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New entry in the internet brain-rot files! Ultrarunner Camille Herron and her husband caught deleting positive language from other runners’ Wikipedia pages, while fluffing her own Wikipedia page. runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/u-...

It would be a mistake to say the government and courts don’t believe the exculpatory evidence. It’s not even accurate to say they don’t care. They disbelieve it as a sacrament. Their entire faith is premised on a conviction meaning guilt. Showing them evidence is asking them to be apostates.

Have spent the past few hours going through the *new* version of KOSA that the House E&C Committee will be voting on tomorrow. It's even worse than the Senate version and will definitely be used to remove LGBTQ content. It's very, very bad. Story in the morning...

I would watch this

I saw this butterfly on my run this morning, idk what kind it is but it was so cool looking I actually stopped

This TikTok is concise but useful. “If you’re about to be hanged and you start cracking jokes, that’s gallows humor. But if you’re in the audience and you start cracking jokes, you’re just a part of the execution.”

Changing Jamelle Bouie’s column headline from a clear-eyed explanation of what animates Vance’s racism to a mealy-mouthed suggestion that Vance be less racist is, even by NYT opinion desk standards, abject cowardice

if you are suing to keep food off the plates of children because their parents don’t have money, the answer to “are we the baddies” is a clear and unambiguous yes

“On the one hand the Germans murdered millions by putting them in concentration camps and liquidating them. On the other hand people called the Germans ‘Huns.’ Isn’t it time we got past the personalities and snipes and returned to serious debate of real issues?”

Look, the fact that JD Vance keeps saying incredibly fucked up shit is a sign that he's under incredible amounts of stress and fears he's on the verge of losing not just a race but his reputation, the life he's built, everything. This is desperation, and it's not "cute" or "funny". It's hilarious.

AI is so deeply offensive to artists because art exists to Communicate Emotion. if there is nobody actually crafting the art, then there is no Emotion being Communicated. the reason art matters at all is because a human made decisions, and those decisions tell us about their world

"Fun fact for our international followers: If someone in Australia cuts down a tree on public land to improve the view from their house, the local government will install a sign to block that view again" www.tumblr.com/batshit-ausp...

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

I guess the good news is everyone can finish nanowrimo in the first five minutes and go and do something else.

my in laws visiting would be much easier if my cats weren't terrified of strangers, if one of them would show up to sit in my lap the nonstop socialization would be much less exhausting

Ensuring that intersex women have the right to keep their medical information private is not just a matter of privacy rights or inclusivity, it's a matter of their personal safety. Not that all the gender conformists suddenly claiming to be concerned about safety in women's sport care about that.

fuck around and find out, otherwise known as the scientific method

If you ever wonder why Jupiter is one of the hardest planets to paint with glaze, it’s bc it looks best like this — glaze just globed on & swirled around. But there’s potential firing problems: air bubbles trapped in the glaze. That’s why this piece was terrifying and too risky to ever do again 😅

LLMs like ChatGPT have actually done the thing people claimed Google or Wikipedia would do, in that LLMs have stopped people being curious and actually learning how stuff works, or how one gets the answer to a question. Superficial intelligence for the superficially intelligent

Fight Me - Daniel Arthur, 2023,

my loudest and longest "WELL well WELL well WELL well WELL" of all time www.404media.co/heres-the-pi...

NEW: Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible & their lives miserable.

i can't stop thinking about rfk jr. and the whale juice

we should normalize telling people to shut up when they respond to a specific topic they know nothing about with unhelpful information they read third-hand somewhere

Why does every RFK jr. story feel like a German fairytale used to scare children

life as a married couple who both work in IT for things that require 24/7 service puts you at continual risk of getting a Sunday afternoon message that something important shit itself and having your weekend vibes ruined

If we look at USPS like a business (i.e., not fake political accounting), the USPS consistently self-funds ≈98% of its expenses, with cash on hand to sustain that for 10+ years and it can easily raise more—all while providing affordable essential services to the entire citizenry. A modern marvel.

It’s telling that Walz is “redefining” American masculinity. The guy’s a stereotypical macho man—veteran, hunter and football coach—but the fact that he’s also a nice dude makes it a paradigm shift. He isn’t known for his knitting skills. We’ve just come to associate masculinity with being a dick.

people who do not have an artist's soul can't make anything good with GenAI bc it doesn't have an artist's soul either. true artists can create art from anything, like this guy who got ChatGPT to generate Drake 9/11 Themed Lay's Chips

one of my cats is an absolute weird ass gremlin, and she comes outside on the patio to lick the concrete. I have no idea why she wants to lick the concrete, but she will not stop