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pucci fan by birth, genshin addict by accident, familial disappointment by choice. he/him
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my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Hey quick question why do I pay federal taxes
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I am dead serious, OpenAI should be held criminally and financially liable for the fire
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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For those curious this is a negative 5900% gross margin
There's one person who pays them $250 a month who cost Augment $15,000. Amazing stuff. Can only imagine how bad things are for Cursor or Replit
www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment...
October 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Kiss my ass! Substance free? I have arguably the most detailed analysis of the AI bubble out there. Maybe you just don’t like to live in reality?
October 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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ok but hear me out, I think a Disco Elysium where he had big honkers might actually be interesting
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Happy Birthday, Ororon!

"Guess I'll need to eat a few more Tatacos before I can make a proper Tataco."
"No way, bro!"

#GenshinImpact #Ororon
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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yeah this is child abuse sorry
Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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i will die on the hill that this goes beyond a generational divide. the meat of a 23-minute video can be written down and read in a fraction of the time.

if you're trying to make a point to me a send me a link to a yt video, expecting me to devote HALF AN HOUR to it, you are a psychopath.
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me
It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.
September 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword

[the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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it gives us no pleasure etc etc
As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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‪@clpolk.com‬ A decade or two ago there used to be a cynical joke that the best way to get VC funding in silicon valley was to move away from home for the first time, figure out all the things your mom used to do for you that you don't know how to do, then pitch it as a service via the internet.
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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There’s a difference between corporations capitulating out of fear and corporations welcoming rising fascism as an opportunity to do whatever in the hell they actually want to do without fear of repercussions.
September 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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hey hollywood. this is scary. i know. but there are a few nontraditional groups who have been able to cut through the fear and create sustainable models to produce amazing work:

dropout tv. nebula. tubi. online fandoms: starkid, smosh, critical role. Broadway HD. this is just naming a few.
September 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍

www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
September 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Ezra out here speed running the Paradox of Tolerance
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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It's not that posts like this are wrong, exactly. But this isn't some special form of fascism, it's just what fascism is. Fascism is always stupid and petty and cowardly and pathetic. There isn't another version
They can’t win fairly with policy or eloquence or fairness or intelligence so they’ll just silence everyone who disagrees with them. It’s fascism but in its most cowardly and pathetic form.
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM