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There is no “healthy basket bill” that will track people’s shopping habits through their loyalty cards.
This is another fake government policy that has fooled some people on social media.
fullfact.org/health/fake-...
This is another fake government policy that has fooled some people on social media.
fullfact.org/health/fake-...
The government is not going to track people’s shopping and fine them for buying unhealthy food – Full Fact
A series of social media videos falsely claim the government has introduced a “healthy basket bill” to monitor people’s food shopping.
fullfact.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There is no “healthy basket bill” that will track people’s shopping habits through their loyalty cards.
This is another fake government policy that has fooled some people on social media.
fullfact.org/health/fake-...
This is another fake government policy that has fooled some people on social media.
fullfact.org/health/fake-...
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The U.S. boycotts South Africa's G20 summit, sparking a diplomatic spat and throwing the global gathering into turmoil. n.pr/4ppj0H9
South Africa hosts G20 as tensions with U.S. flare amid boycott
The U.S. boycotts South Africa's G20 summit, sparking a diplomatic spat and throwing the global gathering into turmoil.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The U.S. boycotts South Africa's G20 summit, sparking a diplomatic spat and throwing the global gathering into turmoil. n.pr/4ppj0H9
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Journalism is basically a hobby for nepo babies with intergenerational wealth at this point.
The WSJ used the words "anti woke crusader" in the second graf of an article to describe the new EIC of CBS News. A job that used to be important and serious has become a punchline. We have no real newspapers. Just a bunch of losers sucking each other off in a circle
"The hiring of a former opinion journalist with strong views on Israel and diversity, equity and inclusion"
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Journalism is basically a hobby for nepo babies with intergenerational wealth at this point.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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my job mostly involves googling science things all day, and it's been terrible to see how much worse that's become over the last few years. but not being able to trust government websites for basic science information really takes things to a new low
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
my job mostly involves googling science things all day, and it's been terrible to see how much worse that's become over the last few years. but not being able to trust government websites for basic science information really takes things to a new low
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Bill Cassidy I hope you are feeling really smart right now brother
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Bill Cassidy I hope you are feeling really smart right now brother
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I wrote about the fascinating ways people are using OF as a side hustle, including a guy who got famous on TikTok by working on his farm while having a huge penis. WARNING: We have censored the adult material but we can only censor it so much, so view in private:
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November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I wrote about the fascinating ways people are using OF as a side hustle, including a guy who got famous on TikTok by working on his farm while having a huge penis. WARNING: We have censored the adult material but we can only censor it so much, so view in private:
www.patreon.com/posts/fuckin...
www.patreon.com/posts/fuckin...
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NVIDIA said on earnings that they are working on "strategic relationship" with OpenAI, which uh, doesn't sound like funding to me
So per NVIDIA's earnings, it appears that NVIDIA has *agreed* to invest in Anthropic, but its investment in OpenAI is a "letter of intent with an opportunity to invest." Very strange!
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
NVIDIA said on earnings that they are working on "strategic relationship" with OpenAI, which uh, doesn't sound like funding to me
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not the main point but it should be illegal to interview someone more than 3 times for the same position
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
not the main point but it should be illegal to interview someone more than 3 times for the same position
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One of the reasons these people are trying to womanize 15-year-olds is so they can marry them and train them (raise them) to be the submissive wives they want. Some of these folk voted against ending child marriage for that very reason.
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
One of the reasons these people are trying to womanize 15-year-olds is so they can marry them and train them (raise them) to be the submissive wives they want. Some of these folk voted against ending child marriage for that very reason.
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I'll never understand why these big outlets consistently find the grossest people to put on the air as if their childish opinions matter.
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I'll never understand why these big outlets consistently find the grossest people to put on the air as if their childish opinions matter.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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“There’re about a thousand of us.”
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“There’re about a thousand of us.”
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I haven’t seen it yet. But I’m glad he’s still fighting fascists today!
July 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I haven’t seen it yet. But I’m glad he’s still fighting fascists today!
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SCOTUS leaning into a bold new understanding of “equity" by allowing the alleged irreparable harm to be done while the underlying dispute is still being litigated. But seemingly only doing so when it benefits conservatives. Huh!
July 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
SCOTUS leaning into a bold new understanding of “equity" by allowing the alleged irreparable harm to be done while the underlying dispute is still being litigated. But seemingly only doing so when it benefits conservatives. Huh!
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This is why I don't like AI use for ANY reason, even if it's just to dunk on AI. Any use takes up resources and energy that could be better used doing literally anything else. Any "good potential use" for AI is annihilated by how much energy it takes to make it. Throw it in the trash, it's no good!
A regular reminder that using Grok is actively poisoning my former home of Memphis, Tennessee, a relatively poor and majority Black major city in the American South. Allowing the DoD to use it will escalate this dramatically.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
July 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is why I don't like AI use for ANY reason, even if it's just to dunk on AI. Any use takes up resources and energy that could be better used doing literally anything else. Any "good potential use" for AI is annihilated by how much energy it takes to make it. Throw it in the trash, it's no good!
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If you listen to the actual audio, it's very clear that she didn't misspeak. She was told she was wrong, but she refused to listen and continued to double and triple down.
The least she can do is apologize and endorse the Democratic nominee even though he's Muslim. Whether she will is unclear.
The least she can do is apologize and endorse the Democratic nominee even though he's Muslim. Whether she will is unclear.
Update: Following public backlash, Gillibrand says she “misspoke” when accusing Zohran Mamdani of supporting “global jihad.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
N.Y. Senator 'Misspoke' When She Falsely Claimed Zohran Mamdani Condoned 'Global Jihad'
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office walked back her suggestion that the New York mayoral nominee had supported “global jihad.”
www.rollingstone.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If you listen to the actual audio, it's very clear that she didn't misspeak. She was told she was wrong, but she refused to listen and continued to double and triple down.
The least she can do is apologize and endorse the Democratic nominee even though he's Muslim. Whether she will is unclear.
The least she can do is apologize and endorse the Democratic nominee even though he's Muslim. Whether she will is unclear.
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god damn he's cooking
June 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
god damn he's cooking
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not a New Yorker but I’m quite glad Mamdani won, and it’s now doubly hilarious how many old Dem hacks openly hitched their wagon to Cuomo’s right before his burst into flames
June 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
not a New Yorker but I’m quite glad Mamdani won, and it’s now doubly hilarious how many old Dem hacks openly hitched their wagon to Cuomo’s right before his burst into flames
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Thanks to everyone who came out to our show last night at @redrocksco.bsky.social - one of our favorite venues in the world!
June 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Thanks to everyone who came out to our show last night at @redrocksco.bsky.social - one of our favorite venues in the world!
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I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate
June 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate
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Boomers and Gen X got to be wunderkinds but Millennials will be lazy, inexperienced children until the day we die
"this guy in his mid thirties lacks work experience" really hits different from the generation that writes the email body in the subject line
June 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Boomers and Gen X got to be wunderkinds but Millennials will be lazy, inexperienced children until the day we die
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to be entirely fair up until today it seemed pretty likely mamdani would lose to a corrupt sex pest. things can change for the better.
Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
to be entirely fair up until today it seemed pretty likely mamdani would lose to a corrupt sex pest. things can change for the better.
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?