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Poorly integrated personality. Erratic sense of self. Muesli.
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this report is really good stuff

I love these charts, which are fascinating just for thinking about data and storytelling

both charts a) display data correctly and b) tell you something true and important about the world

and they're very, very different www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-ins...
December 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk This is exactly the thing I was saying.

I would like LMMs to stop affirming everything I say, but we all need GPT-4o to stop affirming to vulnerable users that they are divine entities, for example.

This offers affirmation to the delusional, it has to stop.
June 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Always stuck with me: A friend asked how I voted, and I said 'I always look at what's better for the country', and they looked flabbergasted, and told me honestly that they'd never heard that idea before. For them it is 'who is doing more for me.'

They didn't reject the idea. It was just novel.
In a democracy, *should* the question we ask ourselves be "Am I better off?"

What about "are other people better off?" "Are the laws fair?" "Are we more secure?" "Are we trashing the planet for the future?"

The left, in particular, should be really wary of transactional framings of democracy. 1/3
June 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I keep coming back to Barry. I've shared it with a few people who keep insisting it must be a parody. The original seems to have been deleted.

Whatever, I've been muttering 'Barry doesn't do boring' to myself as I do my housework this afternoon. I don't know why, but it's been oddly uplifting.
This guy is Reform’s new councillor for Stretton in Staffordshire. This is what you get with that party - all they’re interested in is making libs cry. They’re too weak and pathetic to do the hard yards.

Imagine what a Reform government would be like.
May 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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“Only when there’s no defender between the striker and the goalie when the ball is kicked to them.”
April 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Like it or not, these tariffs were **incredibly efficiently implemented**. It would have taken a normal government MONTHS to have prepped them and cost x20-x50 as much.

When you think of the trillions of dollars wiped out this last week, you MUST take into account the ~ $1 million saved.
April 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Listening to the latest 'Rest is History' - they quote the Bayeux Tapestry as the major source for the Norman Invasion.

I wonder what D-Day's history would look like if our major source was the recent exhibition of 80 meters of knitted dioramas at Peterborough Cathedral.

Woolier, perhaps. (sorry)
April 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
In 20 years time, right wingers will claim the Trump tariffs are the only thing that saved the planet’s ecology from rampant consumerism. They’ll say this with pride, looking out over the sea that used to be Florida.
Hard to put into words how much the right is freaking out rn on the other site
April 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Every so often I re-post this to remind the media to stop and think about how they frame stories:

“When reality is asymmetric, balanced reporting is deceptive.”
Brian Klaas, WaPo op ed 12/17/21
March 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:

"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
March 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Frank Wilhoit at crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
March 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM