Christo Silvia

I didn't initially realise this was meant to be a negative thing, but when you read the piece it obviously was. Their attempt at a political hit job is quite literally to tell you that Mamdani is baller, and to connect him in your minds with Knicks' victory. Astonishing stuff, let's see how it goes.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

this makes more sense when you learn the author has moved to NYC to now do her dumb podcast from there and is getting praise from ol hasan

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

Lmao how are they managing to do so poorly on an airport people mover

2/2 CA Balcony Solar We intend to keep reminding folks of the deadline as well - Jan. 1, 2030. www.missioncityresearch.org 🔌💡

Why did they add an end date?

Looks like we need to switch to "No, it's only the national DSA that's crazy, the local orgs are pretty good!" we'd been stuck on "No, it's only the local orgs that are crazy, the national DSA is pretty good!" for a minute there.

The other thing that galls me about how Microsoft/Xbox is casting off studios and people is how, just a few years ago, it was spending literal billions of dollars to just buy up huge swathes of the industry.

Polls opened 25m ago and were headed with the kids to vote. אל תגידו יום יבוא, הביאו את היום!

First medieval parent genre of fantasy is romance (Ossian, Gothic romance, MacDonald, Dunsany). Tolkien changed the model by making it (weirdly) medieval chronicle + nineteenth century social realist novel

There’s so much crap out there and I’m not an expert. What is the best form of therapy for severe OCD that’s becoming kind of life ruining?

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Before 2016 they all would have wanted to break the big October Surprise. And that's their job, frankly. Now they'll do it only if it hurts the Dems.

They are really panicking that the corrupt af nepo baby authoritarian twat that they could control lost

This is for crying out loud.

The main impact of OpenAI's behavior on mathematics is going to be to make the practice more like the secretive work of Andrew Wiles 1986-93, proving Fermat's Last Theorem in secret and not telling people what he was working on until he was ready to publish to avoid getting scooped. @dollspace.gay

All politicians are my opps bc i feel that is the appropriate way to be a citizen in a democracy however he makes it difficult sometimes

Making sure that large swathes of Biden's non-economic hires never work in a Democratic admin again is going to be a big project but one that needs to happen.

Gawking and snickering in a DM please ignore

The exponential time hypothesis is apparently false: openai.com/index/buildi...

Vivek going after the key demographic - estranged grandparent who is hated for a dam good reason

can't imagine a Muslim guy mastering, for instance, algebra

David Graeber was wrong that most jobs are bullshit, but it is true that many people spend their jobs *doing* bullshit, either because they think bullshit is the job, or know better but are ordered to do bullshit. This is useless, alienating drudgery - but also easier than doing their job.

A bureaucracy can largely be divided into, in ascending order, a minority that thinks their job is to improve things, a minority that thinks their job is to prevent things from improving, and a majority that is fine with improving things in concept but against it if it requires doing their job.

Also, when rpgs first switched to voiced protags and the bioware conversation wheel took the throne I was stoked....but these days I kind of miss having so many dialogue options and knowing exactly what my character will say and the whole old school method

Every time I play Dragon Age Origins I end up an elf radical or a mage radical, but this time I did human noble so I can be queen and also a slightly problematic but well meaning ally

question for historians: we hear a lot of "you gotta judge them by the standards of their times" nonsense to justify horrors from the past, but do you know any examples of people using that same ARGUMENT in the past? like I cannot IMAGINE medievals saying "well, Athens was another time you see"

Satire, but way too close to reality.

The far-right freaks think liberalism (etc, etc) has an off switch, they think they found it and are baffled and infuriated that liberals (etc, etc) haven't surrendered.

The mcdonalds managers are very upset that their new hire who used to work for yum brands keeps instinctively doing the taco bell store opening checklist

1 is ChatGPT. 2 is Gemini. I don’t want to ask Claude because I don’t want it to realize things about me

The Hard Hat Riot is the single most important and consequential independently organized labor action in post-Gilded Age American history but the entire left-of-center has deliberately chosen to completely forget it because of how utterly embarrassing it is to us

My mom and her then-boyfriend took me to see The Departed (2006) in theaters when I was 12 and I was so confused because I kept mixing up DiCaprio and Matt Damon's characters

Yeah absolutely! Voting is one part of a very broad spectrum of work to make the world better imho

I mean it’s an online left thing, and definitely a very ingrained and longstanding deal. The overlap with trans people is weird, varied and complicated due to the extreme I’ve social overlap. And weird bc like, it’s downstream of cis guy lefts setting the agenda and norms

every trans space for the two weeks leading up to the election is like, "you remembered to vote, right???" and then discussing the nuances of like, state court judge candidates for two hours

it is very funny that "queer leftists" get this reputation of being above voting or whatever because my wife and I fill our ballots out with enough reverence it feels like it is a religious ceremony

The truest thing JD Vance has said in a long, long time.

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Watching this thing suggests all over again that AI-generated art's central failing continues to be that the kinds of people who might use AI tools to make something interesting are the kinds of people who hate the supposed shortcut of using AI tools because they enjoy the work of making art.

I read books from olden days, and I feel so grateful to be able to live their urban lifestyle while not having to deal with all their diseases etc.