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guy who has a world-historic meltdown once a month because he has been bumping his head on the same shelf in the closet for 175 years
imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?
February 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM
guy who has a world-historic meltdown once a month because he has been bumping his head on the same shelf in the closet for 175 years
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We now have Star Trek’s universal translators, and people hate it.
Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
February 17, 2026 at 2:54 AM
We now have Star Trek’s universal translators, and people hate it.
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Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
Case in point, @pengzell.bsky.social just sent me 5 papers proving that there’s not actually any evidence for a loneliness epidemic. My mind is highly changed
February 17, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
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To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
paulkrugman.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM
To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...
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*getting burnt as a Cathar by the church in the Albigensian crusade* this is capitalism's fault
People joke about how certain internet DMs the villain is always capitalism, but also if everyone's running characters that are plucky underdogs against the system it's kind of hard for the villain to not be capitalism.
February 17, 2026 at 7:18 AM
*getting burnt as a Cathar by the church in the Albigensian crusade* this is capitalism's fault
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you have to vote for the democrat in november 2028.
any other option - voting republican, not voting, voting third party - is completely and totally morally unacceptable and should result in your expulsion from polite society
any other option - voting republican, not voting, voting third party - is completely and totally morally unacceptable and should result in your expulsion from polite society
February 17, 2026 at 3:29 AM
you have to vote for the democrat in november 2028.
any other option - voting republican, not voting, voting third party - is completely and totally morally unacceptable and should result in your expulsion from polite society
any other option - voting republican, not voting, voting third party - is completely and totally morally unacceptable and should result in your expulsion from polite society
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this seems paradoxical until you realize that pause and elon's stock offerings are both affinity scams targeting weird nerds who feel alienated from corporate culture in silicon valley
February 17, 2026 at 3:44 AM
this seems paradoxical until you realize that pause and elon's stock offerings are both affinity scams targeting weird nerds who feel alienated from corporate culture in silicon valley
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Trump has benefitted from tight lips in the Oval Office
I find it really surprising that we’ve had so few leaks about Trump getting blowies in the oval or whatever.
February 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Trump has benefitted from tight lips in the Oval Office
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I genuinely have a pretty high opinion of Anthropic, I really hope they don't fold on this
"Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement. The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive..."
Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anthropic will "pay a price" as feud escalates
The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.
www.axios.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:41 AM
I genuinely have a pretty high opinion of Anthropic, I really hope they don't fold on this
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god this drives me mad in the UK; hearing transphobic arguments from older liberals *that are identical to the 1990s conversation they were on the right side of*.
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
god this drives me mad in the UK; hearing transphobic arguments from older liberals *that are identical to the 1990s conversation they were on the right side of*.
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Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore
github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
github.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore
github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
github.com/DrCatHicks/l...
Whenever I see a Brianna Wu post I'm reminded of that bit in the Boondocks where Anne Cutler turns out to be a crisis agent for black radicals and grifters
February 16, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Whenever I see a Brianna Wu post I'm reminded of that bit in the Boondocks where Anne Cutler turns out to be a crisis agent for black radicals and grifters
Will Stancil and the left resuming their argument about the Biden economy is like how at the end of an episode everyone forgets the comradery of the last 30 minutes and resets to the status quo
February 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Will Stancil and the left resuming their argument about the Biden economy is like how at the end of an episode everyone forgets the comradery of the last 30 minutes and resets to the status quo
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HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest
BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my
BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.
BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my
BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.
February 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest
BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my
BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.
BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my
BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT!
HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.
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My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.
February 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.
Yeah. The thread is about you struggling with navigating murky and ambiguous situations. You assume that because someone thinks microplastics are poisoning us, they must not ever drive anywhere. And that if someone is unsure of whether incest is evil, that they must secretly want to fuck their dad.
Folks, I will happily agree that the models aren’t conscious - unless and until there’s countervailing evidence of substance - but can I just point out that that isn’t really what this thread is about?
February 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Yeah. The thread is about you struggling with navigating murky and ambiguous situations. You assume that because someone thinks microplastics are poisoning us, they must not ever drive anywhere. And that if someone is unsure of whether incest is evil, that they must secretly want to fuck their dad.
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however racist you think the west is, you have no idea the levels of insane crackpot racism that's going on in asia
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM
however racist you think the west is, you have no idea the levels of insane crackpot racism that's going on in asia
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When I see angry posts about Democrats' record on trans issues I can't just let them go by. I don't see it as my job to defend them, and I have a lot of problems with how they're meeting the moment, but on trans issues the support really DID NOT collapse the way many expected it to.
February 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
When I see angry posts about Democrats' record on trans issues I can't just let them go by. I don't see it as my job to defend them, and I have a lot of problems with how they're meeting the moment, but on trans issues the support really DID NOT collapse the way many expected it to.
I'm pretty sure all the people posting weird LLM responses are just doing it for clicks and might be faking them. I've tried to get free models like Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek to make the same mistakes. And the only way to do it is to tell the LLM to be hyper literal
February 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I'm pretty sure all the people posting weird LLM responses are just doing it for clicks and might be faking them. I've tried to get free models like Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek to make the same mistakes. And the only way to do it is to tell the LLM to be hyper literal
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There’s less than a week until PUNDERWORLD launches on Kickstarter! Venture into a land of wit, wordplay, and a whole lot of Dad jokes, where the difference between “literally” and “figurately” can be the difference between life and death.
Pre-Save The Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/twi...
Pre-Save The Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/twi...
Coming soon: Punderworld: A Tabletop Wordplaying Game
A game of puns to inflict on your friends.
www.kickstarter.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
There’s less than a week until PUNDERWORLD launches on Kickstarter! Venture into a land of wit, wordplay, and a whole lot of Dad jokes, where the difference between “literally” and “figurately” can be the difference between life and death.
Pre-Save The Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/twi...
Pre-Save The Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/twi...
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I think liberal internationalism, aliances and defence cooperation are good, actually.
AOC's foreign policy has long held a strand of liberal interventionism, probably more JFK than Obama
Video: @acyn.bsky.social via X (@Acyn)
Video: @acyn.bsky.social via X (@Acyn)
February 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I think liberal internationalism, aliances and defence cooperation are good, actually.
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Rubio's standing ovation in Munich after he declared the end of the “rules based order” shows how weak many European “leaders” have become.
Instead of defending universal human rights they folded to his siren song of blood & soil.
I called out Rubio's Trump-lobotomy last March:
Instead of defending universal human rights they folded to his siren song of blood & soil.
I called out Rubio's Trump-lobotomy last March:
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Rubio's standing ovation in Munich after he declared the end of the “rules based order” shows how weak many European “leaders” have become.
Instead of defending universal human rights they folded to his siren song of blood & soil.
I called out Rubio's Trump-lobotomy last March:
Instead of defending universal human rights they folded to his siren song of blood & soil.
I called out Rubio's Trump-lobotomy last March: