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Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!
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I'm on my knees beggin' pretty please...kill me.
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I'm on my knees beggin' pretty please...kill me.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.
It’s so true. It’s actually horrifying to see the memes and jokes about this.
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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ok this is what a bunch of sesame street characters would look like without their fur
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ok this is what a bunch of sesame street characters would look like without their fur
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A reason voters thought that is that the media — determined to make Biden lose — moved the goalposts on inflation to "prices revert to pre inflation levels" in 2024 when inflation had basically been solved.
A lot of voters seem to have thought that Trump wouldn’t merely slow the rate of inflation, but that he would bring prices down, maybe back to where they were before the COVID spike.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A reason voters thought that is that the media — determined to make Biden lose — moved the goalposts on inflation to "prices revert to pre inflation levels" in 2024 when inflation had basically been solved.
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If you can't drive a manual you're not a leftist
October 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If you can't drive a manual you're not a leftist
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“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
momentummag.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Just read the whole damn thing that goes into the very depressing state of the numbers and the math that isn't mathing, but this is a very succinct representation of a specific type of feneric Executive (Dys)Function:
September 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just read the whole damn thing that goes into the very depressing state of the numbers and the math that isn't mathing, but this is a very succinct representation of a specific type of feneric Executive (Dys)Function:
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i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.
September 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.
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Honestly, working in a restaurant is probably the hardest job I've ever done. Not only on your feet all day, but it's fast-paced and you have a lot to keep track of with very impatient people. So yes, I always tip well.
September 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Honestly, working in a restaurant is probably the hardest job I've ever done. Not only on your feet all day, but it's fast-paced and you have a lot to keep track of with very impatient people. So yes, I always tip well.
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“I lied, put your clothes back on, we’re playing the Bay Area Regional Planner board game”
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“I lied, put your clothes back on, we’re playing the Bay Area Regional Planner board game”
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Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.
August 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
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This is exactly what the bush years were like youtu.be/0smTejZF42c?...
Mac and Dennis explain the Israel problem
YouTube video by Charlie Stoebe
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August 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is exactly what the bush years were like youtu.be/0smTejZF42c?...
I find it frustrating that ‘socialism’ has become a black box of things that code as BAD. When the boogeyman BAD parts are separated from the black box by the right people no one cares. You can only do a ‘socialism’ if you’re a democrat, and almost everything democrats do can be branded socialism.
August 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I find it frustrating that ‘socialism’ has become a black box of things that code as BAD. When the boogeyman BAD parts are separated from the black box by the right people no one cares. You can only do a ‘socialism’ if you’re a democrat, and almost everything democrats do can be branded socialism.
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As always, if your business model is "there is only room for profit if we wildly underpay our staff" then you do not have a business model. If people won't pay airfares that will cover real wages, shrink or get government subsidies as the service you are. Why should FAs carry this "public good"?
A majority of Canadians side with flight attendants and believe they should be paid for all hours worked and receive better wages, although they do not want airfares increased.
angusreid.org/air-canada-s...
angusreid.org/air-canada-s...
Flight risk: Canadians side with flight attendants in ‘ground pay’ dispute with Air Canada - Angus Reid Institute
Cost concerns linger; only one-in-six would pay five per cent or more on airfare to fund pay increase August 15, 2025 – As hundreds of thousands of Air Canada ticket holders navigate alternative trave...
angusreid.org
August 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As always, if your business model is "there is only room for profit if we wildly underpay our staff" then you do not have a business model. If people won't pay airfares that will cover real wages, shrink or get government subsidies as the service you are. Why should FAs carry this "public good"?
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"edit: never mind, i figured it out"
July 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"edit: never mind, i figured it out"
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Several people do work around this, heres my small haunted contribution from 2018 (so its pre-GPT, but my more recent work looks at similar claims like "LLM theisms" and "spiritual artificial consciousnesses") bvlsingler.com/2018/04/17/a...
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Several people do work around this, heres my small haunted contribution from 2018 (so its pre-GPT, but my more recent work looks at similar claims like "LLM theisms" and "spiritual artificial consciousnesses") bvlsingler.com/2018/04/17/a...
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This is the first time I’ve seen these kind of “you don’t know what you don’t know” issues in coding to a degree that I’ve seen them in law, and it’s the same structural issue — when you get down to it, you have to be the kind of expert that the AI promises to replace to be able to use it safely
July 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is the first time I’ve seen these kind of “you don’t know what you don’t know” issues in coding to a degree that I’ve seen them in law, and it’s the same structural issue — when you get down to it, you have to be the kind of expert that the AI promises to replace to be able to use it safely
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“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”