“Professional liar here. According to my secret calculations, there is a 9.58% chance that AI will kill all humans in the next 10,463 days (80% confidence interval).” Wow cool numbers, can I please suck yoir dick sir!!!

Iran: A deal on Hormuz is very close. Also Iran: We're gonna stretch this out for a while, because we need to torture Trump some more.

We all have that homie whose primary caregivers didnt model healthy relationships

At this point in the story, Ted’s positive attitude and heart-warming antics have taught the audience that it’s important to be yourself, and now we’re building on that by introducing basic geometric shapes,” said Jason Sudeikis

New ‘Ted Lasso’ Season Aims To Teach Viewers About Shapes, Colors

NEW YORK—Claiming that fans would love clapping and dancing along with their favorite characters,Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis confirmed that the show’s fourth season, which begins Wednesday, would te...

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I was today years old when I learned you’re supposed to shake a Diet Coke before opening, because all the cola nutrients settle at the bottom of the can

Like this post if you want to show zuck that you prefer the OLD Facebook!!

Finally it's my moment to shine

Vegetables are poison soda is medicine, gamers stay winning

Woman's nausea turned out to be huge 'Ozempic stomach mass' - Diet Coke CURED it

FOR countless fat jab users, stomach pain, waves of nausea and having a reduced appetite have become part and parcel of the weight-loss journey. Research shows that around a third of patients who t…

the-sun.com

NEW: Workers across industries say that AI-obsessed bosses are creating deeply toxic and chaotic work environments, with some staffers sharing that they feel as though their manager or employer isn't living in reality anymore due to endless AI validation. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.

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1000x this

In the brush beneath a Mission Bay overpass, two coyotes break into song as a Caltrain barrels past. Their duet — equal parts whimper, howl and bark — rises and falls in chorus with the horn of the train.

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Catastrophe can be plausible without being preordained, and treating every danger as destiny does not make us more prepared. My latest.

Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender

“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”

organizingmythoughts.org

Alan Moore on now.

NBA should get rid of injuries imo. They basically add nothing to the game, if you’re a real hoops fan

Evolutionary biologist eating Doritos: “Doritos are so good…they aid in mate selection for sure…”

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

People say “eat the rich” but that’s not a lasting solution to poverty. It would feed the hungry for a few days, tops!

Ok now it’s personal

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

finally got round to reading one of the tabs i've had open for ages, which is @jpbrammer.bsky.social's review of an Irish-Mexican fusion restaurant no notes. excellent as always. possibly the first piece of writing i've discovered that might persuade me to visit new jersey

Everyone Involved Needs to Be Arrested

A review of San Patricios, Jersey City

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

Happy Good Friday

We have changed the trajectory of future warming over the course of my lifetime. The worst-case climate scenarios are no longer likely. That’s not due to modeling uncertainty; it’s because of activism. No one gets to erase that just because they find a perverse comfort in the certainty of defeat.

This blog post by @davekarpf.bsky.social is really worth reading and reflecting upon.

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?

No. No it can't. Come on, now.

davekarpf.beehiiv.com

"You get out your 'Fascism for Dummies' book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used?" #Andor #StarWars

‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release

While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

hollywoodreporter.com

Hegel warriors, suit up. We’ve been preparing for this day and it’s finally here

Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA@jdespland.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Hampshire bill passed yesterday outlaws the dialectical method

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is