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this old hammer killed john henry / but it won't kill me
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the best evidence for the existence of an ineffable soul, each of us having a subjective experience linked to the physical body yet separate from it, is that billionaires clearly lack one, dead-eyed in darkness, begging the computer to love them, as if they would be able to feel if it did
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the best evidence for the existence of an ineffable soul, each of us having a subjective experience linked to the physical body yet separate from it, is that billionaires clearly lack one, dead-eyed in darkness, begging the computer to love them, as if they would be able to feel if it did
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I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
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We are living in a golden age for losers.
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
We are living in a golden age for losers.
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If the Geico Gecko started talking to me at the library I’d hit it with a copy of War and Peace
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If the Geico Gecko started talking to me at the library I’d hit it with a copy of War and Peace
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No Kings protester with an NSPM-7 sign (!)
October 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
No Kings protester with an NSPM-7 sign (!)
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oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
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machine learning is incredibly useful when you apply it to actual problems, and yet for some reason the deeply embarrassing "maybe my computer will become a real boy" shit just refuses to die no matter how many times the proponents cop to not knowing what they're talking about
October 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
machine learning is incredibly useful when you apply it to actual problems, and yet for some reason the deeply embarrassing "maybe my computer will become a real boy" shit just refuses to die no matter how many times the proponents cop to not knowing what they're talking about
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In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
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if you want a freaking vibe thewesterliesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/paradise
Paradise, by The Westerlies
10 track album
thewesterliesmusic.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
if you want a freaking vibe thewesterliesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/paradise
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An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.
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In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence
YouTube video by New York Daily News
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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Luddites unite!
"As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender...We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."
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"As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender...We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."
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“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Luddites unite!
"As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender...We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."
⚒️🤖⚒️
"As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender...We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."
⚒️🤖⚒️
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Idk. It’s also weird because Wikipedia was like 99% accurate and we were taught in school that it was a lying machine that lies and should never be trusted and now the kids think the chatbot that says Beast Boy founded the Islamic State is God.
I worked on search engine optimization back in the days when there were 10-20 search engines and then Google just wiped them all out by being so much better.
Is there some financial advantage to them for making search useless at this point?
Is there some financial advantage to them for making search useless at this point?
September 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Idk. It’s also weird because Wikipedia was like 99% accurate and we were taught in school that it was a lying machine that lies and should never be trusted and now the kids think the chatbot that says Beast Boy founded the Islamic State is God.
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There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
August 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
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Eric Adams Pilfers Your Room for Drugs and Guns ASMR
July 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Eric Adams Pilfers Your Room for Drugs and Guns ASMR
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this is the future liberals want
August 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
this is the future liberals want
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Kirby was such a great artist, of course, because he inhaled other comic book artists and gained their abilities.
August 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Kirby was such a great artist, of course, because he inhaled other comic book artists and gained their abilities.
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This type of dense, walkable, orbital urbanism is illegal to build in much of California.
August 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This type of dense, walkable, orbital urbanism is illegal to build in much of California.
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if you are worth billions of dollars — a sum that makes you wealthier than any king in antiquity — you already *have* been incentivized. you have been allowed, by the state and by your fellow citizens, to escape any material concern except death, a condition entirely unique to the modern era.
Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO.
Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch
August 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
if you are worth billions of dollars — a sum that makes you wealthier than any king in antiquity — you already *have* been incentivized. you have been allowed, by the state and by your fellow citizens, to escape any material concern except death, a condition entirely unique to the modern era.