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the lack of grounded imagination is something that bothers me a lot in left/liberal circles. it feels like a lot policy thinking either defaults to 'the status quo, but like, less mean' or 'I would simply radically reorder society all of society and the state in one step'
January 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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It was given this challenge to prove its AI coding methods viable by being given a task thats unlikely to have lots of examples in the AI's training data. It of course accepted the challenge because it knows nothing about what this means.

That way its fair fight.
Ok:

Write a python package that does multivariate Nadaraya-Watson and local polynomial kernel regression with homo-/heteroscedastic goodness of fit checking and automatic crossvalidated order and bandwidth selection as an sklearn (fit/predict) compatible class.
January 4, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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ok this post blowing up kinda makes me want kms the pentagon but uhh heres some thoughts in no particular
dawg the kirkinator videos are fuckin frying me. the one where alex jones takes him to hyperborea and he meets hulk hogan and aryan kash patel. what the fuck is even going on anymore
October 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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the american psycho greeting card scene but it's nrx dudes showing off photos of their trans girlfriends on their phones
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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The question of whether the expert actually knows what they’re talking about, whether they’ve thought it through enough, of whether maybe the highest circles of our politics are filled with mediocrities who have bluffed their way to top, will never occur to them, because that is what they are too.
September 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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The future is watching a Mormon influencer doing self-promotion following an assassination through your phone screen until you are the Mormon influencer filming
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I don't mean this (entirely) disparagingly. I'm just shocked that so many people are unfamiliar with the grey tribe world.

Like if you're surprised that a "tech bro" would be hostile to NFTs as an obvious hype scam, you have a bad map of the different camps grouped as "tech bros."
December 9, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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A lone cybercriminal used Anthropic's vibe-coding LLM to automate a massive spree that hacked and extorted 17 companies. It did almost everything for him: Scoped out who to hack and how, organized the hacked material, helped him decide how much to ask each company for and wrote his extortion emails.
A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says
The company behind the Claude chatbot said it caught a hacker using its chatbot to identify, hack and extort at least 17 companies.
www.nbcnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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morning read
August 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.
August 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Cool that these people came up with an ideology where the tenets are:

- Bitching on Twitter is praxis.

- You don't have to do anything.

- The problem will solve itself.

And then congratulate themselves and give each other pats on the back. Very nice of them to stay out of the way.
June 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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if your mother says she loves you, check it twice
if your mother says she loves you, check it twice
if it validates your priors
check for bullshit, FUD, and liars
if you really want to hear it, check it twice
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
look, we’ve all been fooled before
when a deep-fake makes us sore
but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake
::clap clap::
August 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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The stochastic parrot is now an IMO gold medalist parrot
July 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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coming around to belief that discourse about cluster of topics ranging from low birthrates to lack of third spaces all has a similar barrier in terms of articulating useful solutions.....
oh, yeah, okay, that’s the source for almost all of my disdain for these pieces at this point; everyone can describe the symptoms, they’re literally everywhere, but, like, now what?
July 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
July 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Christ. Just came downstairs to find my dad watching an entirely AI-generated YouTube video about an event that didn't happen involving the Pope. Had to convince him the whole think was fake. "How can you tell?" he asked. He has five degrees including a PhD.
May 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I've received 100+ replies like this, claiming game revenue goes directly to executives & shareholders. So I checked & made this chart.

This is what happens when you buy a $69.99 game from EA, the company with the WORST reputation in the industry.

0.8% goes to c-suite. 53% goes to devs & workers.
May 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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VEO 3

Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.

This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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some people still doing the “psshhh. I’m supposed to be impressed?” thing and I’m sorry guys but you’re fast becoming like one of those Japanese soldiers who refused to leave the caves at this rate. like maybe 18 months ago it couldn’t do hands.
May 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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VEO3

Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”

The video and audio are generated together.
May 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I think you're directionally correct, but would argue the dynamics are slightly more complex.

1. Shor-thought is big on "issue salience." Voters trust GOP more on immigration, so Dems should avoid talking about immigration. Hence why Trump/Vance kept pushing "eating the pets"; tactically stupid,
May 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM