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DC-based Geek, wino, runner, atheist, and dog dad. He/Him

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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I wish I lived in a country where Donald Trump raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring was treated with at least half the outrage and gravity of Joe Biden having one bad debate night.

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Ouch

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Things seem bleak but it’s probably a bad sign for Republicans that people have started mentioning their actual goals and political blueprint and their response is “how fucking dare you??”

More shame for my alma mater here (I’m still mad that they signed on to the Orrin Hatch think tank thing). Maybe they should put a little less focus on football for a minute and lift up marginalized communities.

Utah's universities have each taken a different approach to implementing the state's anti-DEI measure HB261 on their campuses. Some are getting rid of all cultural centers, while others fight to keep them open.

Here’s what each Utah university has closed with the state’s anti-DEI pushwww.sltrib.com Here’s a breakdown of what each of the 8 public colleges and universities in Utah have done — what they’ve closed, renamed, restructured — as they’ve wrangled with the new anti-DEI law.

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Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch* Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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It would be nice if the polar vortex could drunkenly wander down here once in awhile in July like it does in January. 🥵

None of these people on Beachfront Bargain Hunt has exclaimed, “Oooh, it’s so beachy,” when walking into the properties. #smh

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Did any of the Slightly Silly candidates win in yesterday’s election in the UK? Jethro Q Walrustitty?

CNN’s Fourth in America is the most chaotic thing.

Apparently they’re not using #CapitolFourth and instead using #July4thPBS for some reason. Did The Oscars use #March10thABC?

This is a lot of Smokey Robinson. #CapitolFourth

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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

This bar seems to have the 80s hair band music channel on, which makes it feel like I’m having brunch in a performance of Rock of Ages. I don’t hate it.

The boil water advisory for #DC has been lifted per DC Water.

UPDATE: DC Water Lifts Boil Water Advisory for All Affected Customers – Effective 7:30 AM July 4, 2024 | DC Waterwww.dcwater.com

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FYI, DC: “This is a precautionary notice to all customers to boil water that may be ingested due to water of unknown quality. Customer should not drink the water without boiling it first.“

DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory for All Customers in the District of Columbia, the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport | DC Waterwww.dcwater.com

ruin a popular videogame by changing one word: Call of Colonoscopy

ruin a popular videogame by changing one word: Dark Soups

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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This is my longest and most important newsletter, it is the thing that binds everything I've ever written. Please repost, read it, share it with your friends, demand people on the street read it, make them read it. They must read it

Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/

The Shareholder Supremacywww.wheresyoured.at I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft and Google can proliferate unprofitable, unsustainable

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If we have more NYT/WaPo op-eds calling on Biden to exit than on SCOTUS mainlining an authoritarian presidency, that will give you a good read on where we are.

SCOTUS ruled that I have absolute immunity to have ice cream for lunch.

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Justice Sotomayor, in conclusion.

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Don't fall for the trap. If Democrats listen to the New York Times and try to replace Biden, the New York Times will have a new narrative: Democrats in chaos. And they will then have 347 stories a week about whoever is the candidate, all focused on how inexperienced and unprepared that person is.

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I worry sometimes that my criticism of the NYT is written off as disgruntled former employee whining. Please listen when us former employees say that with a legacy like this, the shit there runs deep.

This is beyond the normalization of publications like the Times at the time. But the Times specifically was wrong on Hitler, wrong on MLK Jr, wrong on Ida B Wells, wrong on the famine in ukraine, wrong on weapons of mass destruction. Being wrong somehow isn't disqualifying.

Well I, for one, will not be tipping the justices this year. 😡

So to recap, SCOTUS says: * We justices are the executive branch now * The majestic equality of the laws prohibits both rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges * Obstructing the certification of the president after an election is, at least in isolation, very cool and very legal

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This feels accurate enough that I didn't even smile while reading it.

Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

I haven't had a car in over four years. Where's my money?

Uber will pay you $1,000 to ditch your car for five weekswww.theverge.com What does it take to stop driving?

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"We interviewed the 30 dumbest people in suburban Atlanta. Here's why it's important to coddle their views."

Mental health tip: If you come across an article that starts "We talked to a group of undecided swing-state voters..." immediately close that tab and look at pictures of puppies for a few minutes