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at different times: haxx0r in cDc PhD in using people for ML and vice versa "theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive &c music, politics, nonsense
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One President wildly exceeded his authority by forgiving some student loans; a different President barely scratched the surface of his authority by disappearing anyone he pleases without trial to a foreign gulag. Constitutional law is a serious intellectual enterprise.

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I had no idea there were multiple versions of this. I wonder which the VHS I watched endlessly as a kid (the only tapes we owned were ones my mom forgot to return to the video store) was. I’ma find out!

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

For the five other people who care, the (superior!) theatrical cut of Amadeus is now available for rent and purchase, or streaming on Criterion. It's been unavailable for a couple decades, almost impossible to stream.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

preparing to preserve american culture during the upcoming trade wars

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

we should give guns to rats

submitted 430 days ago • 32 comments

"oh yeah STEM it stands for Soylent, Torment Nexuses, Eugenics and Moldbug"

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

soon enough the only jobs in the humanities will be teaching people how to better misread dystopias as aspirational

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Unironically think that Dems should run on the New Deal. That’s the platform, that’s the slogan. Same enemies then, same enemies now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Why am I talking about sweet urine treats rather than Liz Bruenig? BECAUSE MY MENTAL HEALTH IS A FORTRESS

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Gonna make a mint selling a prosumer bluetooth uroflowmeter with an app that ties into apple health. Aaron just made me rich! RICH!

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Me, I’m concerned about declining beef rates. Let’s pick some fucking fights, people.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

technology so world-changing you have to work your ass off to convince a six-year-old it's any good

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

Alright we’re doing it. Counter-programming Coachella night one, with music that is kind of similar but much more inept? You know that’s my vibe. twitch.tv/bellsystem

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It is a Friday night and I am at home which I haven’t been in a while on a Friday and that makes me think O should DJ On The Internet, oughtn’t I. ok lemme get set up

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Imagine if there were male heroes? They'd have to call them hisoes

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Brick Lane Cybernetics: “For [Annetta] Pedretti, ‘oppression’ was a process through which the ‘implicit ordering’ of living systems, i.e., self-organising systems, are negated or overruled in favour of explicit ordering imposed from the outside.”

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For some reason the thing I find helpful is thinking about how undemocratic the U.S. has been for most of its history. Sure, some things are different now, but it's not like the basic problems are new. And we've overcome them before, we can do it again.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I forget where I heard this theory ( @dsquareddigest.bsky.social ?) but one of the side effects of the hollowing out of middle management is reducing the time available for the Business Lunch, an underrated way to facilitate high-bandwidth communication across units and not just up/down

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Not the first time I've said it, but I do think we should sit with the fact that the folks likeliest to have predicted we'd elect a reality TV president who'd create a fascist police state where people would be put into unmarked vans for criticizing Israel have been widely ridiculed my entire life.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

MILFADD: Mothers I'd Like to Fuck Against Drunk Driving

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

the three of us are having a conversation

submitted 1 day ago • 797 comments

a weirdly common belief here, both pro and anti, is “union is when man makes car”

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