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Trump describes himself as the first Jewish President.
No. But he is a schmuck, a shlemiel, a meshugge putz who only ever knows how to kvetch. He has done bupkis for America, only himself. He’s all spiel, but he’s just a ligner, a gonif. He’s the ultimate paskudnik.
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No. But he is a schmuck, a shlemiel, a meshugge putz who only ever knows how to kvetch. He has done bupkis for America, only himself. He’s all spiel, but he’s just a ligner, a gonif. He’s the ultimate paskudnik.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Trump describes himself as the first Jewish President.
No. But he is a schmuck, a shlemiel, a meshugge putz who only ever knows how to kvetch. He has done bupkis for America, only himself. He’s all spiel, but he’s just a ligner, a gonif. He’s the ultimate paskudnik.
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No. But he is a schmuck, a shlemiel, a meshugge putz who only ever knows how to kvetch. He has done bupkis for America, only himself. He’s all spiel, but he’s just a ligner, a gonif. He’s the ultimate paskudnik.
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Then maybe we should work harder to vote for Not-Monster-With-Viscera-Hanging-From-Its-Jagged-Teeth, and maybe it's enough to vote for Not-Monster-With-Viscera-Hanging-From-Its-Jagged-Teeth without needing Not-Monster-With-Viscera-Hanging-From-Its-Jagged-Teeth to say cute things that give us feels.
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Then maybe we should work harder to vote for Not-Monster-With-Viscera-Hanging-From-Its-Jagged-Teeth, and maybe it's enough to vote for Not-Monster-With-Viscera-Hanging-From-Its-Jagged-Teeth without needing Not-Monster-With-Viscera-Hanging-From-Its-Jagged-Teeth to say cute things that give us feels.
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Why are republicans always forces of nature in their analogies, instead of just horrible people?
And even if we stick with the (bad) analogy, how does the fact that you can’t yell at a tornado make it useful to yell at Gary for stuff the tornado does?
And even if we stick with the (bad) analogy, how does the fact that you can’t yell at a tornado make it useful to yell at Gary for stuff the tornado does?
December 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Why are republicans always forces of nature in their analogies, instead of just horrible people?
And even if we stick with the (bad) analogy, how does the fact that you can’t yell at a tornado make it useful to yell at Gary for stuff the tornado does?
And even if we stick with the (bad) analogy, how does the fact that you can’t yell at a tornado make it useful to yell at Gary for stuff the tornado does?
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In their defense they never intended to address it because they want poor people to die.
Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans. n.pr/4q9lB8z
How the long-running Obamacare fight came to thwart enhanced subsidies in Congress
Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.
n.pr
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In their defense they never intended to address it because they want poor people to die.
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Give this man a knighthood immediately
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Give this man a knighthood immediately
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I think we should celebrate "poor person meals" and "struggle meals" and "peasant food" etc... because it really shows off how creative people can get when they don't have a lot of ingredients or resources.
December 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I think we should celebrate "poor person meals" and "struggle meals" and "peasant food" etc... because it really shows off how creative people can get when they don't have a lot of ingredients or resources.
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All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.
If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.
Well, peel my eyebrows off the ceiling...
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Well, peel my eyebrows off the ceiling...
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This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol
Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Why? Because those pesky human musicians demand stuff like being paid for the product they produce for the music industry to sell
Big Music *hates* musicians and always has
'Nuff said... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Big Music *hates* musicians and always has
'Nuff said... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Musicians are deeply concerned about AI. So why are the major labels embracing it?
Companies such as Udio, Suno and Klay will let you use AI to make new music based on existing artists’ work. It could mean more royalties – but many are worried
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Why? Because those pesky human musicians demand stuff like being paid for the product they produce for the music industry to sell
Big Music *hates* musicians and always has
'Nuff said... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Big Music *hates* musicians and always has
'Nuff said... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
If they're gonna cram things in my nooks and crannies, should at least buy me dinner first.
over the last 2-3 years I went from "curious about AI's potential" to "active hater of this shit" because its been forced upon me in every possible area by aggressive assholes who do not understand that its not useful and unwanted and they keep jamming it in every nook and cranny of my life
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If they're gonna cram things in my nooks and crannies, should at least buy me dinner first.
What a fucking indictment of Bush.
Lindsey Graham: "The least of my concerns is this frickin' video. Release it, make your own decisions. This is lawful. I have every confidence that what they're doing is no different than what Bush did."
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What a fucking indictment of Bush.
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'Tis the season for the annual sharing of one of my all-time favorite storylines: Jasonezer Scrooge! (1/3) foxtrot.com/jasonezer-sc...
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
'Tis the season for the annual sharing of one of my all-time favorite storylines: Jasonezer Scrooge! (1/3) foxtrot.com/jasonezer-sc...
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If you're the boss of a development studio that DOESN'T allow the use of generative-AI when making games, now's a really good moment to grab the best publicity of your life.
December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you're the boss of a development studio that DOESN'T allow the use of generative-AI when making games, now's a really good moment to grab the best publicity of your life.
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"You do not like the Dogshit Casserole. But what if---" 🤔
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"You do not like the Dogshit Casserole. But what if---" 🤔
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you.
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you.
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
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CSI: Florin
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
CSI: Florin
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Slightly longer thoughts on the passing of Rob Reiner, and what a remarkable storyteller he turned out to be.
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/r...
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Rob Reiner, RIP
I don’t have much to add about Rob Reiner and wife Michelle Singer’s shocking death that other people haven’t said better, likewise any more to add about his career and political …
whatever.scalzi.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Slightly longer thoughts on the passing of Rob Reiner, and what a remarkable storyteller he turned out to be.
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/r...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/r...
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That’s an easy answer: FUCK YES.
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
That’s an easy answer: FUCK YES.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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