Did you know that just 1 tsp of neutron star... doesn't really make physical sense because the density of neutron star stuff is only possible due to the gravity of the rest of the star.

Cutis Yarvin tomorrow, probably: LOLOL liberals say I'm an idiot for not understanding the South couldn't defeat a larger, better equipped foe, and yet they support Ukraine TROLLED

CHOTINER: Then you took up the mantle of Warmaster. ABADDON: I've been waging war for 10,000 years. CHOTINER: Right. And you're up to, 11, 12... ABADDON: 13. CHOTINER: 13 crusades. ABADDON: Black Crusades. CHOTINER: 13 black crusades, OK. I guess I'm just wondering why Cadia was such a challenge.

"lolol stop hitting yourself nerd"

AI safety crowd: We're worried self-improving AI might lead to an intelligence explosion that could pose an existential risk to... Skeptics: Yawn, sounds like tech-flavored Christian apocalypticism. AI safety crowd: No, come on, we just think it's worth... Peter Thiel: Yes! Anti-AI = Anti-Christ!

A state may suck at doing X, but I really wish we would stop trying to prove that by giving its ranking. State Q ranks 50th in X!!! OK, so is there another state that should be 50th instead?

We are absolutely going to turn into Asimov's Solarians.

Modern CG: Galaxies! Black holes! Amazing! Viewers: Sure. But maybe something more terrestrial... CG: Yes! Sky, mountain, water! See how it ripples! Viewers: OK, but like, a real, concrete object. CG: ...object? heh, yes... I've heard of objects... certainly, haha, 1 object... coming right up...

Ori Vandewalle -> Gory Endofall?

People talk about running away to Canada or Europe because America sucks now, and I get that, but as a relatively privileged guy I just don't want my taxes funding outright murder.

Like Melian Dialogue Athens and Fig Tree Jerusalem?

This is Trump's Two Cathedrals moment. I hope he's brushed up on his Latin.

I have a face for bluesky.

I'm a nobody and no one knows anything about me, but I am still blocked by *checks ClearSky* 42 people for some reason. I admit this bothers me a bit, but mostly because I'm just curious why they'd bother blocking me and I know there's no way I can find out. Alas.

Very weird belief system for the "personal responsibility" crowd to end up with.

LLMs are just fancy autocomplete on stolen data. They could never come up with anything new... like a neologism for a kind of anagram.

"I'm all about free speech, unless it's speech I don't like."

Leo Ryan? George Moscone and Harvey Milk? Lennon? Alan Berg? Budd Dwyer? ;)

mm yes very genuine response from gutfeld here many is the time when i have not been experiencing any cognitive dissonance that i have screamed, unprompted, "i am not experiencing any cognitive dissonance."

I won't argue that Asimov's treatment of women (irl and as characters) didn't leave much to be desired and that the best you can say about race is that he just didn't think about it, but to the extent that anyone has agency in the Foundation series, women certainly do.

sigh. one thing i find really hard to handle in online discourse is that people can correctly conclude person A sucks and holds bad opinion X, but then misread person A saying Y as saying X and not entertain alternative interpretations because they are correct that person A does hold bad opinion X.

a careful balance of self-hate and embracing weirdness. hmm, i'm lonely -> oh right b/c i'm a weirdo, ah well -> oh i'm so weird, i'm better than everyone -> lol no you hate yourself you stupid idiot -> i suck, i should avoid the world -> hmm, i'm lonely wait i swear this is actually good and works

this is the most potent articulation of my anxiety. for example, actions i took 21 years ago led to a friend of mine meeting his future wife, ultimately resulting in the creation of two humans who would not otherwise exist... and i feel an unquenchable unease whenever i remember this fact.

a fitting tribute to a beloved free speech activist

My favorite part of listening to the radio: This report brought to you by Bob's Chair Repair Highs in the low 80s, partly cloudy Bob's Chair Repair, where chairs in disrepair go for care *crack* Oh no, my chair! What happened over there? My chair, it's in disrepair!

uh ok i guess but you know he lost that fight right? bro started that fight with 3 limbs and ended it with 0 bro started that fight with 1 skin and ended it with 0

Dunno if true, but assuming it is, that's... $365 per Israeli per year, so not even remotely why they have free healthcare and college. On the other hand, if we gave that money back to Americans, it's... $10 per American per year, which is also not why we *don't* have free healthcare and college.

Hi, follow-up question, do you or the president know what hoax means?

Trump obviously wrote the letter because it's extremely weird and not what someone would make up to incriminate him. But also I'm not sure it proves anything. But also 9 years ago we all heard him admit, on tape, that he sexually assaulted women, so it's not like we really needed any more proof.

If it's a pure moral issue of right and wrong, and medical and health concerns don't play into at all, ask him why he waited until now to do it despite being the Florida Surgeon General since 2021.

Being able to pay for stuff is great. Previous methods included: killing people and taking their stuff, spending every waking hour either making stuff you need or making stuff you could trade, not having stuff because stuff hadn't been invented yet, dying as an infant before you needed more stuff.

Dr I trust more than RFK Jr.

Nothing, but there are bad things besides Epstein, and one of those bad things is waging war against your county's cities.

OK I'm on the AI is pretty rad side of things but ugh this crap. AI obviously doesn't have a soul; there are no souls. ;)

Probably to get the medical treatments that are causing the bruises on his hands, etc. When it dawned on him that he couldn't leave the WH as much, he started to recreate Mar-a-Lago (patio, the new ballroom) there

We talked to 25 zoologists who say video of equine with black and white stripes grazing in African shrublands may have been a zebra.

Always remember the Kzinti lesson: "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."

President Trump plans to enrich himself with American taxpayer dollars and bribes from foreign heads of state, fulfilling his wish to be brazenly and unapologetically corrupt.

Breaking news: President Trump is expected to violate constitution and separation of powers through an executive order, a move that is completely at odds with president's lies during campaign about not wanting to wage war.

Yo NRA, sup?

"The problem with this website is that its users want journalists to accurately report that a country is currently undergoing a fascist authoritarian takeover."

The fuck you are. Leave Maryland alone. (Leave DC alone, too.)

A computer thingy does not have to be sentient to be intelligent, which you can tell because no one bothered making that claim when Deep Blue beat Kasparov. It's only relevant now because we've invented a machine that can convincingly talk about sentience. Also LLMs are plainly not databases.

"[Kurzweil] believes he can perfectly recreate his mind inside a computer ... transhumanists refer to this “profound and disruptive transformation in human capability” as “the Singularity.”" Dude wrote a whole book about transhumanism and gets the definition of the tech singularity flat out wrong?

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

"Haha, libs are racist for pointing out that Roma are a persecuted minority everywhere, even in Romania."

Yet on Deep Space Nine, Rom is a brilliant engineer with a hot wife. A statistical puzzle.

This headline is just a lie. The actual article explains what they mean by "average CEO," but I guarantee you it's not what you'd ordinarily think "average CEO" means.

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Maybe LLMs are driving people to suicide (I'd like to see stats on suicide prevalence over the last ~3 years), and maybe (certainly) the responses LLMs give to suicidal users are sometimes very bad, but I think we should imagine an alternative explanation.