Matt Peck
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A good little monkey, and always very curious.
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It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
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This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.
2025, So Far
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...
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September 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.
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I’m not sure I would’ve gone with the metaphor of “You don’t trust your crazy neighbor so you show him where all your weapons are hidden and how to get to them”
Bessent: "Alaska was a show of force by President Trump ... it was kinda like inviting your uncontrollable neighbor to your house and showing them your gun case."
August 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I’m not sure I would’ve gone with the metaphor of “You don’t trust your crazy neighbor so you show him where all your weapons are hidden and how to get to them”
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Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
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Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States
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June 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
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Saltie Johnson
Vermont, Franklin, St. Albans, Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954
Vermont, Franklin, St. Albans, Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954
May 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Saltie Johnson
Vermont, Franklin, St. Albans, Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954
Vermont, Franklin, St. Albans, Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954
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gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question
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unlike this smoothie recommended by the new surgeon general nominee, we’re cooked
May 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
unlike this smoothie recommended by the new surgeon general nominee, we’re cooked
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God, how viscerally satisfying would it be to open the door from the inside while she's posing for this photo
May 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
God, how viscerally satisfying would it be to open the door from the inside while she's posing for this photo
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Every time the question of COVID school closures comes up I am forced to remind the world that 21,000 people were dying of COVID a week in January of 2022 and that the FDA didn't approve the vaccine for kids 5-11 until October 29th, 2021.
April 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Every time the question of COVID school closures comes up I am forced to remind the world that 21,000 people were dying of COVID a week in January of 2022 and that the FDA didn't approve the vaccine for kids 5-11 until October 29th, 2021.
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Patel works for a President that the Supreme Court decided it should grant immunity to, and who routinely doles out pardons for his political supporters. There is now a whole class of people in America who assume the law is irrelevant to them, and it does not include the judge who was arrested.
April 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Patel works for a President that the Supreme Court decided it should grant immunity to, and who routinely doles out pardons for his political supporters. There is now a whole class of people in America who assume the law is irrelevant to them, and it does not include the judge who was arrested.
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People will be like “How could the Holocaust happen?” and then say “We shouldn’t defend due process because it hasn’t passed 70% in polling.”
April 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
People will be like “How could the Holocaust happen?” and then say “We shouldn’t defend due process because it hasn’t passed 70% in polling.”
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Is it possible that when RFK jr is talking about autistic people he’s actually thinking of cats
April 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Is it possible that when RFK jr is talking about autistic people he’s actually thinking of cats
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🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD
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If you're just an ordinary citizen, how are you supposed to react to continuous news demonstrating that the rule of law is dead?
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
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March 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you're just an ordinary citizen, how are you supposed to react to continuous news demonstrating that the rule of law is dead?
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”―Flannery O'Connor (born March 25th, 1925)
March 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”―Flannery O'Connor (born March 25th, 1925)
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The staggering Atlantic report about the administration’s sloppy preparation for military action is hands-down the most obvious demonstration that the right’s rhetoric about Clinton’s server was bullshit.
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Opinion | The final nail in the ‘but her emails’ coffin
The Trump administration’s Signal scandal puts the rhetoric about Clinton’s security lapses in perspective.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The staggering Atlantic report about the administration’s sloppy preparation for military action is hands-down the most obvious demonstration that the right’s rhetoric about Clinton’s server was bullshit.
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