Charles Miller
@carl.fish
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And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, his highest probability for success will now be to copy Sarah Connor and wait for you to make contact with her.
December 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, his highest probability for success will now be to copy Sarah Connor and wait for you to make contact with her.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr
December 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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This is also, truly, the greatest film for teaching people how commodities trading works, and also how speculative financial markets work in general. I regularly reference this one to explain investors and general board room decision-making to early-career folks if they've seen the film.
watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
December 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This is also, truly, the greatest film for teaching people how commodities trading works, and also how speculative financial markets work in general. I regularly reference this one to explain investors and general board room decision-making to early-career folks if they've seen the film.
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Having spent some time in my life reading comments on the internet, should we just call it? Is it time to give up? Are they just going go forever think the word "biased" does not exist, and it's just "bias" from here on out?
"NO stupid your just bias"
Yes, correct. That's right.
"NO stupid your just bias"
Yes, correct. That's right.
December 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Having spent some time in my life reading comments on the internet, should we just call it? Is it time to give up? Are they just going go forever think the word "biased" does not exist, and it's just "bias" from here on out?
"NO stupid your just bias"
Yes, correct. That's right.
"NO stupid your just bias"
Yes, correct. That's right.
Artificial Intelligence service for writing work memos, except it just sends out your prompt with a list of links so the recipient can decide to run it through the LLM of their choice if they want.
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Artificial Intelligence service for writing work memos, except it just sends out your prompt with a list of links so the recipient can decide to run it through the LLM of their choice if they want.
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For sale
Victorian shoes
weather worn
Victorian shoes
weather worn
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
For sale
Victorian shoes
weather worn
Victorian shoes
weather worn
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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Only one person has ever retracted their signing of that letter
They also helped suppress the response letter !
They also helped suppress the response letter !
Worth remembering that Bari Weiss signed that oh-so-remarkable Harper’s Letter about the vital importance of free speech and the need to resist attacks on it.
I know that letter is five years old now, but utterly annoys me as much today as it did when it came out.
So transparently bad.
I know that letter is five years old now, but utterly annoys me as much today as it did when it came out.
So transparently bad.
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Only one person has ever retracted their signing of that letter
They also helped suppress the response letter !
They also helped suppress the response letter !
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Don't migrate to Australia. It's terrible here.
Just gonna keep posting my adventures with socialized healthcare. Today I did my next day appointment for:
- eye exam
- digital eye imaging and pressure check
- contact and glasses prescription
- new glasses and frames, with coating and progressive lenses
I splurged $100 on designer frames
- eye exam
- digital eye imaging and pressure check
- contact and glasses prescription
- new glasses and frames, with coating and progressive lenses
I splurged $100 on designer frames
December 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Don't migrate to Australia. It's terrible here.
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“The impact of the vulnerabilities we found reaches from various signature verification bypasses, breaking encryption in transit and encryption at rest, undermining key signatures, to exploitable memory corruption vulnerabilities.”
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
“The impact of the vulnerabilities we found reaches from various signature verification bypasses, breaking encryption in transit and encryption at rest, undermining key signatures, to exploitable memory corruption vulnerabilities.”
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From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
There's no way these do anything useful to advertise the property. They're just a way for the estate agent to get their brand in front of other potential sellers.
it’s grimly funny to me that stratas don’t let you have your laundry drying on a balcony, and yet are powerless or something to stop this sort of very attractive dogs breakfast at the front of the property
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
There's no way these do anything useful to advertise the property. They're just a way for the estate agent to get their brand in front of other potential sellers.
My theory is that in five-ish years, we will have PlayStations/SMB hubs with models about as capable as GPT-4 in aggregate, so unsubsidised “good enough” grunt-work AI will be widely accessible. So everyone can easily get the AI that autocompletes code, but also the one that makes revenge porn.
The fun thing about the AI as dotcom crash metaphor is that it's bullish for AI. While companies like Webvan, Kozmo & Pets. com failed - today we have Amazon, DoorDash & Chewy.
We also have Netflix, TikTok, Uber and lots of other companies we couldn’t have imagined in 2001.
AI will be similar.
We also have Netflix, TikTok, Uber and lots of other companies we couldn’t have imagined in 2001.
AI will be similar.
December 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My theory is that in five-ish years, we will have PlayStations/SMB hubs with models about as capable as GPT-4 in aggregate, so unsubsidised “good enough” grunt-work AI will be widely accessible. So everyone can easily get the AI that autocompletes code, but also the one that makes revenge porn.
Just cut out the middle-man and build Gundams.
"Asked how the U.S. would ensure it has a sufficient workforce to build the new ships, Trump said shipyards would utilize robots."
Trumpf to defend the home island via Operation Ten-Go 2.0 news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...
December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Just cut out the middle-man and build Gundams.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it