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‘Reading/watching something and comprehending it’ is not the same as ‘going through things other people have said about the subject and regurgitating them’ www.reddit.com/r/singularit...

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

So Telegram’s CEO tweets this morning about a partnership with Grok, complete with a sizzle reel showing the product integration. X CEO retweets with a 💪🏼. Hours later, Elon Musk claims no deal has been signed after all.

submitted 20 hours ago • 30 comments

if the musk-trump coalition continues to fray i suspect we will see a lot of "i was at DOGE" tell-alls and i think a useful heuristic for understanding them will be "anything that makes elon look like a freak is true" coupled with "anything that makes DOGE employees look like lesser freaks is a lie"

submitted 21 hours ago • 16 comments

[pinches bridge of nose, sighs heavily] www.marketwatch.com/story/j-d-va...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The GTA VI subreddit needs to touch grass so bad www.reddit.com/r/GTA6/s/wS7...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

css-in-js: 🥱 logic in css: 😏

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I agree, Real Life needs to stop using the same jokes and get some new material

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hey man how's it going. Oh that? It's just a device I pay money to subscribe to that is recording everything you say and taking pictures of your face. Where are you going

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Think I might get a commercial pilot's license. As a bit.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

someone says a variation of this once a week and it always boils down to "i'd rather stay self-satisfied around nazis than risk people i think owe me kinship making me feel like i'm wrong"

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

genuinely crazy that he can be like 'I don't call myself a christian' as a defence of 'don't define me by that' but then in the very next beat reference him refusing to use someone's preferred pronouns

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is genuinely so bad, he can’t even answer basic questions from budding teen atheists lmfao. It’s like that scene in game of thrones when all the children ganged up and stabbed grand maester pycelle to death

submitted 3 days ago • 358 comments

This is about 'how many nerds in a box of nerds' btw and the idea you could fit 10-15k in a box is also some real 'cannot comprehend scale and spatial dimension' stuff too

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Quick back of the napkin guesstimate I would probably say oh about 14.5k nerds in a box, wait let’s say 10.5k just to be safe.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

the fact that LLMs love to regurgitate lists is one of those mildly horrifying existential questions about why listicles are so popular

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments