Maia

him: so, what are we? are we a couple?

me: we are charlie kirk we carry the flame we fight for the gospel we honor his name

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates A burning platform

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book proposal: why women have better sex under abundance

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

that's oomf

Eating the Ocean How underwater factory farms are reshaping our food system.

Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming.

Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

There are so many different reasons to believe that LLMs cannot have beliefs, cannot know anything, cannot reason and cannot be a form of intelligence.

asked for a bailout in 2022, asking for another one in 2025, welfare queen detected

tyler cowens we agree

time's person of the year should be either sam altman or the pope. it should not, under any circumstances, be zohran mamdani or "artificial intelligence"

The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.

Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.

So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

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Angels on pinheads was a breeze compared with this.

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housing crisis OVER

There is something to that whole crisis of men after all. No dude who has a job they like and a wife they love spends their time posting weird shit all day.

"the most important thing about housing is land and the most important thing about land is that its supply is fixed" fact check: false

parasite living off the teat of the state. AFUERA!

Maybe the backlash was inevitable. In a way, Pine’s description of the intimacy coordinator—a joyless scold with a clipboard, intervening in sex—represents a distillation of the fear that many people had about MeToo itself: that feminists, with their overzealous effort to end sexual harm, would rob sexuality of its transgression and surprise. But Steinrock insists that that’s not what intimacy coordinators are for. “Intimacy coordination is not about cleansing the process of spontaneity of cleansing the process of any kind of discomfort or any kind of creative exploration,” she says. Rather, the job is about creating an environment in which that exploration can thrive.

www.elle.com/culture/movi...

Do all populist dictator types have stupid dances?

Why Some Stars Are Skipping Intimacy Coordinators—and What It Means for Hollywood Sets The rise of intimacy coordinators on film sets was seen as one of the most tangible wins of the MeToo movement. So why has the tide started to turn?

For Elle, I wrote about intimacy coordinators—a really fascinating and varied group of people—and asked them how they feel about the rapid rise and recent backlash to their profession. They surprised me. www.elle.com/culture/movi...

this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

The Next COP Needs to Confront ‘Overshoot’ The Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is now all but impossible. Limiting — and eventually reversing — the damage will take some thought.

somebody is going to do geoengineering, it's just a matter of time heatmap.news/climate/cop-...

I think this is frankly more embarrassing than what's happening in America. We just got our entire political system hijacked by a single lunatic. The UK has a bunch of ostensibly serious people doing the dumbest shit imaginable.

My taxes bring all the boys to the yard.

And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".

Zizek has a joke in one of his books that only the Leninist party state could complete the final evolution of capitalism without democracy

why just the scouts and not the youth scouts

(Once again) this is a Brexit reflection. ‘Global’ Britain was meant to mitigate losses from Brexit and surpass EU membership. That ‘vision’ was based on trade deals and liberalised ‘fair’ immigration. The latter is now being dismantled and the former relies on no defunct liberal multilateralism.

the key to understanding the editorial board of WaPo now is that it is run by an Anglo transplant

This article does not contain a single piece of evidence for its central premise.