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Donald Trump wants you to forget that January 6 happened—but for one police officer who protected the Capitol, and another man who attacked it and was pardoned, there’s no forgetting, Jamie Thompson reports: theatln.tc/o2OQTnKk
January 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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A good use of AI would be video call software that recognizes you're about to roll your eyes at something and turns your video off just in time
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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And here’s a startup offering influencing/propaganda services. Called it ;) www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Many of the presenters at the Public AI Summit are sharing keynotes or special materials. This is mine: a just-over-ten-minute layperson’s introduction to the technical process behind AI models producing images: “Making Pictures With Noise.” Hope you dig it! publicaisummit.com/workshop/a-c...
Public AI Summit
A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...
publicaisummit.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...
September 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Google AI overviews nearly sent me driving to the wrong airport terminal (and nearly caused me to pay twice for parking).

Honestly fuck everything about this.
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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the modern information environment
May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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We are about to add more information to our map, showing the donations that MPs are receiving from people and companies linked to the private healthcare sector. And... we are going to make a lot of noise about what individual politicians are doing. Please could you share this, and follow us? 🚨💙
May 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Wow - french Ministry of Culture releases a big dataset of their Compare:IA french llm arena tests aimed at getting good french LLMs huggingface.co/datasets/min...
ministere-culture/comparia-conversations · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
May 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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"the best move may be to completely avoid relying on AI chatbots to provide factual information" lmao
May 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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49 years and counting
May 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Pink Phony Club
May 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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i made a map of every active major league #baseball team's relocation history. check it out!
March 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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What did the Eagles do after winning the Superbowl???

They played the 2nd half!

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February 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Often, when paying my rent or swishing some water in a bottle of fairy liquid so it goes a little further, I am reminded of this Charles Moore spectator column from 2015, and the fact that financial hardship knows many forms.
January 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The life expectancy gap in the United States between those who live the longest and those who live the shortest lives has widened to 20 from 12 years in the past two decades, according to an analysis published Thursday in the Lancet.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA
Our analysis confirms the continued existence of different Americas within the USA. One's life expectancy varies dramatically depending on where one lives, the economic conditions in that location, an...
www.thelancet.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM