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"Among the many companies to go public in 1720 is - famously - one that advertised itself as “a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is”."
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"Among the many companies to go public in 1720 is - famously - one that advertised itself as “a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is”."
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you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
Remember that anecdote about Steve Jobs dropping the first prototype iPod in his fish tank, to demonstrate it had air pockets that could be removed to make it leaner?
Those air pockets are the parts you're filling with AI
Those air pockets are the parts you're filling with AI
If the dialogue could be written by GenAI, so you think you'll just fill the space with that?
Cut it. Seriously. The omission will be stronger than just stuffing your whatever with bland oatmeal.
You aren't making anything better with it, you're making it worse. Less really is more, almost always.
Cut it. Seriously. The omission will be stronger than just stuffing your whatever with bland oatmeal.
You aren't making anything better with it, you're making it worse. Less really is more, almost always.
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Remember that anecdote about Steve Jobs dropping the first prototype iPod in his fish tank, to demonstrate it had air pockets that could be removed to make it leaner?
Those air pockets are the parts you're filling with AI
Those air pockets are the parts you're filling with AI
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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i, no joke, have a collection of every single lego millenium falcon set and now i'm having a tantrum and cursing my life like Salieri
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
i, no joke, have a collection of every single lego millenium falcon set and now i'm having a tantrum and cursing my life like Salieri
The Life of Chuck (2024)
I contain multitudes
Oh
Oh shit
My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance
Oh
Oh shit
My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The Life of Chuck (2024)
this post is like my social media habits: everything but X
This story cannot possibly be real. they put a pastiche of Jen Psaki together like the Quizno's Monkeys and threw in a sophmore-prank-pizza-order attribution as the giveaway
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
this post is like my social media habits: everything but X
I saw the OP here last night, but was so distracted by this person's Oblivion-ass mug when I saw it that I missed her Heywood-Jablome-ass name
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I saw the OP here last night, but was so distracted by this person's Oblivion-ass mug when I saw it that I missed her Heywood-Jablome-ass name
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imagine being on your third airport beer and paul f tompkins walks by doing an rfk impression
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
imagine being on your third airport beer and paul f tompkins walks by doing an rfk impression
when you must stay 100% objective in the captions
In the newest Pluribus, Carol is describing a “white powdery stuff” but the captions said “#d1ad2c powdery stuff”. Which looks like a hex code. The color was also more or less the color of the caption text. Some kind of find and replace mistake?
Also, this color trumped my setting. Not normal.
Also, this color trumped my setting. Not normal.
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
when you must stay 100% objective in the captions
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This short (The Big Snooze, 1946) is probably one of the ten best cartoons ever made. Take it from me: a freak of nature.
I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This short (The Big Snooze, 1946) is probably one of the ten best cartoons ever made. Take it from me: a freak of nature.
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
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Isn't it an insane coincidence that (1) there is a very wide, almost totally uninhabited segment of longitude which we can drive an International Date Line through with minimal inconvenience and (2) it's on the exact opposite side of the world from our prime meridian, midnight to Greenwich's midday
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Isn't it an insane coincidence that (1) there is a very wide, almost totally uninhabited segment of longitude which we can drive an International Date Line through with minimal inconvenience and (2) it's on the exact opposite side of the world from our prime meridian, midnight to Greenwich's midday
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cant go to space
made a layer of junk too thick
cant go to internet
made layer of junk too thick
cant get to heaven
you guessed it
made a layer of junk too thick
cant go to internet
made layer of junk too thick
cant get to heaven
you guessed it
July 11, 2024 at 1:13 PM
cant go to space
made a layer of junk too thick
cant go to internet
made layer of junk too thick
cant get to heaven
you guessed it
made a layer of junk too thick
cant go to internet
made layer of junk too thick
cant get to heaven
you guessed it
in terms of sick, dark legal comedy, this is up there with Disney claiming they weren't liable for a death on Disney property because the plaintiff had signed the waiver for a free trial of Disney+
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
in terms of sick, dark legal comedy, this is up there with Disney claiming they weren't liable for a death on Disney property because the plaintiff had signed the waiver for a free trial of Disney+
that's it, that's the whole thread
⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.
The scholars had argued in the paper...
The scholars had argued in the paper...
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
that's it, that's the whole thread
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
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This juxtaposition is like when you hear that like Henry VIII and Odu Nobunaga were alive at the same time
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This juxtaposition is like when you hear that like Henry VIII and Odu Nobunaga were alive at the same time
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It's January 1990. Ushio & Tora debuts in Weekly Shonen Sunday and the coolest girls in school are rocking Queensrÿche merch.
November 20, 2024 at 9:03 AM
It's January 1990. Ushio & Tora debuts in Weekly Shonen Sunday and the coolest girls in school are rocking Queensrÿche merch.
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In Billie Jean when he says about the kid “his eyes were like mine,” he meant these ones
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In Billie Jean when he says about the kid “his eyes were like mine,” he meant these ones
he's right and he should say it
One month until Christmas 🫶
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
he's right and he should say it
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The moo deng fandom is dying. Reskeet if youre a *real* dengist
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The moo deng fandom is dying. Reskeet if youre a *real* dengist
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Well, since my baby left me
I have become a baby too
It's down at the end of Baby Street, the
Live Baby Zoo
Becoming a baby, becoming a baby
Reversing the processes of time
I have become a baby too
It's down at the end of Baby Street, the
Live Baby Zoo
Becoming a baby, becoming a baby
Reversing the processes of time
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Well, since my baby left me
I have become a baby too
It's down at the end of Baby Street, the
Live Baby Zoo
Becoming a baby, becoming a baby
Reversing the processes of time
I have become a baby too
It's down at the end of Baby Street, the
Live Baby Zoo
Becoming a baby, becoming a baby
Reversing the processes of time
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