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· Aug 6
We really need to put a stop to the whole "parenting" thing until we can figure out what's going on.
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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dystopian
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
dystopian
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Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
![Heritage also understood that time-pressed reporters were already adopting the horrid he-said/she-said style that plagues journalism today. If we got wind that some world-class Brookings scholar was due to release a book on, say, national health insurance that made an original contribution to knowledge in the field, someone at Heritage would quickly draft a short paper rehashing the same old talking points attacking national health insurance that had been around forever and release it the same day as the Brookings study. More often than not, we would get a story in the Washington Post the next day saying little more than this: “Today the Brookings Institution published a book, 3 tears in the making, advocating national health insurance, and the Heritage Foundation released a report on the same subject saying it would bankrupt the nation and lead to a deterioration in health quality.” Reporters never distinguished between the quality of one study and the shallowness of the other; they both got conflated and prevented the other side from getting traction on an issue.[vi] This method still works today.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiabn6zsn47fjy7fdtsz56sqyl22sg6werwfjmgi3f7tbemrfyucna@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Folks will talk about universal basic income, free public transit, and unrestricted public welfare systems like "just because it worked in a tiny town doesn't mean it can work in big cities" as if we don't have decades of studies showing that it actually works there too. There too. Yup, and there. 🙄
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Folks will talk about universal basic income, free public transit, and unrestricted public welfare systems like "just because it worked in a tiny town doesn't mean it can work in big cities" as if we don't have decades of studies showing that it actually works there too. There too. Yup, and there. 🙄
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In much the same way that China has dozens of cities with 5+ million people that you've never, ever heard of, non-Californians really have no idea how big the second-tier California cities are.
Fresno is big enough that it would be the most populated municipality in 28 US states
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
In much the same way that China has dozens of cities with 5+ million people that you've never, ever heard of, non-Californians really have no idea how big the second-tier California cities are.
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The UN climate change conference (COP30) having rooms shut down both to flooding and an extreme fire is a bit metaphorically excessive.
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The UN climate change conference (COP30) having rooms shut down both to flooding and an extreme fire is a bit metaphorically excessive.
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I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.
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Here is a report from the NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson detailing a facility where faulty heating equipment meant that indoor temperatures dropped as low as 55 degrees in the spring (For context: "Restorative Housing Unit" is the Orwellian term NJDOC uses for solitary confinement)
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Here is a report from the NJ Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson detailing a facility where faulty heating equipment meant that indoor temperatures dropped as low as 55 degrees in the spring (For context: "Restorative Housing Unit" is the Orwellian term NJDOC uses for solitary confinement)
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there are a lot of poeple who believe the dems are in charge even when they're not in charge
Every day it becomes harder for my trans friends to get the care they need explicitly because Dems did jack shit while in office and now Republicans are free to push all the anti-trans laws they want, so don't fucking tell me that "democrats have done a lot actually," because they've done *nothing.*
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
there are a lot of poeple who believe the dems are in charge even when they're not in charge
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if you hate ai messing with your system you should also get rid of one drive, but first open it and make sure all your files are still on your computer instead of secretly uploaded to the cloud.
guys, just uninstall copilot. its like the first thing i did when i upgraded to windows 11. you don't have to put up with any of that if you hate it so much.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
if you hate ai messing with your system you should also get rid of one drive, but first open it and make sure all your files are still on your computer instead of secretly uploaded to the cloud.
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sometimes the correct response to a situation is to weep for one thousand years. but afterwards you have to stand up and take action, too
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
sometimes the correct response to a situation is to weep for one thousand years. but afterwards you have to stand up and take action, too
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So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
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Give us our roses while we're still alive.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Give us our roses while we're still alive.
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I feel like the “material conditions are fake” takes have to contend with the reality that tariffs are the most unpopular thing Republicans have ever done, it appears to have damaged Trump’s approvals even more than January 6th.
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I feel like the “material conditions are fake” takes have to contend with the reality that tariffs are the most unpopular thing Republicans have ever done, it appears to have damaged Trump’s approvals even more than January 6th.
