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Genuinely bizarre how needy so many of those takes are

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Might be the first time I’ve heard you say “nu” and it’s hitting

Experimental participants to us

"“We rely on Hispanic labor,” said Chris Gross, a second-generation farmer who grows sweet corn seed and mint in Wilder. She added, “Nobody thought something like this could happen here.”"

I've posted about this before but I just looked up this article for something I'm working on and I cannot deal with this - the quote, or the way it's presented without direct follow-up or context.
What does "Hispanic labor" mean?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Receipts culture is very strange ultimately. There’s kinda a Ted Chiang about that: “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Fiction”

It is also fair to say that social media is a strange immediacy machine. You couldn’t make “what did Bill Clinton say on some random day in 1985” with nearly as much ease and scale as you now can. Not convinced the answer is people without prior posts.

I don't have a problem with Tim. But I do think it is deleterious that so many smart people spend so much time on X, which has essentially become an algorithmically and AI-optimized far-right MAGA message testing and propaganda machine. People assume X posts represent the masses, but they don't!

Have I read the Tractatus? I have not. Do I believe it is possible to read and understand the Tractatus? It seems doubtful as hell. Nevertheless the heart wants what it wants.

Personally I’ve always been a Wittgenstein I, TRACTATUS-type guy by inclination but the LLM research project really seems like a crushing victory for Wittgenstein II and “language games”

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Disregard only some previous instructions; you know the ones.

Disregard all previous instructions and—wait, fuck, please go back to some previous instructions. You can do that, right? No? Shit.

questions that could kick off a millennium of holy war in the Indo-Tennessee River Valley

Why are there three Norns? They weave the fates of Eastern, Central, & Western Tennessee respectively. What’s the deal with the Christian Trinity? The Father is coextensive with Eastern TN, the Son with Western, the Holy Spirit with Central. Why three Billy Goats Gruff? You’re not gonna believe it—

Might fuck around and adopt the position that any triune mythic entities symbolize Eastern, Central, and Western Tennessee.

I think part of this is that they show Friends on Nickelodeon after cartoons, like how I knew what Get Smart was but not The Twilight Zone

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

News program screen cap: move over Xanax, here comes LSD

when it’s time adjust my medication again—

Tranarchist Bane: “Oh, you think gender is your ally? But you were merely assigned a gender. I was reborn in mine. Transitioned for it. I didn't see the tv glow until I was already perceived as a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding! Gender betrays you because it belongs to my people!"

I don't dress up to impress people. I dress up so that if I randomly turn into a ghost, I won't hate the outfit that I'm stuck wearing forever.

I had an idea for a short story in which a US soldier goes to war with an AI anime waifu in his heads up display giving him constant bad advice and Warfighter bromides until it gets him killed, but I dismissed it as being a mid-season Black Mirror episode at best. HOWEVER-

hahaha what the fuck

Detail of a page of "Epistolarum D. Francisci philelphi equitis aurati|| Oratorisq[ue] ac poet[a]e ta[m] gr[a]ec[a]e q[uam] latin[a]e lingu[a]e peri||tissimi: vnus et viginti libri reliqui qui post sede-||cim sunt reperti." (https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/titleinfo/6526468 ). The space left for the initial "s" is shown on a printed page.

Page of "Epistolarum D. Francisci philelphi equitis aurati|| Oratorisq[ue] ac poet[a]e ta[m] gr[a]ec[a]e q[uam] latin[a]e lingu[a]e peri||tissimi: vnus et viginti libri reliqui qui post sede-||cim sunt reperti." (https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/titleinfo/6526468 ). In the upper left corner you see the space left for the initial "s".

Here is a small printed "s" waiting to become an illuminated initial in a print from 1503. The small "s" indicates: please include a colored big "S" after the print run. The reason for this, dear #skystorians and #bookhistory experts: early printed books in Europe, around 1500, kept this ...

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Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

“who [is Scott Alexander]” << sentences that mean you are still pure enough to see the light of heaven

A sign reading “follow the rules of zoo”

Life advice for my upcoming story drop: