www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/m... this is just Very Expensive Keto but i am sharing with the half dozen of you who see my posts a great secret of the universe: try daily fiber powder and dial it in to what your gut needs and your poops will all be effortless and clean

I Tried the Trump Cabinet’s Steak and Sauerkraut Diet. It Was (Mostly) Fantastic.

Steak, fermented foods — and that’s about it.

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The main thing I think is that the two really big things in your budget are salary and rent/mortgage, and you need to stop thinking of those as immovable blockers while micro-managing the rest of your budget, but spend a lot more time deliberately thinking how to improve the state of those

Vimes theory is a midwit trap

it's the arsenal of democracy, not the arsenal of competitive authoritarianism. of course you're going to get a skill debuff if you change play styles

Jim Teeth@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · yesterday

Six months of war against Iran and the US has depleted its missile stocks? I was told the US was planning for a possible war against China. Did they really think a war against China would be less costly than Trump’s war on Iran?

i know this is Missing The Point but there would be exactly zero discussion about the city-owned grocery thing if Mamdanis pitch instead was 'we will give away the same $ in free food out of a truck daily'

Is it your first time dining with us?? We do things a little different around here! In this restaurant we eat with our butts and poop with our mouths

for niche tech problems, half the time the AIs generate a wild goose chase. but the other half they spit out a mostly correct answer for a problem i am confident fewer than a thousand people have ever cared about. the fraction of mostly correct answers has improved over time

fellow Arkansas traveler@drew870mitchell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

google c. 2007-2009 > "chatgpt find me this exactly" >>>>>>> google c. 2026. the fall off will be studied

I checked the numbers and some of the forums I was active on have about 15-25% of the activity they did five years ago. I think a real negative impact of LLMs is that they've usurped a lot of the internet activity that was previously communal.

the correct take that launched a thousand awful replies

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

(wikipedia) "Fauci...served as the director of the NIAID from 1984 to 2022" that is a megahuge enormous career tenure for a director level of anything anywhere. is this guy the LeBron of government science administrators?

the g earth AI thing is stultus but convincingly doctoring overhead imagery has already been in the toolbox of motivated lone wolfs for a bit, to say nothing of teams and state actors. people must be skeptical and source check all images period. cat's been out of the bag

Our age of bronze is flourishing

This isn't about anything that happened to me but i'm always taken aback at the sadism that can be directed towards early career folks. Like, 90% of the suck in low level jobs is for structural reasons. But 10% because we don't protect them from psychos stalling out at low level management.

Odyssey pretty good 7/10. Odysseus turning directly to the camera and spelling out the point of the movie was a little funny. But they didn't fumble it and old writing is full of that kind of thing anyway.

Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.

Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

Yes. It's sold as a back-to-basics nostalgic vision of What Made Our Country Great when the truth is that the constant demands for someone else's money to pay for a lifestyle of farmer cosplay is actually a symptom of late Empire decadence bsky.app/profile/bigf...

BigFarts420@bigfarts420.bsky.social · 3w ago

The entire modern “rural” way of life is a creation of automobile age government subsidies. Prior to the automobile people couldn’t afford to live on unproductive 1+ acre lots in the middle of nowhere! Rural communities were tightly clustered around the local economic driver and usually a rail line.

other topic du jour: people as far west as Texas already live on NYC time whether they admit it or not. 4 is too many time zones for this era. qz.com/357823/ameri...

America needs to have just two time zones and the world should follow suit

This Sunday the United States (except Hawaii, Arizona, and parts of Alaska), Canada (except Saskatchewan and small pockets in other territories), and parts of Mexico will start Daylight Saving Time ag...

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idc i will keep eating the frozen bags of spinach until the end of time

“The condition disproportionately affects Black men, some 60% of whom may experience it, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology.”

Shower Cat@shower-cat.bsky.social · 3w ago

This will definitely be the key to victory over the Islamic Republic of Iran.

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

@jfruh.bsky.social hope you're preparing for the big 20

caring about victims of sexual assault is a feminine-coded concern, and there are some left wing men who seem like they'd prefer being called a misogynist by a woman on the left than a betacuck soy boy by a man on the right

there is a problem in policy analysis i'm going to try to dub the "half-assed apocalypse" issue. which is that people make apocalyptic pronouncements about something but fail to behave in any way consistent with the implications. the "AI will take all the jobs" thing is a good example.....

financial times won't even load on my browser (endless cloudflare refresh loop hell) but fortunately the mysterious paywall bypasser archive site works just fine 👍

OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.

they spent $400m to build the one plane i think sucks but it'd be a rare attention to detail if these are fake/hollow for weight reasons. of course potus could spring for bespoke hollow books instead of the stuff realtors use for house staging

Hari Kunzru@harikunzru.bsky.social · last mo.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

love George Carlin but "it's a big club and you ain't in it" has done immense psychic damage to basically everybody

still looking for gems on iQIYI. the free episodes of "Echoes of a Thousand Moons" are A+, subs are great, camera work is great

fellow Arkansas traveler@drew870mitchell.bsky.social · 2y ago

the other night we started a PRC one but the dub/subs were all over the place