Ruinizer

FDR: healed the great depression JFK: dared to touch the moon LBJ: spanish for blowjob

The new 2CV has been revealed and I rather like it. www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Air to Ground Message: PRINTER BACAME POSSESSED AND WOULD NOT STOP PRINTING THE NECROMONICON POWER RESET/TRACKING Area: Killeen, TX, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #aa816c0b876 F: #f2c4f4503c4

The new kid on the block! 🐘 Last week, our Ithumba Keepers and the dependent orphans gathered to welcome Comet – a newborn, and the 95th known calf born to an orphan elephant we rescued, raised and rewilded. Read the full story: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates...

Hearing people talk about negative corporate spreads makes me feel a bit like the joker muttering “how do you think the debt settles” to myself

One of the most upsetting things for people trained in formal computational theory, who are not AI boosters, to witness is how claims about the outputs of systems with no formal specification are taken as if they are indicative of formally linked capacities, such as the ability to add; see thread:

The world’s smallest CT scanner now fits in one hand. China’s Institute of High Energy Physics built the 6 kilogram Xtomo-Cube, more than 3x lighter than the previous record holder, it runs on battery power & skips the heavy radiation shielding regular scanners need buff.ly/CL4bXK3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

This level of stupidity doesn’t just happen. You have to work to achieve it.

Mike Tomlin is currently giving a tour of his boutique hotel in Minecraft, which has a multipurpose conference room and an appropriate number of public restroom and I’m losing MY MIND

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

Perfectly intuitive, a working camera can only record an action, it cannot prevent it from happening any more than a dummy camera can…. A working camera can also show the viewer things that may look nefarious without context and increase the suspicion of others.

Love the idea of Row Row Row Your Boat as some sort of existential commentary

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

you can't spell "crisis" without misspelling "cry" www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Y’all have seen the viral short clip. Here’s the full original. The energy we need when somebody tries to push disinformation down our throats.

I think if you make a statement like a piece of automated software "wanted" something, you should be able to fully explain the mechanics of how that can actually occur

“The human race is at war. Our biggest enemy, pure and simple, is ignorance.” John W. Young, born on this day in 1930

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Egon Schiele - Trieste Harbor, 1907

Steve Rattner: The labor share of economic output hit its lowest point on record in Q2 2026.

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.

uhhhhh seems like something they should have seen coming

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Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

It’s important to remember that Hasan Piker isn’t in the business of getting people elected, or in the business of politics in general, he’s in the Hasan Piker business and that stock goes up whenever he does something that makes people talk about Hasan Piker

It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.

promise kept

An interesting point to be made here is that Capital goods inflation can be driven by rate expectations. If a business expects interest rates to increase they may pull forward CapEx; leading to an increase in demand for Capital goods; leading to an increase in the price of Capital goods.

You should expect credit spreads to be tighter when government borrowing is higher. It's related to supply/demand in the Treasury market. Here’s the mechanism

Mike Johnson never has had any moral center. He has no love for any part of the Bible that doesn't include stoning. And Herrera is the R trying to replace the guy who cheated on his wife with a staffer he drove to suicide. This is who the GOP is.

"To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and semicolon placement, and use them to improve the technology that will eventually produce more books resembling yours." buff.ly/FYVr6Zx

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

prose status: less dire recursion.wtf/posts/claude...

At a certain point I would expect people to understand what is being said…. Vance et al are saying what THEY are doing and what the goal is…. Vance et al benefit upon the destruction of the very things that created the prosperity of America.

Just to reiterate: the dirtbags won’t save us

Skeet of the Day 🥇 #PotatosSkeetOfTheDay

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NEW: A data leak is exposing 12 terabytes of information from Andrew Tate's online empire, including 76 paid course videos from his online "War Room" network, the unique Telegram IDs of his staff, and archives of raw, unedited and unreleased videos from private events. san.com/cc/manospher...

"Economic of the Zohranmarket" LOL at this banger opening by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/rent-alway...