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“Some FAA personnel have been implicitly threatened with having their lives ruined by potential criminal charges from the Trump Justice Department if they blab about Project Lift, according to a person familiar with the situation…

submitted 2 hours ago • 39 comments

Yes, it does! And the cinematographer is a women of color, the first female DP to film in IMAX. And she killed it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

reminder that the most unpopular Trump ever got during his first term was during the Obamacare repeal fight the only comparable period is the direct aftermath of the J6 attack

submitted 3 hours ago • 27 comments

Holy shit I know I'm late to the party but Sinners fucking owned

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

A non-Jewish comedian is telling a Jewish comedian that he is being insulting to Jews, which is pretty much the logical endpoint of the way we talk about antisemitism in the US.

submitted 10 hours ago • 71 comments

ken just sent me this please enjoy

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Unizilla has appeared :3

submitted 15 hours ago • 49 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 12 hours ago • 463 comments

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

submitted 12 hours ago • 64 comments

chatgpt is exactly as close to consciousness or experiencing emotions as a calculator, & it will never get any closer

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

If all you know is that a cadre of billionaire charlatans became so deranged by their immense wealth that they broke the country that made it possible in the first place then you have a more sophisticated understanding of modern American politics than the average person

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

submitted 18 hours ago • 271 comments

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is running a massive data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The facility neighbors historically Black neighborhoods and is powered by 35 pollution-spewing methane gas turbines the company is using without legal permits.

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

a reminder that measles eradicates the cells responsible for your immune system’s memory of other diseases, leaving you to rebuild from scratch, and will make other outbreaks much worse as a result you don’t want measles! nobody wants measles! what are we doing here!

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

This is the type of thing that poorly run private companies are doing on a smaller scale constantly and a great example of why “we gotta run government like a business” is a grade-A dumb guy’s idea of what a smart guy thinks

submitted 16 hours ago • 62 comments

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

"I want to watch an adaptation of Poe's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER." "Which one?" "The one from 1928." "Which one?" "The really experimental one." "Which one?" "The one that went all surreal with its cinematography." "WHICH ONE????"

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

uh, people definitely know what oligarchy means? the hell?

submitted 1 day ago • 1310 comments

oh no this graph supports a thread i have already been writing in my head for half the day

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I don’t think the LLM-evangelists realize that the rest of us can never again trust anything they claim to have made. “I wrote an essay on how AI has improved my life!” Cool, why on Earth would I read that? You literally can’t be counted on to communicate your thoughts using your own words.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

there are not any mass appeal viable use cases for LLMs and anyone trying to convince you otherwise has a vested interested in lying to you. i'll cede to there being potential fringe cases in certain sectors, but on the whole not only is the tech "not there" but there isn't a There for it to get to

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

i keep getting this stupid ad and the guy's name kills me every fucking time. not my beloved husband, Bob Doopie

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

an extremely important discovery, as its merely the latest addition to a storied history of test cats in fromsoft games the classic, of course, is dark souls 2's test cat

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually

submitted 2 days ago • 186 comments

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

submitted 2 days ago • 206 comments

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

submitted 2 days ago • 371 comments

Not to take anything away from a smart, effective interviewer, but: the reason Isaac Chotiner is so feared is because he prepares for the interview and asks follow-up questions, techniques that make him like unto a cat on an island of flightless birds

submitted 259 days ago • 14 comments

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

submitted 2 days ago • 1284 comments

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

submitted 2 days ago • 522 comments

Your ring cameras can be disabled by law enforcement that wants to intimidate you

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

If you need me I'll be busy throwing up

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‘i don’t want to think or discover or create anything new, i just want computer to project shadows onto the cave walls and then claim them as my own’

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thinking about Zampano again so i’m putting footnote links in my alt text that lead to nowhere

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

the single biggest own goal in the history of the connected global economy

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Heyekiah Greatsex England and Wales, Census, 1911

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hi pals, i am making art again 💙🦇💜

submitted 178 days ago • 9 comments

i’m learning a lot about the trade war

submitted 3 days ago • 441 comments

Microsoft Word has this amazing feature where if you try to save a document while on airplane mode it deletes all of your work.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

We’re eliminating programs that save millions of people from disease And ending a lot of research that has cured diseases and will cure more Because we need to funnel resources into AI Because someday it may be able to figure out cures for disease Do I have that right?

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

what is necessary to understand about RFK's obsession with seed oils and aspartame and testosterone levels is that he uses science-y words but his ideas are pretty much identical to medieval herbalists talking about "bad humours"

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

A member of Labour’s NEC rips into Starmer over his proposed trans toilet ban telling him he should be held personally responsible if any trans woman are assaulted or raped as a result.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments