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Mike Yass
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WW3 has already started it’s just unevenly distributed | Aerospace, AI, and a real-life #polycythemiavera mutant.
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You just died. The sixth picture I. Your phone gallery is what killed you.

Looks like I’m getting Harambe’d.
A rhino
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Tis the season for these delicious kings.

It’s a cruel test, but I judge all cookie recipes on the Stouffers Star WAR.
A box of Stouffer’s Holiday Stars chocolate covered graham cracker cookies with non pareils for texture.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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amandasmith: Are of the Popes' jerseys relics now? Starshine: Yeah this is how america gets relics, like how every ancient Catholic Church in Europe boasts that they have saint peters toothbrush or Jesus' pube comb or whatever Starshine: 1000 years from now, no one will know who the fuck the white sox are but we will have that jersey held in a chicago church, touching it will bring you and your team good luck. no one knows where the ritual came from. skatingtomato: "touching it will bring you and your team good luck" via the press X to doubt meme
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Things are going well for Trump on the other site
An image of a tweet, with text "full circle" - on the left with Trump mocking a disabled reporter - and on the right of post-stroke Trump in the same pose while his his viziers hold a press conference next to him. The image has 138 thousand likes.
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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You can’t build a machine god without it being like God:

Indifferent to the suffering of others
An image from watchmen of Dr manhattan sitting on mars thinking “I am tired of earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.”
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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The Francis Fukayama End History Now, I am no longer asking meme, with a pic of Frank and a photoshopped hand of him holding a gun Because I am 100pct Fukuyamas strongest soldier
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Dude what are you talking about?

We’ve got this shit in the bag:
an image of the buildsubmarines.com paint scheme on a shitty nascar team car
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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RETVRN
an image of clippy, MS Word 99's much hated user assistant
November 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Do you see why I am worried? Threats might have changed so much that we might still be directing all our arsenal east or west while the enemy has now moved to a very different place. After all, masses of atomic missiles are transformed into a huge pile of junk once the question bec es how to defend against militants armed with box cutters or dirty bombs. Why would it not be the same with our critical arsenal, with the neutron bombs of de-construction, with the missiles of discourse analysis? Or maybe it is that critique has been miniaturized like computers have. ave always fancied that what took great effort, occupied huge rooms, cost a lot of sweat and money, for people like Nietzsche and Benjamin, can be had for nothing, much like the supercomputers of the 195os, which used to fill large halls and expend a vast amount of electricity and heat, but now are accessible for a dime and no bigger than a fingernail. As the recent advertisement of a Hol-
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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An alien holding a sign saying “take me to your leader” with embarrassing pics of Trump
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Turns out my substitute teacher induced memory is not entirely factual.

