Alex Savage
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Scientists continue work on durable ways to encapsulate the Internet Archive for generations in the future to discover, observe, and understand where we went wrong
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
Gonna request that all further RFK/Nuzzi content be placed behind this psychic hazard content warning symbol
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Gonna request that all further RFK/Nuzzi content be placed behind this psychic hazard content warning symbol
What a game. By my reckoning, points per yard is looking like—
<DIVIDE> at updateStats+3^ZFBSTATS
at gameTimer+5^ZFBSTATS
at backgroundWorker+12^ZFBSTATS
No global error handler defined, exiting…
<DIVIDE> at updateStats+3^ZFBSTATS
at gameTimer+5^ZFBSTATS
at backgroundWorker+12^ZFBSTATS
No global error handler defined, exiting…
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What a game. By my reckoning, points per yard is looking like—
<DIVIDE> at updateStats+3^ZFBSTATS
at gameTimer+5^ZFBSTATS
at backgroundWorker+12^ZFBSTATS
No global error handler defined, exiting…
<DIVIDE> at updateStats+3^ZFBSTATS
at gameTimer+5^ZFBSTATS
at backgroundWorker+12^ZFBSTATS
No global error handler defined, exiting…
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whoever said the ai business plan is to “create god and ask him for money” you are 100% right, I can’t get it out of my head, and it’s the only quick way to explain this infrastructure mania to people
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
whoever said the ai business plan is to “create god and ask him for money” you are 100% right, I can’t get it out of my head, and it’s the only quick way to explain this infrastructure mania to people
Scientists continue work on durable ways to encapsulate the Internet Archive for generations in the future to discover, observe, and understand where we went wrong
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Scientists continue work on durable ways to encapsulate the Internet Archive for generations in the future to discover, observe, and understand where we went wrong
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Walmart sucks but if you’re no longer taking Woke into consideration in your choice of department store it’s also cheaper
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Walmart sucks but if you’re no longer taking Woke into consideration in your choice of department store it’s also cheaper
“Catch-and-kill operations” are what the Secretary of HHS calls a balanced breakfast
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Catch-and-kill operations” are what the Secretary of HHS calls a balanced breakfast
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Using the sacred intelligent rock machine, we burnt cryptic patterns into a layer of metal. This would then summon forth angelic and demonic sounds when light of the right frequency is shone upon it's terrible surface!
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Using the sacred intelligent rock machine, we burnt cryptic patterns into a layer of metal. This would then summon forth angelic and demonic sounds when light of the right frequency is shone upon it's terrible surface!
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it's great how much of our interaction with AI is just figuring out how to make it go away.
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
it's great how much of our interaction with AI is just figuring out how to make it go away.
Palate cleanser
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Palate cleanser
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there is a long Tibetan Buddhist practice of meditating upon foulness, such as the death and decay of the body or your own consumption by demons, in order to achieve enlightenment. I have developed a new school of thought where we meditate on this instead.
September 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
there is a long Tibetan Buddhist practice of meditating upon foulness, such as the death and decay of the body or your own consumption by demons, in order to achieve enlightenment. I have developed a new school of thought where we meditate on this instead.
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I really need cis people to understand that for decades access to trans healthcare was about presenting and pandering in a very narrow, exact and specific way to meet a cis doctors fetishistic projections without them claiming it is instead your fetish.
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I really need cis people to understand that for decades access to trans healthcare was about presenting and pandering in a very narrow, exact and specific way to meet a cis doctors fetishistic projections without them claiming it is instead your fetish.
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making america hurl again
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
making america hurl again
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Good morning from our massive picket line in Denton, Texas. It's DAY FOUR of our national ULP strike! We’re calling on everyone to hold the line and not shop at Starbucks while baristas are on strike. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Good morning from our massive picket line in Denton, Texas. It's DAY FOUR of our national ULP strike! We’re calling on everyone to hold the line and not shop at Starbucks while baristas are on strike. #NoContractNoCoffee
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This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
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It's why I think combatting despair and doomer narratives is important not just for its own sake (because we deserve better), but also for deliberately refusing to do this government's work for them.
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It's why I think combatting despair and doomer narratives is important not just for its own sake (because we deserve better), but also for deliberately refusing to do this government's work for them.
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I 100% believe this is *the* story he's desparate to avoid coming out, and it's also the one thing that would sink him with his base. I mean, that's pretty depressing in a way, but I'll take it.
The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I 100% believe this is *the* story he's desparate to avoid coming out, and it's also the one thing that would sink him with his base. I mean, that's pretty depressing in a way, but I'll take it.
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Farm workers are proud to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers.
Los campesinos se enorgullecen de solidarizarse con los trabajadores de Starbucks.
#NoContractNoCoffee
Los campesinos se enorgullecen de solidarizarse con los trabajadores de Starbucks.
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Farm workers are proud to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers.
Los campesinos se enorgullecen de solidarizarse con los trabajadores de Starbucks.
#NoContractNoCoffee
Los campesinos se enorgullecen de solidarizarse con los trabajadores de Starbucks.
#NoContractNoCoffee
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Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
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The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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ICYMI: Luana shares the impact of scoring such a meaningful goal
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
ICYMI: Luana shares the impact of scoring such a meaningful goal
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Chicago and Broadview, 11/1/25
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Chicago and Broadview, 11/1/25