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find in page widget showing nine occurrences of truth-seeking Sargeant: Where is my respect for revealed preferences, right? Douthat: Yes. Sargeant: Yeah. I think part of the issue is we have a lot more scripts for how to succeed at (this is more postrat but still) Andrews: I saw that you made that criticism elsewhere. If —— Sargeant: It's a question. It's only a criticism depending on your answer. Andrews: If you want to know what I like about women -- Sargeant: No, that's not my question. Andrews: … little bit feminine, honestly, to focus on my likes and dislikes —— Sargeant: I'm not asking about your likes or dislikes -- Andrews: I don't write about myself —— Sargeant: I don't care about -- Andrews: I write about the world -- Sargeant: I'm not asking about -— Andrews: And I am telling you that when I look at the world, I do not see any institutions that are currently suffering from an excess or insufficient feminization. Sargeant: Helen, I don't care about your likes and dislikes because that's not what I found compelling about your portrait of risk, which we both value as a genuine virtue, not a matter of preference, like chocolate or vanilla.
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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happy feast to my third favourite papal basilica
Statues at the top of St John Lateran Detail of gold roof through white arches, what appears to be the coat of arms of Pope Pius III
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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later Dune books be like
Chart from the Financial Times projecting GDP in extreme AI futures: very big in the singularity, medium up if AI is slightly helpful and zero if AI kills everyone
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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maybe they have a meeting
distant photo of an orange cat looking alert at night after crossing the road
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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where do you think you’re gong?
Photo of a cat with a black-and-white coat walking through a construction area at night, the street lights in this case are quite orange The same cat looking directly at the camera, somewhat startled
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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what does this have to do with the woke right
The Straight-Male Case for Pilates It is inescapably associated with ladies in Lycra, but guys: It's not a bad workout. WILL RAHN - 11.01.25
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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balkaninsight.com/2024/07/10/s...
They also reveal something politically important: the photo page of a Hungarian passport issued to Hilarion under his original name, Grigory Alfeev, within three months of his despatch to Hungary from Moscow on June 2022 and giving his citizenship as Hungarian.
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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oh, huh
google trends for “the camp of the saints” showing a new peak in 2025
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Leaked email from Hillary Clinton, subject “Re: Lunch Order”: a hot dog with no bun Thanks, H
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Joanna Stern kissing Neo the robot on the cheek still from Neo’s demo video where someone looks very interested in the robot
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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*whinnies*
horse having a grand time shaking their head
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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I think this is why I got bored of Doctorow after a few years of his newsletter, there’s always false hope that it can’t go on forever and the white hats must win which massively dilutes explanatory or predictive power of this mode of operating
Other habits of ye olde blogosphere lived on in Zitron’s work. More important than the feuding is what we might call his tech-blogger eschatology. One longtime tech writer described it for me, drawing on his own experience in the 2010s: “You see something getting shittier and shittier, worse and worse, you see your authentic engagement with the core product just sort of dying, you see a shittily rotting thing, and you have this moral instinct that, therefore, it will all come crashing down.” But the crash rarely ever comes. It didn’t come for Facebook or Twitter. For that matter it didn’t come for crypto, which after a great deal of doomsaying merely wound up buying a presidency. What people were actually witnessing as they watched a particular product get worse—enshittify, to use Cory Doctorow’s coinage—was not the slow approach of some inexorable fate, as many believed. It was, as the tech writer put it to me, “evidence of a company doing very well by being very bad.” A lot of sharp people still don’t see it, in part because of a faith, not yet exhausted, in some kind of self-correcting market mechanism: A costly and degraded product would be punished somehow. It simply had to be. Forget generative AI. That faith is the biggest bubble of all.
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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swag goku transcends anime imo
poster version of my pfp, goku in a swag cap with an ipad sipping a slurpee
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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heh… time to launch my bad 2020 pun
Submitted by jbudziszewski on Thu, 10/16/2025 I am delighted to announce that my new book Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy is now available for pre-order from Creed & Culture.
