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“Hospitals go out of business when Medicare and Medicaid are cut. Period."
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May 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Hospitals go out of business when Medicare and Medicaid are cut. Period."
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Explaining to young men that outsourcing your thinking to LLMs is bad because reading and writing is like lifting for your brain
April 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Explaining to young men that outsourcing your thinking to LLMs is bad because reading and writing is like lifting for your brain
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Oh man, the hardcore wine moms are swapping protest tips and my GOD they are so unprepared.
Bring a PHONE CHARGER? Are you kidding?
Please feel free to share with any wine moms:
Leave the phone at home. Memorize a contact’s number or write it in you somewhere discreet. Pick a lawyer now.
Bring a PHONE CHARGER? Are you kidding?
Please feel free to share with any wine moms:
Leave the phone at home. Memorize a contact’s number or write it in you somewhere discreet. Pick a lawyer now.
April 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Oh man, the hardcore wine moms are swapping protest tips and my GOD they are so unprepared.
Bring a PHONE CHARGER? Are you kidding?
Please feel free to share with any wine moms:
Leave the phone at home. Memorize a contact’s number or write it in you somewhere discreet. Pick a lawyer now.
Bring a PHONE CHARGER? Are you kidding?
Please feel free to share with any wine moms:
Leave the phone at home. Memorize a contact’s number or write it in you somewhere discreet. Pick a lawyer now.
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Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”
How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge
If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”
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Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
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me: I spent hours researching something for my book
friend: oh wow, that must mean it's pretty important to the story.
me:
friend: it's important to the story... right?
friend: oh wow, that must mean it's pretty important to the story.
me:
friend: it's important to the story... right?
April 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
me: I spent hours researching something for my book
friend: oh wow, that must mean it's pretty important to the story.
me:
friend: it's important to the story... right?
friend: oh wow, that must mean it's pretty important to the story.
me:
friend: it's important to the story... right?
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1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row
OpenAI and Google have objected to Labour’s proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let AI software use copyrighted material free
www.thetimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
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I entered a fugue state and had a vision 💕
April 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I entered a fugue state and had a vision 💕
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Seems like we’re having a “great new people should run for office” chat again. Awesome!
However:
I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”
However:
I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”
April 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Seems like we’re having a “great new people should run for office” chat again. Awesome!
However:
I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”
However:
I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”
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im gonna scream if I see one more well-intentioned person be like AI is bad but I only use it for cover letters/travel itineraries/dumb innocuous thing. It uses SO much WATER!!!! It is bad for the EARTH. Just write that shit yourself you will be FINE. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
im gonna scream if I see one more well-intentioned person be like AI is bad but I only use it for cover letters/travel itineraries/dumb innocuous thing. It uses SO much WATER!!!! It is bad for the EARTH. Just write that shit yourself you will be FINE. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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The last time I felt like this was when Leticia Van de Putte asked her epic question — what does a woman have to do to be heard over the men in the room — during Wendy Davis' filibuster of the 2013 TX omnibus anti-abortion bill and the crowd in the building hollered until the clock hit midnight.
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The last time I felt like this was when Leticia Van de Putte asked her epic question — what does a woman have to do to be heard over the men in the room — during Wendy Davis' filibuster of the 2013 TX omnibus anti-abortion bill and the crowd in the building hollered until the clock hit midnight.
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It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
March 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
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standard writing advice: “write what you know” “delete words like ‘that’” “kill your darlings”
my writing advice: you must be the Phil Collins writing the Tarzan soundtrack of your own life
my writing advice: you must be the Phil Collins writing the Tarzan soundtrack of your own life
March 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
standard writing advice: “write what you know” “delete words like ‘that’” “kill your darlings”
my writing advice: you must be the Phil Collins writing the Tarzan soundtrack of your own life
my writing advice: you must be the Phil Collins writing the Tarzan soundtrack of your own life
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When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
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A BLATANT reminder that I will NEVER support Al or use it.
March 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A BLATANT reminder that I will NEVER support Al or use it.
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Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
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Citizens of foreign countries seem to have a much better grasp on how exactly to wield economic pressure via boycotts than we do here in the US and that sure is something.
March 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Citizens of foreign countries seem to have a much better grasp on how exactly to wield economic pressure via boycotts than we do here in the US and that sure is something.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
March 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
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Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.
March 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.