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Mamdani is the first NYC mayor to get one million votes since John Lindsay in 1969.
from New York Times N.Y.C. Mayoral Election Results › race called Candidate Party Votes Percent Pct. Mamdani Dem. 1,006,242 +0.0% 50.3% Cuomo Ind. 831,803 +0.0% 41.6 Sliwa Rep. 143,420 +0.0% 7.2
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Neemias Queta is a Gundam name.
Neemias Queta, Center, #88, Boston Celtics. He's a guy.
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Isn't the giant pink X that Detroit local news is using to disclaim AI posts kind of awesome?
Screenshot from a local news broadcast of a hoax post about "Ferndale's wealthiest man," a sad-eyed mustachioed gentleman named Reginald Vornbrock, leaving his fortune around the city in a childish scavenger hunt. It's from a parody Instagram. The article is obscured by a giant pink X with the words "AI" in the middle.
October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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If you see this, I implore you to post a pic from your device without context.
She Bends The Light To Her Will by Feather Miigwans. There's the moon and a moonbeam, the words "BENDS THE LIGHT TO HER WILL" are lit up. Background is an exhibition gallery at the DIA in Detroit, Michigan.
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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:D
Lauri Markkanen dapping up Keyonte George (second career 25-10 game) after scoring 51 in a double-overtime win over Phoenix and achieving the first 50-point game by a Jazzman in the regular season since Karl Malone in April 1998. (Donovan Mitchell did it twice in the strange world of the 2020 COVID bubble playoffs.) (The Jazz broadcast has unfortunately misspelled the month of April.)
October 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Romulus kicking dirt in Remus's face yet again...
From the Wikipedia article on Sanremo, Italy. While it is often stated in modern folk stories that Sanremo is named after a legendary Saint Remus, the name of the city is actually a phonetic contraction of Sant'Eremo di San Romolo ("Holy Hermitage of Saint Romulus"), which refers to Romulus of Genoa, the successor to Syrus of Genoa. In Ligurian, its name is San Reumo or San Reumoro.
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Flattering.
Wolfram Alpha screenshot showing that 6!! (double factorial of 6) is 48
October 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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LLM reinforcement learning judges considered SNES Family Feud. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBNq...
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy Dwarkesh interview with AI expert Andrej Karpathy But when you look at the completions that you’re getting from the model, they are complete nonsense. They start out okay, and then they change to “dhdhdhdh.” It’s just like, “Oh, okay, let’s take two plus three and we do this and this, and then dhdhdhdh.” You’re looking at it, and it’s like, this is crazy. How is it getting a reward of one or 100%? You look at the LLM judge, and it turns out that “dhdhdhdh” is an adversarial example for the model, and it assigns 100% probability to it. It’s just because this is an out-of-sample example to the LLM. It’s never seen it during training, and you’re in pure generalization land. It’s never seen it during training, and in the pure generalization land, you can find these examples that break it. Dwarkesh Patel 00:47:52 You’re basically training the LLM to be a prompt injection model. Andrej Karpathy 00:47:56 Not even that. Prompt injection is way too fancy. You’re finding adversarial examples, as they’re called. These are nonsensical solutions that are obviously wrong, but the model thinks they are amazing.
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Huey Long
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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lmao
This is actually my tool, someone is getting fired for sure. the ceo has been downvoted to -1
October 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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When verbally abusing the chatbot goes wrong, via reddit.
"What kind of AI is this? I immediately unsubscribed." and it's someone using an AI to create email spam Close up of the convo. User yells at AI: "Can you stop fucking up the urls you stupid AI?" AI responds: "Why don't you go fuck yourself, you stupid asshole?"
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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It's very 17th century British monarch.
The king had the prerogative, however, to enforce feudal obligations, collect fees, or sell property to raise funds. When Parliament in 1626 refused to vote taxes to pay for the military expeditions, Charles instead imposed “forced loans” on various individuals. Although such loans were deemed legal by the courts, this constitutional legerdemain was exceedingly unpopular and failed to produce significant income. Worse for the king, Parliament adopted the Petition of Right in 1628, which, in part, reaffirmed Parliament’s sole power of taxation. Charles at first agreed, but soon reneged. He dismissed Parliament and reasserted his power at least to collect customs duties. The Petition would prove to be significant eventually for another reason, because it also asserted certain rights which the king could not invade. Charles then ruled without Parliament. To pay for his expenses, he resorted to various arcane levies, fees, fines, rent assessments, and sales of monopoly licenses. Still, he ran out of funds by 1640.
October 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The exact quote will never leave my brain so I have attached it here, although I deeply appreciate what your memory did with it
user sickpartying: haters will say it's photoshopped actual famous musician charli xcx on her actual account: haters can hate coz my boobs will still be bigger than their future lol 💅🏻
October 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This mf just got sent to the Shadows.
George Kirby looking depressed
October 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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old RuneQuest cover Fantastic Adventures with Heroes and Magic! An Award Winning Fantasy Game by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney and Friends the factions in this game are called cults and their relationships are important
October 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Quote from Scott Alexander sounding, and I'm carefully not saying more than this, like every egg ever. It also helps explain my own personal experience. I am probably one of the people Ozy calls “cis by default”. I obviously can’t be sure, but I feel like if I woke up tomorrow magically transformed into a (hetero) woman, my first two thoughts (after “WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON???”, of course) would be “Huh, cool, this probably makes it much easier to find a mate” and “Darnit, now I’ve got to deal with this whole menstruation thing”.
