Bradley Keith

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

This answer is fantastic and I’m glad to see the reference to Kennedy.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

You are 50% microbes

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of clowns

honestly the most depressing thing to me is that we have to talk about this again and again and again and again and again. how to teach men to have human feelings, how to get people to believe us

This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.

The idea that "Nazis like Wagner" (never really true) let people conjure a fantasy of sophisticated but monstrous high-culture fascists. But no, Curzio Malaparte made that stuff up to save his own neck, and there was that cool clockwork guy in Hellboy, but real fascists are hooting chuds.

Jesus would treat Donald Trump like he were a money changer’s table and rush to angrily flip him. Glory!

I'm really sad about the death of one of my favorite wikipedia editors so here's a thread of some of the greatest articles he wrote

MERCX: “.. is focused on the paper price of oil falling today. But look at what is happening in the physical market. .. The cost of shipping 2 million barrels of oil jumped another 10%+ today to $22.50 per barrel.” $BWET

“you still got my support, but you gotta do something” 🐆💀

Don't automatically attribute to AI the things you attribute to humans.

I'm becoming convinced that people mostly want to see AI used in jobs that aren't theirs. Non-lawyers want lawyers to use it, non-doctors want doctors to use it, and so on. Anyone who uses it for their own job quickly realizes that reviewing the output cancels out any time saved.

The *definition* of "true market value" is "the closing price in an auction." Amazon claiming that it secretly jacked people because the auction generated a price that was "below the true market value" of an ad tells you that the whole business is a sham. 69/

As our president tries to paint Canada as an enemy during the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it might be a good time to see "Come From Away," the story of a small Canadians town embrace of Americans stuck there after the terror attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af77...

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

Woah.

The revolution actually 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be televised but it will be on a platform that you don't subscribe to anymore because everything is so expensive now that you can only afford to have one streaming service at a time so you just swap them around and you recently canceled the one the revolution will be on.

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

At what point did the press decide they can only do their job with their heads up their ass?

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I end texts with punctuation to make younger folks think I’m angry.

Forgive me, but Norman Jewison's movie version of Fiddler on the Roof is superior to the stage version.

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

Another "run of the mill" corruption story - relevant to today's hearing on Trump's Attorney General nominee: It's the story of Grab A Gun, a company that put Don Jr. on its board and (VOILA!) got DOJ to change gun regulations to give it a corrupt head start in the market.

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

"Why didn't NATO do that thing we didn't ask them to do?"

That reminds me of an old Hagar The Horrible comic strip where Hagar is complaining that modern music is about sex, drug, and rock and roll. The kid asks what his music was about, and he explains "wine, women, and song".

i'm stealing this from a friend but it's kinda funny how the biggest outcome from Charlie Kirk's murder is a bunch of edgy libs getting massive settlement payouts after getting fired for making fun of him

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are full of shit in their dissents in the birthright citizenship case. Give me two minutes, and I'll explain why.

Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Finally, some good news.

Guaranteed to get you to sleep within 4 hours!