Darth Paradox

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

OK, but the reason that it didn't work is because you quit, Senator. You see that, right? It was working, and then all of the sudden it didn't work *because you quit*.

I remember learning the proof for it in calculus. At the time it felt like a hand-wavy trick of the numbers that it happened to work out that way.

It wasn't until I saw a 3Blue1Brown video on the topic that I really understood what was going on. Absolutely gorgeous math. 💖

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

I need those ACA subsidies.

My neighbors need food.

I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.

Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.

Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

rich people do not know any more than the rest of us, except occasionally about the very specific thing that made them rich (and often not even that)

in many ways the process of becoming rich and insulating yourself from ever being told you are wrong means they know significantly less

Rolled up to the Costco checkout with a cart full of boxes arranged barcode-side up so they could all be scanned without being removed. Cashier sounded impressed: "...did you do this on purpose?"

I don't know if "winning at Costco" is normal to want, but it's definitely possible to achieve. 😁

As David Leonhardt calculated, whites have 0.35 Senators per million people, while Blacks have 0.26, Asian-Americans 0.25, and Latinos just 0.19.

The Senate is affirmative action for white people"

I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout

people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

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money could buy my friends with shitty, soul-crushing jobs they're only keeping for the health insurance a year of rest to work on creative projects and take care of their bodies and minds (and cats, and gardens, and families), but it can't buy Elon Musk kids who actually like him

Yeah, it's kind of weirdly templated, and the deal-damage-as-toughness effect is common enough that it's an easy misreading to make!

An actual audit of police overtime, pursued by an honest agency, would end with a staggering number of people in jail

Jaws of Defeat 3B Enchantment Whenever a creature you control enters, target opponent loses life equal to the difference between that creature's power and its toughness.

Dunno what colors you're planning to run, but this looks like an auto-include if it's allowed...

Doesn't Godzilla's ability mean that The Walls of Ba Sing Se dies to 0 damage? What am I missing?

Pre-order receipt for Omens of Chaos.

Ordered from @outsidercomics.com !

One of the first things I did when I met the woman that I eventually married is share that song with her.

Years later, we told JoCo that it was one of our special songs. He thought that was weird. 🤣

Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.

Seven *more* families?
And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT.

How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know?

Fuck all this.

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Are you also someone whose brain snags on aligned spaces in text when reading? It's worst for me when there's a bunch of them stacked vertically but it happens with some diagonal strings of spaces too.

Seattle's mayoral race will end up quite close; that could make 'challenged' ballots that had some issue key to resolving the race.

WA allows voters to "cure" their ballot, i.e. come in and explain or fix issues like forgetting a signature. (Not all states allow this.)

Info from the county:

divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

10/10 take. No notes.

someone call georg

Lemme give you an example of why behaving like an event's covid policy magically doesn't apply to you is dogwater behaviour. Not that people who do this care about the fallout, they got what they wanted.

Regardless, let's begin.

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YouTube video by cheedogg Ikea "Lamp" Commercial - Hi Res

Every single time the "AI has feelings/Treat AI like a person" discussion comes up I turn into the old man yelling about a lamp.