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Raptors fans boo the hell out of the Star-Spangled Banner (video via the Toronto Star)

I need to find the comedians on here. All this serious stuff is drowning me.

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

NEW LOOK踊りましたっ☆ #ちぃたん☆ #chiitan #TWICE #ダンス

The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology No, it was not a “Sputnik moment”. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in…

The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik

Hello all cable news: do not broadcast the President of the United States talking about air traffic control. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

You reap what you sow. LLMs are built on scraping large amounts of data from people without their consent and now they are crying when someone else does it to them lmao

We are experiencing an epidemic of sociopathy because we tolerate narcissism and irresponsibility into adulthood that we once wouldn't have tolerated in a four-year-old, and we see every day that self-seeking men devoid of morals and a sense of community obligation achieve dramatic worldly success.

‘We’re watching mass delusion happen’: Trump’s return to White House brings cascade of lies In first week in office, president has made false claims on topics from immigration and economy to Panama canal Donald Trump had been US president again for less than 15 minutes when he made his first factually dubious claim. “The vicious, violent and…

‘We’re watching mass delusion happen’: Trump’s return to White House brings cascade of lies

Hot Mess踊りましたっ☆ #ちぃたん☆ #chiitan #aespa #ダンス

Neil Gaiman, Justin Baldoni, and the End of the Male Feminist This ignominious crew of famous men seemed to align with women against sexist oppression in public as they mistreated women in private.

in my experience the genuine male feminists are just like, nice to women and treat them normally and don’t start podcasts or seek awards for it. performative behavior should always be a red flag.

The Washington post Breaking News Post Exclusive 8 minutes ago Police use facial recognition as it was never intended: As a shortcut to finding and arresting suspects without further evidence Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps, and at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested, a Washington Post investigation found.

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

Table 1 A non-comprehensive list of different (not mutually exclusive) meanings of the word Al, including Al as idea, Al as a type of system, Al as a field of study, and Al as institution(al unit).

The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) means many things to many people (see Table 1). (...) One meaning of ‘AI’ that seems often forgotten these days is one that played a crucial role in the birth of cognitive science as an interdiscipline in the 1970s and ’80s." 2/n

Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll from the war has surpassed 46,000 Gaza's Health Ministry says the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has climbed above 46,000. The ministry updated its toll from the ongoing 15-month conflict on Thursday.

BREAKING: Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)

Patreon comment reading "surprising amount of 9/11 references for a video about oreos"

The reviews are in for the new patron content
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#Clippetts
🎬 Maririn and Aikatsu Academy girls were just fangirling over each other

Full clip👇
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I hate when people are like “don’t worry it’s all in your head” yeah that’s the worst possible place it could be

Uni keeps glancing :3

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The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

People who say ADHD is a myth have never seen us do a rail & immediately put on pajamas.

these 2 from summer jam are my favorite🥹
her soft gentle expression will always be my favorite🩵

it seems we have reached that point in the crypto cycle where huge publications run irresponsible headlines like this one, and the people who see them and buy in get wrecked

SHE ALWAYS LOOK SO SOFT GENTLE AND BEAUTIFUL IN HER 3D😭😭😭😭

IM CRYING SHE IS SO PRECISOUS😭🩵🩵🩵