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Imagine showing this to any tech-savvy person five years ago. It looks like a magic trick. Absolutely bananas

God, the future is weird.

With the depraved concepts these fast food companies come out with now, it’s sorta endearing that in the 70s they were like “New from Burger King! It’s the Giant Boring Burger!” I’m kinda surprised they let the bun have sesame seeds

From The Lancet: in an urgent care setting, the advice of the obsolete Gemini 2.5 Pro & Gemini 2.5 Flash (without access to patient medical records) were rated of similar quality to doctors by other physicians. There was no safety issues spotted. Models have gotten significantly better since.

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

This is pretty extraordinary. Definitely the first time I’ve seen an AI video conversation where the AI looked and sounded real. Usually there’s too much delay in responses and their tone is too flat. (It’s a bit flat here too, but it comes across more as “deadpan” than “fake”)

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

WOW, RCP polling average has Trump less popular than he was right after Jan 6 (which, to be clear, was *extremely* unpopular)

Printing something is one of the most depressing things you can do at 6AM

Imagine the job security of being gone for 3 months without communication to your boss or any indication that you'll be returning any time soon & still having a job. I say imagine because literally no job would let you get away with this. The people of Kentucky should fire him.

i don't agree with their contemptible geography policy, but i do agree with their whatever-is-going-on-here policy

More actual lifesaving stuff from deepmind, which will probably not get too much coverage outside of nerd circles: deepmind.google/blog/weather...

I don’t think current models will trigger true doomsday scenarios, but this is a good illustration of how advanced AIs will take a poorly specified goal and run wild with it. It’s terrifying, and OpenAI is basically just bragging about it, probably with zero repercussions or real lessons learned.

reply to this post with a time you tried to use a button and it didn't work

10 new math discoveries from OpenAI. LLMs are often dismissed as “stochastic parrots.” And yeah, that’s sorta how they work? But with results like this, you have to conclude that a sufficiently advanced stochastic parrot somehow gains some emergent, completely unexpected abilities.

Really really enjoyed this interview with Mamdani - as always, a masterclass in communication. His answer on creating a big tent party is both excellent and low key savage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...

Gotta love a mythical half animal half plant creature just showing up to say hi on your trailcam

Ah yes, an old southern white man with shitty views who’s been a Senator for decades finally went and died, just as we’d all expe— *puts finger to earpiece*

Another wild AI math result. Here's the prompt, which interestingly is mostly about method and probably would work pretty well for a human organization: cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4...

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

worst scavenger hunt ever

“Yeah I mean Trump does shit like this at least twice a week. this is definitely helping right, am I helping”

he's nextdooring

More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.

who needs mental HEALTH when youve got mental HEATH (thinking about a delicious Heath candy bar)

There are two types of people in this world: Those who know the name of Blur’s 1997 hit song and those who don’t I call these types Group 1 and Group 2

The number of conservatives who smugly retort “but did you know that social services are in fact paid for by taxes” as if it’s a fucking gotcha For fuck’s sake YES WE KNOW AND IT’S GOOD ACTUALLY

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Life hack: You can attack millions of times and the U.S. will ignore it as long as each individual attack is “below the threshold of restarting major combat operations.”

A somewhat in-between take, which I personally believe, is that people vastly underestimate the extent to which developments in art, math, and science are achieved by way of forming an analogy, then asking the analogy questions, as opposed to some sort of discontinuous creative act.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Good lord the tidal wave of morons screaming “staged” based pretty much on vibes makes me fear for the future. It’s like there’s no sane people left in the world who know what Occam’s Razor is. Folks, sometimes crazy people with guns do stupid shit and it’s no more complicated than that.

Imagine if Hillary pulled this shit as SoS The entire world would lose its collective mind They’d tear her limb from fucking limb

“As we all know, the typical state of the universe is actually the vacuum of space. The Earth is an aberration that must be destroyed.”

It’s so easy. Either he’s lying, or he’s too fucking stupid to know what a doctor looks like. (And let’s be real, he’s just lying.) The media could call it out SO easily, and they don’t. This is a minor story that’ll be forgotten in a day, but it’s the same with every story in the past 10 years.

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary. The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister. What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.

Why is diplomacy failing when we sent the guys who got elected based on their ability to piss people off 🤔

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

I’ve noticed this myself. Usually, I’ve found the overviews to be pretty accurate. But the citations themselves often do not support the AI text, which is annoying at best and gives you a false sense of confidence in inaccurate info at worst.

Does ANYONE believe this shit Like he’s never, to my knowledge, referenced a book in his life. There’s little evidence of anything beyond grade school level literacy Even his most rabid supporters have gotta be like “nah he’s too smart for books” or some bullshit. NO ONE believes this

PETA Urges White House To Use Potatoes For Easter Egg Roll https://theonion.com/peta-urges-white-house-to-use-potatoes-for-easter-egg-roll/

It’s hard to even imagine how shallow and unfulfilling their lives must be. Hundreds of billions of dollars lit on fire to satisfy (but not even satisfy!) the petty whims of amoral androids with no interior life whatsoever.

I’m always asking this