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AuDHD auntie, occasional witch, full time crank, most problems can be solved by the judicious application of cast iron.
Watching the #Grinch (2000) and it’s genuinely amazingly bad and the fact that Jim Carrey’s nearly perfect performance is trapped in this sweaty, seasick, strangely violent, joyless, unpleasant film is a straight up tragedy.
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Watching the #Grinch (2000) and it’s genuinely amazingly bad and the fact that Jim Carrey’s nearly perfect performance is trapped in this sweaty, seasick, strangely violent, joyless, unpleasant film is a straight up tragedy.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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the tea party was really a seminal shift in how the median congressperson behaved in person
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
My theory that as members of congress are increasingly batshit it will increasingly select for even more batshit people who can tolerate the job is doing pretty well
Congressional retirements at a historic pace in both chambers. Per @ballotpedia.org , 50 Members have now announced. ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S.... I gather it’s a miserable era to be in Congress for many incumbents.
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
the tea party was really a seminal shift in how the median congressperson behaved in person
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
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I ❤️AI
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I ❤️AI
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yes! i am a bit of a broken record on this but among elite male commentators there is such obvious gender anxiety
i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
yes! i am a bit of a broken record on this but among elite male commentators there is such obvious gender anxiety
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Trump is gonna announce a $2000 tariff check that will temporarily boost the economy until it becomes clear it was just taken out of next year’s tax refund
December 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trump is gonna announce a $2000 tariff check that will temporarily boost the economy until it becomes clear it was just taken out of next year’s tax refund
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This means that anyone experiencing certain issues (mental health included) will automatically reach out and ENACT this SCRIPT because it has become EMBEDDED in the culture.
There are national cultural scripts specific to every nation and culture. /5
There are national cultural scripts specific to every nation and culture. /5
August 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This means that anyone experiencing certain issues (mental health included) will automatically reach out and ENACT this SCRIPT because it has become EMBEDDED in the culture.
There are national cultural scripts specific to every nation and culture. /5
There are national cultural scripts specific to every nation and culture. /5
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«Because LLM training distributes the influence of its source across billions of interdependent parameters, the contribution of any specific text is often untraceable… researchers may fully disclose LLM use and act entirely in good faith yet still benefit from the uncredited contributions of others»
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
«Because LLM training distributes the influence of its source across billions of interdependent parameters, the contribution of any specific text is often untraceable… researchers may fully disclose LLM use and act entirely in good faith yet still benefit from the uncredited contributions of others»
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Mass shooting events are not the natural order of things.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Mass shooting events are not the natural order of things.
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Why is @CBSNews using the BBC to cover the Brown shooting?
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Why is @CBSNews using the BBC to cover the Brown shooting?
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December 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
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So the lesson is: if Republicans freak out, spend all the money they can in the last two weeks, and get good rural turnout, they can limit Democratic overperformance relative to 2024 to 16 points.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So the lesson is: if Republicans freak out, spend all the money they can in the last two weeks, and get good rural turnout, they can limit Democratic overperformance relative to 2024 to 16 points.
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guys who have no belief in or respect for human rights are becoming oddly invested in whether robots have rights
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
guys who have no belief in or respect for human rights are becoming oddly invested in whether robots have rights
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NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
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As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government
"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 9:23 PM
As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This isn’t important per se but why does the world feel like it’s awash in unforced, amateurish, idiotic, entry level errors?
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This isn’t important per se but why does the world feel like it’s awash in unforced, amateurish, idiotic, entry level errors?
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
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everyone wants there to be an easier or flashier answer than winning like a thousand Democratic primaries for offices other than the presidency but there is not an easier or flashier answer than winning like a thousand Democratic primaries for offices other than the presidency
this is a perfectly good theory which presents the problem that it has not happened once in american history
Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
everyone wants there to be an easier or flashier answer than winning like a thousand Democratic primaries for offices other than the presidency but there is not an easier or flashier answer than winning like a thousand Democratic primaries for offices other than the presidency
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also think this fantasy of mastery expresses itself as an opportunity for total surrender, to expect nothing from yourself
"Generative AI platforms center the idea that one has written, or created, by interacting with a structure they did not build and do not understand" - this I think is key -- less about interpassivity & 100% about the master/slave dialectic: the point is not to create but to be a master.
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
also think this fantasy of mastery expresses itself as an opportunity for total surrender, to expect nothing from yourself
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They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago.
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
It’s wild how the press is ok with the president abusing the pardon power. That used to be one of the most scrutinized things about a presidency.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago.
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
The fuck they do
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The fuck they do