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always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any

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one of the most chilling details is ackman and maguire both invoking "empirical data," which is the executive version of "doing your own research." total brain dribble from people who have spent their lives getting grossly paid to read charts about other people's labor.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

58 years of hurt! hell yeah keep it rolling

I guess it's easier to justify your work when you blithely declare that technology is a passive "mirror" rather than an active reagent

in another lifetime, my undergrad philosophy thesis was about different takes on theodicy/Job, so I read this fondly and loved the conclusion

Hope this helps a little

A Religious Fable That Confounded Scholars for Millennia Finally Makes Sense Right Nowslate.com The story is perfect for our harrowing times. But we’ve been reading it all wrong.

maybe today is when elected Democrats—all of them raised on vainglorious civic myth—finally get an inkling that the U.S. is not, in fact, exceptionally immune to autocracy

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ME: is the carbon footprint of driving my kids to go camping morally permissible if experiencing nature leads them to act more sustainably throughout their lives GOOGLE: we're draining freshwater lakes to tell people to drink bleach

Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

that's that me, expresso,,.

it's 2024 and Google is rolling out "searching the web" as a feature because their core product is so busted

We’ve launched a new “Web” filter that shows only text-based links, just like you might filter to show other types of results, such as images or videos. The filter appears on the top of the results page alongside other filters or as part of the “More” option, rolling out today and tomorrow globally…

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I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder... For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...

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Today marks 10 years since the start of the Flint Water Crisis. A decade later, kids are still sick, the city is not done replacing lead pipes and families still haven’t seen a cent from settlement funds

Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’www.theguardian.com Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice

every year, my fantasy baseball teams are graced by a $1 lefty: framber valdez (2020), alex wood (2021), braxton garrett (2022), tarik skubal (2023), keaton winn (2024).

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guess what i just figured out won't exist in 10 years

hm, what could go wrong here

A new group is buying up minor league baseball teams at a feverish pace. What's the end game?theathletic.com The private-equity backed Diamond Baseball Holdings now owns a quarter of all minor-league clubs and is pushing forward with its new vision

posting to the boys chat: Fine, I'll watch "Ocean's 8" by myself.

god fucking damn this is good

The State of the Union is a privatized moon lander dying on its side in the moon dust, power draining away, because someone back on Earth was too cheap to run a preflight check. defector.com/my-fellow-am...

My Fellow Americans | Defectordefector.com Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. The State of the Union is a privati...

when you're friedman you can just type out that the u.s. and israel are mammals and all the other nations and actors are bugs and parasites; hit submit; and go to lunch

He's at the height of his powers. To perform at this level this late into the game -- it's unbelievable. At this age he could rest easy. Move into mentorship, watching up and comers pass him by. But no. He's taking his craft in radical new directions, even now. Even now, no one's doing it like him.

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The future of e-commerce is a product whose name is a boilerplate AI-generated apology: defector.com/the-future-o...

The Future Of E-Commerce Is A Product Whose Name Is A Boilerplate AI-Generated Apology | Defectordefector.com It’s unwise to narrow the cause down to just one thing, and probably unfair to limit it to Twitter-related spiritual damage, but something is clearly not right with the richest and most powerful peo...

this is inane at best, and it's not too late for @theathletic.bsky.social to pull it. Ken should take a few days off to clear his head and maybe decline some calls from his favorite owners.

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Trump shuffling through a grim breakfast buffet getting glad-handed by vile local dentists, popping off online with some true-blue fascist shit promising to imprison/kill everyone who ever opposed him, and then hitting the links for 18 holes. Boomers rock, and our politics also rock.

tell us a perfect album that came out when you were 16 <3

American Hi-Fiopen.spotify.com American Hi-Fi · Album · 2001 · 14 songs.

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Gf complaining Captchas are too difficult 🤔

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like if you asked me “what did you write about during this conflict” and i said “campus politics in america” that would be extremely embarrassing

bluesky is chill except for the many times each week when every big account insists on metaposting about bluesky.

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in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing

this is rambling and muddled and excellent, which I guess is perfectly fitting for lana

Lana Del Rey was born, she announced in the title of her major-label debut, to die. At thirty-eight, she has yet to live up to her promise. To what do we owe this pleasure? Andrew Marzoni examines the songstress’s body of work.

California Gothic | Andrew Marzonithebaffler.com Lana Del Rey’s songbook is a secular Revelation for the coming fall.

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bro the Vatican is literally a 15-minute country

"the job is not worth doing for what they pay" clarence, you make a quarter mill a year to take your little naps and explain why everything after 1861 is illegal

New: Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice t...www.propublica.org The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

corrupt old coot who will lie about buying his own RV is a life-appointed super-legislator. this country is so fucken funny.

"Justice Thomas, who in the ensuing years would tell friends how he had scrimped and saved to afford the motor coach, did not buy it on his own."

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every time one of these not-so-secretly-racist "rising star" conservatives is unmasked as *extra* racist I do a quick check and YEP they've been published by The New York Times

if I were a "just asking brave questions" right-wing guy, I'd do a whole podcast episode digging into why I keep endorsing "14 words" right-wing guys

I recently posted about, Richard Hanania, a scholar at UT Austin who has said that we should put more Black people in jail. Turns out he wrote for White Supremacist sites. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

This Man Has The Ear Of Billionaires — And A White Supremacist Past He Kept A Secretwww.huffpost.com Hanania is championed by tech moguls and a U.S. senator, but HuffPost found he used a pen name to become an important figure in the “alt-right.”