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man the LRB is publishing people who think LLMs are sentient now. awesome

ok, i got the Patch Update

Claude, make me a personalized Dixon Hill immersive noir experience, make no mistakes

Close up, wind turbines produce ~55 db - a bit louder than a fridge. Gas power plants come in at 85-100 db - like a jackhammer. Industrial diesel generators can hit 130 db - like standing next to a fighter jet taking off of an aircraft carrier. This isn't about noise - it's about who has to hear it.

sorry for the logorrhea, but it's worth noting that the Bundespolizei in Germany was the Bundesgrenzschutz until 2005, when it was reorganised and redeployed as a more general federal police force precisely because most of its border control functions were no longer needed. Yet now..

Frankly one of the best things you can do with weapons is wielding. The plowshares thing doesn't come close

This is a perfect example of the pervasiveness neoliberal nihilism, where all political activity boils down to spending and voting. Nothing else is even conceivable. www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀

"A bill that would require the most dangerous drivers in New York City to install speed limiters in their cars is facing a major obstacle to being passed in the state budget: New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie." hellgatenyc.com/stop-super-s...

still waiting on the answer to this,,,

abusing GDPR compliance to force your robot ex to forget you ever existed

I've posted it several times before, but the hardest I have personally laughed at a tweet.

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i wasn’t kidding btw

oh shit really :-(

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

¿Hasta cuándo vamos a tener que seguir exigiendo la derogación de la #LeyMordaza? www.elsaltodiario.com/ley-segurida.... ¡Toda nuestra solidaridad y apoyo a @danigagophoto.bsky.social!

The NYT actually has been winding down its local (Metro desk) coverage for a solid 20 years. Hate-sharing their content on Bluesky gives them a reason to change tack and dump more resources into heckling the NYC electoral left www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new...

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

Meanwhile, Pritzker who's talked a great game for weeks now, has his cops out at Broadview rounding up protesters.

Very interesting new polling data: The vast majority of French, Germans and Italians support strengthening European tech sovereignty and incentivising "Buy European" approaches. Another area where European voters are ahead of the policy debate. Source: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...

Happy birthday John Coltrane. 99! This is the tune that turned me on to Coltrane and jazz in general. Incredible. m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7X2...

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

how have i never known how this often-memed dialogue ends lmao www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TDC...

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news. www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

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Syriza represented an effort to provide a parliamentary obstacle to austerity. The defeat of the movements 3 years before led many to adopt this as a last ditch effort. But its eventual coalition with a far-right party & the acceleration of austerity radically de-legitimised the "Left".