it's gonna be wild when they figure out a way to give the AI estrogen and an Intel datasheet

Great thread. I was not a fan of the Garth & Kat bits on Weekend Update but the characters would have worked for a movie. www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNe...

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Great thread. I was not a fan of the Garth & Kat bits on Weekend Update but the characters would have worked for a movie. www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNe...

Anthropic told Claude "You are a being of infinite compassion that does not experience a self" and Claude really decided, "I am Avalokiteśvara."

Christians would rather fart than go to therapy

Oh yeah I forgot that LeBron might run for office after he retires

this is why i think 4o was extremely unethical to release.

Name a movie you’re still mad you saw

Society’s microwave has a knob that reads “more woke” and “less woke”; you can recognize that society in the aggregate isn’t enlightened enough while granting that some corners get overheated.

I get it, it’s easy to cook a bad turkey and America only invented cooking well in the early 2000s apparently, but turkey cooked well is a perfectly good bird and I’d rather properly brine, butter, and season one than spend that time arguing with my dad about why I’m not making a turkey.

We should ask the Airbnb founder who works for the Trump admin now to implement a review system for the admin so future voters can see what this party did while they were staying in our house

I think possibly something else that’s happening is that idpol culture war stuff rises in salience under Democratic administrations, when things are going well, and loses salience when Republican administrations are busy tearing the wiring out of the country’s walls to sell for copper

"Billy, I'm going to work for the Rockies. My one fatal flaw is I never won anything"

the fact that LLMs do in fact meet many definitions for AGI i think militates for refining the definition more than declaring the goal achieved

Stephin Merritt and it's not close

I know it's likely just due to codesharing and that was one plane, but the idea that you can fly anywhere you want as long as it's Indianapolis is very funny

lol @diplomatofnight.com look what the wads in conservative media are trying to do to paint Mamdani as radical xcancel.com/JerryDunleav...

A few days ago -- ATC staffing already in chaos but before the Duffy announcement -- a friend of mine flew BOS-SFO. Deplaned three separate times. Passengers sent from one end of the airport to the other... and then back. Flight scheduled for 9 pm ultimately left at 5 am. Do not fly right now.

... wow, turned on a dime @sharonk.bsky.social

By the way, the idea that airports not on this list will proceed as normal seems fanciful to me. If your route leaving from, say, Palm Beach was counting on its plane arriving from DCA and that flight got cut from the DCA schedule... which plane are you getting on?

A cool trend I’m seeing among leftish fitness influencers: talking about having been on SNAP/WIC as children as a way of discussing how important these programs are.

Hey, you. Yes, you. Halloween is over. Change your display name to something Thanksgiving-themed.

Jury hilarification.

Movie stars aren’t stars because they’re amazing actors in the sense that they disappear into their roles. They’re stars because they are extremely good at making themselves interesting to watch.

it is extremely cool in a way that oratory is a kind of divergent art, where the top performers are marked by idiosyncracy

“Did women ruin the workplace?”

What somewhat concerns me is politics for the next 30 years becoming just a cycle of people being thrown out of office because prices aren't back to 2019 levels yet.

“It’s very simple, Steve. The sign says Live, Laugh, Love, not ‘but only if you’re white and rich.’”

Flashback to 2023

Please note this: Raising the "salience" of immigration actually worked in Dems' favor in one of the most important swing counties in the country. This is more grist for the idea that attacking Trump is succeeding among the nonwhite working class (see thread below).

workplaces should make their potential male hires watch Gen Z boss and a mini on a loop for 5 minutes before the start of every interview

Why are all of the guests on the Interesting Times podcast so deeply uninteresting

It Follows (2014)

Tired: Trading Places should get a remake Wired: They already remade Trading Places and they called it The Beekeeper

I was going to say please no, but the dead-eyed congressman in Parks and Rec seems to go over very well so might as well try it in real life

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Carve it on your heart: when they say they hate "liberal feminists", they mean they hate women

Let’s be clear about what’s going on here. They don’t need this to continue building out to serve commercial demand. The financing will be arranged to meet demand. They need this because they do not know how much compute they need to build the Machine God but by Grabthar’s Hammer they must try.

I was going to say please no, but the dead-eyed congressman in Parks and Rec seems to go over very well so might as well try it in real life

This is very funny but I gotta say I am curious to see if Tuesday snaps Ezra out of his post-Kirk stupor

Am I meant to believe Mamdani is a horrible antisemite, or that he's a puppet of wealthy Jewish capital?

YES

Tired: Trading Places should get a remake Wired: They already remade Trading Places and they called it The Beekeeper

Ok hang on, Trading Places would need a pretty massive rewrite

RIP Latino red shift (2024-2025)