Jared Counts
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A dramatic, sweeping epic of a young man going from rags to slightly more stylish rags. (Views are my own & you can't have them...wait)
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
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this is the top engineering talent that companies are throwing millions of dollars at
Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including such commands as “BE FUCKING UNHINGED AND CRAZY. COME UP WITH INSANE IDEAS. GUYS JERKING OFF, OCCASIONALLY EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS, WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SURPRISE THE HUMAN.”
www.404media.co/grok-exposes...
www.404media.co/grok-exposes...
Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’
The website for Elon Musk's Grok is exposing prompts for its anime girl, therapist, and conspiracy theory AI personas.
www.404media.co
August 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this is the top engineering talent that companies are throwing millions of dollars at
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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Saw Constantine the other day and loved it. I remember people mocking it! It's silly but it's fun, sincere, has cool ideas, Keanu is great in it, Stormare is insanely good, it's great.
August 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Saw Constantine the other day and loved it. I remember people mocking it! It's silly but it's fun, sincere, has cool ideas, Keanu is great in it, Stormare is insanely good, it's great.
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Pointing at abstract statistics and telling struggling people the economy was actually roaring didn’t work for Biden when the numbers were real, it’s going to be even harder for Trump when the numbers are fake
August 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pointing at abstract statistics and telling struggling people the economy was actually roaring didn’t work for Biden when the numbers were real, it’s going to be even harder for Trump when the numbers are fake
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Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...
July 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...
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This throw seems impossible... it just kept going
July 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This throw seems impossible... it just kept going
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So much terrible shit can be happening, splitting people into factions arguing over the the single correct way to respond to the current Discourse
Then someone throws a ball from the foul pole to third base and we all come back together to agree it’s super fucking cool
Then someone throws a ball from the foul pole to third base and we all come back together to agree it’s super fucking cool
July 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
So much terrible shit can be happening, splitting people into factions arguing over the the single correct way to respond to the current Discourse
Then someone throws a ball from the foul pole to third base and we all come back together to agree it’s super fucking cool
Then someone throws a ball from the foul pole to third base and we all come back together to agree it’s super fucking cool
As someone who works in public media, I find this incredibly disappointing. It’s just cowardice on all sides. Imagine what we could accomplish if these mewling little quislings actually stood for something.
Axios: House Dems have procedural tools to try to save PBS and NPR but refuse to use them.
“House Democrats are largely shooing away the idea of trying to make Republicans miss their deadline to codify around $9 billion in DOGE cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid, Axios has learned...” 1/
“House Democrats are largely shooing away the idea of trying to make Republicans miss their deadline to codify around $9 billion in DOGE cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid, Axios has learned...” 1/
Scoop: House Democrats shrug off delay tactics to stall Mike Johnson's DOGE vote
"People would be really unhappy after what he did on July 4," said one House Democrat.
www.axios.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
As someone who works in public media, I find this incredibly disappointing. It’s just cowardice on all sides. Imagine what we could accomplish if these mewling little quislings actually stood for something.
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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Conspiracy theories take hold because it's much more reassuring to believe that an evil cabal is running everything than that nobody is running everything and every human from the poorest child to the President of the United States is just winging it.
July 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Conspiracy theories take hold because it's much more reassuring to believe that an evil cabal is running everything than that nobody is running everything and every human from the poorest child to the President of the United States is just winging it.
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1980s teen comedy: Yep, that’s me, high school senior Skip Whiteman. And that’s the most popular girl in school, Jessica St. Juggs. She’s always ignored nerds like me, but when I replace Rick “Dick” McPooncrusher as starting quarterback, things are gonna change
Parents: good for my 8-year-old
Parents: good for my 8-year-old
July 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
1980s teen comedy: Yep, that’s me, high school senior Skip Whiteman. And that’s the most popular girl in school, Jessica St. Juggs. She’s always ignored nerds like me, but when I replace Rick “Dick” McPooncrusher as starting quarterback, things are gonna change
Parents: good for my 8-year-old
Parents: good for my 8-year-old
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Cowardice: I’m scared of Trump and his voters and need to go-along to get along with my GOP colleagues;
Moral rot: I know the difference between right and wrong, and actively chose wrong.
Moral rot: I know the difference between right and wrong, and actively chose wrong.
July 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Cowardice: I’m scared of Trump and his voters and need to go-along to get along with my GOP colleagues;
Moral rot: I know the difference between right and wrong, and actively chose wrong.
Moral rot: I know the difference between right and wrong, and actively chose wrong.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about Murkowski’s vote. It contains, in one action, so much that defines our pathetic political moment:
Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand;
Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;
Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand;
Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;
July 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about Murkowski’s vote. It contains, in one action, so much that defines our pathetic political moment:
Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand;
Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;
Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand;
Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;
Hey, remember how the Embracer Group went on a big buying spree, only to fuck up the financing and cancel a bunch of projects/close a bunch of studios? Glad to see Microsoft didn’t learn anything from that debacle
www.theverge.com/news/696877/...
www.theverge.com/news/696877/...
Microsoft cancels its Perfect Dark and Everwild Xbox games
Matt Booty announced the cancellations today.
www.theverge.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hey, remember how the Embracer Group went on a big buying spree, only to fuck up the financing and cancel a bunch of projects/close a bunch of studios? Glad to see Microsoft didn’t learn anything from that debacle
www.theverge.com/news/696877/...
www.theverge.com/news/696877/...
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i will vote for whichever politician demands access to the list of people who bought alligator alcatraz merch
July 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
i will vote for whichever politician demands access to the list of people who bought alligator alcatraz merch
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Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.
June 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.
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Diversify your holdings. Make the big play. Cut a pig's throat and let its blood baptize you. Invest in yourself. Promote wellbeing. Feel what it's like to wear someone else's skin. Disappear into the woods. Leave your family. Be willing to cross the line you are afraid even to acknowledge. Hydrate.
josh the cold plunges is just the tip of the iceberg
June 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Diversify your holdings. Make the big play. Cut a pig's throat and let its blood baptize you. Invest in yourself. Promote wellbeing. Feel what it's like to wear someone else's skin. Disappear into the woods. Leave your family. Be willing to cross the line you are afraid even to acknowledge. Hydrate.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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It’s only been in the past few weeks that I realized WhatsApp is a play on “What’s up?” and that’s what it’s like to get diagnosed as autistic at 42
June 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s only been in the past few weeks that I realized WhatsApp is a play on “What’s up?” and that’s what it’s like to get diagnosed as autistic at 42
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I think they should do a Final Destination where it’s ONE PERSON unknowingly almost being killed for 90 minutes, shot in real time, just an unbroken string of Mr. Magooian almost-deaths and then at the end the person dies of a sudden heart attack and Death throws a controller at the TV
June 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I think they should do a Final Destination where it’s ONE PERSON unknowingly almost being killed for 90 minutes, shot in real time, just an unbroken string of Mr. Magooian almost-deaths and then at the end the person dies of a sudden heart attack and Death throws a controller at the TV
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CLARIFICATION :
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
June 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
CLARIFICATION :
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.