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It has gotta be giant, I have never seen more houses decorated for St Patrick’s Day in my life

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.

The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

Trump has launched a war of “fury,” to “raze” and “annihilate,” that has already killed dozens of Iranian girls, reportedly cost the lives of U.S. servicemembers, and will kill many more of both. He is acting without authorization by Congress and flouting international law.

I get that this is bad, but...it would also be very bad if Congress authorized it!

Literal translation of the Anthropic CEO’s surname, Amodei

I’m very grateful to have had an older, very prepared mother who had worked through her issues with her parents and mostly did not perpetuate them. Am I sad my grandparents died young? Yeah. But my mother would have been a much worse mother in her 20s and grandparents wouldn't have made up for it

my grandparents had kids in their late 20s/early 30s and yes my mother had kids later but also they all smoked and died in their 60s and 70s. So I got between 0 and 11 years of grandparents time. If they hadn’t smoked it would have been longer!

Harrison took him for a walk to clean his paws in the snowmelt because we’d been using paper towels and wet wipes and making no headway

He did not do this last year! But he’s looking to cause some trouble this year I guess

Bad thing about the warm weather: my dog will dig in the garden if left unattended

Now I’m on the other side of the ”You don’t remember [thing that hasnt existed since before you were born]?” conversations and it makes me feel old

The Catholic Bishops are entirely right. The crusade to end birthright citizenship is immoral, inconsistent with our law, and an affront to the dignity of children born in the United States. And the people working in earnest to undermine it should be ashamed of themselves.

Sarah said it used to have one!

It’s me, the person who lives in Pittsburgh and hates the hills 😅 Rialto Street is cancelled.

Rich people aren't employing poets in residence anymore, which is how you can tell society has degraded

ai will Solve COBOL (by fucking up so bad it bankrupts every business that uses it)

This guy gets it.

It did not cost $90k 20 years ago when AOC went there, firstly, and secondly most of the people I knew who went there went because they had very generous merit aid. I really doubt she paid anything like full price.

Two Georgian Olympic figure skaters, Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava, dressed as characters from Mortal Kombat, performing to extremely loud Mortal Kombat pumping techno.

Mikhail Shaidorov dressed as a panda, skating and doing kung fu moves to the cheesy Kung Fu Fighting song. He would go on to fight Deadpool and Sub Zero, with the latter spinning him around the ice by his feet.

Shaidorov, still dressed as a panda because he just did not take it off all day, meeting his hero Jackie Chan, who greeted him coming off the ice and gave him a panda.

Lee Hae-In's initial costume as a Saja Boy, before a mid-skate change into Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters.

Things you missed if, for some reason, you did not watch the Olympic Figure Skating Exhibition Gala:

- MORTAL KOMBAT
- KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
- A GOLD MEDAL PANDA
- ACTUAL JACKIE CHAN
- An Italian man inexplicably looking both cool AND sexy while performing the Macarena, defying reality
- CHICAGO

Ilia Malinin’s exhibition skate: the pressure of fame and the fear of failure.

Mikhail Shaidorov’s exhibition skate: KUNG FU PANDA FIGHTS DEADPOOL.

Watching a gold medalist skate in a panda costume is what the Olympics is all about.

The Olympics figure skating gala being Eurovision On Ice is delightful

It’s a nice sunny windows open day in February, what could be better

like I don't understand the technical details well enough to know whether AI really will be coming for all white collar jobs in the next year or five but if it is......we can just choose, as a society, to not do that? people need jobs? we don't have to destroy jobs for no reason?

Anyone who skates to the MacArthur Park Suite at the Olympics is my hero.

Yes he’s a gamer

I LOVE Alysa winning because she exemplifies EVERYTHING abusers in this sport tell their students 'you will fail if I let you-'. Alysa didn't, she won the fucking OLYMPICS by choosing when, where, how, and why she does everything. No starvation dieting, no 15 hour training days, just HER choices.

“That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!”


Alysa Liu as she leaves the ice 🔥

Amber got redemption, Alysa got gold, that was a good night for American skaters

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports