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i'm going to be the first influencer working the gen alpha youtube slop nostalgia angle. remember how great it was when mom gave you ipad and you could watch baby spiderman boom boom sponchbob roller coaster? things will never be as good as 2018 again

Regenerating supersoldier project kinda a bust. The guy can’t die but it turns out being blown up still really hurts and PTSD gets like, crazy bad after a while. Therapy costs ate up budget for whole project. He’s trying to drink himself to death, but, y’know…

Imaging choosing between the entirety of NSF and Uber, and choosing Uber

YouTube video by JetCrow PULSAR (1990)

PULSAR (1990)
youtu.be/7T1llQSMj-o

Here's the end result of Dems not putting up a common front. Voting "yes" to lies doesn't appease Republicans, it only legitimizes them.

Rs certainly wouldn't start legitimizing a hobby horse of the left out of a misguided sense of civility. Even if you wouldn't vote no, at least vote present!

How could a no vote *possibly* be construed as ammunition?

a) No one will remember this in a month
b) Charlie Kirk is underwater in approval! All this could do is further legitimize Kirk when exactly the opposite is necessary

Dems should start asking/considering "what would Republicans do"

"View of the World from 9th Avenue" by Saul Steinberg

Even better is his thinly-disguised Obama race-hustler character

Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."

as Stephen says you have to think about batteries, the grid etc, it's not quite that simple. but beyond obvious that China is going to be absolutely swimming in dirt cheap electricity within 5-10 years

NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going.

Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations.

Plus almost all of social media.

The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.

these people want so desperately to be cool. they want culture to be about them and they are endlessly, screamingly mad when it isn't.

Towards the actual question, this essay has a wonderful description of the process of mathematical discovery: worrydream.com/refs/Lockhar...

Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...

Right, at the end of the day Miller has erotic fantasies about throwing libs out of helicopters and Vance thinks he's Sulla. The state repression is either all talk, or it isn't, and then posting doesn't matter. Panic is preemptive compliance. These scum have earned your contempt, not your fear.

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source.

You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?

My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

Yes. What Kirk did is a simulacrum of discussion & debate, constructed without any of the good faith that might give it meaning or impact. It was a show -- humiliating liberals &, by invoking liberal values like "civil discourse" -- fooling them into playing along with it.

But if you allow an on-campus protest you are also anti free speech

Er, wasn’t that Cortés? During his genocidal campaign of conquest?

View across tallgrass prairie on a bluff looking out over farmland and patches of forest. There are reddish gold grasses and a variety of other prairie plants visible.

Blazingstar blooming with prairie plants in the background.

The beautiful Muralt Bluff Prairie, Green County, Wisconsin, this afternoon.

marshmallows

my wife: (shouting down to the basement) hey

me: (shouting up the stairs) yeah what’s up

my wife: (still shouting) did you forget to create one hundred thousand jobs last month ??

me: (no longer shouting) oh shit oh fuck

This is like concluding advertising doesn't work on people because of a survey which asks 100 people "are you susceptible to advertising"

Not the most insane thing, but stuck out to me: "Biden was extremely weak and trying to run him again was a catastrophe" is *not* something you can test in polling! You can't separate a candidate from the campaign they ran, or the environment they ran it in!

It's also like, whatever annoying groups you'll interact with here can also be found on Twitter, plus a thousand strains of far more annoying far right groups.

nah this just isn't true. the base models do fine with this (in fact, they do better because you don't have to context switch at the end of the response). it's because the people RLHF'ing the models have no taste and want to create the most bland corporate product possible

improve your technical skills and you can discover new, exciting ways in which to be mad at the computer, ways to be furious at the machine that laymen couldn't even comprehend.