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This has gotten very little coverage in the US, but on Monday US military contractors or troops or some other paramilitary group placed signs on a beach in Mexico, claiming it as US territory. (The contested location is close to the SpaceX base outside Brownsville)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
‘Restricted’: Did US troops try to cordon off a Mexican beach?
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks the International Boundary and Water Commission intervention.
www.aljazeera.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This has gotten very little coverage in the US, but on Monday US military contractors or troops or some other paramilitary group placed signs on a beach in Mexico, claiming it as US territory. (The contested location is close to the SpaceX base outside Brownsville)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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Honestly think the easiest value to society you can add as a bloke is to stand up for women you don't know.
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Honestly think the easiest value to society you can add as a bloke is to stand up for women you don't know.
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NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” Unlawful orders:
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” Unlawful orders:
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
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THERE ARE REAL LIVE ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE US GOVERNMENT IN THE VICE PRESIDENT’S DMs INFLUENCING REAL US POLICY AND THESE PEOPLE ARE TRAITORS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND EVERYTHING AMERICANS HAVE FOUGHT AND BLED AND LIVED AND DIED FOR OVER CENTURIES.
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
THERE ARE REAL LIVE ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE US GOVERNMENT IN THE VICE PRESIDENT’S DMs INFLUENCING REAL US POLICY AND THESE PEOPLE ARE TRAITORS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND EVERYTHING AMERICANS HAVE FOUGHT AND BLED AND LIVED AND DIED FOR OVER CENTURIES.
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Just going to take a moment to note, here, that ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is one of the most evidence-based of evidence-based claims you can make, and anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant or just lying.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Just going to take a moment to note, here, that ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is one of the most evidence-based of evidence-based claims you can make, and anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant or just lying.
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Uma Musume posts are like "ive fallen deeply in love with a Beautiful Woman named Steak Dinner"
June 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Uma Musume posts are like "ive fallen deeply in love with a Beautiful Woman named Steak Dinner"
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I've spent the last decade writing about autism and saying politicians should stop talking about vaccines. When my book came out, it felt like politics was moving there. But I feel like my life's work has been completely erased by RFK Jr., Trump and Bill Cassidy. I feel completely disoriented.
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I've spent the last decade writing about autism and saying politicians should stop talking about vaccines. When my book came out, it felt like politics was moving there. But I feel like my life's work has been completely erased by RFK Jr., Trump and Bill Cassidy. I feel completely disoriented.
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the argentina bailout is the stealth thing that's killing him. it's gotten sort of desultory coverage in the mainstream media as far as I've seen, but people haaaaaaaaatttttttttee it. it's like every person who's glancingly heard of it has a grudge forever.
The topics where Trump has his lowest approval rating, via Marquette poll:
-Jeffrey Epstein (-48%)
-The government shutdown (-50%)
-The Argentina bailout (-58%)
www.marquette.edu/news-center/...
-Jeffrey Epstein (-48%)
-The government shutdown (-50%)
-The Argentina bailout (-58%)
www.marquette.edu/news-center/...
New Marquette Law School national survey finds more people favoring Democrats than Republicans in anticipated 2026 vote for Congress and also more Democrats saying they are certain to vote // News Cen...
www.marquette.edu
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
the argentina bailout is the stealth thing that's killing him. it's gotten sort of desultory coverage in the mainstream media as far as I've seen, but people haaaaaaaaatttttttttee it. it's like every person who's glancingly heard of it has a grudge forever.
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Fascists have no internal monologue, just alternating flashes of Norman Rockwell paintings and photographs of lynchings flipping back and forth in their rat brains
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Fascists have no internal monologue, just alternating flashes of Norman Rockwell paintings and photographs of lynchings flipping back and forth in their rat brains
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I had assumed after senate democrats publicly conspired to destroy any leverage they had by voting to pass Trump's godawful bill to reopen the government, I would finally stop having to hear about how they are brave and good and will save us all, but it appears that is not the case
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I had assumed after senate democrats publicly conspired to destroy any leverage they had by voting to pass Trump's godawful bill to reopen the government, I would finally stop having to hear about how they are brave and good and will save us all, but it appears that is not the case