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One minute, you're just living your life, and the next, you're mimicking bird calls. Here’s how it happens.
Your Slow and Sad Descent Into Bird-Watching
You suddenly find that you’re able to distinguish the pa-chip-chip-chip of an American goldfinch. Before you know it, you’re mimicking bird calls.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
September 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
One minute, you're just living your life, and the next, you're mimicking bird calls. Here’s how it happens.
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To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show
July 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show
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No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
May 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
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Guess I’m niche-posting for Caves of Qud / Shelved by Genre now
June 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Guess I’m niche-posting for Caves of Qud / Shelved by Genre now
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Just bums me out when people advocate for the Plagiarism Machine That Lies. Announcing to the world that you like abdicating your brain to the world's shittiest machine. Have an ounce of self-respect
April 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Just bums me out when people advocate for the Plagiarism Machine That Lies. Announcing to the world that you like abdicating your brain to the world's shittiest machine. Have an ounce of self-respect
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do you ever think about how the human body is topologically a sphere, but if you're picking your nose or sucking your thumb or seeing how many of your own fingers you can fit in your butt, you're topologically a torus
April 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
do you ever think about how the human body is topologically a sphere, but if you're picking your nose or sucking your thumb or seeing how many of your own fingers you can fit in your butt, you're topologically a torus
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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
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"I maintain mechs"
"Cool, what's that look like?"
"Cool, what's that look like?"
April 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"I maintain mechs"
"Cool, what's that look like?"
"Cool, what's that look like?"
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"we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features & recognize it as a political artifact through & through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority & autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power"
i finally read this & it's 🔥🔥🔥
i finally read this & it's 🔥🔥🔥
April 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features & recognize it as a political artifact through & through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority & autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power"
i finally read this & it's 🔥🔥🔥
i finally read this & it's 🔥🔥🔥
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I'M JUST SAYING IF CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS KNEW ABOUT POTATOES THERE'D BE A LOT MORE OMNIVOROUS ANIMALS
March 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'M JUST SAYING IF CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS KNEW ABOUT POTATOES THERE'D BE A LOT MORE OMNIVOROUS ANIMALS
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President Trump the HBO Max series Scavengers Reign was cancelled due to wokeness. Please do a pitch for Scavengers Reign season 2 in front of the White House
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
President Trump the HBO Max series Scavengers Reign was cancelled due to wokeness. Please do a pitch for Scavengers Reign season 2 in front of the White House
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Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
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terrible news about his holiness, but a big congratulations to mrs johnson
February 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
terrible news about his holiness, but a big congratulations to mrs johnson
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Art.
The video is a bit confusing but the rear car has modified his vehicle to project the anti elon, anti cybertruck images onto every cybertruck he sees
February 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Art.
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The Chinese have developed their own open-source Hawk Tuah meme coin and the rug pull only uses one-tenth of the computing power and scams 15x the number of horny victims.
January 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Chinese have developed their own open-source Hawk Tuah meme coin and the rug pull only uses one-tenth of the computing power and scams 15x the number of horny victims.
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Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
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When the nephew of Kyng Arthour left Camelot on hys quest to seeke the Green Knighte, the entyre Round Table threw hym a Gawain away partye.
December 27, 2024 at 11:39 PM
When the nephew of Kyng Arthour left Camelot on hys quest to seeke the Green Knighte, the entyre Round Table threw hym a Gawain away partye.
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Just FYI Caves of Qud is the hot "new" thing, but is it for you?
December 26, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Just FYI Caves of Qud is the hot "new" thing, but is it for you?
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December 15, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Ok so I'm playing Caves Of Qud and I got in really good with the church, so I say to the pope "hey pope, wanna join my adventuring party?" and the pope's like "hell yeah" so now I've got a psychic bear, an unstable goatman with a mysterious past and a big fuckoff axe, and the pope.
December 10, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Ok so I'm playing Caves Of Qud and I got in really good with the church, so I say to the pope "hey pope, wanna join my adventuring party?" and the pope's like "hell yeah" so now I've got a psychic bear, an unstable goatman with a mysterious past and a big fuckoff axe, and the pope.
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yall ready for caves of qud 1.0?
December 2, 2024 at 12:40 AM
yall ready for caves of qud 1.0?