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Leading out is "eduction," which results more in this sort of thing.
Tibetan rocky land, likely a result of combined eduction and erosion.
September 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Wrong verb! Wrong verb.
two different Latin verbs with the same nominative singular but different paradigms, the one that means educate (educare) and the one that means lead out (educere). they're related, but they're different verbs!
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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@effinvicta.bsky.social lol NRA came out against a trans gun ban
NRA social media retweeting someone saying their statement is coming out against the trans ban
September 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Got it. It's still on the Internet! But posted as "slatestarcodex," not Yvain. freenortherner.com/2013/10/25/s...

Think this is obviously Scott and not an imposter because who else would be so long-winded that I have to break the post up into four to fit the alt text in. "I'm a bit racist" in #4.
October 31, 2013 at 11:31 pm @Excellent rebuttal and I acknowledge that was the weakest section of the FAQ (maybe along with 1). 5.1: I don’t think illegitimacy rates are a good proxy for promiscuity. A lot of people are rejecting marriage in favor of long-term stable cohabitation, and their planned/wanted kids get added to the illegitimacy rates. In fact, given the availability of abortion, outside of principled abortion opponents the fact that a kid is born implies that it was planned/wanted at least a little. This phenomenon, while still worrying, is a different issue than hookups and in fact potentially opposed to them (the desire to have a kid with a long-term partner suggests someone being out of hookup mode). I’d love to see promiscuity as a concept broken down into people who go out to clubs and have sex with random people, and people who settle down with someone, think “This is the one!”, have sex with them and maybe kids, and then have an angry breakup a year or two later. Likely two different populations – although I wouldn’t want to speculate on which has better outcomes. 5.1.1: Most of the alternative data you provide likely doesn’t contradict the original U-shape graph – it doesn’t go into fine enough detail to determine whether the general trend toward women with more partners divorcing more they mention is just the trend for one- or two- partner women mentioned on the U-shape graph. The age hypothesis likely has something to do with it but we can conclude two things – first, that the negative effect of promiscuity, if it exists, is less than the positive effect of age. And second, that people marrying older has a positive effect. Preventing premarital sex while having people continue to marry older seems like an even harder ticket than just preventing premarital sex. On the other hand, your data on early sexual activity and on adultery risk seems convincing to me at first glance. I will preliminarily admit I was wrong. That means the new question becomes one of correlation vs. causation. That is, suppose some people are impulsive and other people are not. Impulsive people are both more likely to have lots of premarital sex and less able to maintain a marriage. If we create strong social norms against promiscuity, this may prevent impulsive people from having the opportunity to be promiscuous, but they would still be just as bad at maintaining a marriage. So your data support the reactionary contention “all else being equal, marry a less promiscuous person”, but it only goes part of the way to the contention “decreasing promiscuity on a society-wide basis would increase marital stability”. 5.2: I didn’t mention the steady divorce trend line because I didn’t think it would be fair to Reactionaries. That is, the Reactionary position is that cultural changes like the one that occurred in the 1960s increase divorce rates, and since it was indeed linked to an increase in the divorce rate (with subsequent decline) I thought it wouldn’t be fair to try to smooth that out into a steady trend, but fairer to concentrate on the obvious discontinuity in 1960. Regarding the steady trend, I find it hard to link that to politics, which are naturally somewhat volatile (I believe the US had something approaching the Victorian period of strict sexual morality, and the Roaring Twenties when things became less so, so that doesn’t match the straight line). On the other hand, as I pointed out in 2.6.2, the economic growth trend line is *remarkably* straight. I’m almost sure that conservative states still have higher divorce rates when controlled for race. I can’t find a great study, but these statistics seem to show higher divorce rates for each race in those states. The IQ point is well-taken but I address it in part with number two here. 5.3.1: “Racist” is used not as an insult, but as a descriptive term for the fact that the only way you could be worried about a US where the population is solidly rising is if you were concerned about its racial composition. As it happens, I’m a bit racist myself, but luckily aside from Mexico the top four sources of immigration to the US are all Asian, and I like Asian people’s values. Mexicans seem to have turned out pretty well too. I think I mentioned this in the FAQ. I am also pretty sanguine about immigrants mostly adopting American culture and values, especially in the second generation. 5.3.2: I’m pretty sure Lynn factored the effect of low-IQ immigration into his numbers, so that shouldn’t be a problem either. I don’t have access to the study anymore, but if you can find it it should be in there. As for the effect of low IQ populations on welfare, I’m not sure why you expect dysgenics to affect the welfare roll more quickly than it affects anywhere else. Thanks for doing this and helping me improve/clarify my thoughts.
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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i was the one who wanted it and annoyingly, i'm pretty sure that this is a reference to it in my twitter archive, but the link is dead since i deleted my account so i don't know where it goes
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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screenshot from a google translated pokemon yellow hack, protagonist is talking to a bug catcher: "nobody is you"
September 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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the owner was in fact born in Ramallah, but the highly ambiguous ad he ran in a Detroit-area Jewish newspaper in 1998 for what is today universally described as a Lebanese restaurant is even more fascinating
ad from the Detroit Jewish News in 1998 where the same guy, who used to work for Anita's Kitchen (which is, in fact, a Lebanese restaurant) invites me to savor "the Holy Land's finest cuisine" and experience "a taste of Jerusalem"
August 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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detroit style pizza in buenos aires detroit style pizza food truck in the cayman islands
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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the list of all their dudes:
Duden, the German dictionary of reference
August 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM