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To really honor him, it's much better to use his name on premium merchandise
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Fred Saberhagen: in my berserker series I invented the self replicating murderous berserkers as a cautionary tale
Sam Altman:
Sam Altman:
incredible glassdoor quote about a company, under Pros: "There's a lot of really great people at the lower levels to complain with"
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
incredible glassdoor quote about a company, under Pros: "There's a lot of really great people at the lower levels to complain with"
I feel like we are missed a Louie discourse. He's doing 3 sold out shows near my house and it seems like crickets.
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I feel like we are missed a Louie discourse. He's doing 3 sold out shows near my house and it seems like crickets.
Do you have a STEM degree? GTFO. Hacker poet? Come on in! arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Do you have a STEM degree? GTFO. Hacker poet? Come on in! arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Paris? Brussels? Vienna?
Nope.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Torn down in 1958 I think.
Nope.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Torn down in 1958 I think.
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Paris? Brussels? Vienna?
Nope.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Torn down in 1958 I think.
Nope.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Torn down in 1958 I think.
I was really surprised how fun Predator: Badlands was. Great "here is a space story" movie like Riddick or Prospect.
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I was really surprised how fun Predator: Badlands was. Great "here is a space story" movie like Riddick or Prospect.
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I’m rarely rendered speechless, but then: “Eight State Police members from the Buffalo area, including a sergeant and a lieutenant, were sent to Pittsburgh last month for a two-day assignment to staff the wake and funeral of the stepmother of an asst deputy superintendent.” Brendan Lyons reports.
8 NY state troopers sent to Pittsburgh for funeral of Lt. Colonel's stepmother
Eight New York state troopers, including a sergeant and a lieutenant, were sent to Pittsburgh last month to staff the wake and funeral of the mother of an assistant deputy superintendent.
www.timesunion.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’m rarely rendered speechless, but then: “Eight State Police members from the Buffalo area, including a sergeant and a lieutenant, were sent to Pittsburgh last month for a two-day assignment to staff the wake and funeral of the stepmother of an asst deputy superintendent.” Brendan Lyons reports.
So at the end of Playdate the one clone is saved by the power of love and the hundreds of other clones are murdered and it's kind of a comedy?
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So at the end of Playdate the one clone is saved by the power of love and the hundreds of other clones are murdered and it's kind of a comedy?
This person a) does not understand Chomsky has a new wife b) writes like this and c) has almost 15 thousand followers
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This person a) does not understand Chomsky has a new wife b) writes like this and c) has almost 15 thousand followers
I really love some of Don's books, I think the Winter of Frankie Machine is so well done. What is this and who is it for? Just idiots?
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I really love some of Don's books, I think the Winter of Frankie Machine is so well done. What is this and who is it for? Just idiots?
After aggressively disengaging from Foundation season 1 I'm randomly watching some s3 and seems like a show for people who really like Princess Irulan monologues from 80s Dune. I do though.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
After aggressively disengaging from Foundation season 1 I'm randomly watching some s3 and seems like a show for people who really like Princess Irulan monologues from 80s Dune. I do though.
At the New-York Historical Society last year I was really struck by seeing Nast's Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner. Such a positive image in 1869.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
At the New-York Historical Society last year I was really struck by seeing Nast's Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner. Such a positive image in 1869.
Odd article in that it never addresses "can the president legally stop penny production?"
I assume Congress has mandated some level of penny production but would love a journalist for a reputable organization, maybe the AP, to check.
I assume Congress has mandated some level of penny production but would love a journalist for a reputable organization, maybe the AP, to check.
After 230 years, the US Mint has ended production of new pennies. One of the very few things that incompetent stopped clock in the White House has gotten accidentally right. [apnews.com]
US Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years
The U.S. has ended production of the penny. The last 1-cent coins were made Wednesday at the mint in Philadelphia.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Odd article in that it never addresses "can the president legally stop penny production?"
I assume Congress has mandated some level of penny production but would love a journalist for a reputable organization, maybe the AP, to check.
I assume Congress has mandated some level of penny production but would love a journalist for a reputable organization, maybe the AP, to check.
