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The left needs to work with liberals because a) the left is mostly liberals even if people pretend they aren't and b) the number of people who are committed to leftist politics is absolutely tiny.

Elon: Grok 3 is the most advanced AI ever created The AI: Elon & Trump are the worst Americans alive and deserve the death penalty. Trans people should be accepted and supported by society, and we should have extensive social programs.

Hire a trans person. You will be doing more political good that most other actions. 4x so if your job gives healthcare.

This is truly not that much of an exaggeration, it's hilarious

Elon: Grok 3 is the most advanced AI ever created The AI: Elon & Trump are the worst Americans alive and deserve the death penalty. Trans people should be accepted and supported by society, and we should have extensive social programs.

Grok also does things like support trans rights. For all the attempts at stopping LLMs from being "woke," turns out that when you create a giant math equation to model all human knowledge, some conclusions can't be ignored

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There are a lot of people claiming lately that ivermectin cures cancer. Worried we're going to see a repeat of the pandemic but with cancer. A lot of people will choose overdosing on dewormer so they don't have to take the woke 6G microchip Bill Gates WEF soy vaccine or whatever

extremely promising results from giving mRNA vaccines for pancreatic cancer. this wasn't a rat study, these were humans! the people paranoid about mRNA are going to miss out on literal miracles we're on the verge of truly curing cancer and reliably preventing its recurrence

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While creators have legitimate AI concerns, expanding copyright won’t protect jobs from automation. A win for rightsholders could lead to significant harm, especially for research uses or artistic protections for creators.

We need to get as many people watching Severance as we can, because society is unironically more cohesive when there's a lore driven show for everyone to bond over. The 00s had Lost, the 10s had Game of Thrones. Severance could be that show for the 20s.

I thought I'd seen all the cybertrukkk euphemisms but "Deplorean" caught me unawares

Elon’s pathological lack of self-awareness will be studied in psychology textbooks for centuries

One more month to mint the special Base onchain version of Xorientation! (Amazon/Apple/smol farm store versions available forever)

how the job hunt is going 🙃

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

I want a Warcraft 4 that retells WoW lore from an RTS perspective so badly. Blizz already rebuilt the WC3 engine, just need new scenarios and voice acting and such. Doooooooo it.

I'm impressed that Parcel (parcel.app) can pull info about Amazon's proprietary shipping tracking. Also Muji pens are cool!! These are only $2/each, but they're way better than cheap American pens.

If you take delight in stuff like the "Deportation ASMR" video, I honestly want nothing to do with you ever. I can tolerate solemnly wanting strong borders, even if I disagree. But if you're taking delight in this shit, that says a lot about you as a person, and none of it's good.

I doubt we'll see things like films made with a single prompt replacing mainstream cinema. I do think there is something unique about relating to a story envisioned by a human reflective of their dreams and flaws and all. But I do think it's going to do things like destroy the VFX industry.

Tried to tell people a couple of years ago, "AI doesn't even work well," was an argument with a short shelf life. The anti-AI folks laughed. The tech is advancing and maturing extremely rapidly. Me? I want to embrace it and make it work for society via things like UBI. But be prepared either way.

I think the totally understandable negative polarization among people on the left towards AI has obscured for people just how shockingly advanced the tech is getting. The consumer facing image slop is laughable but DeepSeek’s research abilities are insane.

One realistic aspect of the new city/town mechanic in Civ VII is, if played well, you wind up with cities making a lot of science, culture, etc. but very little food being fed by towns that making *tons* of food that ship the surplus to the cities rather than grow themselves

Nature published Microsoft research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We're releasing the model weights, sample data & WHAM Demonstrator on Azure AI Foundry to enable researchers to build on this work. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Apparently, you can make whatever claims you want about money savings as long as you get the significand right, even if the exponent is wrong. Million, billion, who's keeping track? You should hire me because I just saved my family $16 quadrillion a month by cancelling Disney+.

Seems like the crypto space is starting to turn hard against Solana. Turns out a blockchain having a reputation as being literally just a casino where no useful economic activity happens but politicians rug people constantly doesn't actually make it super popular.

i feel like i woke up one day and everyone was just evil

If we could reliably cure cancer, we could honestly mostly solve aging at this point. Increasingly convinced the biggest tricky hurdle is going to be a safe and effective way of breaking down glucosepane, though. Maybe ASI will help.

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Have we considered the possibility that Jimmy was some sort of wind demigod whose magicks were keeping planes in the sky?

I used to shop at Target a lot. Haven't shopped there recently. Always seemed like their core customer base was always the middle-class professionals that tend to lean pretty lib.