What a great headline

There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater

this is, again, a case of someone who has not done any kind of real work in decades (maybe ever, she has a degree in political science and has been doing HR her entire career) who think the bullshit they sleepwalk through every day is work and don't understand why real human beings get tired by it

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.

Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.

bro copyright is so good for creators you can make something that's about to be turned into a huge fucking franchise directed by michael bay and some predatory company can take it from you for pennies and lock you out of it with legal threats

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

The Human Rights Campaign evaluates over 500 US cities every year on the LGBTQ+ inclusiveness of their laws, policies and services. This year, thanks to the ACC Police Department, the local government scored an "A" for the first time. athenspoliticsnerd.com/acc-gov-scor...

Yup u can go ahead & develop that👍📈

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”

it's amazing that in the era of easily available numbers and many, many examples of this sports leagues are still going "you know what will get eyes on our games? putting them behind a big paywall" and then six months later being like "oh no! this didn't work!"

Have you called your credit card processor lately?

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Oh btw I have one more announcement The REAL-TIME FANDUB: DO NO HARM OFFICIAL CAST COMMENTARY will be streamed live on Tuesday, November 25 A full-season watch through with behind the scenes footage & cast insights as well as a portion dedicated to how the theme song was made

my power bill has gone up 20% so this bullshit can exist

Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US. Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.

finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well

this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc… 1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work 2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

it’s the freaking weeking baby!!

lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Gamers appalled to learn that the launch title for Steam's new console, the "Gabe Cube", will not be half life 3, and instead will be a spinoff title "Barney's Mansion"

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

how i thought wealthy, powerful people write emails: “Pending a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for fiscal year 2025, I approve of these earmarks. Your attention to this matter is appreciated.” how they actually write emails: “tUmmy horts. tell J im no make it”

HOLY FUCK OUUUUUHH OUUU

Honestly perfect Rosalina casting, no notes.

This is the other one. With fossil fuels, discovery costs rise while tech costs fall, meaning prices stay roughly the same (inflation-adjusted) over time. With electrotech, discovery costs are $0, so the only dynamic is falling tech costs. Victory is inevitable.

We That Have Been Lost May Still Rise, If Only For A Moment, And All Be Lighter Than The Air #balloonsmp #blsmp Happy 1 year anniversary of the beautiful finale of Balloon SMP, to celebrate here is the hand embroidery piece commemorating the event I've been working on for the last half year or so 🎈

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I’m going to keep it real with you, MTA Metro-North Railroad: this is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life. You could print Goatse on the side of a Genesis and I’d be like well, it’s an improvement over that heritage veteran livery they did

WOW. A rare win.

we want a bipartisan committee to study the proper number of people to throw in the volcano and who should be thrown. we must also hire 1000 more volcano guards to do the pushing, 500 of them must be woemn

“We are disheartened to learn that Lord Killdude has broke his promise and has been shoving people in the volcano. If the murdergooner party is as moral as it once was, then they will publicly disavow Lord Killdude’s actions and work with us towards a bipartisan solution to the volcano problem”

Help me call Ossoff. I can feed my neighbor, I can’t pay their cancer care alone. (And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)

This is the future leftists want

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