my takeaway from AES winning is that he needs to drop anything people liked about him, campaign exactly as if haley stevens won and hate himself and his voters as much as her supporters do - The Politics Whiz
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
xenoblade chronicles owns because the 3rd one has a 90 minute movie in the middle of it
we need a navigator to get us through the planet's core. this gay gungan may be of help
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
Today marks a very special day in science fiction literature. May I present to you, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury:
been really bad at taking my bipolar medication so i drew erenville telling me to take them
oh this is going to be fun lol *US DRAFTING BAN ON CHINA DATA CENTER COMPONENTS: REUTERS
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
the bullies at school keep making me squeeze through narrow gaps so that they can seamlessly integrate cutscenes into gameplay without a loading screen.
i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal
What people using AI crave at root is an end to the uncertainty of human interaction and connection and its replacement with endless hollow affirmation and instant gratification. They should be pitied but never enabled or excused.
(One of the best bits of Tao's talk is where he talks about how research exposition shows friction. You can squint and see AI writing across the room because the paragraphs have balance and uniformity, which indicate mass-produced prose. Real thought is very spiky and arrhythmic.)
discovering that there is a thing called “a government” that we all pay into that provides an array of services that some of us need at different times of our lives
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
I love a deranged setup on /r/homelab where the question is always “why did you make this and what can it achieve?”, and the answer to both is invariably “I don’t know.”
You may be surprised to learn that this is what a soldier will look like in the future. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #warhammer40k #miniaturepainting
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
yeah I believe in a "two state solution" - meaning i would like to see "a solution" to the question of how a quantum system can exist in "two states" at the same damn time !!!!😂😂🤣🤣
someone needs to tell him that even the israelis have started using the "hamas-run health ministry" numbers because they know the real number is hundreds of thousands higher
29 U.S.C. § 157@organizingpower.bsky.social · 3d agoThis guy has 20,000 followers and is using his platform to do Gazan holocaust denialism
(tavern comedian): ya see these formations and it’s like why don’t they make the whole footsoldier out of the shield? (inventor of armor, spitting out mead): fetch my scribe!
when kids today get nostalgic for the early 2000s i’ll sit them down and make them listen to metalcore til their change their minds
dawg this takes like two computers you do not need a data center for this
@migas7.bsky.social · 4d agoInteresting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.