Tripping the Light Fantastick
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"Com, and trip it as it falls
O, the light fantastick balls"
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Cyborg. Doctorate in either a social science or the humanities, depending on who you ask.
O, the light fantastick balls"
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Cyborg. Doctorate in either a social science or the humanities, depending on who you ask.
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"humans can do this" "LLMs can't do that" some of you have never meditated upon "neti, neti" to attain jñāna and it shows
Relative who gleefully bragged during the first impeachment that Trump was now eligible for a third term suddenly just wants everyone to get along
My most republican, most maga relatives have either reverted to not talking politics or openly praying the lord takes them all up to heaven soon, depending on which flavor they are, which is how you know morale is low
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Relative who gleefully bragged during the first impeachment that Trump was now eligible for a third term suddenly just wants everyone to get along
Also she didn’t get the golden ticket reference. At all.
lmao, they just gave this kid a ticket to go see the Rockettes and she just went "Oh, I did that yesterday...."
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Also she didn’t get the golden ticket reference. At all.
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my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
My dissertation turns 10 next month and I've been dipping in to see if there's anything in there worth pulling out and working with, and each chapter is effectively about a different emotional struggle that would be familiar today.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
trump sent those national guardsmen to their deaths.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
trump sent those national guardsmen to their deaths.
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You cannot rationally govern an electorate guided by hallucinations
Yep. If voters aren't making choices based in actual reality then democracy cannot function
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
You cannot rationally govern an electorate guided by hallucinations
she doesn't, of course; it's just the most convenient way to launder your preferred opinion into the mainstream
I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
she doesn't, of course; it's just the most convenient way to launder your preferred opinion into the mainstream
All my homies hate Ken Burns and his terrible documentaries
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrFQDoGD/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrFQDoGD/
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
All my homies hate Ken Burns and his terrible documentaries
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrFQDoGD/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrFQDoGD/
I fucking hate Ken Burns documentaries and I thought more of us were on the same page with me
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I fucking hate Ken Burns documentaries and I thought more of us were on the same page with me
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another paper that's just "turns out Platonism is empirically true about truth, beauty, and goodness"
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
another paper that's just "turns out Platonism is empirically true about truth, beauty, and goodness"
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Hey bud this post was about you
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Hey bud this post was about you
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Can we get directions to the ones that are still in need of defacement
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Can we get directions to the ones that are still in need of defacement
once upon a time i was one of the best everquest players in the world
Name a videogame you've played for 1250+ hours.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
once upon a time i was one of the best everquest players in the world
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now
Groceries is very accurate
Trump on Mamdani: "We had some interesting conversation and some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have. But a big thing on cost. The new word is 'affordability.' Another word is just 'groceries.' It's sort of an old fashioned word but it's very accurate."
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Groceries is very accurate
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We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
The median dipshit voter actually did vote for “economy good” just like they told you, and they were willing to believe that it would get a little worse at first but that there was a Plan
When it turns out the Plan is just to keep making it worse, they are going to be mad
When it turns out the Plan is just to keep making it worse, they are going to be mad
In an R+40 district (yes) in December i overheard a conversation i will never forget, where both interlocutors made clear that they did not care if the economy got worse because Just Let Him Do His Thing
There is no amount of moderating your message that will counter Just Let Him Do His Thing
There is no amount of moderating your message that will counter Just Let Him Do His Thing
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The median dipshit voter actually did vote for “economy good” just like they told you, and they were willing to believe that it would get a little worse at first but that there was a Plan
When it turns out the Plan is just to keep making it worse, they are going to be mad
When it turns out the Plan is just to keep making it worse, they are going to be mad
"Oh that's weird, Bluetooth isn't working today for some reason"
That's because Harald Bluetooth is angry
That's because Harald Bluetooth is angry
one of my firm beliefs is that printers, projectors and bluetooth are all haunted
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Oh that's weird, Bluetooth isn't working today for some reason"
That's because Harald Bluetooth is angry
That's because Harald Bluetooth is angry
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Also, a truly hilarious amount of their empirics are based on racial and ethnic self report data, which has obvious and known biases that tend to reinforce racist narratives
the thing which gives the game away on scientific racism is that if we discovered an island where everyone was gravely intellectually disabled and some guy said, "great, let's make them our slaves," we would beat him to death with hammers but if you say that about actual people it's taken seriously
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Also, a truly hilarious amount of their empirics are based on racial and ethnic self report data, which has obvious and known biases that tend to reinforce racist narratives
Please say sike
Wait. Did some of you think the problem with pizzagate was that, in actual fact, there was no such thing as a child sex trafficking ring for the rich and powerful
And not that there was a magic secret operation running in code out of a pizza parlor
And not that there was a magic secret operation running in code out of a pizza parlor
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Please say sike
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My students have a paper on the history of American environmentalism due today, and every single one of them has a more sophisticated understanding of that term than this person, who I'm told is a prominent intellectual.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My students have a paper on the history of American environmentalism due today, and every single one of them has a more sophisticated understanding of that term than this person, who I'm told is a prominent intellectual.