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Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
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Gang gang cockatoo science is sometimes quite undignified 🥲
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Gang gang cockatoo science is sometimes quite undignified 🥲
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Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Start the clock! ⏰
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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"It is a mistake to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort."
Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves"
Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves"
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
"It is a mistake to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort."
Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves"
Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves"
Stunning and insightful; contemporary reading of the originalist stance
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Stunning and insightful; contemporary reading of the originalist stance
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“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
Taxpayers Forked Out Another $1.3 Million for Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Defense
As his failed mayoral campaign played out, the former governor’s lawyers ran up the bill contesting the claims of a former state trooper on his security detail.
www.thecity.nyc
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
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When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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A whole couch load of middle aged, grey haired, bearded men giving us their opinions this morning across all networks. One on the ABC explaining the difference between different types of rifles…It’s these blokes who got us into this shit in the first place. Perhaps we can seek new oracles? #bondi
December 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A whole couch load of middle aged, grey haired, bearded men giving us their opinions this morning across all networks. One on the ABC explaining the difference between different types of rifles…It’s these blokes who got us into this shit in the first place. Perhaps we can seek new oracles? #bondi
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You have to admit that Bari Weiss taking over CBS News and instantly turning it into her personal Tiktok page is freaking funny as hell
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
You have to admit that Bari Weiss taking over CBS News and instantly turning it into her personal Tiktok page is freaking funny as hell
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The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
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Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
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I remember doing the deal for Epic Mickey, and Bob Iger shooting laser beams out his eyes at me in the Disney dining room. “Don’t let this video game fuck up Mickey.”
Oh well. That’s over.
Oh well. That’s over.
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I remember doing the deal for Epic Mickey, and Bob Iger shooting laser beams out his eyes at me in the Disney dining room. “Don’t let this video game fuck up Mickey.”
Oh well. That’s over.
Oh well. That’s over.
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The first lawsuit against OpenAI that claims ChatGPT led to a murder www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT spurred a 56-year-old man to kill his mother, lawsuit says
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The first lawsuit against OpenAI that claims ChatGPT led to a murder www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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I’ll be disappointed in the market if you can’t already buy a clean social media record to enter the US in the same way you can buy clean piss for a drug test.
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I’ll be disappointed in the market if you can’t already buy a clean social media record to enter the US in the same way you can buy clean piss for a drug test.
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Very insightful writing.
“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
We need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin: How Australia’s Men Became a Market for Rage The Demographic Stampede Something has shifted in the Coalition’s heartland, and it’s not policy. It’s identity. Australian me...
theaimn.net
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Very insightful writing.
“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
“This is no longer the rusted-on National Party voter. It is a new product category: the insecure traditionalist male. Call it the dislocated patriarch, the status casualty, the affable bloke refashioned as a grievance consumer.”
#auspol
theaimn.net/we-need-to-t...
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Put it down.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Put it down.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher):
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher):
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
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State funeral.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
State funeral.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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Have we tried asking Russia to surrender territory to Ukraine?
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Have we tried asking Russia to surrender territory to Ukraine?
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The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest.
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest.
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
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The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"