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I've never eaten at a Cheesecake Factory. Unfortunately, because I live in Real America, the closest one is two hours away.

An easy way to sidestep this risk is to just marry a Plato scholar.

That saying it's a revision dramatically changes the results shows that the models are not doing what they appear to be doing. The solution, seems to me, is models that do less. Like a grammar checker, a math checker, a citation checker, a plagiarism checker. Not a model that loves Shakespeare.

I mean this is just objectively true. We all repeat his best bits constantly, to the point we've forgotten many of them are his bits. He has the brilliance of the politician, which is to make himself the vessel for others hopes and dreams even when he stands for the exact opposite.

Fully on Team Maenad after reading this.

Who's going to be in the bathtub explaining this one to me?

I know it's really trite at this point to say it but I fucking hate him and I fucking hate the shit that he says and I fucking hate that he paints a target on random people trying to live their lives for the crime of Being Not White

It's all just electrical impulses travelling down a bundle of wet wires.

Got this from my health insurance company today. What can you even say?

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

I am just a simple retired stockbroker, but as of August, Anthropic were talking about a run rate of $65bn. Now they have declared Q3 revenue of $16.8bn ($67.2bn annualized). That is ... not much growth? They are headlining qoq figures versus the $11bn and odd for Q2, but ...

She condemned the Biden U.S. arms deal with Israel, and as retaliation the Biden administration opened an investigation against her. The Trump administration is actually piggybacking off that Democratic investigation. Both parties are cesspools of Islamophobia.

Gavin Newsom's favorite things to do are to give more money to billionaires, and to steal things from homeless people and burn them.

He used his IRA account to buy private paypal shares below their value at like $0.001 per share, staying under the $2000 annual contribution limit AND making his taxable income less than the $110k IRA restriction. You, a regular person, cannot do this

actually having a bunch of rich assholes decide everything is antithetical to democracy. it is incompatible with it, and if allowed to continue, it will destroy it. we have to be able to just stand up and say that, in any context

Did this person just not read the book or do they have some sort of brain damage? Many things in this world are contestable but the title is not ironic.

This is funny to me because one of the arguments constantly made against the welfare state (and indeed one of the O.G. arguments against democracy itself) is that people will bankrupt the government by voting themselves free money. As it turns out, no they won't.

people are saying maybe the cornell case leads to the end of campus greek life. which feels daunting but plausible. my preference though would be the end of ivy league universities & everyone whose degree is from one of them has to wear a dunce cap until they've officially proven they aren't a shit

I went to one philosophy club meeting in undergrad. The topic was "what is art?" and this was the first slide. Everyone who spoke agreed it wasn't. Even the professors didn't take the other side. I didn't say anything because I hadn't really collected my thoughts into an argument.

Look obviously a lil guy in a room with a bunch of lookup tables in a language he can't understand doesn't form a sentient system, but if the lil guy speaks Chinese? hot damn then maybe we're onto something

Maybe I'm just built different but my mind can comprehend this quite easily.

The reality is that there is no non-violent way to non-consensually end a healthy human being's life. The effort spent to fool death penalty advocates into thinking they are participating in something clean and surgical makes an already barbaric spectacle disgustingly hypocritical as well.

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Such a funny contrast. Nader has done more for the average American than almost every member of Congress.

Losers.

Yeah, I don't think we're going to find a more succinct formula than this about what is & what isn't free speech: "Whatever comes from the top down is freedom. Whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship"

I know it's a Friday but have some fucking self respect

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

This is surprising and welcomed news

I think fundamentally a lot of what unites the "we have to pre-emptively surrender on immigration" people is that they genuinely wanted to surrender on immigration

The greatest mystery in modern geography: Where is Xi'an?