timorous bestie
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one of the more existentially terrifying possibilities for me is that we have activated "health cranks" as a durable swing constituency
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
one of the more existentially terrifying possibilities for me is that we have activated "health cranks" as a durable swing constituency
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The year is 2030, The New York Times is solely a puzzle game and recipe application. The country’s access to hard hitting journalism is now entirely concentrated in a single hard copy newspaper, The Onion.
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The year is 2030, The New York Times is solely a puzzle game and recipe application. The country’s access to hard hitting journalism is now entirely concentrated in a single hard copy newspaper, The Onion.
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In this week's post I make the case for an #AI #metaphor observatory tracking how we think and talk about and act on GenAI and LLMs makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/14/m...
Making the case for an AI metaphor observatory
Between 2023 and 2025 I have written various posts on GenAI, Large Language Models and metaphors: one where I went out hunting for metaphors; one where I had a chat with ChatGTP about metaphors for…
makingsciencepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In this week's post I make the case for an #AI #metaphor observatory tracking how we think and talk about and act on GenAI and LLMs makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/14/m...
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Show me a TV show called Rent (no, not the Broadway show, go away) that's about a main character spending seven days scrambling in a rundown future to scrape together the money to keep a roof over their family's heads. Use every episode to take us on a new adventure through some dystopian scheme.
We really need more scifi shows to focus on the ground. To show the daily lives of regular people in the dystopian futures they imagine. To do it without promising some grand adventure or revolution is going to fix things. To show the uncertainty and powerlessness of being born into such a world.
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Show me a TV show called Rent (no, not the Broadway show, go away) that's about a main character spending seven days scrambling in a rundown future to scrape together the money to keep a roof over their family's heads. Use every episode to take us on a new adventure through some dystopian scheme.
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One Battle After Another asks the question: was 2009 in the 70s?
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
One Battle After Another asks the question: was 2009 in the 70s?
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Reposting with alt text bc omfg and they claimed shortages to drive up prices on top of this shit.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Reposting with alt text bc omfg and they claimed shortages to drive up prices on top of this shit.
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Honestly when you tell me to smash that like button? Thank you. I would’ve forgotten. I’m being serious
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Honestly when you tell me to smash that like button? Thank you. I would’ve forgotten. I’m being serious
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I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
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Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting
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Meanwhile, Cornell is claiming it can't afford to find the local bus system: ithacavoice.org/2025/11/tcat...
TCAT asked for $500K to avoid service cuts. Cornell counteroffered $31K. - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y — Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) officials said the agency needed an additional $500,000 from each of its financial underwriters to plug its budgetary gaps, maintain current ser...
ithacavoice.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Meanwhile, Cornell is claiming it can't afford to find the local bus system: ithacavoice.org/2025/11/tcat...
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“In a recent survey by CDT, a nonprofit civil-liberties body, 29% of responding teachers whose schools participate in monitoring said students’ personal devices were also tracked by their schools through apps, browser extensions or network filters.“
Chatbots Are Sparking a New Era of Student Surveillance
As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“In a recent survey by CDT, a nonprofit civil-liberties body, 29% of responding teachers whose schools participate in monitoring said students’ personal devices were also tracked by their schools through apps, browser extensions or network filters.“
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Not just any filmmaker, but his filmmaking partner… that he was dating
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Not just any filmmaker, but his filmmaking partner… that he was dating
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The Sky report on X is interesting but not surprising.
It starts to put data behind the obvious bias on Twitter post Elon.
One telling thing is what they class as “extreme”.
On the left? Right?
Jokes Hate fueled racist conspiracy
It starts to put data behind the obvious bias on Twitter post Elon.
One telling thing is what they class as “extreme”.
On the left? Right?
Jokes Hate fueled racist conspiracy
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Sky report on X is interesting but not surprising.
It starts to put data behind the obvious bias on Twitter post Elon.
One telling thing is what they class as “extreme”.
On the left? Right?
Jokes Hate fueled racist conspiracy
It starts to put data behind the obvious bias on Twitter post Elon.
One telling thing is what they class as “extreme”.
On the left? Right?
Jokes Hate fueled racist conspiracy
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"oh that? it's an original handwritten lyrics sheet for the song Lori Meyers. Lori Meyers. Oh come on you remember Lori Meyers! She was the mouse kid from Night In The Woods! This is where the name came from! No, Night In The Woods. Yes, you know it. Oh my GOD yes ok I don't know what you know
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"oh that? it's an original handwritten lyrics sheet for the song Lori Meyers. Lori Meyers. Oh come on you remember Lori Meyers! She was the mouse kid from Night In The Woods! This is where the name came from! No, Night In The Woods. Yes, you know it. Oh my GOD yes ok I don't know what you know
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I remember replaying monkey island 1 a few years ago and getting a little frustrated with the pacing, and realising that was me not being patient enough anymore. I think tech is worsening our ability to tolerate boredom. We gotta retrain to be ok with slower pacing and some waiting again
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I remember replaying monkey island 1 a few years ago and getting a little frustrated with the pacing, and realising that was me not being patient enough anymore. I think tech is worsening our ability to tolerate boredom. We gotta retrain to be ok with slower pacing and some waiting again
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I hope other states take note about how to present ballot proposals about taxes because this is some excellent content design
This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
Clear and easy to understand.
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I hope other states take note about how to present ballot proposals about taxes because this is some excellent content design
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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for a super long time i was too self conscious to say i love you to anybody ever and now that so many of my loved ones have straight up dropped dead before i could say it, i tell my friends i love them constantly, to a degree that is likely annoying
FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
for a super long time i was too self conscious to say i love you to anybody ever and now that so many of my loved ones have straight up dropped dead before i could say it, i tell my friends i love them constantly, to a degree that is likely annoying
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some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
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i feel like other things were happening when i posted this but it feels worth repeating that facebook could trace a path between you and basically everyone else in the world in about 3.5 hops on average and that was 9 years ago
in early 2016 facebook came to the conclusion that everyone with a facebook account at the time was connected to everyone else on facebook by an average of about 3.5 hops research.facebook.com/blog/2016/2/...
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i feel like other things were happening when i posted this but it feels worth repeating that facebook could trace a path between you and basically everyone else in the world in about 3.5 hops on average and that was 9 years ago
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This one was addressed to someone, I'm pretty sure, but I hope you enjoy it regardless because the writer is clearly frustrated and it feels it'd be so relatable to anyone who's had to write one of these type of emails.
"PER MY LAST TABLET: THE SESAME IS VISIBLY DYING."
"PER MY LAST TABLET: THE SESAME IS VISIBLY DYING."
April 17, 2024 at 1:21 PM
This one was addressed to someone, I'm pretty sure, but I hope you enjoy it regardless because the writer is clearly frustrated and it feels it'd be so relatable to anyone who's had to write one of these type of emails.
"PER MY LAST TABLET: THE SESAME IS VISIBLY DYING."
"PER MY LAST TABLET: THE SESAME IS VISIBLY DYING."