Frank Black

Frank Black

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I'm hearing from some major companies that they will no longer be pursuing age verification with government IDs. Instead, they're going to show the Roadster demo and ask if you think it was cool.

Ed Sheeran's closest collaborator and last remaining friend, his loop pedal, has just announced it will be dropping out of the remaining dates of The Loop Tour, in solidarity with Macklemore.

An overlooked thing in AI discourse is opportunity cost. Is disproving a theorem impressive? Yes. Is it impressive at PWhs consumed and trillions spent? No. We're at a scale of effort where the competition is "every treatable disease on the planet is cured, for everyone, forever".

This, more than anything, highlights Rationalists commitment to anti-intellectualism. It's a rhetorical slight of hand rooted in an unexamined statistical assumption whose purpose is to create discomfort in feeling normal

In America, Nazis can be elected to office and rapists can be elected to office but they draw the line at folks who are Nazis and Rapists at the same time. They call this the "woke left".

BULLY: Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself LABOUR: Hmmm. The main problem here is clearly my hands, which are being used to hit me. However, if I cut my hands off...

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration. Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions. Expect to hear a lot more of that.

Okay. No one can make fun of Vancouver for rioting after losing in the Stanley Cup finals anymore because the US just invaded Venezuela after being eliminated from the World Juniors.

In hindsight, those cold dead eyes, emotionless expression, and penchant for "barbecuing" "meat" that "definitely" "isn't human ha ha ha" should have tipped us off.

Frank Black@frankblackthings.bsky.social

Uh guys, does anybody know how The Zodiac Killer got his hands on a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses in 1969?

Probably the time I started a band with Joey Santiago in 1986, made 9 studio albums with him, featured him on my 6 solo albums, and played over 1400 live shows together. Still kicking myself for not asking for a selfie!

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