Connor
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“All I wanna do is die,” says the man next to me, and I wonder if he’s ever had a life
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Last Week in IndyCar (11/16-23/25)
A certain sneaky Swede sets up his first offseason excursion, and several seats are shakier than we thought
theindycarafterburn.beehiiv.com
Those bastards at RLL jumped the gun on the last bit I covered in this week’s newsletter, but here’s what’s been going on around the paddock in IndyCar
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IMO, it raises the question of how useful are executives?
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
IMO, it raises the question of how useful are executives?
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Woman Realizes Adorable Rescue Is A Coyote Pup After It Orders Dynamite Detonator Off The Internet
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Woman Realizes Adorable Rescue Is A Coyote Pup After It Orders Dynamite Detonator Off The Internet
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November 29 2000, Scooby Doo! Classic Creep Capers debuted on the N64 in the Americas!
The game is based on three classic episodes: "What a Night for a Knight", "That's Snow Ghost", "A Tiki Scare is No Fair"... and was the first foray into 3D for the characters, both in tv/movies or games!
The game is based on three classic episodes: "What a Night for a Knight", "That's Snow Ghost", "A Tiki Scare is No Fair"... and was the first foray into 3D for the characters, both in tv/movies or games!
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
November 29 2000, Scooby Doo! Classic Creep Capers debuted on the N64 in the Americas!
The game is based on three classic episodes: "What a Night for a Knight", "That's Snow Ghost", "A Tiki Scare is No Fair"... and was the first foray into 3D for the characters, both in tv/movies or games!
The game is based on three classic episodes: "What a Night for a Knight", "That's Snow Ghost", "A Tiki Scare is No Fair"... and was the first foray into 3D for the characters, both in tv/movies or games!
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"Israel is now escalating on all fronts."
"[L]aunching strikes and military incursions across Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank."
"All of this takes place as Israel is nominally party to two ceasefires."
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Lebanon #Syria #Genocide #Housing #Military
"[L]aunching strikes and military incursions across Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank."
"All of this takes place as Israel is nominally party to two ceasefires."
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Lebanon #Syria #Genocide #Housing #Military
Israel is violating all its ceasefire agreements and escalating on all fronts
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
mondoweiss.net
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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We call emergency community meetings to debate the "dangers" of ebikes, but systemic vehicular violence continues to get a pass from society at large.
It looks to me like this 90-year old driver drove 177 feet down University Ave in Los Gatos in one second, which comes out to about 120 miles per hour
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
We call emergency community meetings to debate the "dangers" of ebikes, but systemic vehicular violence continues to get a pass from society at large.
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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the question that should be on every American's mind is, "is he doing this because he's stupid, or is he doing this because he knows he'll never suffer any kind of punishment for it?"
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
the question that should be on every American's mind is, "is he doing this because he's stupid, or is he doing this because he knows he'll never suffer any kind of punishment for it?"
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I thoroughly reject that generative AI is something we are going to have to accept, it's simply not going to be true even in the wildest dreams of AI evangelists, and we have plenty of examples of games where AI generated elements were removed, so we know for a fact it can be done successfully.
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I thoroughly reject that generative AI is something we are going to have to accept, it's simply not going to be true even in the wildest dreams of AI evangelists, and we have plenty of examples of games where AI generated elements were removed, so we know for a fact it can be done successfully.
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Tell your lawmakers to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act- there are better ways to protect kids online without throwing other vulnerable people under the bus.
www.stopkosa.com
www.stopkosa.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Tell your lawmakers to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act- there are better ways to protect kids online without throwing other vulnerable people under the bus.
www.stopkosa.com
www.stopkosa.com
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Stefano, if the track has no real-world boundaries, so you have to put in little boxes of sharp rocks in various places, but it also puts so much energy through the tires that the sharp rocks cut holes in the tires, so you have to limit how many laps the tires can do, perhaps the track SUCKS
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Stefano, if the track has no real-world boundaries, so you have to put in little boxes of sharp rocks in various places, but it also puts so much energy through the tires that the sharp rocks cut holes in the tires, so you have to limit how many laps the tires can do, perhaps the track SUCKS
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Britain never did grow out of oppressing the Irish because the country generally feels like it *should* own us regardless of all that pesky war of independence stuff
This is madness.
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Britain never did grow out of oppressing the Irish because the country generally feels like it *should* own us regardless of all that pesky war of independence stuff
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I read the thread and know why they're not failing the students. They gotta let colleges fail the students for the sake of the curriculum and other students
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I read the thread and know why they're not failing the students. They gotta let colleges fail the students for the sake of the curriculum and other students
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Post something random or you'll have an awful December...
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December...
If four-loss teams can get in the CFP just because they’re SEC, we may as well just nuke the playoff entirely
Do the Texas Longhorns deserve a spot in the College Football Playoff?
Horns make case with big win over Texas A&M. If chalk occurs, #HookEm is likely fighting with Notre Dame, Miami, and BYU for final CFP spot.
Will big wins override bad losses?
www.texasfootball.com/article/2025...
Horns make case with big win over Texas A&M. If chalk occurs, #HookEm is likely fighting with Notre Dame, Miami, and BYU for final CFP spot.
Will big wins override bad losses?
www.texasfootball.com/article/2025...
Do the Texas Longhorns Deserve a Spot in College Football Playoff?
Texas strengthens its playoff case with a rivalry win over Texas A&M as Steve Sarkisian cites a brutal schedule, top-10 victories, and a belief that the Longhorns belong in the CFP race.
www.texasfootball.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
If four-loss teams can get in the CFP just because they’re SEC, we may as well just nuke the playoff entirely
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Pretty obvious that Vance has negatively polarized himself into believing that anyone who holds a single opinion contrary to his own is simply “virtue signaling” and that it couldn’t be an honestly held belief
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Pretty obvious that Vance has negatively polarized himself into believing that anyone who holds a single opinion contrary to his own is simply “virtue signaling” and that it couldn’t be an honestly held belief
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Arch has been good in the second half against his college rival, which is more than his uncle Peyton can claim
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Arch has been good in the second half against his college rival, which is more than his uncle Peyton can claim
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
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The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
The Let it Die sequel - Let it Die: Inferno - which is coming out next week (4th December), seems to have been built using a considerable amount of generative AI. https://bit.ly/4ol7lIA
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
They're AI-generating the music here.
Fuck that.
@profanity.accountant I don’t know how to use the three seashells
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
@profanity.accountant I don’t know how to use the three seashells
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“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
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A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid.
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
MetLife Owes Disability Pay to Software Engineer With Long Covid
A Google LLC software engineer suffering from long Covid won his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid.
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
This is huge
Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability.
You’re told to “try harder”.
It’s “not that bad”.
You can “still work”.
Not everyone can
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Murricans will have the CIA turn a kid from Afghanistan into a trained killer, then blame "Muslim culture" when that person does what he was trained to do.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Murricans will have the CIA turn a kid from Afghanistan into a trained killer, then blame "Muslim culture" when that person does what he was trained to do.
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...