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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

To recap:
Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company.
Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance!
Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

The Oatmeal just published a new article about naked mole-rats, and apparently there are a lot of incredible things I didn't know about naked mole-rats. Extremely worth the read. theoatmeal.com/comics/naked...

YouTube video by NowThis Impact Show Every Hidden Page

"Trump appears more in the Epstein files than Harry Potter's name in the seven books about Harry Potter" youtube.com/shorts/yfpWE...

So unexpectedly interesting

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Frick’s Ham diagram showing an entire ham overlaid on a man’s stomach

this is what peak data visualization looks like

- KH

YouTube video by Dead Space Your Mom Hates Dead Space 2

Dead Space got the moms of the developers to play their game and recorded their reactions. The campaign was called "your mom hates this game" youtu.be/nKkPFDEiC6Q?...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

YouTube video by The Daily Show Ronny Chieng’s Response to Jesse Watters’s Anti-Asian Racism | The Daily Show

"when I got out of the car some random guy ran to me and asked, hey, are you here to talk about that ass from Fox News the other day?" -- man, this is old but good youtu.be/rlht9VxMR2s?...

It’s the screaming lady–smiling eating cat meme but in Japanese woodblock style

We’re visiting a high-school friend of my wife and LOOK AT THIS PAINTING HER DAUGHTER DID

, thanks!

- "What a year, uh?"
- "Captain, it's not Jan 15th yet"

¡Última llamada! 🚨 El Call for Papers de #CommitConf cierra el 11 de enero. Si estabas dudando, este es el empujón que faltaba. 👉🏻 koliseo.com/commit/2026/...

I truly can't tell if it's parody, a real recording, or the output of a poorly tuned ML model

"note that only half the head is above the water line" also rings true

This, arguably more than anything else so far in his tumultuous second presidency, epitomises the cavalier and self-interested nature of the US under Trump. Critics of the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq liked to argue, somewhat inaccurately, that it was “all about oil”. This intervention, though, really does seem to be a lot about oil; Venezuela has the largest reserves in the world. At the start of the second year of Trump’s second term, his message is clear: his US does not just feel unbound by the niceties of the post-1945 ideas of international rules and law, it will intervene all but at will in its own hemisphere — and possibly elsewhere too. The blatant violation of sovereignty of a major South American state sends a bleak signal to the rest of the world. It will reinforce the conviction around the world and increasingly among US allies that America is not just a hypocrite, but Trump is willing to lead by example in presiding over a world where might is right. There was no attempt to gain congressional approval for action nor even to go through the motions of seeking backing at the UN, however doomed such an attempt would have been.  Authoritarians will be heartened by Trump’s behaviour. It may be simplistic to argue, as have some critics of the US leader, that this will embolden China over Taiwan. But there is no question that it will, for example, make it even harder for the west to rally support in the global south against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As for Venezuela itself, few will mourn the end of Maduro’s rule, but sadly Trump seems to have little interest in what happens there next.

FT captures what is almost certainly the common global attitude (among our democratic allies at least) toward trump giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

YouTube video by SportsNation This looks so fun 👀😂 (via Vkadre_kz/IG)

youtube.com/shorts/Dg5zH... the best use of free will that you will ever see

Legendary graft, orders of magnitude beyond anything seen in this country before

Midnight Mass. It's a vampire story with an unexpectedly deep subtext about religion, not just Christianity but all religions.

Some parts are required for weapon upgrades. Frequently, those are destroyed when the machine is killed.

Bellowbacks are an example. Easy to kill if you make their sacs explode, but if you want the upgrade parts, you need to be selective about where you hit. Much harder.

Get the app, it's truly great. You can rotate models, zoom in and out, and go back and forth by steps.

I got super hyped when they said "avoid the giant guy at all costs" then ran into one and tried for the sake of it and it's tough, but can be done 👍

A damp, dark brown Labrador, holds a sign in its mouth that says "no dogs please". The image is labelled "BECOME UNGOVERNABLE".

Lying diagonally across the bed, like