For some reason the San Diego growth number made me cackle
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
For some reason the San Diego growth number made me cackle
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> reputational risk committee
You are fucking with me
You are fucking with me
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
> reputational risk committee
You are fucking with me
You are fucking with me
I had known the trivia that Justice Jackson was the last Justice not to graduate law school and also the court's best writer, didn't know until this article that not graduating was just a quirk of being too young (20 vs 21)
Our film & local history buff CJ Lais took a deep dive into the life & local ties of Nuremberg prosecutor (& Albany Law grad) Robert H. Jackson, the only person to serve as Supreme Court Justice, US Attorney General & Solicitor General. He's played by Michael Shannon in the new film.
Albany Law grad Robert H. Jackson was chief prosecutor at Nuremberg and plays a supporting role in James Vanderbilt’s movie about the Nazi war crimes trials.
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I had known the trivia that Justice Jackson was the last Justice not to graduate law school and also the court's best writer, didn't know until this article that not graduating was just a quirk of being too young (20 vs 21)
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if they do another Austin Powers in two years the same amount of time will have passed since the first one as between the first one and when he was frozen.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
if they do another Austin Powers in two years the same amount of time will have passed since the first one as between the first one and when he was frozen.
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"JAMES BOND" IS NOT A CODENAME. HE ALREADY HAS A CODENAME. IT IS 007. RESIST THE URGE TO CANONISE STUFF. CANONISATION IS THE MIND KILLER. CANONISATION IS AMERICAN
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"JAMES BOND" IS NOT A CODENAME. HE ALREADY HAS A CODENAME. IT IS 007. RESIST THE URGE TO CANONISE STUFF. CANONISATION IS THE MIND KILLER. CANONISATION IS AMERICAN
Imagine being a representative of the sixth largest nation on earth and getting told this shit
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Imagine being a representative of the sixth largest nation on earth and getting told this shit
I heard someone mention a FIFA peace prize and I thought that was a pretty good joke. Turns out to be a pretty bad joke.
Trump has threatened to bomb or invade 7 countries with a shot to play in the 2026 World Cup. He *has* bombed one (Iran) and said he'd deny them visas. He's preparing for war with another (Venezuela). He has summarily executed citizens from at least 3. He has imposed tariffs on nearly all of them.
FIFA head says 'you will see' at World Cup draw if Trump receives new peace prize
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I heard someone mention a FIFA peace prize and I thought that was a pretty good joke. Turns out to be a pretty bad joke.
One thing I think that is forgotten is you would watch an action show like Prison Break in the mid 2000s and the bad guy would be a thinly veiled Hillary Clinton
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
One thing I think that is forgotten is you would watch an action show like Prison Break in the mid 2000s and the bad guy would be a thinly veiled Hillary Clinton
Ok, it's not Governor, but well I'll be
Mayor of the biggest city
Ok, it's not Mayor, but well I'll be one of only 435 House members
Ok, it's not House member, but well I'll be one of only 3,000 Sheriffs in the country
Ok, it's not Sheriff, but well I'll be....
Mayor of the biggest city
Ok, it's not Mayor, but well I'll be one of only 435 House members
Ok, it's not House member, but well I'll be one of only 3,000 Sheriffs in the country
Ok, it's not Sheriff, but well I'll be....
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ok, it's not Governor, but well I'll be
Mayor of the biggest city
Ok, it's not Mayor, but well I'll be one of only 435 House members
Ok, it's not House member, but well I'll be one of only 3,000 Sheriffs in the country
Ok, it's not Sheriff, but well I'll be....
Mayor of the biggest city
Ok, it's not Mayor, but well I'll be one of only 435 House members
Ok, it's not House member, but well I'll be one of only 3,000 Sheriffs in the country
Ok, it's not Sheriff, but well I'll be....
Real two papers for the price of one deal here
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Real two papers for the price of one deal here
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
The Dutch, numbering their fish
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Dutch, numbering their fish
I thought the Lost Bus was 25 percent a great movie. Some of the writing and characterization was very thin.
The screenwriters should not have introduced looters on the day though. That part felt as fake as it was.
The screenwriters should not have introduced looters on the day though. That part felt as fake as it was.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I thought the Lost Bus was 25 percent a great movie. Some of the writing and characterization was very thin.
The screenwriters should not have introduced looters on the day though. That part felt as fake as it was.
The screenwriters should not have introduced looters on the day though. That part felt as fake as it was.