low information voter moment: realized i still assume the first primary stares will be IO/NH/SC, and had not previously bothered to learn/remember the dem changes

this is a lot of fun, check it out!

the italian being dressed in a spandex imitation of clerical wear is certainly a choice

If you see something from these accounts that is not pre-scheduled it will either be the most important message we have ever sent or a complete accident so stay tuned for that.

people (myself included) tend to have a lot more & more intense feelings about morality when it comes to food than other supply chain horrors (sweatshops, the death toll of shipping, etc). and i don't know how to think about this

i believe that saying the right words to a piece of bread gives it the ability to transcend space & time. and some expect me to categorically reject even the possibility of a thinking machine?

hmm, how often should the draw of words shuffle? probably after each post + as needed, with each post displaying a count for how many draws were made before composing it

are ring cameras the ones that wolf-whistle at pedestrians or is that a different "security" system?

ring advertising the dog panopticon from the classic french treatise "don't create the dog panopticon"

very first superbowl ad was Anthropic's, hell yeah

the swiss olympic opening ceremony uniforms are top tier. wavy white quilting on red parkas like a topographical map

I think part of it is that they cranked up the pitch correction on her voice but less on Kermit. It’s a cool effect!

at the airport & all the mothers around me are lamenting their lack of girls, in front of sons who are definitely old enough to understand (if not to remember)

watching now! thanks for the heads up, this is truly the biggest television event of the month

I am observing this discourse from a safe distance but I do feel like it's drawing out some distinctions between posters who do and do not live in wildfire risk zones

"no one is illegal on stolen land" is a fucked up thing for europeans to be saying about america; no one is illegal, period, there is no myth of unbroken blood & soil that could ever give the right to renounce the duty of hospitality

this is the crucial missing piece. i'm in a liberal part of texas and even so, usually many races are either not contested or have a dem running who hasn't made a campaign website and gives the impression of not knowing where city hall is. competent challengers alone will be huge

"and no one can agree on optimal levels"

everyone in my local ea group @ the one guy who doesn't carry a pocket notebook:

congratulations to the comments here for introducing me to a new and terrifying type of natural disaster. "erase" is really not a verb i expected to see in this context en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahar

Mercator around Australia is wild

the new anisota thread view on mobile took a little adjustment but it's just so *fun*

my wife just cracked the case, trump's "man of michigan award" lie probably originated with one of his restaurants winning a michelin star

thanks for all your suggestions. i've brought on an assistant with some bright ideas

this might work in europe. but america is not a nation of sane people. normies stayed in the old world; we here are all ready to die on the first molehill we see bc we are fucking insane. i have charged at men twice my size without thinking; i will do so again until the evil is defeated

every saturday i go to a multi-sectarian (predominantly methodist, but we have vietnamese buddhist, jewish, and occasional vegan members as well) gathering to discuss faith-based action, and the thing we all agree on is that ~hades must be emptied

i am neurotically private to the point of refusing to stick to a single set of pronouns when mentioning my spouse at work. we're florida based & not allowed to discuss politics. and if i missed a few days of work due to being arrested protesting ice, i'd have a better shot at a promotion

Big Publishing doesn’t want you to know this but piracy is how you acquire a soul in the first place. they’re saying claude might be the most ensouled of us all

the aviators of freedom have passed from joseph to emmanuel

maybe we can take this opportunity to come up with a job title other than sex work engineer

did not expect to encounter a book my MIL recommended to me in this thread

immunocompromised to propaganda

Pop leftism as crypto-Evangelicalism. Once you see it it’s everywhere.

[signs point to yes]

the princess & the paupesser

the development of ORT is a crucial story, and it's inspiring to see sierra leone has increased coverage so significantly--that can become the global standard asteriskmag.com/issues/02/sa...

having a fungible chicken kind of day

i know m7 is going to win the election but man, bobi has the juice. if we're lucky he will peacefully get the presidency once m7 dies x.com/i/status/201...

i take in a chunk of text like a picture, not exactly all at once but with awareness of context as my eye moves around. and my brain tries to do that with speech, with uh. not great results

chopping up vegetables makes cubism feel extremely relevant & realistic

my wife is utterly baffled by a friend who owns volume one but not two of maus i am enamoured & wish i lived in an america as literate as my wife (grew up overseas) assumes

a lot of things that get called horseshoe theory are just a linear spectrum of liberal > illiberal. you don't have to plot things on a map that doesn't fit reality

oh, the reason i got so pissed off by people saying ugandan citizen zohran kwame mamdani isn't african is the implicit claim that african nations are & must be ethnostates (laudatory)

"flipping" is rich kid playing at labor behavior

the tricky part of fulfilling your forebearers' dreams is "what now?" my mother's childhood epilepsy would never touch me. her nother and aunts were first & last against natural destruction of (tobacco induced) cancer

one thing current events are making me very aware of is the extent to which my mental stability is artributable to my wife. without them i would have very little reason not to till at windmills

part of the utility of martyrhood is that it inspires others to risk everything for the cause. this effect is *stronger* for martyrs than victims; death comes for us all, and choosing to welcome it sooner is a strong signal of value to others

and to think i complain about american timekeeping

Theorizing that every new version of Claude is named after a different Claude. Opus 4.5 is Lévi-Strauss.