If I hear “toxins” I know I’m about to hear Grade A wellness grift bullshit

Big part of this is that math and chess are two fields where we regularly see no shit for real child prodigies “Genius” is generally a label we tie to young people

Repost with an iconic fictional band

Kept waiting for at least one of these stories to end with, "And then I left him," but (of course), nope. The most bonkers through-line here is that none of these couples have kids (yet) and it sounds like every women had glaring red flags *before* getting married. 🫠 www.thecut.com/article/draf...

Standardized testing is the worst academic evaluation tool except for all the other ones

If an AI can do a convincing McConaughey, I’m calling that AGI

In a lot of ways, I think Katie Wilson is going to be a bigger deal for progressivism (broadly defined) than Mamdani.

Talk about a movie you absolutely could not make today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Min...

The key to having fun with AIs is low expectations.

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Look how much work they had to do to simulate rizz for Carrot Top youtu.be/bTVtJ7YU-TA?...

Absolutely incredible how far out over his skis Sam is compared to Dario. If OpenAI hits a speed bump, they’re dead. Anthropic’s business is likely much less volatile.

i think Elon is idiotic but we actually have no real way of knowing what is and isn't feasible in the next few years AI-wise that said, humanoid robots are silly

The GOP is doing this because they think it’s to their political advantage to raise the salience of abortion. They’re probably wrong about that.

“Why is the Pope screening Bee Movie four times in a row?” question answers itself

Turns out the Pope is a major cinephile

Makes sense why her romcom with Glen Powell worked despite this. His presence validated her.

What has made her famous is exactly what has made it hard to market her--she is adored by racist men. It has led to people not wanting her around because of the audience she attracts. The Blonde Bombshell is so easy to sell, but only without that baggage.

Allegedly ('cause this is all gossip), Bezos has taken her career on as a pet project because he thinks she's the next big thing. And is behind a push to make her a Bond Girl as well.

Incredible that the drive to publicize AI-generated music is the inverse of the Nielsen Soundscan story

Online Finance discourse be like

"Perhaps the reason why employment numbers are down, is that more and more people are achieving financial independence as independent distributors of NutriHass"

“The so-called ‘ups and downs’ of inflation are just seasonal awakenings in the Prosperity Cycle. Economists fear what they cannot monetize.”

Wasn’t his dad or grandpa a KKK leader?

This feels like a trap.

This is a ChatGPT mockup and not exactly what I had in mind but better than the three things I got before or the ostensible SVG of this that it gave me after

Like it’s interesting to recall pieces like this before we knew Warren, Bernie, and the Biden fiscal programs would come:

This “Can You Hang With the Boys?” attitude excludes women. I learned this firsthand as a sports reporter. Many male sports journalists would get drinks w/ team execs, coaches, even players after games or on off days. If a woman did the same, there were immediate rumors she was sleeping with them.

Ill be honest i could see myself paying for claude code indefinitely rather than general purpose chat

Absolutely incredible how far out over his skis Sam is compared to Dario. If OpenAI hits a speed bump, they’re dead. Anthropic’s business is likely much less volatile.

The worst thing about working as a professional kidnapper and domestic terrorist is all the dirty looks you get when you wear your “I haven’t kidnapped anyone today… but it’s still early!” t-shirt to the grocery store.

Remembering some guys who sound like boats youtu.be/uCW313Jmkok?...

I see. I wonder if the families of the people you’re terrorizing can “opt out.”

Yes Bari, give us that Walter Peck energy! You are truly the queen of not knowing how anything works! youtu.be/j3Uy9wsfkok?...

Imagine if instead of spending half his life giving interviews Mustafa Suleyman just went and quietly did this

Really interesting split on how people react differently depending on how much they can personally do about something they hate.

things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes

I guess the other thing I'll say is that by january 2025 I was like "america is over. america is full of placid cucks who will let their country go to fascists without a fight" because the bulk of the country and the media didn't care about doge taking over payments infrastructure, and i was wrong

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

Everyone Is Twelve theory confirmed

Archimedes, my man had the greatest shower thought of all time

Hey Marc, why do you find value in books written before World War II Are you getting a lot of alpha from reading people who went out of style shortly thereafter What do you think happened

Feels like a critical mass of MAGA fans and conservative media and influencers retain at least a noticeable quantum of media literacy. It’s only when it comes to Trump specifically that they reverse the polarity and force their worldviews to fit whatever dementia juice dribbles out his mouth.