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@burdenofmemes.bsky.social
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If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off
January 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off
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Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?
I just assume they’re selling me a low quality product because that’s what I see
I see a growing number of obviously AI generated ads, and it always makes me think two things: (1) This is a rinky-dink outfit that can't afford to film a commercial with real sets and actors, and more importantly (2) They are lying to me even more than ads usually do.
January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I just assume they’re selling me a low quality product because that’s what I see
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I see a growing number of obviously AI generated ads, and it always makes me think two things: (1) This is a rinky-dink outfit that can't afford to film a commercial with real sets and actors, and more importantly (2) They are lying to me even more than ads usually do.
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I see a growing number of obviously AI generated ads, and it always makes me think two things: (1) This is a rinky-dink outfit that can't afford to film a commercial with real sets and actors, and more importantly (2) They are lying to me even more than ads usually do.
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give this to me right now @ josh shapiro
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 3:04 AM
give this to me right now @ josh shapiro
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it's always funny when a rich person is unhappy
December 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
it's always funny when a rich person is unhappy
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¿El Grink estuvo allí?
December 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
¿El Grink estuvo allí?
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Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other
country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million
more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
December 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
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NBA folks -- a personal URL and site hosting fee is worth it. You will make more money. I was able to cover my first Finals in 15 years off the difference, driving to all seven games.
Not enough attention paid to the very direct right wing pipeline Substack promotes. Enough that Platformer and Casey Newton elected to switch to another service rather than support a platform that pushes and promotes hard right, conspiracy, and neo Nazi content www.platformer.news/why-platform...
Why Platformer is leaving Substack
We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out
www.platformer.news
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
NBA folks -- a personal URL and site hosting fee is worth it. You will make more money. I was able to cover my first Finals in 15 years off the difference, driving to all seven games.
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Dumbass Motherfucker Foundation staffers quit and join Stupidass Bitch Foundation
December 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Dumbass Motherfucker Foundation staffers quit and join Stupidass Bitch Foundation
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If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.
Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.
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Political scientists baffled by all these nasty people on the downside of their careers being so drawn to the Make And Keep It The Past movement.
December 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Political scientists baffled by all these nasty people on the downside of their careers being so drawn to the Make And Keep It The Past movement.
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The Shah Jahan Mosque is a 17th-century central mosque in the city of Thatta, Pakistan.
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Shah Jahan Mosque is a 17th-century central mosque in the city of Thatta, Pakistan.
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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مزار هوتل جوان مرد رستورانت; 4M8G+279, Sar-E Asiab, Afghanistan https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=36.113794%2C68.6746525&query_place_id=ChIJ3wyjUwAxzDgRA5BuOE7p_vU
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
مزار هوتل جوان مرد رستورانت; 4M8G+279, Sar-E Asiab, Afghanistan https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=36.113794%2C68.6746525&query_place_id=ChIJ3wyjUwAxzDgRA5BuOE7p_vU
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"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
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Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
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Something I’ve been thinking about, ever since this conversation, is a phenomenon I think of as NBA Capitalism.
I had a good time talking with the Toronto Star's Richard Warnica about the very dim state of US democracy under Trump and the tech oligarchs.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Richard Warnica: Democracy has survived two world wars and the threat of nuclear holocaust. Can it survive Trump and the oligarchs?
The Star interviews American journalist Jacob Silverman about the rising influence and increasing militancy of the global tech elite.
www.thestar.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Something I’ve been thinking about, ever since this conversation, is a phenomenon I think of as NBA Capitalism.
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
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I promise you this is even funnier than it sounds
Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I promise you this is even funnier than it sounds