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👏👏 "And inclusion, when Infantino says it, is best understood as an antonym, because it tends to be a warning that somebody is about to be excluded." #giftlink #inclusivelink

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Exorbitant World Cup ticket prices could ruin hopes of growing soccer in the U.S.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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If we’re allowed to continue to have books in the future, history will note that Jimmy Fallon did a great deal to normalize the most villainous ghouls in existence.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

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December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Opinion | Buy Better, Buy Less, Feel Smug About It
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December 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Rich New Yorkers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"This phase of gleeful discovery lasted about three to five days, and then it passed, and the technology became boring. It has remained boring ever since." 🎁 #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
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December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🎁 since we're all broke
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Shoppers Turn to Discounts and Debt, but Not Just for Holidays
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December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"The goal of these third-parties isn’t to persuade you directly – it’s to slowly poison the informational substrate that the LLM product search relies on, and then the LLM persuades you through the commercially-laced information."

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Are LLMs the Best That They Will Ever Be?
Without careful disclosure architectures, AI products may only get worse, even as the technology gets better.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Mike Johnson's Epstein bungling is a disaster for the GOP
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Mike Johnson's Epstein bungling is a disaster for the GOP
The House speaker and his boss put on a masterclass of failure.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Opinion | The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files
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November 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
free link cheaper than a penny

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The Penny Dies at 232
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November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"The notion of staying with feeling without translating it into action seems pointless." 🎁 Gift Link

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Opinion | I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Opinion | The Problem Is With Men’s Sperm
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October 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The old SF tech scene is dead. What it’s morphing into is far more sinister. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The old SF tech scene is dead. What it’s morphing into is far more sinister.
Column: San Francisco's absurd, redundant startups are a relic of the past.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
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September 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM