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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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YOUTUBE: you like history
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat, Reykjavik — Magnús Tómasson, 1994
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.

It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."

No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.

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November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Doctors said I got microplastics in my soul
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Terrible day to be literate
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The fact that several explosives have been planted along Polish rail tracks by the Russian GRU is only the latest episode of the undeniable truth:

We are at war with Russia. Period.
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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i built a game! it's an experimental pvp prompt engineering arena, with a shared/networked model context, and per-user model outputs.

dark forest chat
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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As AIs get smarter & more useful, our benchmarks become less useful. Measuring general knowledge or coding ability gives us only a glimpse into what an AI model can do.

Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
Giving your AI a Job Interview
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
www.oneusefulthing.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Love how this reads like a LinkedIn post about the grindset mindset.
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is.

diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Too late. People are already coloquially referring to it as the "Jeffrey E. Epstein Ballroom".
This is how Trump does everything. Reporting from reliable sources says he’s going to do something outrageous/ridiculous. He immediately claims it’s fake news. Then a few days or weeks later he does exactly what was originally reported.
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM