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· Dec 31
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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From dominatrixes to adult entertainers, we asked several sex workers to take us out to eat, sharing the taco spots that keep them fed across L.A.
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 AM
From dominatrixes to adult entertainers, we asked several sex workers to take us out to eat, sharing the taco spots that keep them fed across L.A.
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
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This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
When actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad became a culture war flashpoint last summer, Times journalists noticed, in part through the reports, that right-wing podcast figures were shaping the backlash. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.
www.niemanlab.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
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thsi is a FULL GROWN CAT
February 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
thsi is a FULL GROWN CAT
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Pam Bondi really triggering that fight or flight for anyone who’s ever worked a cash register
February 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Pam Bondi really triggering that fight or flight for anyone who’s ever worked a cash register
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interesting that a company who, I assume, took a bunch of their money is their top donor at 25k dollars
Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for James Van Der Beek's Family, organized by Jason K
James Van Der Beek was a beloved husband, father, and friend who touched the lives of … Jason K needs your support for Support for James Van Der Beek's Family
www.gofundme.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 AM
interesting that a company who, I assume, took a bunch of their money is their top donor at 25k dollars
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It's pretty crazy that this book was published in 2006, and the characters suspect that the alien they are talking to in the opening is an LLM in a sense more or less recognizable to anyone reading it today.
competitive advantage for the LLM era: went insane reading Blindsight a decade ago; confronted the fact that much of what we value as intelligence can be decomposed into component submodules; accepted that sentience/consciousness was not a precondition of effectiveness wrt many cognitive tasks, etc
February 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It's pretty crazy that this book was published in 2006, and the characters suspect that the alien they are talking to in the opening is an LLM in a sense more or less recognizable to anyone reading it today.
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Peter Watts on his novels
February 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Peter Watts on his novels
sucks how much youtube massively cleaned up its nazi and rw problem only for it to seemingly all get reversed in the last year
February 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
sucks how much youtube massively cleaned up its nazi and rw problem only for it to seemingly all get reversed in the last year
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so happy for the autistic representation in LOTR 1978
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
so happy for the autistic representation in LOTR 1978
This too, is cocaine
February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
This too, is cocaine
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its like vonnegut said, we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
its like vonnegut said, we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
moderation here is run on the shittiest regex and we’re so lucky 2014 channer brigading culture doesn’t still exist cuz this site is not up to task
who on earth do i even talk to about this?
apparently my account has been flagged as "needs review" and my replies and likes are getting hidden?
apparently my account has been flagged as "needs review" and my replies and likes are getting hidden?
so from my perspective, the posts in the above thread are still visible, but your replies/likes arent
if i followed you, or the op of the thread (which ig is also me) followed you, you'd show up, but because i don't you're hidden
if i followed you, or the op of the thread (which ig is also me) followed you, you'd show up, but because i don't you're hidden
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
moderation here is run on the shittiest regex and we’re so lucky 2014 channer brigading culture doesn’t still exist cuz this site is not up to task
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fucken uh still suitin desert style walking without rhythm? Fucken worm riding in the deep desert…maybe..maybe become god?
i’m thinkin me, kwisatz haderach, you my stilgar? i need you on this tho baby bro may thy knife chip and shatter
i’m thinkin me, kwisatz haderach, you my stilgar? i need you on this tho baby bro may thy knife chip and shatter
November 30, 2024 at 8:09 AM
fucken uh still suitin desert style walking without rhythm? Fucken worm riding in the deep desert…maybe..maybe become god?
i’m thinkin me, kwisatz haderach, you my stilgar? i need you on this tho baby bro may thy knife chip and shatter
i’m thinkin me, kwisatz haderach, you my stilgar? i need you on this tho baby bro may thy knife chip and shatter
I mean also the guys funding it and many people working in it are explicitly saying have fun being poor I’m going to use this to fire you
and the culture around image gen is one of intentionally ’triggering’ artists by outputting a bunch of work in theirnstyle anytime one complains in the media
and the culture around image gen is one of intentionally ’triggering’ artists by outputting a bunch of work in theirnstyle anytime one complains in the media
I think this is a good explanation for why a lot of lefty people are so AI-hostile. bad timing had a lot of people's bullshit sensors flagging false positives (in a space that, complicating matters, had a non-trivial amount of real bullshit)
the immediately prior round of tech hype on social media being NFTs and bitcoin really miscalibrated a lot of people
February 12, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I mean also the guys funding it and many people working in it are explicitly saying have fun being poor I’m going to use this to fire you
and the culture around image gen is one of intentionally ’triggering’ artists by outputting a bunch of work in theirnstyle anytime one complains in the media
and the culture around image gen is one of intentionally ’triggering’ artists by outputting a bunch of work in theirnstyle anytime one complains in the media
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do think people are not broadly making the connection yet that the software stuff means that anything theoretically automatable with software can now be automated MUCH more cheaply/easily. Like it's not "what will 'AI' do" but "what will reducing the marginal cost of custom software to ~zero do"
February 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
do think people are not broadly making the connection yet that the software stuff means that anything theoretically automatable with software can now be automated MUCH more cheaply/easily. Like it's not "what will 'AI' do" but "what will reducing the marginal cost of custom software to ~zero do"
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If there was ever going to be any proof that WikiLeaks is essentially dead, it's the Epstein files. Integrating this sort of data and making it searchable is right up the organization's old alley.
The good news is that @ddosecrets.org and @dropsitenews.com joined forces with Jmail to do just that.
The good news is that @ddosecrets.org and @dropsitenews.com joined forces with Jmail to do just that.
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 AM
If there was ever going to be any proof that WikiLeaks is essentially dead, it's the Epstein files. Integrating this sort of data and making it searchable is right up the organization's old alley.
The good news is that @ddosecrets.org and @dropsitenews.com joined forces with Jmail to do just that.
The good news is that @ddosecrets.org and @dropsitenews.com joined forces with Jmail to do just that.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I have no memory of making this
November 28, 2023 at 5:22 AM
I have no memory of making this
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this is why making every ICE and CBP guy's job an endless series of humiliations is critical. also if they don't meet their quota they don't get their bonus.
Ice will probably have fewer guys come November than now
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
February 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM
this is why making every ICE and CBP guy's job an endless series of humiliations is critical. also if they don't meet their quota they don't get their bonus.
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Ice will probably have fewer guys come November than now
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Ice will probably have fewer guys come November than now
like HSI doesnt exist anymore its all ero. RIF literally everyone involved as Accountability Step 1
and even sidestepping the morality, in 2029 ICE and USBP will be our biggest natsec threat
they cant be trusted to follow orders or not sink the admin either softly or open sedition/assassination
and even sidestepping the morality, in 2029 ICE and USBP will be our biggest natsec threat
they cant be trusted to follow orders or not sink the admin either softly or open sedition/assassination
I mean,,,they’re corrrect about what hsi does?
like it’s also not 2024 anymore. almost the entirety of hsi was reassigned to ero in 2025 and short of an amerimaidan-shaped situation, they’re role in ero will only grow until 2029
like it’s also not 2024 anymore. almost the entirety of hsi was reassigned to ero in 2025 and short of an amerimaidan-shaped situation, they’re role in ero will only grow until 2029
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
like HSI doesnt exist anymore its all ero. RIF literally everyone involved as Accountability Step 1
and even sidestepping the morality, in 2029 ICE and USBP will be our biggest natsec threat
they cant be trusted to follow orders or not sink the admin either softly or open sedition/assassination
and even sidestepping the morality, in 2029 ICE and USBP will be our biggest natsec threat
they cant be trusted to follow orders or not sink the admin either softly or open sedition/assassination