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In the era of AI crap, useless google search and cut and paste media, it is hard but I do think when you come across a surprising claim you should analyse the source of that claim
The good reason is that a lot of coding is mindless cut and paste but the real reason is a mix of the tools being crammed down developer throats and tech industry being fashion driven lemmings
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The good reason is that a lot of coding is mindless cut and paste but the real reason is a mix of the tools being crammed down developer throats and tech industry being fashion driven lemmings
Open source can't cram this shit down throats of unwilling users like Microsoft, Google and Amazon can
Open source could pop the AI bubble — and soon: very interesting oped here from Mark Surman of Mozilla www.ft.com/content/353a...
December 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Open source can't cram this shit down throats of unwilling users like Microsoft, Google and Amazon can
More importantly why are the press still quoting Trump uncritically
Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Donald Trump says Ukraine peace deal ‘closer than ever’ after talks in Berlin
Germany says US to provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
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December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
More importantly why are the press still quoting Trump uncritically
You should short any user of this product that doesn't have a vise-like, monopolistic grip on their customer
London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
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December 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
You should short any user of this product that doesn't have a vise-like, monopolistic grip on their customer
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Now he can buy a pardon
A U.S. federal court on Thursday meted out a 15-year jail term to disgraced Korean crypto mogul Do Kwon in a trial over a crypto crash that resulted in over $40 billion in losses to investors in the United States and around the world in 2022.
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U.S. court sentences disgraced Korean crypto mogul to 15 years in prison
A U.S. federal court on Thursday meted out a 15-year jail term to disgraced Korean crypto mogul Do Kwon in a trial over a crypto crash that resulted in over $40 billion in losses to investors in the…
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December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Now he can buy a pardon
Happy giving panda
New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Happy giving panda
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Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
Koreans back home drunk after their huishik
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Koreans back home drunk after their huishik
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Call the pullup a child because he just murdered it
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Call the pullup a child because he just murdered it
More K wave!
Unrealistic beauty standards dominate social media and dating, but being hot is also career perk. I spoke with people who work 9 to 5s about how they feel the pressure to look young, have perfect smiles, and be thin in order to succeed. @businessinsider.com
www.businessinsider.com/getting-hot-...
www.businessinsider.com/getting-hot-...
Being hot is now a job requirement
The beauty tax for getting ahead at work is getting more expensive: 'I have to reverse age to stay here.'
www.businessinsider.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
More K wave!
Particularly stupid at a time when the US is committing cultural and economic suicide over the same issue. Why would a "good" immigrant move to a place that think they are doing him/her a favour
December 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Particularly stupid at a time when the US is committing cultural and economic suicide over the same issue. Why would a "good" immigrant move to a place that think they are doing him/her a favour
So Hassett then
As the President turns to picking a new Fed Chair, I look to the economics literature to ask: What should he be looking for?
My answers: Good judgment. Independence. Communication skills. Intellectual leadership. And courage.
I hope that he's keeping these criteria in mind. #TheProfessorIsIn
My answers: Good judgment. Independence. Communication skills. Intellectual leadership. And courage.
I hope that he's keeping these criteria in mind. #TheProfessorIsIn
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
So Hassett then
Doesn't really follow UK news anymore but apparently there is a debate about whether this guy ever was a racist
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Doesn't really follow UK news anymore but apparently there is a debate about whether this guy ever was a racist
Steve Colls books are usually pretty good too
Just listened to the first episode of @marceldirsus.com's new podcast and it is excellent. I learned a ton about Iraq I didn't know. There is a lot of foreign policy content out there, but this is worth following: youtu.be/l5gnmitRUl0?...
Why America Invaded Iraq | Steve Coll
YouTube video by The Next Best with Marcel Dirsus
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December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Steve Colls books are usually pretty good too
Who knew, turns out UN general secretary is actually capable of full throated condemnation without mealy mouthed excuses. Wonder what is special about this case
There was something "fundamentally wrong" with how Israel conducted its military operation in Gaza and there are "strong reasons to believe" that war crimes have been committed, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said
Israel's conduct of war in Gaza 'fundamentally wrong'
There was something "fundamentally wrong" with how Israel conducted its military operation in Gaza and there are "strong reasons to believe" that war crimes have been committed, United Nations Secreta...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Who knew, turns out UN general secretary is actually capable of full throated condemnation without mealy mouthed excuses. Wonder what is special about this case
This is like one of those Korean SAT English questions where the newspapers all say "not even native English speakers understand it"
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is like one of those Korean SAT English questions where the newspapers all say "not even native English speakers understand it"
Driving the same roads under the same conditions?
An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (Jonathan Slotkin/New York Times)
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December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Driving the same roads under the same conditions?
I assume the OP is claiming all these people have deep personal knowledge of what actually was happening on the ground and based on that nuanced information they have formed the highly informed position that they know hold
It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I assume the OP is claiming all these people have deep personal knowledge of what actually was happening on the ground and based on that nuanced information they have formed the highly informed position that they know hold
Step 1 cause a problem
Step 2 offer solution to revert back before step 1
Step 3 bro down
Step 2 offer solution to revert back before step 1
Step 3 bro down
Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools (Financial Times)
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December 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Step 1 cause a problem
Step 2 offer solution to revert back before step 1
Step 3 bro down
Step 2 offer solution to revert back before step 1
Step 3 bro down
If crypto was delivering useful innovation, there would be a way to have a negative number of subscriptions to certain publications
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
If crypto was delivering useful innovation, there would be a way to have a negative number of subscriptions to certain publications
If you looked up top 20 korean retail holdings on KSD last month you would have known to short this
I love "Strategy" ($MSTR). It's like if someone offered you the opportunity to invest in Beanie Babies but you have to pay them a premium above the normal cost of Beanie Babies.
And then a multi-billion-dollar subeconomy of options and ETFs evolved around Overpriced Beanie Baby Investment Co®.
And then a multi-billion-dollar subeconomy of options and ETFs evolved around Overpriced Beanie Baby Investment Co®.
Crypto’s Retail Traders Hit Hard as Strategy ETFs Plunge 80%
Retail investors who piled into Michael Saylor’s grand Bitcoin experiment are paying a heavy price.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If you looked up top 20 korean retail holdings on KSD last month you would have known to short this
this is like 5 minutes worth of income for the North Koreans
Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 found and developed exploits collectively worth $4.6M (Anthropic)
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December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
this is like 5 minutes worth of income for the North Koreans
The then opposition party had near absolute control of the parliament, needing just a handful of defectors from the presidential party. That, not street demos, was why the ex-president got impeached
The error can be seen here too. Klobuchar fundamentally doesn’t think that this is an emergency.
South Korean legislators took to the streets. Democratic leaders are twiddling their thumbs and pretending this is a normal time and they can wait till midterms while Trump starts wars.
South Korean legislators took to the streets. Democratic leaders are twiddling their thumbs and pretending this is a normal time and they can wait till midterms while Trump starts wars.
Klobuchar: "If they don't want to do anything about people's costs and their grocery bills and their healthcare, and pummel them with these punishing Trump tariffs, then we will simply have to beat them in the midterms."
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The then opposition party had near absolute control of the parliament, needing just a handful of defectors from the presidential party. That, not street demos, was why the ex-president got impeached
Trying to imagine some sort of death match between two of the nicest, politest people in mathematical physics
what's up with these guys' obsession with Witten
Penrose in the video even says "it's not much of a story" but Curt has him looking like he's having a war flashback
Penrose in the video even says "it's not much of a story" but Curt has him looking like he's having a war flashback
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trying to imagine some sort of death match between two of the nicest, politest people in mathematical physics