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Is it an exaggeration to call Bob Dylan the greatest American poet? No. He was a phenomenal lyricist:

submitted 12 days ago • 172 comments

Most AI takes are like Bart Simpson saying “we need a Butlerian Jihad. Thin out their ranks” but this is more “look on my works ye mighty and despair”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is the Deputy Attorney General doing an outright Stringer Bell "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" And to be perfectly clear: this is a crime. It's obstruction of justice, cut and dry, plain as day, no ambiguity about it.

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Drake rn:

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

Every review of AI is like: This isn’t very useful and it makes it harder to do simple tasks than if I just did it myself. Riddled with errors. Can’t see anyone using this. I feel stupider having tried this. That said I believe it will soon make human cognition redundant and eradicate us all.

submitted 22 days ago • 137 comments

I'm feeling a lot of this right now

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

submitted 25 days ago • 143 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 24 days ago • 1328 comments

According to some reports stemming from an internal CDC email, agency researchers have been ordered to change the text of manuscripts submitted for peer review to remove terms such as "gender" and "transgender." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

People who hate diversity know that on an even playing field they can’t compete. It’s really that simple

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

I wish I had something pithy to say about this, but this article stuck with me. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Latest school shooter: "...Henderson wrote he "was ashamed to be Black. He was anti-Semitic in his writings and posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group that visited Nashville this summer. Candance Owens influenced me above all each time she spoke,..."

submitted 36 days ago • 18 comments

I've heard there was a secret KORG that David played and it pleased the Lord

submitted 43 days ago • 22 comments

Me, in Pre-Holiday conversation with my two brothers: "Yeah, so Mom hinted to me that she's interested in seeing A Complete Unknown when it comes out on Christmas day, so I think we should all take her to see Nosferatu" In the end, we saw neither.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Cover 3: This one is better than the Frog on the Bass Drum version: #VampireWeekend #Covers www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTec...

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Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

submitted 50 days ago • 183 comments

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

submitted 50 days ago • 124 comments

Cover 2 of n almost certainly less than I dunno like 15 maybe? Been on this one for a couple of years now. #Covers www.youtube.com/watch?v=izx8...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

First in my almost certainly to be quickly discontinued "Great Covers" series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dZ5...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

My traditional New Year's Resolution is to break my New Year's Resolution.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Since 2022, commentators have been asking, "is generative AI sentient" But now the question has progressed to "is generative AI god" thanks to massive breakthroughs in the field of cocaine

submitted 55 days ago • 20 comments

Am I Based, God? It's Me, Elon

submitted 56 days ago • 17 comments

Last.fm does it right. None of this namby-pamby "The-year-ends-at-Thanksgiving" Spotify-style crap. Also includes listens across all sources. Anyway, I absolutely cannot recommend The Paranoid Style enough 1/some number

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Four years ago, I wrote a letter to my then-2-year-old nephew about Donald Trump (not for now but for when he grows up). This year, I wrote a sequel for my 3-year-old niece. Both letters are public and corrections are welcome. dearniece2024.com

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

At this moment, there is no evidence as to what motivated the Wisconsin School Shooter. However, that (obviously) hasn't stopped conservatives from leveling charges of her being trans. #trans #transgender

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

🎵 ooh baby do you know what that's worth

submitted 84 days ago • 18 comments

Another one in the dumb things that still make me laugh department.

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submitted 96 days ago • 10 comments

"Introducing the uncanny valley into your codebase"

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

pass laws that compel new liquor stores and dispensaries to open in defunct businesses and retain the brand identity. Weed Lobster will rise

submitted 97 days ago • 133 comments

Also, dear four dozen-ish new followers who think I’m a different Rachel Nolan, I got my hair done, please enjoy because I really want you all to like me

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t take credit for this but damn I feel seen

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Social Media must be overthrown and replaced by Social Persia, which will in turn be conquered by Social Macedonia.

submitted 102 days ago • 48 comments

My last post got liked by the London Review of Books, so uhh 💪 I guess. I’m loving feeling like An Important Academic. Keep em coming, this mistaken identity is good for my mental health.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments