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Don’t blame yourself for the comment section getting nuked. They had ongoing issues with prejudicial and explicitly threatening comments, which they seemed to stop moderating.

Their official Discord is staffed with unpaid volunteer mods, so they pointed people to it instead

“Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine”

Did they happen to mention how they determined that the data came from the Internet Archive and not directly from the scrapers themselves?

Ford floats use of notwithstanding clause in Toronto bike lanes case ‘Let’s see what happens at the Court of Appeal,’ Premier Doug Ford told reporters

New: Doug Ford is leaving open the possibility of invoking the notwithstanding clause to remove three Toronto bike lanes.

“Let's see what happens at the Court of Appeal, and then we'll go from there."

#onpoli #topoli

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Always funny they gotta card you when you’re like 35 in the off chance you’re an incredibly busted teen

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back

Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-

Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*

Millennials: no wait

The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*

American physician Dr. Saeed Rehman, speaking from Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, described treating victims of today’s aid massacre. He pleaded with the Western world to wake up:

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology

Newsletter: An OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries on men it describes as “subhuman”, and promoting misogynist ideas sourced from online incel forums.

“Without surgery, you won’t mog genetically superior guys head-on,” it tells one man.

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Hey everyone! Help me grow a following here so I can stop using Elon's app. He doesn't deserve my videos on his site. Well...he does, but it always feels bad having to be there because I have no connections here.

This article is the longest piece I’ve published on Bjango’s site, and it took a couple of years of research. I purchased around 25 pieces of music gear. I emailed Imogen Heap, and to my surprise, someone from her team got back to me and confirmed the exact harmonizer used on Hide and Seek.

A photo of Daft Punk in a field on a sunny day.

The vocal effects of Daft Punk. bjango.com/articles/daf...

What?! 108-Gigapixel Scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Several years ago, digital microscope technology company Hirox collaborated with The Mauritshuis museum to create a 10-gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Recently, Hirox upped the game

This is bonkers: a 108-gigapixel scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Each pixel is 1.3 microns in size (1000 microns = 1mm). At full zoom, the tiny cracks in the paint look like canyons. [kottke.org]

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.

"Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion."

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities

Got to help write the new Not Just Bikes video, take a look!

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It’s so good. You often hear about Wal-Marts killing smaller businesses but I had never considered what a net negative they are for municipalities in terms of their costs relative to tax revenue.

Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you:

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Imalowda speak bera fine tumang

Are these “views” still calculated by hours watched divided by total hours available?

What do Cybertrucks have in common with their owners?

Empty beds

Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.

This is crazy interesting: Super Nintendos are getting *faster* as the hardware ages. We spoke to the person who discovered this and has been collecting more data. They even put a SNES in the freezer to test a hypothesis

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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained "I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

If Trump Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil, Freedom of Speech Is Dead It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student.

It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student. interc.pt/3Dvhxgk

YouTube video by CBC News Is Trump right about the U.S. 'subsidizing' Canada? | About That

IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.

Phoenix for Bluesky A Bluesky client based on the award-winning Twitter app for iOS.

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Thank you so much for doing these updates here, instead of just you-know-where.

The Snacks & Cereals of 2024 Welcome to 2025. The vibes are a little heavy, so, I’m trying very hard to focus on the things I can control — and yes, that includes remembering to share things that delight me like the late…

⭐️ It's been a while since I've shared any #new snacks or cereals — but don't worry, I haven't stopped noticing them. Here's a bumper blog post with all the new products I found in 2024!

I hope you enjoy looking at all of this weird stuff as much as I do! (You don't, but.) cabel.com/2025/01/27/t...

Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.

A 404 Media reader made a much clearer, better formatted PDF version of the declassified, World War II-era government guide to "Simple Sabotage" and resisting fascism and asked that I share it widely so here it is:

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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.

The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...