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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typo found
“Lower interconnectivity due familiar setup, consistent with a neural efficiency adaptation.”, the space between due and familiar is highlighted
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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2x2 matrix labeled View of AI, the two axes are good for society and cool or unimpressive. I think it’s impressive and useful but more detrimental than useful.
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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were these in print too?
the First Things article includes three frames from One Piece captioned: Christlike Luffy Big Mom, the Whore of Babylon. Kaidou, the dragon.
October 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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learning they discussed the size of One Piece’s subredit in First Things

firstthings.com/voyages-to-t...
Voyages to the End of the World PETER THIEL, SAM WOLFE | OCTOBER 1, 2025 Four years after Watchmen ended, so did the Cold War. President George H. W. Bush declared the beginning of a “new world order,” safe from great-power conflict. His successor, Bill Clinton, disarmed to save on a “peace dividend” and accelerated ­globalization with trade deals. In this tranquil time, the ­swashbuckling Eiichiro Oda began writing One Piece, a manga that—­twenty-eight years and more than 1,100 chapters later—has entered its “final saga.” If you have not heard of One Piece, your ­children probably have. One Piece has sold more than 570 million copies, not counting the ­millions of fans who read the series online or watch the even more popular anime adaptation. The r/OnePiece subreddit discussion forum has 5.2 million ­followers, more than any other subreddit for a work of fiction (for comparison, r/StarWars has 4.6 million followers; r/HarryPotter has 3.6 ­million).
October 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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obsessed with the silhouette of St Paul’s
St Paul’s cathedral in London photographed during the day w/ a nice blue sky, the facade is prominent but the dome is very visible a view across the Thames at night, bright buildings and the dome of St Pauls. The background is a murky grey instead of black on account of light and smog a similar view but more rivery (taken from on a bridge) and at sunset, everything is pinkish close shot of the dome rising above dark buildings at night
October 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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www.parliament.uk/about/living...
Above the Great Clock sits the Ayrton Light, a lantern which shines when either House of Parliament is sitting. Mounted on the roof above the lantern are heraldic shields. Floral emblems of all four parts of the United Kingdom show the rose, thistle, shamrock and leek alongside a gold portcullis that symbolises Parliament. The Irish shamrock and Welsh leek have been returned to their original green while the Scottish thistle is green with a bright purple seed head. The English rose has been painted red and white as in Barry’s original design.
October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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goes so hard
another shot of the clock tower, this time more from below
October 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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reno’d big ben is astounding
The top of the tower of the Great Clock of Westminster, known as Big Ben. The dials have prominent blue designs on them and the gold is shiny.
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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“ensuring that steam to escape”
glass Chemex coffee brewer and tea kettle on display zoom in on the kettle’s placard: Glass tea kettle American, designed 1944 Designed by Peter Schlumbohm for Chemex Corporation, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Made in heatproof borosilicate glass, the stopper is a simple tube with cork balls at both ends ensuring that steam to escape and the neck is not too hot to grip. Schlumbohm, an immigrant inventor to America from Germany, patented over 300 designs, but few proved to be commercially successful. Given anonymously
October 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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please tell me the OFMs aren’t using a chatgpt image
Brothers and sisters: A guide to living justice, peace, and care for creation Inspired by the Canticle of the Creatures of St. Francis of Assisi by the Order of Friars Minor office for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation illustrated with an image of St Francis and some animals which looks awful AI generated (bad lines, the cincture cord disappears between his hands, yellow filter)
October 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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please don’t tell me the OFMs are using a chatgpt image
Brothers and sisters: A guide to living justice, peace, and care for creation Inspired by the Canticle of the Creatures of St. Francis of Assisi by the Order of Friars Minor office for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation illustrated with an image of St Francis and some animals which looks awful AI generated (bad lines, the cincture cord disappears between his hands, yellow filter)
October 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM