Area Man
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Area Man
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Ex-tweep looking for a new home
This is so deeply fucking gross: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
October 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I’m not opposed to Google having my feet pics, but they’re gonna have to pay up
www.theverge.com/news/796308/...
Google’s AI try-on imagines your feet in new shoes | The Verge
Google’s AI will swap your shoes for you.
www.theverge.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I will never be able to stop vomiting
September 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Gen AI is going to make this problem so much worse
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
WHOA
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I can’t be the only one who sees it, right?
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Man, I wish I had this feature too.

techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/a...
August 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Zuckerberg can spend billions poaching AI research talent, but they can’t buy a moral compass

(Excerpts from a leaked internal Meta doc titled, “GenAI: Content Risk Standards )

www.reuters.com/investigates...
August 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We are not talking enough about the societal implications of AI looking in our butts.
August 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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And no small business owner has the clout to show up in the Oval Office and give the president a gold statue to catch a break.
“.. small businesses will have to pay an extra $202 billion a year on tariffs, which works out to about $856,000 per company ..”

@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Congratulations, Tim Cook
BREAKING: Supreme Court has been formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling, per ABC.
August 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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These arches better be space gray next time we see em.
August 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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August 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Imagine trying to explain to your 2020 self that, in 2025, you would be seeing “MechaHitler sponsored by Pepsi” on Twitter, except it’s now called X

techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/e...
Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Grok's responses | TechCrunch
The move would help power X's struggling ads business following the departure of former CEO Linda Yaccarino.
techcrunch.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Welcome to a fresh new hell, where even the Google Drive app is sending us clickbait notifications
August 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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can elon musk stop doing weird ai sex stuff for 5 minutes
Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.
www.theverge.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Steve Jobs tried to make the reason for Apple’s success as explicitly clear as he could and the second he died Andreesen was like “fuck books”
August 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.
blog.cloudflare.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is the most useful definition of authoritarianism I’ve seen yet
August 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.
July 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I solved the Wednesday 7/30/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 14:44!

www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...
The New York Times Crossword — The New York Times
Keep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine.
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM