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When I was writing about these pronatalist people this week I came across this anecdote from the Guardian about the guy In the CNN clip.

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Andor is great because it understands what Star Wars is fundamentally about: someone pressing a button and the thing they wanted the button to do not happening

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being in your 40s means containing and synthesizing all of the impulses and passions and agonies of your tens and 20s and 30s, all advocating for contradictory next steps

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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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as someone with a cogni-sci background who spent a lot of time in the oughts examining ways to ask this question, and as someone who has played with various LLMs to ask about their subjective experience no, not yet, not even close, these things are shoggoths

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i am seeing a ton of replies and QTs that -apply the calculator/spellcheck fallacy: "tools atrophy human skills". yes and? -underestimate/outdate current-gen LLMs chain-of-thought capabilities -underappreciate the usefulness and impact of a tool to outsource kinds of thinking (which ppl are BAD at)

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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plenty of cultures value children, but the US is unique in valuing the idea of children while enabling violence against actual kids and keeping them in privation at every turn

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this new season of black mirror is… i keep thinking there are parts that don’t work, and they don’t! but i’m also pausing each episode multiple times to have the Feelings anyway going to be haunted for a long time by hotel reverie

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This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

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As ever, Liberal Currents answered the call. Here, I respond to the legal atrocity that is the UK Supreme Court ruling, and argue that the meme of "sex-based rights" smuggles illiberal ideas into the heart of civil rights law, suicide bombing the very idea of equality.

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ppl keep mistaking Jurassic Park for a survival film against dinosaurs when it's actually a survival film against startup culture

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FOX: We are in the midst of a Male Loneliness Epidemic YOUNG DUDE: I am a lonely guy; what should I do? MANFLUENCER: Have you considered acting like a complete entitled asshole YOUNG DUDE: I suppose that suggestion is worth a try FOX: The Male Loneliness Epidemic continues

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With Andor Season 2 dropping tomorrow, it's worth recalling that Season 1 contained the best bit of writing ever in Star Wars.

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apropos of nothing if you are perhaps looking for a road-trip fantasy novel about what lies at the heart of America, because the one you used to like is no longer an option, I cannot heartily enough recommend Max Gladstone’s LAST EXIT

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If you are following the show and don't want spoilers, you seriously have to get off the internet right now. People will be incandescent.

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Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

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Bunker Rule No. 1: The people in control of the bunker are lying about what’s outside the bunker.

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As long as we’re doing French Revolution takes, let’s all remember that Mark Twain’s is undefeated:

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The desexualisation of media (everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny) combined with an increasing hysteria around the 'pointlessness' of sex scenes is a key part of the fascistization of western culture and if we're going to fight back we're going to need to make it normal to be horny again.

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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

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Today in "Wisdom Scrawled Out at the Bus Stop in the Middle of the Night"...

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post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

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christian scripture is only intelligible to me as a fundamentally political argument against imperialism, occupation, capital punishment. The resurrection is a fantasized refutation of all empire

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🎶 Don’t trust Apple or Google with your face 🎶

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I'm thinking about how tonight was probably the first time Kilmar Abrego Garcia learned that millions of people care about him - the first time he learned that the United States Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring him home. I'm thinking what it must mean for him to know, right now, that he isn't alone.

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call me quantum the way I collapse after literally any interaction

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I'm working on writing a zombie-apocalypse story called CATACLYSM. New parts posted each Friday at 7:00PM. Catch up on Chapter 1 before the next part is released tomorrow! Subscribe for free updates each week! #sciencefiction #zombie #zombieapocalypse open.substack.com/pub/beelock/...

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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The point of Cinderella isn’t romance, it’s revenge.

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This is the same perverse Nazi logic that led Hans Asperger to distinguish between Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: those children who would be killed and those who would be used. Don't get bogged down in arguments about ability or humanity. These are overtures to genocide.

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