Felix
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
Get AI to adopt the tech. Let Gemini help Copilot. Leave us alone.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Get AI to adopt the tech. Let Gemini help Copilot. Leave us alone.
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there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic”...
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
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I think we’ve seen the difference between stuff the lads don’t much want to discuss and things they will deliberately hammer over and over, again and again all day every day, until the public are puking blood when they hear about it, demanding it all to stop and go away.
We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I think we’ve seen the difference between stuff the lads don’t much want to discuss and things they will deliberately hammer over and over, again and again all day every day, until the public are puking blood when they hear about it, demanding it all to stop and go away.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
In Pell's article (headlined "The archbishop replies"), when he talks about "health risks," he is referring to comments he made a few days prior, when he claimed that being gay was a greater health risk than smoking. He also noted the Church would oppose "the spread of the gay agenda" in schools.
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In Pell's article (headlined "The archbishop replies"), when he talks about "health risks," he is referring to comments he made a few days prior, when he claimed that being gay was a greater health risk than smoking. He also noted the Church would oppose "the spread of the gay agenda" in schools.
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Soon to be known as the Has Beans
Or maybe the Has No Beans
Or maybe the Has No Beans
At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Soon to be known as the Has Beans
Or maybe the Has No Beans
Or maybe the Has No Beans
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It's very hard to read that in any other way than "if you've taken such "extreme steps" that we can't always tell, you must be punished by being denied access to public facilities"
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's very hard to read that in any other way than "if you've taken such "extreme steps" that we can't always tell, you must be punished by being denied access to public facilities"
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GC commentators aren't able to give a consistent answer here because, on the one hand, they're committed to "We Can Always Tell" as a general principle for ascertaining the exact biological facts they say matter and which supposedly constitute the "only criterion" (as Francione put it) for ...
With regard to GC views, I was referring to something along the lines of this.
April 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
GC commentators aren't able to give a consistent answer here because, on the one hand, they're committed to "We Can Always Tell" as a general principle for ascertaining the exact biological facts they say matter and which supposedly constitute the "only criterion" (as Francione put it) for ...
Bad ideas sometimes find refuge in writing that looks too opaque to bear examination. But that some piece of writing seems opaque to you doesn't necessarily mean it contains bad ideas. It might only be opaque to you because you need to read and study more.
fuck off, Economist.
Scholarship is a skilled practice. To reach the point of making a contribution, you need to put in years of training and a colossal amount of reading. No mechanical readability index is going to mark the boundary between meaningfulness and flatus vocis.
Scholarship is a skilled practice. To reach the point of making a contribution, you need to put in years of training and a colossal amount of reading. No mechanical readability index is going to mark the boundary between meaningfulness and flatus vocis.
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Bad ideas sometimes find refuge in writing that looks too opaque to bear examination. But that some piece of writing seems opaque to you doesn't necessarily mean it contains bad ideas. It might only be opaque to you because you need to read and study more.
So I'm in the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
![However, the brothers' Google search history in the weeks after the theft for phrases including "how to wash crypto”, “top crypto lawyers”, “wire fraud statute / wire fraud statue [sic] of limitations”, and “prison or jail worse” suggest that perhaps the brothers had some clue that their actions could be interpreted criminally, as do the brothers' own descriptions of their plan as “sus”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreicpwu5pjoddgp2ovmaka2kfu6d6uc7uijrld5a4hovz5qpaqlkk5u@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
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know how I've been saying that some in public health will embrace MAHA? treat it like a legitimate public health project instead of the fascist, eugenicist purge to 'MAGA-ify the gene pool' that it is?
Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...
Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
know how I've been saying that some in public health will embrace MAHA? treat it like a legitimate public health project instead of the fascist, eugenicist purge to 'MAGA-ify the gene pool' that it is?
Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...
Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...
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The Epic Contrarian instinct to appear too worldly to be appalled, too cool to care, has always been amoral and opportunistic, but we've got people out here reflexively dismissing pedophilia for clout.
Its just too much.
Its just too much.
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The Epic Contrarian instinct to appear too worldly to be appalled, too cool to care, has always been amoral and opportunistic, but we've got people out here reflexively dismissing pedophilia for clout.
Its just too much.
Its just too much.
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this is just depressing more than anything.
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
this is just depressing more than anything.
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700+ NIH grants have been forced to remove words like “equity,” “disparities,” and references to race or gender. These changes shift the meaning, direction, and impact of the study. Learn more about how these requirements are placing researchers in a lose-lose situation.
bit.ly/3Lz4IW0
bit.ly/3Lz4IW0
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
700+ NIH grants have been forced to remove words like “equity,” “disparities,” and references to race or gender. These changes shift the meaning, direction, and impact of the study. Learn more about how these requirements are placing researchers in a lose-lose situation.
bit.ly/3Lz4IW0
bit.ly/3Lz4IW0
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The NIH has insisted there are no banned words
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The NIH has insisted there are no banned words
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25
Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
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The centrist gambit of capturing the disillusioned right by going ever rightward is not a path to anything better
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The centrist gambit of capturing the disillusioned right by going ever rightward is not a path to anything better
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This is almost as bad, and in some ways way worse, than "what's a computer?"
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This is almost as bad, and in some ways way worse, than "what's a computer?"
Always wondered about this aspect of Farscape. www.ebooks.com/en-au/book/2...
Investigating 'Farscape'
"My name is John Crichton. 'I'm lost'. An astronaut. Shot through a wormhole. In some distant part of the universe. 'I'm trying to stay alive'. Aboard this ship. 'This living ship'. Of escaped prisone...
www.ebooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Always wondered about this aspect of Farscape. www.ebooks.com/en-au/book/2...
I never got into Harry Potter and that honestly feels like a relief because my friends who did always do that awkward explanatory preamble where they assure others that they don't agree with what the author is saying and doing right now.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I never got into Harry Potter and that honestly feels like a relief because my friends who did always do that awkward explanatory preamble where they assure others that they don't agree with what the author is saying and doing right now.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Has anyone tried to push Senator Palpatine to the left?
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Has anyone tried to push Senator Palpatine to the left?
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Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.