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Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
Most of these are fair enough, but the earliest evidence of beer is from the stone age - we have no idea who invented it.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Most of these are fair enough, but the earliest evidence of beer is from the stone age - we have no idea who invented it.
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OpenAI is about ten years old so if we can just wait another 8 years all the libertarians will lose interest in it
October 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
OpenAI is about ten years old so if we can just wait another 8 years all the libertarians will lose interest in it
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Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right.
Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.
October 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right.
The French are smashing our record for most PMs in five years - time for the PLP to act or we'll be left behind...
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The French are smashing our record for most PMs in five years - time for the PLP to act or we'll be left behind...
@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social That Verhoeven stuff was good, but Black Book is his greatest film
July 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social That Verhoeven stuff was good, but Black Book is his greatest film
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Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
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Yknow what? I’ve been sitting on this for a decade because I’m not into punching laterally but I AM FINE with punching far right lunatics.
Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this *wild* ass email. 🧵
Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this *wild* ass email. 🧵
June 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Yknow what? I’ve been sitting on this for a decade because I’m not into punching laterally but I AM FINE with punching far right lunatics.
Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this *wild* ass email. 🧵
Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this *wild* ass email. 🧵
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in late 1995, a girl sitting next to me was wearing what i now realize was a new outfit she bought because of clueless & the 50 year old teacher was like “in a skirt that short i can smell you.” she was plainly shaken & apologized & he said “i’m not complaining” & then he continued teaching history.
Like there were actual teachers fired for abuse but there was also just weird shit like my gym teacher having pictures of 13 year old cheerleaders all over his office when he did not have anything to do vocationally with cheerleaders
June 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
in late 1995, a girl sitting next to me was wearing what i now realize was a new outfit she bought because of clueless & the 50 year old teacher was like “in a skirt that short i can smell you.” she was plainly shaken & apologized & he said “i’m not complaining” & then he continued teaching history.
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TLDR version; "one long-running tech pyramid scam is about to be unexpectedly run over by another, even longer-running, tech pyramid scam."
With any luck they'll collide with the LLM bubble and turn it into a three-car pileup and fuel tank conflagration: oh dear, how sad, never mind.
With any luck they'll collide with the LLM bubble and turn it into a three-car pileup and fuel tank conflagration: oh dear, how sad, never mind.
“.. experts now believe that Bitcoin’s community has less than a decade, even a handful of years, to put contingency plans in place.”
@decrypt.co
decrypt.co/323512/exist...
@decrypt.co
decrypt.co/323512/exist...
June 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
TLDR version; "one long-running tech pyramid scam is about to be unexpectedly run over by another, even longer-running, tech pyramid scam."
With any luck they'll collide with the LLM bubble and turn it into a three-car pileup and fuel tank conflagration: oh dear, how sad, never mind.
With any luck they'll collide with the LLM bubble and turn it into a three-car pileup and fuel tank conflagration: oh dear, how sad, never mind.
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Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming
Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
May 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming
Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
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The speed of writing code has never, and will never be the bottleneck.
The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it.
People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.
The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it.
People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.
June 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The speed of writing code has never, and will never be the bottleneck.
The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it.
People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.
The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it.
People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.
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Fare evasion has been falling on London's transport network for years.
A reminder that one of the times evasion actually did rise in recent years was when the last Conservative mayor spent hundreds of millions of pounds building a fleet of new buses with entirely open backs
A reminder that one of the times evasion actually did rise in recent years was when the last Conservative mayor spent hundreds of millions of pounds building a fleet of new buses with entirely open backs
May 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Fare evasion has been falling on London's transport network for years.
A reminder that one of the times evasion actually did rise in recent years was when the last Conservative mayor spent hundreds of millions of pounds building a fleet of new buses with entirely open backs
A reminder that one of the times evasion actually did rise in recent years was when the last Conservative mayor spent hundreds of millions of pounds building a fleet of new buses with entirely open backs
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This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead
May 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead
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Resistance takes on many forms
April 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Resistance takes on many forms
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Americans confused by the Canadian election need to learn the two types of democracies:
1) a Parliamentary system
2) a Funkadelicary system
In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze
In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation
1) a Parliamentary system
2) a Funkadelicary system
In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze
In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation
April 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Americans confused by the Canadian election need to learn the two types of democracies:
1) a Parliamentary system
2) a Funkadelicary system
In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze
In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation
1) a Parliamentary system
2) a Funkadelicary system
In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze
In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation
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this is a marvellous piece by David S. H. Rosenthal on climate change, the AI bubble, Nvidia's new 60kW GPU racks, and all those data centres
(quotes me extensively so you know it's good)
blog.dshr.org/2025/04/goin...
(quotes me extensively so you know it's good)
blog.dshr.org/2025/04/goin...
Going Out With A Bang
In 1.5C Here We Come I criticized people like Eric Schmidt who said that: the artificial intelligence boom was too powerful, and had too...
blog.dshr.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
this is a marvellous piece by David S. H. Rosenthal on climate change, the AI bubble, Nvidia's new 60kW GPU racks, and all those data centres
(quotes me extensively so you know it's good)
blog.dshr.org/2025/04/goin...
(quotes me extensively so you know it's good)
blog.dshr.org/2025/04/goin...
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Incredible stat in @duncanrobinson.bsky.social 's ode to lubing up the union jack www.economist.com/britain/2025...
April 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Incredible stat in @duncanrobinson.bsky.social 's ode to lubing up the union jack www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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An illustration of a scientist using a steam machine, with pulley, to extract a tooth from a man drawn on the front of an envelope addressed to a Dr. J. Chapman, 1894.
It's hard to believe this "doodle" is 131 years old! It looks like modern steampunk.
Photo: Wellcome Collection, London
It's hard to believe this "doodle" is 131 years old! It looks like modern steampunk.
Photo: Wellcome Collection, London
April 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
An illustration of a scientist using a steam machine, with pulley, to extract a tooth from a man drawn on the front of an envelope addressed to a Dr. J. Chapman, 1894.
It's hard to believe this "doodle" is 131 years old! It looks like modern steampunk.
Photo: Wellcome Collection, London
It's hard to believe this "doodle" is 131 years old! It looks like modern steampunk.
Photo: Wellcome Collection, London
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muppetized music videos: thread
April 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
muppetized music videos: thread
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold