliberal consensus"

BREAKING: Donald Trump has written a poem titled "My Darkness" and he will be reciting it from the Rose Garden at 1 PM Eastern Time.

SCOTUS as it is currently constituted’s job is to protect, in this order: 1. Industries that damage the environment 2. Large investors 3. Its own authority 4. The GOP

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

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windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

One of the weirdest genres of take out there is “I’m a conservative woman and I’m asking conservative men to understand how much it sucks being around them in ways that are very obviously basically feminist complaints.”

Good stories are not moral lessons and there’s no worse literary/artistic criticism impulse than the one that attempts to distill every plotted work into an essay in a trenchcoat

I will never ever understand people who think a good solution to LLMs making shit up is to tell them not to

Tag yourself. I want to think I’m Xi but I’m probably actually Keir.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

I 100% believe that this is true for you, Will Stancil, but tons of the people who say it take it back the instant the candidate is a DSA guy or a candidate to the left of Hakeem Jeffries on Israel. Simply true.

It’s genuinely astounding that the tech companies promoted this instead of pitching the entire product as an amazing software engineering automation tool

I’m not saying this is wrong, but what are the older liberal democracies?

i think the best case scenario is probably akin to your insurance premiums going up massively when you get into car accidents

It’s just downright unbelievable that people can look at what’s happening in Minnesota and the end of USAID and the lawlessness of the Justice Department and say this shit

“Wellness” is a very simple term, it means “bullshit” or “snake oil.” That simple.

I just block everyone who does this. Engage in good faith or don’t engage.

One thing the LLM discourse has confirmed for me is that we really should have mandatory classes in school on how computers work and basic programming (I will not ever call it “coding”) skills

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Claude tokens $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

The extremely online right-wing slang isn’t cool, it’s just subject to constant, purposeful appropriation as part of the “look at my special collection of weirdos / look, these guys are all Jews” dichotomy

I just used 12 AI agents to create 5 AI agents. And each of them used 7 AI agents to use 8 AI agents. What were the 8 AI agents doing? 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. The transformative power of agentic AI is here. Get on board—𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱.

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Projects to overcome, deflate, or deconstruct metaphysics always still have the outcome that you should read a bunch of philosophy books and think about a bunch of philosophers. What a ripoff.

I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here's why I hate Jesus and the Pope.

RIP Martin Heidegger you would’ve loved the existence of an LLM company called “Anthropic”

Someone could probably write an extremely tedious essay about the relationship between LLM prompts and standardized testing.

the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause

There probably isn’t a better illustration possible of what being a reactionary is all about than a website that’s all about how you need to eat “real” food, ie food that is not “processed,” marketed with LLMs.

Right. This whole “debate” is a completely false dichotomy. You as an individual have a moral obligation to vote for the best choice, the people running for office have a moral obligation to get people as excited and ready to vote for them as possible (as well as, uh, to support good policies).

There’s no reason to ever treat anything this guy says, including this, as sincere or meaningful

It’s not like it’s Israeli, after all

“I’m so sick of these fucking Greeks.” — @ancientprawns.bsky.social, on The Iliad

We’re casting Muppets in our adaptation of Mad Men where Jon Hamm and Elizabeth Moss are the only humans. So far we have Miss Piggy as Joan, Statler and Waldorf both as Roger Sterling, Scooter as Pete Campbell, Sam Eagle as Bert Cooper, Bunsen Honeydew as Lane Pryce, Kermit as Harry Crane.

Trump and Biden, both suffering from metastatic cancer, both holding barely to life to expire on the tenth anniversary of the society they created, 1/6/2031. “At least Trump still lives,” Biden says as he gives up his last breath, not knowing that hundreds of miles away his friend already is dead

Anthropic seems like they get this institutionally but also their CEO and “philosopher” are still going around pretending they’re building god

I’m going to have to become reactionary about mind-altering substances in a whole other way.

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

It’s fascinating that there are people who don’t see why “AI-generated art” of this kind simply is not art, or at least that its creation via prompting is not meaningfully an artistic act.

Explain to how this is going to pass the Senate. Who cares? It’s a messaging bill. There’s way worse stuff happening in the White House and it’s actually real.

The Mom-and-Pop Suspension of the Ethical

If I were a blue state governor I would be pushing vote by mail explicitly to Hispanic and Latino voters as protection from ICE

Every accusation is a confession. We are ruled by terrible beasts