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Is he laughing at his own article? Or the fact that he posted it here? Or...?
Cropped screencap of Nate Silver's post, with a link to his article and the comment "LOL"
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Yeah but concrete production is also pretty bad for the environment, particularly in terms of CO₂ emissions. Isn't that why mass timber is becoming more popular?
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I'm glad it's still in use
File usage on other wikis The following other wikis use this file: Usage on en.wikipedia.org Virginia opossum
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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...I didn't misspell "new", I was unlocking a knew frontier on orthography.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Annoying to see this from SNL.

I *like* the silly Photoshops The Onion uses. They don't need to be elaborate to sell the joke. It's not like AI is unlocking some knew frontier in humor.
Biden Has Guy Named Worm Sit In For Him At Cabinet Meeting Biden Chokes Up While Describing Hardworking Americans Who Can Only Afford Shitty Ditch Weed Secret Service Shuts Down Biden’s Unofficial White House Tour Operation Biden Loses Control Of Butterfly Knife During Commencement Speech
December 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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This is so good. She's so regal!
December 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Remarkable self-regard, here.
I first met Olivia Nuzzi when she interviewed me at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. She was very late to our event and, when she finally arrived, the effect was as though she had parachuted in, a C.I.A. agent. Little apology, but utter professionalism. She wore black and I wore red and I think people liked hearing us talk to one another. That tends to happen when you have two women on a stage who are generally fearless, until the world reminds us why we shouldn’t be.
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Well you would understand if you were as fearless and professional as the great Lisa Taddeo, God's own gift to journalism.
I first met Olivia Nuzzi when she interviewed me at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. She was very late to our event and, when she finally arrived, the effect was as though she had parachuted in, a C.I.A. agent. Little apology, but utter professionalism. She wore black and I wore red and I think people liked hearing us talk to one another. That tends to happen when you have two women on a stage who are generally fearless, until the world reminds us why we shouldn’t be.
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Opinions on John Oliver?
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Yeah but it also says it "may be as effective as other recommended therapies" which in quacksville is the same as "definitely proven as fact".
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I've idly contemplated a floating path connecting the Sellwood Bridge to Lake Oswego so we can finally have a safe bike connection in that area.
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Consider:
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Apropos of nothing, here's the Kunstsilo ("art silo") Museum in Norway:

www.designboom.com/architecture...
Picture of the Kunstsilo Museum in Norway, constructed in an old grain silo. Interior of the Kunstsilo Museum.
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Well that's why its spelled differently, duh.
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Remember that dad who was confused why his daughter didn't like playing with the AI-powered talking doll he got her?
Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne Subscribe On the topic of our kids having Al friends (long) I got my 6yo Daughter an Al toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isn't like other toys, that this one has Al in it (she of course knows what Al is, seen the things I've built and interacted with them, chatted with chatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing Al" etc') So a very interesting experiment happened after@_magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround! thank you!) So…..she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and then... learned to turn it off, and doesn't want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top hat that we made together, but every time I ask her if she'd like to chat with it, she says no. The few times I turned it back on, and she did speak with it, she chatted for a bit, and then just... turned it off again, not wanting to engage at all. I gently asked why, and wasn't able to really understand where's the resistance, it's not weird to her. In fact, at one point she was pretending the dino was a baby, and it was turned on, so I told her, let's ask it to.. pretend to be a baby, and it obliged and said ok. So we asked it to cry. Granted @magicaltoys don't yet have the amazing advanced voice mode like openAl in there, so it did it's best but it sounded weird, which made her laugh really hard. it was basically making crying sounds like talking. And also, there are some technical issues still, the voice is sometimes choppy, so it could be that it's still uncanny for her? I'm honestly fascinated about why the Al aspect of this toy didn't connect with my 6yo (and btw, I have a very curious 4yo boy, who could give O fucks about this toy also, he's very observant, and usually wants everything his sister has, wanted O time with Dino) Is this uncanny valley? a couple of times she didn't want to talk to it, and came to me to whisper to ask me to turn it off (the same happened a couple of times with chatGPT Santa mode btw now thinking about it) Is this just now knowing what to say? 🤔 It could be the simple fact that she was playing with some other things, and the toy kept wanting to engage and take the attention to itself vs the game that she was playing. I know that I have a sample size of 1 kid here, and I'm sure many many things will change, as she'll grow and learn to interact with more Als in different forms, but the first "toy" contact was interestingly almost a complete failure (from the Al perspective, the Toy experience as I said, was dope) Anyway, this area is def unexplored, will keep you guys posted how this goes and if she shows interest or picks it up again.
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Wonder if trolleybuses are better. Dunno how much of the discomfort and noise comes down to ICE propulsion.
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Can we make a bus that is as pleasant to ride as the streetcar, though? Or at least not actively unpleasant as a regular bus (uncomfortable ride and noise).
November 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Choosing to believe this is a troll post. The only supporting evidence I have is the username which isn't definitive but I will cling to that for dear life.
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Ladd's Multiplication.
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Apropos of nothing, here's the Kunstsilo ("art silo") Museum in Norway:

www.designboom.com/architecture...
Picture of the Kunstsilo Museum in Norway, constructed in an old grain silo. Interior of the Kunstsilo Museum.
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Played any good horror games recently?
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This is beautiful.
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Some chodes like Pet*r C*ffin tried to make a whole stink about how Hbomb and Todd had bullied JS into suicide and were responsible for his "death".
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Anyone get a screenshot of the OP?
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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When you care very much about the environment...
yes this is an ai munipulated image. It was rendered using my own graphics card because some of you are too dense to just Listen to words and need images to look at or else you get bored
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM