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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1h

At what point do they become macro-plastics?

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1h

From his book: Survival of the Richest

www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

www.theguardian.com

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 3h

We wanted a cure for cancer, we got MechaPorn.

The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 6h

If Kissinger couldn't kill it then I doubt Trump can.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 9h

Uh. Huh.

One side is providing data (and Matt Darling has actual degrees in this stuff) and the other side is saying "The data is in Canada. You wouldn't know it".

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 9h

Will can be annoying, but he's not basing his opinion on his personal experience and assuming it applies to the rest of the world.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 9h

It's more or less his second formulation (don't ask me how he gets it from the OG Categorical Imperative. No one understands Kant). It's odd, because I'm not a Kantian (or any form of deontologist), but this keeps tugging at me.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1d

The best parts of Moby Dick are all the whale trivia that Melville info-dumped onto us.

He and Neal Stephenson would have gotten along great.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1d

One year a house on our street had mulled wine as Parent Potion.

I maaaaaay have visited that house a few times. Maybe.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1d

Granny Weatherwax: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.

I think about this a lot.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1d

He was dragged back in chains, but the end result was an apology and funding for a fourth expedition.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1d

Is being in favor of virtue signaling a form of virtue signaling? Welcome to my Ted talk.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 1d

You can't negotiate a ceasefire unless there was a fire, so I guess that's technically true.

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 2d

Livin' the dream there.

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to go on record that I am 100% in favor of stateless libertarian utopian floating islands and I think we should build them and send the libertarians there as soon as possible.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 3d

"Who was President in 2020?" and "What machine are they raging against?" are two very hard questions for conservatives.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 3d

Our TJs shares a parking lot with about 10 other stores, so there is tons of space.

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

I wish.

Alas, we'd have done nothing of the sort, because we'd be trying to build a consensus and reach across the aisle.

I'd *love* it if the Democrats governed the way Republicans think they will.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

And they say AI has no uses...

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

I haven't been to the office in over five years (helped by the fact that we no longer have one) and full-time WFH would be a non-negotiable requirement for any future jobs (which I am hoping to avoid, fingers crossed).

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

My strategy would obviously be to feed ChatGPT that letter and then ask for a response that maximizes my chances of keeping my job.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

Easily. He'd just say this isn't a simple policy disagreement, that these protestors are actively trying to undermine America, destroy the American way of life, and (probably) kill puppies.

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

English spelling is tough, although with practice (and some thought) it can be thoroughly mastered.

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A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

Me: Can we not be weird about this?

Blusky: *immediately gets weird*

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

A. Vague @awfullyvague.bsky.social · 4d

He has a husky named Bella. I repeat: HE HAS A HUSKY NAMED BELLA

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