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Odd— this one is titled, “Declaration of indeFRIENDence, and says they just want George to come over and spend some time with them, like before they moved away, it’s not like we’re THAT far away, and…”

Can someone remind me what Obama's legitimately objectionable scandal was? The drone war was genuinely objectionable, but was not a scandal because, well, it was not covered as such.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: OK, WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE BOND PRIEST: I don't know, I guess I liked the Dalton films. SKULL: WHAT, DALTON IS SHIT SKULL: YOU LIKE SHIT BOND SKULL: THE THINGS THAT WE LOVE TELL US WHAT WE ARE

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

that scene in Token where Liam Neesons calls Anthropic to describe his skillset

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

asking Fable to call my project management tool feels a little like asking a Cloud Giant to write my shopping list

Business idea: algorithmic-style Dynamic Pricing at restaurants. You can get French onion soup for $1.75 when it's really hot out, but a tomato salad costs $57 in August. Everyone hates it; Softbank has already contributed $150m in funding just off the concept.

Mordor on the Orient Express

—Robespierre, 1793

"ontology" is the study of placing one thing on top of, or onto, another thing

Can't believe these evil AI companies competing with established businesses. The nerve, trying to steal customers that Figma rightfully owns! Figma has invested substantially in locking those customers in. Those customers were happy!

You go in first, I don't want to touch the doorknob.

No.

Paul George? For Jaylen Brown you’d think John and Ringo would be included too.

The Mercury Tree is definitely worth checking out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBkY...

There are so many good ones but when you think about how America changed the whole world, it's NETWORK

My god, Anthropic, I know you're excited about everything you're doing, but can you possibly restrict yourselves to a single non-critical desktop update per week?

I really have to emphasize this is the modal outcome of these bans—trans athletes are like vanishingly rare—and is actually a good tactic when talking to someone who feels a little weird about the issue This is also why I think these bans will end up being fairly unpopular

I now want NFL ties settled by place kickers attempting progressively longer field goals.

Actually, I like it. They're showing us a whole new way to have fun with metadata.

What is this, an exhibit from the 2500th 4th of July? "Common examples of the 'Automobile,' in both the 4-wheel (female) and 2-wheel (male) varieties. "'Despite many attempts, scientists have been unable to get these specimens to mate.'"

You could have a more interesting automotive exhibit on any average American street.

This is not where I'd file this show, although it's been a very long time.

Who doesn't love housing discourse? Yay! But: We gotta find a way to not stack "home values falling; is bad!" stories next to "serious shortage of homes; need more!" stories. The price of a home is inversely related to how many homes there are. www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

The most recent TED LASSO was made known to me by certain hieroglyphs interpreted by a stylite who became voluble when, in jest, I tendered him a pink potion of obscure origin

This is very well done.

Wow. This is now my album of the year: music.apple.com/us/album/wer...

Certainly, people who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Help me understand: is there any reason for Anthropic and OpenAI to continue to advance the state of the art with the US government eliminating the revenue prospects of doing so?

i don’t know how you can watch every single person in trump’s orbit (which is the entire republican party and then some) become objectively worse — no matter how bad they were to start — and fail to understand this

You’ve known your last them, trail of the dead

Heck, I'll take it!

One of the most utterly harrowing things I’ve ever read in my entire history of loving dark fiction is the power outage/heat wave sequence at the beginning of The Ministry for the Future. Which is barely fiction People really do not understand this

"Therapy ferrets? Nice! Those little guys are hilarious!" ... "You have so many children's prisons that you have them _ranked_?"

GIVE ME YOUR STUFF

I remember when NBA All-Star weekend included a Legends game, and my father was shocked that Oscar Robertson was, shall we say, portly. They all played and still had their skills, but many looked way more out of breath than was safe.

I’m confused. Isn’t there supposed to be a nearby 8’ net for this sporting move?

...I'm sorry, but a bunch of people went full-on fascist because they were pissed that their system of coordinated posing wasn't endorsed by the state?

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