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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 10

(the Great Games Recommendation Thead, part 3, only another 500 plus games to go, you bastards)

201: Brindlewood Bay. Incredible game of improvised deduction where you are the Golden Girls but investigating a Cthulhoid murder cult in a small town through Monk-style quicky/cosy stories.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

i love global minorities in global politics and how they make all the sort of distinctions people try to make silly

here is Mark Golding, the leader of Jamaica's left wing PNP

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

Let me strongly emphasize that you should not give someone money for committing a gross breach of professional ethics. You also shouldn't hire them for a prestigious new job but our industry is garbage, alas!

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 7h

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, @status.news has learned www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

dead internet theory ever grows

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 7h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

Shane MacGowan was born and largely raised in Kent. (To Irish parents, though). Went to Westminster.

Lady Grittle @cinatyte.bsky.social · 7h

This was the Pogues' entire deal.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

there are some songs which feel so much like traditionals that it's a little alarming when you find out someone wrote them in the 20th century. Long Black Veil was written in 1959!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

having to specify "the 19th century huntsman, not the 20th century pedophile"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

'D'ye ken John Peel' was in fact written about a known guy called John Peel.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to write a PSA that people can send to their elderly relatives.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

gizmodo.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

"Son, I'm 30/I only went with your mother coz she's dirty"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

my grandmother was a teenager in Sydney during WW2 once, and mentioned to me once how much she liked jazz songs like "Shortening Bread." "Aren't those songs all about sex?" I asked. "Oh!" she said, "THAT's why all those sailors kept winking at me!"

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

also of course we are now getting to the point where the music of a 60 year old grandparent's young years is from the mid-80s.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 8h

My favorite genre is “songs you thought were a hundred years old but were written in your parents’ lifetime.”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

also of course we are now getting to the point where the music of a 60 year old grandparent's young years is from the mid-80s.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 8h

My favorite genre is “songs you thought were a hundred years old but were written in your parents’ lifetime.”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

there are some songs which feel so much like traditionals that it's a little alarming when you find out someone wrote them in the 20th century. Long Black Veil was written in 1959!

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 8h

beetle bailey arc where we learn who in camp swampy will obey orders to fire on american citizens once the insurrection act is invoked. my picks are rocky, zero, and, surprisingly, plato. killer surprises everyone by making a big show of not doing it. beetle simply goes AWOL

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

you'll find either the whole of "Galway Farmer" or just the music listed as a traditional Irish song, written by an English duo in 1994. cracking song though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy2H...

The Galway Farmer

YouTube video by Show of Hands - Topic

www.youtube.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

see Hallelujah to me is so distinctively a Cohen song that the surprise was more just *how many* verses he wrote for it. literally dozens!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

wait, do we know the origin? Wiki suggests that it was collected by folksong aficionados in the early 20th century, which is pretty normal even for older songs.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

personally however I would just have said that my friend's wife and I were organizing some kind of surprise birthday party for him, surely there's a compromise between 'noble sacrifice' and 'ballsdeep, your honor'

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

there are some songs which feel so much like traditionals that it's a little alarming when you find out someone wrote them in the 20th century. Long Black Veil was written in 1959!

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 11h

I implore my fellow white people to let their white friends and family know about that story even if they personally don't think it rises to the level "man bites dog."

This story can matter if we make it matter.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

oh my god this article is amazing, because at no point does he put together that the common factor isn't Hawaii, but him

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 11h

If one knows Hawaii, this article he wrote about Hawaii is absolutely devastating toward him and the many ways he is being told to fuck off by locals. I love it because he wrote it in such clueless, arrogant self absorption.

www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/paul-...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

the double whammy of this is not only that it's terrible writing, but it's extremely racialized terrible writing.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

this is my path to enlightenment

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

"a little life" is just a tarted-up version of the Anthony Godby Johnson hoax.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

oh I forgot one: Hanya Yanagihara's books are misery porn that creepily fetishize the lives of gay men and it is embarrassing that the New York literary establishment so embraces them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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