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It's not a "meme" to point out that many European countries have pre-filled/streamlined tax filing processes even if there are exceptions like Germany?

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

Tankies and centrists are capable of thinking the same thing.

inflation?

personally I'm glad we got rid of woke, it was the only way we could protect Enlightenment values

What is good work by Askell I should read?

I swear to god I will give a lecture FOR FREE to any "AI" lab or company working on interprability or alignment with the title "doing psychology well is extremely hard and requires expertise which you do not have: a primer"

buttmogged these zoomers girl was ahead of her time 😔

that's real, but I still worry we're going to have a 10% set of revanchist defenders in the D caucus, and I'd bet they're counting on the Senate much more than the house because of the veto power there + greater stability across time (eg they won't have enough in 2027/29 house the way things look)

I think your take still holds! I don't think Malinowski would fall in the most moderate 10% unless my perceptions are wildly off

Jeffrey Epstein circle’s ‘big ideas’ were vacuous guff Emails show that despite hooking up the rich, the powerful and intellectuals, the philosophising was utterly banal

One lesson of the Epstein emails is the total intellectual vacuousness of the international business elite

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Once you notice society's base reluctance to refer to women as "geniuses" with the same frequency they do as men, no matter how talented or influential she may be, it's a thing you never really stop noticing.

This is on Musk and he should be held accountable.

No, they're responding to regulatory pressures from the UK and Australia (and expected ones from the US with KOSA). That is why the timing is now.

What do you imagine "more moderation" to look like that isn't basically what they are doing (in a way that aligns with the new laws)?

If it's about CSAM like you said, Discord absolutely still has to moderate for CSAM and they do so in text and media.

Along with age-verification, Discord is adding an *additional* moderation layer where they label channels, text, and media as adult, sensitive, etc. They aren't reducing moderation

Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ Rights bodies say new law and proscription of direct action group create risk of censorship of Gaza-related content

...pressure that has, in both countries, been followed by targeting pro-Palestine speech in particular (e.g. theguardian.com/world/2025/a...).

In the US, even some liberals (e.g. Clinton) supported the TikTok sale bc of pro-Palestine speech.

I don't think it's delusional to see a connection there.

Despite the savvy pretense, this doesn't make any sense.

How does age-verification address concerns about allowing CSAM? What is the "algorithmic golden goose" for Discord, an app that is dominated by time-ordered text chat?

Discord's move started as a response to regulatory pressure in UK/AUS...

I think it's emblematic of a more general problem where centrists are somehow not responsible for low-info voters on their segment of the political scale while leftists are supposedly responsible for theirs

It's wild to me that "they wanted a pony" discourse is about the left's concern about genocide and not moderates swinging towards Trump because of magical thinking about inflation and the economy. Like, the latter was actually make-or-break for the presidential in swing states.

This thinking drove half this website to support the forced sale of TikTok (to Ellison lol) and it's still wrong now. Why are you people more mad at Gen Z than X??

Libs doing victory laps about crypto crashing is going to a significant reason it's bottomed out already. People with money are just going to be negatively polarized into buying it.

Not saying this is good or bad, but the bottom has bottomed at this point

It was fun shorting BTC while it lasted, but Bluesky is talking about it now, so it can't possibly be a profitable position anymore. Sad.

thanks for the tip!! I'm constantly throwing out a half bunch of wilted cilatro

Don't you know, 53>47? It's a rebuttal to any ask you can make of any D!

LLM and humans do not lie on a particularly useful single axis is the best counterargument, imo, and it's weird that the biggest LLM critics have chosen to argue on these grounds

Do you know how they deconfound age effects? (cancer survivors skew young, so years after survival you're selecting for an artificially young—and thus crime-tending—cohort)

APIs in code have the same characteristic, so it might be interesting to ask if LLMs make similar directions of mistakes in code

That's how stories work! It seems like a very fair reasoning task that is sub-SAT level, no?

The shock jock was Kaitlin Bennett if that helps!

I think mediation through massive amounts of observed human behavior is more than sufficient to explain this, no? (I don't buy this slightly as convincing "analogue" but even if I did)