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UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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these people are just perverts for human suffering and every decade or so they hold society hostage with some stupid new complaint
terfs have been reading my article it seems. lovely people, very rational, calm, and polite
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
these people are just perverts for human suffering and every decade or so they hold society hostage with some stupid new complaint
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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DHS's official X account is now copy-pasting anti-immigration posts from Stephen Miller's wife.
You can tell from the capitalization; they just added "POTUS" in front of the 2019 and 2020 bits, but didn't fix the capitalization of the sentence from Miller's post.
You can tell from the capitalization; they just added "POTUS" in front of the 2019 and 2020 bits, but didn't fix the capitalization of the sentence from Miller's post.
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
DHS's official X account is now copy-pasting anti-immigration posts from Stephen Miller's wife.
You can tell from the capitalization; they just added "POTUS" in front of the 2019 and 2020 bits, but didn't fix the capitalization of the sentence from Miller's post.
You can tell from the capitalization; they just added "POTUS" in front of the 2019 and 2020 bits, but didn't fix the capitalization of the sentence from Miller's post.
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it’s a genuine societal catastrophy that gambling apps report on news and can influence their audiences to spend and lose money like this
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
it’s a genuine societal catastrophy that gambling apps report on news and can influence their audiences to spend and lose money like this
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Remembering that the right wing freak out over the supposed NWO was about how you wouldn't own anything and now their stupid tariff policy is punching everyone in the kidneys instead
Big flashing warning sign right here: US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Game Console Sales Crater in Worst November in Two Decades
US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.
www.bloomberg.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Remembering that the right wing freak out over the supposed NWO was about how you wouldn't own anything and now their stupid tariff policy is punching everyone in the kidneys instead
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According to C-SPAN, the occasion for these remarks is "President Trump Hosts Hanukkah Reception"
Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
According to C-SPAN, the occasion for these remarks is "President Trump Hosts Hanukkah Reception"
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Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
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If I was the federal government of the richest country in the history of the world I would be inclined to fund the development of open source incident tracking software that fire departments could use freely but what the hell do I know
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If I was the federal government of the richest country in the history of the world I would be inclined to fund the development of open source incident tracking software that fire departments could use freely but what the hell do I know
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I think it's really cool that we have democratic leadership that is largely silent about this issue. A leadership that believes making a "tsk tsk" press release once every month counts as a form of political opposition while otherwise dropping the issue in its entirety.
An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
December 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I think it's really cool that we have democratic leadership that is largely silent about this issue. A leadership that believes making a "tsk tsk" press release once every month counts as a form of political opposition while otherwise dropping the issue in its entirety.
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when u see a book about a penguin with two dads
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
when u see a book about a penguin with two dads
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Yes. It is also why so many destructive monstrous conspiracy theories that don’t “start” out anti-Semitic quickly end up that way
It’s just a bigotry that is so fundamental and pure in its evil that you will eventually or quickly get there if you choose to live that kind of life
It’s just a bigotry that is so fundamental and pure in its evil that you will eventually or quickly get there if you choose to live that kind of life
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Yes. It is also why so many destructive monstrous conspiracy theories that don’t “start” out anti-Semitic quickly end up that way
It’s just a bigotry that is so fundamental and pure in its evil that you will eventually or quickly get there if you choose to live that kind of life
It’s just a bigotry that is so fundamental and pure in its evil that you will eventually or quickly get there if you choose to live that kind of life
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you cannot be a futurist in any meaningful sense if you are constantly fighting a rearguard battle on gender and sexuality
December 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
you cannot be a futurist in any meaningful sense if you are constantly fighting a rearguard battle on gender and sexuality
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NPR giving Trump’s hand-picked fascist in waiting the epicgirlboss treatment
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
NPR giving Trump’s hand-picked fascist in waiting the epicgirlboss treatment
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I observe that total moral degeneracy tends to have a corrosive effect on a political movement, if it has no genuine standards or principles then it will tend to get devoured by progressively more insane grifters
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I observe that total moral degeneracy tends to have a corrosive effect on a political movement, if it has no genuine standards or principles then it will tend to get devoured by progressively more insane grifters
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my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin makes first in-person court appearance
The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance Thursday as his attorneys pushed to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
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It gets better.
December 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It gets better.
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this joke plagues transphobes because it’s an incredibly cutting take on what the modern transphobic panic is, a hysterical panic based off of a lie that transness is fake and that there is an intentional effort from the right to prop up this wedge to destroy all LGBTQ rights
December 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
this joke plagues transphobes because it’s an incredibly cutting take on what the modern transphobic panic is, a hysterical panic based off of a lie that transness is fake and that there is an intentional effort from the right to prop up this wedge to destroy all LGBTQ rights
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I see you Steve Bannon planning to do a PR piece to improve the image of Epstein needs to be repeated more often and raise you Steve Bannon asking Jeffery Epstein to take down the US Treasury head and Jeffery Epstein saying no needs to be repeated more often
And not even just casually texting but upon being asked by Steve Bannon if Jeffery Epstein can get rid of then-US Treasurer Steve Mnuchin or current chair of the federal reserve Jerome Powell, Epstein replies"no Mnuchin is good" in the most boomer on a Blackberry way possible like what the fuck
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I see you Steve Bannon planning to do a PR piece to improve the image of Epstein needs to be repeated more often and raise you Steve Bannon asking Jeffery Epstein to take down the US Treasury head and Jeffery Epstein saying no needs to be repeated more often