It was the daughter who writes the letter, she claims they did not eat human flesh, and that it was her mothers headaches which went away.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Virginia Reed (Actress, voice-over): My dear cousin: We are all very well pleased with California. It is a beautiful country. It ought to be a beautiful country to pay us for our trouble getting there. Tell Henrietta if she wants to get married to come to California. She can get a Spaniard anytime. Narrator: To her father’s dismay, Virginia Reed kept the vow she’d made in the cabin by the lake and converted to Catholicism. When eight-year-old Patty Reed arrived in California, she pulled from her ragged dress a little bundle. In it was a lock of her grandmother’s hair and a tiny doll she had carried with her all the way from Springfield. She died in 1931 at the age of 93. James Reed never spoke in public of the killing of John Snyder. He settled his family in San Jose, made money in real estate and gold and became one of the town’s leading citizens. Margaret Reed’s sick headaches disappeared and never returned. Lansford Hastings moved to San Francisco and went back into law, but was too restless to make a go of it. During the Civil War he proposed leading an army west to seize Arizona for the Confederacy. After the war he published The Emigrants’ Guide to Brazil and died in 1870 trying to establish a colony of ex-Confederates in South America. Virginia Reed (Actress, voice-over): Oh, Mary. I have not wrote you half of the trouble we’ve had, but I have wrote you enough to let you know what trouble is. But thank God, we are the only family that did not eat human flesh. We have left everything, but I don’t care for that. We have got through with our lives. Don’t let this letter dishearten anybody. Remember, never take no cutoffs and hurry along as fast as you can.
October 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Genuine mad science going on out there:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7174898/
To determine whether selective exposure to lines of one orientation modifies the shape of the dendritic fields of cells in visual cortex, we examined the dendritic morphology of neurons in area 17 of five normally reared cats, five cats reared viewing only vertical lines, and three cats reared viewing only horizontal lines. Kittens were placed with their mothers into a totally dark room before their eyes had opened. Beginning at 4 weeks of age, the kittens were brought out for daily periods of exposure wearing masks that limited the vision of each eye to a field of three vertical lines or three horizontal lines. After a minimum of 170 hours of exposure, the animals were killed and blocks of visual cortex were impregnated by the Golgi-Kopsch procedure and cut tangential to the pial surface. Complete neurons from layers III and IV were drawn with the aid of a camera lucida, and the orientations of the dendritic fields wer analyzed using Sholl diagrams. In normal cats, the distributions of the orientations of dendritic fields were uniform, whereas in strip-reared cats, the distributions for the layer III pyramidal cells were shifted. The direction of this shift varied with the experience of the cat: In cats reared viewing only vertical lines, the dendritic fields were oriented orthogonal to the representation of the vertical meridian, and in cats reared viewing only horizontal lines, the fields were oriented parallel to the representation of the vertical meridian. In contrast, the distribution of dentritic orientations for the stellate cells was not affected by stripe-rearing. These results demonstrate a morphological effect of early visual experience that is specific to the particular stimulus presented during rearing and suggest that (1) cortical cells differ in the degree to which they can be modified by such experience, and (2) the dendritic morphology of cortical neurons is related to their preferred orientations.
October 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The mall-side entrance to the Smithsonian castle, showcasing its multicolored brick architecture
September 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I think this exchange characterizes this interview well:

Klein states that "political strategy is downstream from political culture", while Coates dunks on Klein's 'strategy'.
KLEIN: I think that I am a person — and I think that you are a person, whether you admit it or not — who is one of the people with a voice in shaping what our political culture is. And I believe at some level that political strategy is downstream from political culture. I think it means exploring things that are uncomfortable and being pretty disciplined, in a way that maybe I haven’t been, about separating the question of what I believe from what I believe will win power. Because I currently think that the cost of losing power is horrifying and dangerous, and we can’t keep doing it. So that’s where my head is. COATES: Can we stay with that? I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but the immediate thing that springs to mind, for me, in that question is not who you’re abandoning, but: How do you square the fact that reproductive rights have proven to be pretty popular in red states? I’m thinking about referendums that have been passed such that they’ve had to change the rules. How do you separate that? Like, there are people who didn’t vote for Kamala but who say: Give me my reproductive rights. KLEIN: I was using pro-life as an illustrative example.
September 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Most recent photo of a D5 flight test - a highly saturated night time image of a D5 Trident II launch, where the nozzle is visible in the exhaust
September 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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This guy is super dead in the next war, if not the current one
ukranian FPV pilot wearing a jammer backpack and a sick purple hoody
September 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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He's just speedrunning all the impeachable offenses
September 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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An onion article entitled "why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?"
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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via the banner: it's all blue

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
August 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Defunding harvard vs Defunding avi loeb
August 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Defining what AI is dooms these supposed “bans”.

Is linear regression AI? Are radar classification models AI? Is linear programming AI? Is old school “Q guidance” AI?

At some point someone needs to draw a line and define what AI is.

How many bits of entropy per input variable until it’s AI?
"The conversation about Al and nukes is hampered by a couple of major problems. The first is that nobody really knows what Al is," says Jon Wolfsthal, a nonproliferation expert who's the director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists and was formerly a special assistant to Barack Obama. "What does it mean to give Al control of a nuclear weapon? What does it mean to give a computer chipl control of a nuclear weapon?" asks Herb Lin, a Stanford professor and Doomsday Clock
August 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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guy chatting up girl walking by meme, when his friend stops him but the girl is "gun control enjoyer", the guy is "guns dont kill people..." and the friend is sig sauer, reflecting their defective pistol model which has a tendency to misfire if the trigger is jiggled
July 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM