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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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Sometimes I’ll replay a game and think “I’ll do an evil playthrough, that’ll be new and fun” and then I’ll do one evil thing and be like no…it’s wrong to do that to these pixels.
August 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Sometimes I’ll replay a game and think “I’ll do an evil playthrough, that’ll be new and fun” and then I’ll do one evil thing and be like no…it’s wrong to do that to these pixels.
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hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day
Look at me. I’m the originalist, now.
www.theverge.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
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People raised the issue repeatedly since 2019 but up until midway through last year the official line, echoed by a billion libs, was that 1. it's ageist and ableist to mention it and 2. he's actually perfectly fine and you're just imagining things. It was a very stupid time.
January 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
People raised the issue repeatedly since 2019 but up until midway through last year the official line, echoed by a billion libs, was that 1. it's ageist and ableist to mention it and 2. he's actually perfectly fine and you're just imagining things. It was a very stupid time.
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America voluntarily turned into a near fascist state within a decade. That's how quickly it happened. The pain will last for years.
January 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
America voluntarily turned into a near fascist state within a decade. That's how quickly it happened. The pain will last for years.
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It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact.
December 9, 2024 at 4:58 AM
It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact.
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i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win!
January 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win!
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AGI is going to prove a limited standard to think about because we will have Jagged AGI - superhuman at some tasks, weaker at others. Just because o3 is as good as the 175th best competitive coder on Earth (out of 600,000) doesn’t mean that it is as good as them at every task they do (for now)
December 20, 2024 at 7:05 PM
AGI is going to prove a limited standard to think about because we will have Jagged AGI - superhuman at some tasks, weaker at others. Just because o3 is as good as the 175th best competitive coder on Earth (out of 600,000) doesn’t mean that it is as good as them at every task they do (for now)
Winnie missed me and slept on my clothes while I was at the gym
December 13, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Winnie missed me and slept on my clothes while I was at the gym
Oh no…
Two degrees from the UHC shooter
Two degrees from the UHC shooter
December 9, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Oh no…
Two degrees from the UHC shooter
Two degrees from the UHC shooter
It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact.
December 9, 2024 at 4:58 AM
It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact.
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Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.
the lesson of the election isn’t “we should give up on trans rights,” it’s that the GOP took an issue that negatively impacted almost no one and made it a headliner. why would it help to surrender on an issue if they can create a grievance from thin air?
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.
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so much of the pronoun bullshit is just people being angry at being asked to treat others with a basic level of respect
you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed
you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed
February 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
so much of the pronoun bullshit is just people being angry at being asked to treat others with a basic level of respect
you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed
you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed
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One of the really annoying things about AI discourse is that it all revolves around an advanced, sci-fi conception of it that doesn’t currently and may never exist. It’d be like if we were all debating the ethics of transmogrification and we just had the cardboard box from Calvin and Hobbes.
November 26, 2023 at 1:39 AM
One of the really annoying things about AI discourse is that it all revolves around an advanced, sci-fi conception of it that doesn’t currently and may never exist. It’d be like if we were all debating the ethics of transmogrification and we just had the cardboard box from Calvin and Hobbes.
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Imagine your neighbor yelled, “Jews will not replace us!” and your mailman replied, “You have said the actual truth!” You would think to yourself, “My mailman is an antisemite.” Why are we holding the richest man in the world to a lower standard than your mailman?
The cowardice of Jonathan Greenblatt
On the ADL's influential CEO, and the intentional confusion regarding who really has power.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 20, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Imagine your neighbor yelled, “Jews will not replace us!” and your mailman replied, “You have said the actual truth!” You would think to yourself, “My mailman is an antisemite.” Why are we holding the richest man in the world to a lower standard than your mailman?
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I am begging you (and Will) to see beyond formal academic notions, however enlightened, to appreciate that poor people's lives are not improving appreciably, and they suffer in ways that are dismissed or unimportant to policy, and it's not crazy to talk about that.
November 24, 2023 at 4:05 PM
I am begging you (and Will) to see beyond formal academic notions, however enlightened, to appreciate that poor people's lives are not improving appreciably, and they suffer in ways that are dismissed or unimportant to policy, and it's not crazy to talk about that.
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When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
November 18, 2023 at 11:00 PM
When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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In the last four weeks no one has made me (an American Jew) feel unsafe, no one has talked about wanting me dead, no one has tried to dehumanize me, no one has sent me violent messages, no one has tried to threaten my livelihood and my family — except for American pro-Israel Jews
November 12, 2023 at 1:59 AM
In the last four weeks no one has made me (an American Jew) feel unsafe, no one has talked about wanting me dead, no one has tried to dehumanize me, no one has sent me violent messages, no one has tried to threaten my livelihood and my family — except for American pro-Israel Jews
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FINALLY A DISPATCH FROM REALITY
"harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today."
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/o...
"harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today."
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/o...
Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like.
Harping on people to get married from up in the ivory tower fails to engage with reality of life in the dating trenches.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2023 at 3:52 AM
FINALLY A DISPATCH FROM REALITY
"harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today."
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/o...
"harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today."
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/o...
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U.S. birthrates are at all-time lows.
So why aren’t there more only children? In our search for answers, we found clues to a bigger mystery: Why aren’t millennials having kids?
So why aren’t there more only children? In our search for answers, we found clues to a bigger mystery: Why aren’t millennials having kids?
Analysis | Millennials aren’t having kids. Here are the reasons why.
U.S. birthrates are at all-time lows. So why aren’t there more only children? In our search for answers, we found clues to a bigger mystery: Why aren’t millennials having kids?
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2023 at 5:47 PM
U.S. birthrates are at all-time lows.
So why aren’t there more only children? In our search for answers, we found clues to a bigger mystery: Why aren’t millennials having kids?
So why aren’t there more only children? In our search for answers, we found clues to a bigger mystery: Why aren’t millennials having kids?
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This is horrifying.
Framing Jews who are against a war and occupation as “pro-Hamas” is a sickening distortion that is being used to cut them away from the Jewish people.
Ironically, this sort of attack is a version of Jewish antisemitism. It needs to be roundly rejected.
Framing Jews who are against a war and occupation as “pro-Hamas” is a sickening distortion that is being used to cut them away from the Jewish people.
Ironically, this sort of attack is a version of Jewish antisemitism. It needs to be roundly rejected.
Editor's Notes: No longer part of us
While they may still technically be Jewish due to their parentage or conversion, while they may lead superficially Jewish lives, we can no longer consider them part of Klal Yisrael.
www.jpost.com
November 3, 2023 at 7:55 PM
This is horrifying.
Framing Jews who are against a war and occupation as “pro-Hamas” is a sickening distortion that is being used to cut them away from the Jewish people.
Ironically, this sort of attack is a version of Jewish antisemitism. It needs to be roundly rejected.
Framing Jews who are against a war and occupation as “pro-Hamas” is a sickening distortion that is being used to cut them away from the Jewish people.
Ironically, this sort of attack is a version of Jewish antisemitism. It needs to be roundly rejected.
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November 4, 2023 at 1:59 AM
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I wrote about American Jewish fear.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
American Jews Are Scared. We Also Have to Be More Than That.
I have experienced antisemitism. But right now, we can’t be defined by our fears.
slate.com
November 1, 2023 at 6:34 PM
I wrote about American Jewish fear.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...