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remember when henry blodget admitting to sexually harassing his AI colleague that he created

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

NEWSLETTER: The best way to understand how society will value GenAI is to look at polyester's rise and fall: from a high-tech miracle fiber to a one-word symbol for tastelessness culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 393 comments

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

submitted 7 hours ago • 443 comments

these guys are all fantasists at a level that would stagger an average psychiatrist and they're just given credence when they should be pantsed from the flagpole outside the fire department and ignored

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

no, sorry, still a joke. manhattan and brooklyn heights chattering class stop embracing weird little freaks as “interesting” challenge (impossible difficulty)

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

"When people are so broadly disempowered and downwardly mobile, they’re extremely open to any narrative that promises that prosperity is going to flow to them any day now.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Again, I have done the thing. New toon: the presser and the coverage. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

1. The FPV drone tech Ukraine used here has been around for a while, though it was used very ingeniously. 2. The Ukrainian attack using these drones relied upon what sounds like over a year of extraordinarily precise logistics, planning, and training. This is not something just anyone could do.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

"I am not afraid of death, but I am increasingly worried that these maniacs are going to kill us all."

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Okay, so the four #Mountainhead bros… Venis is clearly Elon Musk. Randall is Thiel. Souper feels like a Jason Calcanis-type. Who do we think Jeff is modeled on?

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Agree—and was also interested in the way it’s staged almost like a play, “Art” but for terrible 2025 tech bros instead of pretentious 1990s art people. Makes ya miss them

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Mountainhead is sooooo goooooooood.

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Rather unfortunate news from Janet Frame

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Murphy v. NCAA and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

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Putting the "Christ" back in "Christ, what an asshole"

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

I think if you grabbed any famous thinker from centuries ago and showed them Wikipedia and told them it was free for anyone to access, they would say it is humanity's crowning achievement and would be indifferent to the moon landings, modern medicine, flight, or anything else you showed them

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

starting a business called the Pretty Good Corral next to the OK Corral

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I had a hunch what was coming and I still gasped.

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

Just cracked how to write the final chapter of my book. It’s gonna be so good, y’all…

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Sometimes I write a joke that I love very much but it just falls flat. In those moments, I get a glimpse of how God must feel about me.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I’m teaching myself economics right now and this is what I want to see more analysis of

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 3 days ago • 246 comments

i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen

submitted 3 days ago • 199 comments

Trying to figure out whether, when all is said and done, Musk will be responsible for more deaths than COVID.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Whenever I see "AI ethics concerns" it's always crap like "should Claude have a social security number?!" and not "should OpenAI all be in jail for marketing ChatGPT like it's your friend and designing it to prioritize continuous engagement above all else?"

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

my dad: people today are too sensitive me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

it gives me no pleasure to award this W

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Reading an old New Yorker profile of then-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold... It simply cannot be stressed enough how comically big the money in Silicon Valley has gotten. Microsoft, tech BEHEMOTH of the 90s, was valued at $9 billion in 1996. Microsoft today has a $3.4 Trillion market cap.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Political Philosophy starter pack updated to include all recent & upcoming interviews @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com @kjephd.bsky.social @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @davekarpf.bsky.social & @profyolonda.bsky.social etc go.bsky.app/6BBahr1

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death - @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This is such a good example of "turn every page" journalism - nothing less fun/glam than clicking through every footnote. And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments