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people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Électricité : un rapport confidentiel d’EDF anticipe une explosion des coûts et des risques « Le Point » s’est procuré le rapport interne d’EDF sur les conséquences de la modulation de son parc nucléaire pour faire place aux renouvelables. Un document explosif, alors que le gouvernement s’ap...

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power.

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If AI is a substitute, it’s the intern who never sleeps. If it’s a complement, it’s the intern who makes you look like a genius. Same software, wildly different workplace vibes. We're going to see each of these very different stories play out in different parts of the labor market.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

1) the multi-year funding provisions in the bill are pegged to FY 2025, this will mean fewer grants supported once again this year; 2) the decimation of advisory councils at the institutes means that the last step in approval of proposals in many cases will grind to a halt;

This Day in Labor History: February 8, 1887. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Act into law, creating a process to split up Indian reservations in order to create individual parcels of land and then sell the remainder off to white settlers. Let's talk ideas of work & the American genocide!

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Mutual Assured Democracy.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle

futurism.com/advanced-tra...

My little devils.
Sissi, the dog, brought Zen the stray cat in and adopted him.
Zen is still unsure about it 2 years later.

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

Ffffing relief. I can now floss. Feels as good as using q-tips in your ears. Even though you’re not supposed to. Pffff.

Same here🦷

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

umichvoterL Maplewood-South Orange Analilia Mejia 39% Tom Malinowski 30% Tahesha Way 17% Brendan Gill 8% Map showing the towns' votes, totaling 8,082. Left side of map is blue for Malinowski; right side is shaded more reddish/pink for Mejia

So this is kinda interesting. This electoral map of my town shows the split between Malinowski and Mejia voters. What it doesn't show you is that the split is quite literally different sides of the tracks. Mejia voters are in the area that borders Newark. Malinowski voters up in the hills.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Its honestly one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Ireland are not playing actively badly and the effort levels are huge, they're just physically not in the game at all and have been incapable of imposing themselves on it. That's exactly what Wales have been like since the 2023 World Cup.

On top of everything else, here is Marimar Martinez's defense attorney explaining how to delete a tweet, after a prosecutor last week said he assumed there was a way to do it but wasn't sure:

big bill shakes is goated. sorry but i will never entertain the argument that he’s overrated. to write something like this and have it ring with such tremendous clarity four centuries later would be incredible if he pulled it off once but he did it dozens of times

This is actually real.

And it's very illustrative of what DOJ has done. The document in question has redaction boxes over the face of every femme-looking person (including the Mona Lisa). It's clearly done using some sort of AI-assisted process.

WEISENTHAL: “.. if #Bitcoin can’t thrive during a period where every rich government and fiat currency is perceived to be under stress, what’s the environment for it?”

@weisenthal.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com

It's interesting to think that had Google not killed RSS Reader, people would have inevitably made tools for it that would have produced a more hospitable, less evil environment for journalism.

GS $IGV The forward P/E multiple for software has declined from 35x in late 2025 to 20x currently, representing the lowest absolute level since 2014