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If this article is accurate and LLMs can perfectly reproduce massive chunks of source material, like books and entire codebases, then vibe-coding is just “stealing other people’s code without attribution, laundered through an LLM”.
What a cursed technology, yikes.
apple.news/A0VXvh2ZKQ5G...
What a cursed technology, yikes.
apple.news/A0VXvh2ZKQ5G...
AI’s Memorization Crisis — The Atlantic
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
apple.news
January 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
If this article is accurate and LLMs can perfectly reproduce massive chunks of source material, like books and entire codebases, then vibe-coding is just “stealing other people’s code without attribution, laundered through an LLM”.
What a cursed technology, yikes.
apple.news/A0VXvh2ZKQ5G...
What a cursed technology, yikes.
apple.news/A0VXvh2ZKQ5G...
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How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
January 10, 2026 at 5:21 AM
How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
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it matters that this is what was said to a man immediately before he decided to murder her
January 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
it matters that this is what was said to a man immediately before he decided to murder her
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A gentle reminder in your grief that Renee Good was out there to protect her Black and brown neighbors from ethnic cleansing. That is still the mission.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
January 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
A gentle reminder in your grief that Renee Good was out there to protect her Black and brown neighbors from ethnic cleansing. That is still the mission.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.
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When your dad says you look like a pussy and you buy a balaclava from the discount rack at Fleet Farm, only to be greeted with: now you look like a stupid pussy.
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
When your dad says you look like a pussy and you buy a balaclava from the discount rack at Fleet Farm, only to be greeted with: now you look like a stupid pussy.
When he’s gone, we’re gonna have to invite the British to come over and burn it down again. www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
The White House might be getting an ‘Upper West Wing.' Here's what that means
President Trump’s ongoing makeover of the Executive Mansion shows no signs of stopping
www.wallpaper.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:48 PM
When he’s gone, we’re gonna have to invite the British to come over and burn it down again. www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
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You lying piece of shit. I chaired the Minnesota DFL for all three of your runs here. I watched you lose. Three times. Minnesota never bought your con. And now, as Chair of the DNC, I’m looking forward to ending Trumpism for good in 2028 — not with lies, but with votes. Again.
Trump: "I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It's a corrupt state ... I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after."
January 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
You lying piece of shit. I chaired the Minnesota DFL for all three of your runs here. I watched you lose. Three times. Minnesota never bought your con. And now, as Chair of the DNC, I’m looking forward to ending Trumpism for good in 2028 — not with lies, but with votes. Again.
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Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do.
What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP
He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.
What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP
He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.
January 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do.
What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP
He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.
What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP
He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.
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rightwingers always call women “too emotional” but renee good states she’s not mad in a calm voice while the agitated emotional ICE agent unloads his gun umprompted and calls her a “fucking bitch” after she’s dead
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
rightwingers always call women “too emotional” but renee good states she’s not mad in a calm voice while the agitated emotional ICE agent unloads his gun umprompted and calls her a “fucking bitch” after she’s dead
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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
Don't even get me started on the "surprise, we've hidden all your 'inactive' DMs and channels in the home view" bullshit. Came back to that from vacation and all of my painstaking organization of hundreds of people/group chats/channels into dozens of sections got fucked.
They're so bad at UX
They're so bad at UX
January 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Don't even get me started on the "surprise, we've hidden all your 'inactive' DMs and channels in the home view" bullshit. Came back to that from vacation and all of my painstaking organization of hundreds of people/group chats/channels into dozens of sections got fucked.
They're so bad at UX
They're so bad at UX
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Oh hey Slack! I LOVE having to click this Happy New Year prompt. In every single Slack I'm in. All 14 of them.
LOVE it. Genius idea.
Know your scale maybe? Also maybe don't become LinkedIn.
LOVE it. Genius idea.
Know your scale maybe? Also maybe don't become LinkedIn.
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Oh hey Slack! I LOVE having to click this Happy New Year prompt. In every single Slack I'm in. All 14 of them.
LOVE it. Genius idea.
Know your scale maybe? Also maybe don't become LinkedIn.
LOVE it. Genius idea.
Know your scale maybe? Also maybe don't become LinkedIn.
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1. ICE will kill you.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
1. ICE will kill you.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.
3. Because they are all thug trash.
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If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
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Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.
January 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.
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The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Scum.
What's your #rollerderby name? I'm Em Bash.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 AM
What's your #rollerderby name? I'm Em Bash.
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We could damn well use DPRK News right now. World's gone Spongebob.
January 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
We could damn well use DPRK News right now. World's gone Spongebob.
Damn, damn, damn. Realized "you have to be swift to catch one" was *right* there just as I hit reply.
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Damn, damn, damn. Realized "you have to be swift to catch one" was *right* there just as I hit reply.
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The frog sat on his Lilly pad in the middle of the pond, watching the scorpion stabbing itself with its poisonous tail.
He was perplexed & couldn’t resist calling out-
“Why are you stabbing yourself in the head?”
“Ahh, Frog! Because I am a scorpion! It’s my nature! Also, I have severe dementia.”
He was perplexed & couldn’t resist calling out-
“Why are you stabbing yourself in the head?”
“Ahh, Frog! Because I am a scorpion! It’s my nature! Also, I have severe dementia.”
January 4, 2026 at 3:49 AM
The frog sat on his Lilly pad in the middle of the pond, watching the scorpion stabbing itself with its poisonous tail.
He was perplexed & couldn’t resist calling out-
“Why are you stabbing yourself in the head?”
“Ahh, Frog! Because I am a scorpion! It’s my nature! Also, I have severe dementia.”
He was perplexed & couldn’t resist calling out-
“Why are you stabbing yourself in the head?”
“Ahh, Frog! Because I am a scorpion! It’s my nature! Also, I have severe dementia.”
Ah, so he was posting ironically then.
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Ah, so he was posting ironically then.
Real Heritage Foundation Limp Bizkit cover band vibes.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Real Heritage Foundation Limp Bizkit cover band vibes.