Kheti The Scribe

The thing about a Hollywood production is that it's inherently going to value personality and performance over dusty timelines of emails and scientific fact. And with Holmes that's like agreeing upfront that the man vs octopus wrestling match HAS to be in an underwater cave.

It's frequently pointed out that the difference between Holmes and someone like the WeWork guy is that medical tech is a heavily regulated field, but Holmes was convicted on defrauding investors and acquitted on scamming the patients that medical regulations supposedly protect.

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

It’s so funny how Elon is constantly responding to this kind of sick shit with “yes” or “that’s correct” but never actually composes any reprehensible opinions of his own, even about how low T men can’t think for themselves

solarpunk but it’s cold north forests, remote sparse AI-powered cabins, chopping wood, warm indoor glow, green tech, mint-colored lichens, dark firs, mosses, mushrooms talking beneath the woods, coming inside to warm by the GPU hearth

Pretty sure Tommy Tubbeville's furry freakout is a form of projection and may point to some past entanglements in his personal life.

Taylor Lorentz is one of those frog species that are doomed to extinction because they live in a polluted river and have thin, permeable skin that directly absorbs toxic sludge.

See, this is good. This is how you do it. It's not Glonzo; it's addressing a real problem with real regulations.

Well, fuck. While I'm sure his life has been hell for the past two years, Trump had no way to force him out. This feels like a case study in how elite institutional actors have shrunk from the responsibilities of their offices.

quick search shows they are probably not hedonically adjusting the broccoli (or the brussels sprouts)

Probably not a coincidence that the field seeing the clearest benefits so far from AI (mathematics) is one where the research the AI is doing has a clear separation from the act of writing the article and a strong norm to keep papers short.

I'm a biological determinist. Boomer lead poisoning leads to erratic voting behavior while microplastics in zoomer brains suppresses voting activity. Millennial cellphone radiation actually suppressed hitler particles and leads to enlightenment.

Credit to the author for anticipating that rich neighborhoods could demand either more or fewer dumpsters than the rest of the city, and either would be proof that dumpsters are bad.

Unfortunately, this is an example of Trump thinking and speaking like the median voter.

“To stop AI companies training on my art, I left Twitter, a site whose policy on third-party API access is to send you anthrax in the post, and moved to Bluesky, where they have a publicly available stream of every single post live as it comes in that they call ‘the firehose’”

As long as we're bribing famously corrupt international sports federations, I don't think FIDE would charge too much to rig the next candidates forum for Nakamura.

It was probably a relief for POTUS that someone outside of Russia and the Gulf states responded to a briefcase full of money in the manner Trump expects when he offers a personal bribe.

The security guard at the door:

I'm a classical moderate on immigration: I believe we should also test for active infectious diseases before doing the perfunctory paperwork to let every immigrant in.

Ezra Klein inteviewing Chris Rufo is like a flightless island bird matching wits against a cat

The Appalachian Mountains extend north through New England all the way to Newfoundland, so technically Bernie is himself a homegrown Appalachian Socialist.

A lot of replies being like “Wait something good!?” No you morons, republicans want to be able to allow chud truck drivers to speed through your neighborhood without consequence. You are a fucking sucker if you think congressional republicans care about privacy. This stupid country I swear to god.

This isn't about legality or decency or suddenly growing a spine. The Attorney General has promised that Republican Senators will be eligible to claim from the pot of money, and they don't want to split it with cop-punching riff-raff.

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

I think this might be my thesis statement.

Meanwhile, IT at the major City Hall where I work refuses to un-block anthropic.com (not Claude, or any of the AI tools, just the place where they put research papers) because they're "still figuring this AI stuff out"

I don't think people have really grappled with what the mass decline of violent crime in the US has meant for the economic ecosystem of superheroes, which is rapidly approaching a demographic cliff, as street-level crimefighting becomes a thing of the past, and avenues for promotion dry up.

4 minute left, but Wikipedia has seen enough.

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

Not a coincidence that the two things in the last decade that most involved rich people not being able to do whatever they want at any time — MeToo and COVID restrictions — are also the two things that seem to have driven a lot of people to reactionary madness

It's 2,000 ICE agents, which is in itself a nauseating number. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

journalism is often functionally the institution of paying young people who speak Left and Young fluently to justify the behavior of the establishment, which is neither Left nor Young

Whatever her other faults, Clinton spent her entire political career scheming to find ways to get as close to universal health coverage as possible and took repeated political defeats while trying. Then based on a vague reputation for centrism, people go, "Pfft. Didn't even try."

The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time

Any “deal” that ends with Dems just getting a pinky promise in return is a mistake. The American people are suffering because Republicans refuse to stop healthcare costs from skyrocketing. An agreement that doesn’t fix that reality falls massively short.

New York is a miracle city. A godamn miracle that this city continues to function in spite of itself.