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Tech-adjacent. Yeller at clouds and lawn-kids.
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Wait, so........ you're saying that.... "helping"... helps? Sorry, I'm from Minneapolis, so you have to understand what a wild concept this is to me, because we've mainly used bulldozers. Does... does the mayor know? Has anyone told him about this [checks notes, squints] Saint... Paul, was it?
A major homeless encampment in St. Paul has remained relatively clean and calm, with dumpsters to keep trash in check, portable toilets for residents and frequent visits from outreach workers.
St. Paul’s largest encampment has grown, but problems have been relatively few
Unlike Minneapolis, St. Paul provides dumpsters and toilets, and city officials say that helps.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones

You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Okay. Since I posted this yesterday, so many people have tried to convince me that we "won" against crypto and it's dead. Because they don't hear about it anymore. I really need y'all to pay attention. Crypto is still huge. Not only is it not dead, it continues to cause massive harm.
DEI is banned. Cryptocurrency is still around and has largely succeeded at perpetuating the largest siphoning of wealth I think I'll ever see in my lifetime. Cops are still killing Black people, and now they get to kidnap everybody else too.
December 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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This is a good reminder to always use drop boxes (if feasible), and if you cannot, fill out and mail your ballot as soon as you receive it.
🚨 WA and other vote-by-mail states:

The post office changed its postmark policy and no longer guarantees a postmark will be given on the date mail is received.

For deadline sensitive mail, like ballots, this means that you need to mail far in advance (10+ days before) or use a drop box. #waelex
This is important, especially for people who vote by mail and for tax filers.

www.currentfederaltaxdevelopments.com/blog/2025/12...
December 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This is not a place of honor
Fa la la la la, la la la la
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it.

Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.

Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I’m a MAN
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
Hear that fellas? No dessert if you want to be manly man!
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This can also be a hazard if your résumé is a fancy PDF with ligatures (such as you might get from LaTeX) and you upload it to an unprepared potential employer’s site.
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I built a very sophisticated planning AI that ran in a tiny fraction of a frame on an Xbox360.

The other AI uses more power than your house and needs a cutting edge data center to run in.

We are not the same.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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ICYMI bc I made this live pretty late yesterday. I’ve yet to find a single “save the children” social media ban that isn’t just a sneaky way for big corporations to make more money, usually while violating our privacy and making us all less safe.
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Undoing repost to quote instead, please take Glenn's post as a real warning, this is incredibly heavy and you may not want to read unless you're in the right frame of mind
This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Ok but you have to hire me to be SecDef so I can make a mandatory quiz to check if you’re enlisting to escape extreme poverty and if you are you get an option for Job Corps instead
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Don't let an app sync your fucking contacts.
v1.112 is live!

We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.

Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.

Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
December 16, 2023 at 4:33 PM
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Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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(BTW, if you like Peanuts please check out Adam Koford's Haircut Practice, which is both kind of a parody of and a loving homage to early Peanuts strips: www.gocomics.com/haircut-prac...)
Read Haircut Practice by Adam Koford on GoComics
Haircut Practice brings quirky, offbeat humor to daily life, turning ordinary moments into clever and unexpected laughs.
www.gocomics.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM