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This essay is way better when you replace every “intelligence” with “bananas.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark...
Mark Zuckerberg Lays Out New AI Vision in 6,500-Word Essay
The Meta CEO has a new game plan for winning over hearts and minds to his company’s artificial-intelligence efforts.
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Those Mitch McConnell pics look like he’s MORE healthy than before he went AWOL.
Don’t even need to read the article to know this study is flawed. 1 out of 4 is way too low.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoNearly a quarter of U.S. workers are staying in their current job for fear of losing health insurance, an eight-percentage-point increase from 2021, according to a new report from Gallup. Read more here: https://wapo.st/4yyGjnz
Technically, I’m FirstGen; spiritually, I’ve always been LastGen.
AI put a tailpipe on thinking. Using it to produce crummy thoughts is not unlike rolling coal on a Prius.
One thing AI can't do: experience the world through my sensorium sinykin.substack.com/p/to-make-th...
To Make the Stone Stony
I want to see again
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Have we *ever* considered the possibility that the baby shoes were never worn because there’s literally no point in putting shoes on a baby; it’s not like she’s going to walk anywhere.
I’m sorry to report that the apocalypse is going to look very cool for a little while before it fully kicks in. Not up close obviously. You wouldn’t want that.
Not only is America great because you can eat in your car but also because you can cry in there on short lunch breaks
Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare For 120 million people novaramedia.com/2026/04/10/m...
Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare
Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum.
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can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
Pope Leo: "Every boat that arrives does not bring only migrants; it brings with it a question: what world have we built, if so many brothers must risk death to seek life?"
W. Benjamin is actually quite funny. “Teaching Aid: Principles of the Weighty Tome, or How to Write Fat Books,” from One-Way Street.
The university library where I work has a coffee shop inside called “Prufrock's,” which probably is the location where once was shelved a book by T.S, Eliot.
I’m so old that I remember when we used to be able to turn on the TV to watch a yearly sporting event without having to triangulate apps and subscriptions and satellites and planetary alignments…
This rules. Absolutely the funniest possible outcome. The president of the United States filling in as the headliner of a concert because Milli Vanilli canceled.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, DONALD J. TRUMP”
"Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about." — Ludwig Wittgenstein
On the one hand, the Pope presents a series of carefully structured and persuasive arguments, but on the other hand billionaires keep saying introspection is a scam and that we need to get on a rocket to the future without asking any questions, so it's really difficult to decide which side to choose
"Our first task is neither to demonize nor idolize technological tools, but to utilize them on the basis of a fundamental principle, namely that truth is a common good and not the property of those with power or influence. We must therefore promote an ecology of communication."
"Communication 'is not only the transmission of information, but… the creation of a culture.' [What] circulates within digital environments shapes how people perceive the world and introduces into the collective consciousness images and narratives that direct our desires and influence our… choices."
Leo directly appeals to AI developers, making an analogy to ethics and art: "Technological innovation can represent human participation in the divine act of creation. Developers, therefore, bear a particular ethical and spiritual responsibility, for every design choice reflects a vision of humanity"
