Will Morton

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Startups / hackery / funny money / history / strange things. Dadcore AF. Hopepunk as all hell. Co-founder, Circles.World - previously Apple, Beats Music, @stake. Birth CO₂ 335. 社会人

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As a former Marine: THIS. 100% THIS.

Not all Marines but definitely some Marines end up assigned to non-combat jobs and then spend the rest of their lives with a huge chip on their shoulder about how tough they are and I'm just saying it tracks that JD Vance was a photographer

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an underrated plus of living in Boston is that absolutely no one believes this

People, I beg of you, please stop assuming someone who went to an Ivy is smart

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Our General Manager likes to hand out free copies of Atlas Shrugged when he visits the soup kitchens.

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I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.

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All episodes of Shelley Duvall’s FAERIE TALE THEATRE are on Internet Archive, if you’d like to enjoy the second act pivot that made her iconic for ‘80s and ‘90s kids. archive.org/details/fgtd5r #ShelleyDuvall

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Please share widely! And, if you don’t already, consider supporting my work. This kind of independent research is what I do full-time, entirely thanks to support from people like you. www.mollywhite.net/support/

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"The whole fear about ChatGPT and the creation of imagery is, I think, fear based on the fact that we live in a world where everything is up for grabs," Errol Morris told generative AI reporter Andrew Deck. "Everything is manipulated, everything is challenged, everything is endlessly falsified."

Errol Morris on whether you should be afraid of generative AI in documentarieswww.niemanlab.org “Our task is to get back to the real world, to the extent that it is recoverable.”

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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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look if this country is going to have insane authoritarian leaders can we at least get one with a little showmanship

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"While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba."

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Tripswww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Admitting that he had never been more conflicted about a ruling in his life, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly torn Monday over a case in which both sides offered compell...

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The new Riven remake is even better than Mystarstechnica.com The original developers revised puzzles and realized the immersive world in 3D.

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Led By Donkeys has tonight infiltrated a Farage rally with a remote control banner. Absolutely epic!

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

Sam Altman reminds me a lot of Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival guy. Turns out Billy was just thinking way too small…

Now I get it! Sam Altman is just a humanoid robot connected to ChatGPT. Pure confabulation pours out of his mouth. www.independent.co.uk/tech/openai-...

OpenAI seeks ‘vast quantities’ of nuclear fusion to power superhuman AIwww.independent.co.uk ChatGPT creator seeks ‘holy grail of clean energy’ to build artificial intelligence

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I've used my own three laws of robotics at all my robot companies and have sold 50+ million real robots to real customers; research robots, home cleaning, nuclear power plant inspection, military ground robots, upper body humanoids in factories, and now intelligent carts in warehouses and factories.

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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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Preliminary FBI data released this month indicates that crime and violence are falling nationwide. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC have each spent less than 12 minutes covering the report — and Fox's five minutes came mostly from opinion programming that argued the statistics are incorrect.

Bulletin: How Have Cable News Networks Covered Data Showing a Drop in Violent Crime?www.thetrace.org CNN, Fox, and MSNBC have each spent less than 12 minutes covering new FBI statistics showing a continuing decline in violence and other crimes.

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

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Just my guess: the Chevron decision will go exactly how conservatives want it, but be buried by the same-day Trump immunity decision. The justices aren't stupid. They know how news cycles work and they've done this before. You'll hear about Chevron in a John Oliver segment in a few months.

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I Believe The World Is Flat On A Curved Manifold

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“To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.” — Bertolt Brecht

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Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:

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*Hmmm. This notion that you go to heaven after you're killed, that may have something to do with those denial issues

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Here it is, your moment of road safety Zen

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RT @meredithmeredith.bsky.social from the bad place:

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I honestly can't think of a much worse comparison. maybe calling modi india's eddie van halen or something

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Scrolled through Facebook for the first time in a while and it's so awesome now. My grandma posted "Praise God!" to an AI-generated image of Jesus playing slots in Las Vegas. I saw a post claiming they're making Cinderella black with sixty thousand comments. Got an ad for bulk cattle feed. Hell yes.

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a thing I really enjoyed about the northern lights beyond seeing them for the first time was explaining to my kids how the earth is shrouded by an invisible field powered by an unfathomable moon sized engine made of liquid iron churning in the heart of the planet. I sound like a complete maniac