Viva Vestal Vespa

Oh I just clicked on the link shared here and it seems Japan actually does century-long mortgages 😱
What does that underwriting look like?!?!

I vaguely remember someone expressing shock to me that Japan had 40 year mortgages? I'd have to do more research but I wonder if that kind of thing is more common in places that are built around multi-generational housing arrangements.

a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch

My last word on the matter

My encounters with AI generated by students have been exclusively on writing assignments & the mainstream moral panic has been about the college essay.

I encourage you to ask a science or social science colleague about the graphs, charts, & diagrams they've been receiving. 😳🫣🤢

"They put too much gay/femme stuff in Star Wars" dude Greedo did not shoot first in their practical Naturalizers for you to be this ignorant.

the more time that passes, the more obvious it gets that Joe Biden was the wrong person to succeed Donald Trump, and we are suffering the consequences of that.

I just want one person to ask them, in public, what they think would happen if they actively represented the values of the majority of people who voted for them instead of... Whatever this is.

This Veterans Day, please remember that the US military is the largest carbon emitter in the world by a large margin. The Pentagon pollutes more than many entire countries whilst veterans sleep on the street.

This is where you really see the complicity. And then you cannot unsee it. They're not there for us.

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Who did they sell it TO, though

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

Looks like the secret Olson triplet escaped her restraints and is running loose again

Possibly the luckiest man alive in 1998: "I wish the real world would just stop hassling me."

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

again find it bizarre that national dem leaders avoid the topic of ICE even on here but have time to congratulate an unpopular former speaker on their retirement from insider trading at 85

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Altman claims OpenAI will make $1.66bn in revenue a month by the end of the year. If that's the case, why do they need so much funding? Where did the $4.1 billion go? And why is there seemingly no concern elsewhere about it? That's a lot of money!

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I was putting up flyers for my rental today around the medical campus in Aurora and decided to see if there was anyplace to post at the VA. And um, the VA is easily the most depressing and frightening place I've ever been. You're greeted by giant pics of Trump and Vance, & it's downhill from there.

Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible.

There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a multimillion dollar data center that collapses truth and drains the rivers today

I was at a conference all day where most speakers were still pushing the "AI is here to stay" propaganda and it felt just as much like a castle built on sand as when I was at a social media conference in 2021. It's amazing how we keep finding ourselves in this position.

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thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

I'm SCREAMING this is the funniest thing he's ever done

what a metaphor

you couldn't script this

this should be causing riots in the streets, tbqh

Stop sharing AI slop.

It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays.

But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

I was at a local bar once years ago and a man was chatting with me and said he worked in blockchain. He asked if I knew what that meant and I simply said "Yes" and walked away. I did not know, I didn't want to know, and to this day I've escaped ever finding out.

"Centrists" need to call Mamdani a "radical leftist" so they can say Trump/Farage fascism is just the opposing side of an equally matched "both sides" conflict

But Mamdani is just a middle of the road, European social democrat

And "centrists" - ie centre-right and right - are simply pro-fascism.

We all have to stop worrying about legacy media and create/fund new sources. It’s not 1998 anymore, the emperor has no clothes.