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the Eliezer Yudkowsky superhero origin story is truly so intensely dorky as to defy all attempts at parody. you could not waterboard any of this out of me web.archive.org/web/20010309...
is china also afraid of a godlike ai killing us all or is it just the harry potter fanfic sex cult silicon valley guys
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".
explaining to cam skattebo that he won’t be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
You know who else returned after a long absence where everyone believed him to be dead
even if all the scariest stuff turns out to be true it won't make it less funny that the computer people used the computer to invent computer Calvinism
Best part of this episode is the interview with Jasper Nathaniel. He reports on the ground from the West Bank. He’s a Jewish American who supports Palestinian rights. He asks a lot of hard questions for American policy makers and American Jews (starts minute 52:06) youtu.be/7x53nC2n6ms?...
Republicans REJECT Trump's Invitation To Convention
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i grew up going back and forth between la and boston and a decade in dc so of course i match most with…hawaii and maine
Every day I wake up feeling like I’ve been taken hostage
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.Vance: I'm trying to focus on doing as much of God's work as possible. And if that leads to the end times, okay
jk rowling naming her yacht Samsara is like a setup to a cosmic punchline
they need to show kids Marge vs the Monorail as part of a sixth grade curriculum
SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · last mo.this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept
I'll tell you one thing they don't do in red states, ever, even once, is go "how will this play in Massachusetts?"
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last mo.Not sure what it was deleted but was about this
please try to imagine that the world is larger, more interesting, and infinitely more important than the mental horizon of an American op-ed page
they’re also going to be the first cohort to be “concerned” about the national debt again when it’s convenient
PortiaMcGonagal@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · last mo.Yep! "I’ve heard more than enough from you." I'll also add, from those who jump in with "Don't criticize them...they're our 'allies' now," then dictate how Dems should move. 1/ www.alternet.org/famous-never...
Natalie Harp quoting Pride and Prejudice to a dude who used to fast-forward through Bloodsport to all the times dudes got kicked in the balls
Greetings to you and all praise to Ishentumpt son of Uttur, possessor of sky and conqueror of salt, whose grace blesses all the sun touches, and in whose name we have been repeatedly sending you many tablets inquiring as to the state of the warranty on your ox-cart
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2mo agoi love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
the “dobby’s grave” landmark is just a small dead guy who died on the beach a few days ago. he’s not even buried, someone just saw him and said “that’s dobby” and everyone started piling harry potter merch on him. a sad end for lindsey graham
Over on X, Dennis Prager is having the same sort of “Fuck around with conspiracy-obsessed ultra-nationalist populism as a Jew, and find out where that eventually leads” moment that Ben Shapiro has been having for a while now. Not defending Prager’s argument, just noting the viral antisemitism.
Islamophobia. It’s fine to do for some reason. You won’t get in any trouble at all.
CNN@cnn.com · 2mo agoTwenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc
if they want us to care they should probably find more sympathetic characters like Uncle Pennybags or Richie Rich
JVG 骨@jasonv.bsky.social · 2mo agoWho? Me??
150 mgs is absurd, at that point you're just taking psychosis inducing gummy bears
David Earl Williams III@dewforpolitics.bsky.social · 2mo agoSen. Bernie Moreno said Rep. Max Miller refused to return his granddaughter’s favorite blue bunny. Reports also show that photos of a syringe and 150mg weed gummies were found in Miller’s bedroom.
