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If you've never seen this movie, really, go do that right now. It's unbelievably brutal and just gets worse and worse for the protagonists with such impossible verve and elan that I can't even tell you. By far the best use of a Monkees cover in cinema.

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

i dont think ive posted abt my stupid vase here yet but pls look at my vase

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Walter Koenig's Pavel Chekov was one of Gene Roddenberry's biggest swings with the original series. For season 2, he put a Russian on the bridge of the Enterprise, on prime time network television, just 5 short years after the Cuban Missile Crisis and during the height of the Cold War. 🥺

heaing nathan fielder's next documentary is about a sankey chart

holy shit. interactive squinting simulator graycrawford.com/engiscope/

Somewhere some military doctor is frantically sending us the only signal he is ethically allowed to send

The report says that there is a potential, *theoretical* risk of ADHD and autism being over-diagnosed, but that's what the media reports as the story, not what the report found *actually is happening*, which is obscene waiting lists and inadequate support. Showing their whole ableist arses here.

Ir order to film the Hobbit trilogy in New Zealand, Warner Bros influenced the NZ goverment to ban the right to unionize in their national movie production industry.

a cartoon directed by ben "bugs" hardaway had a model sheet with a rabbit labeled [bug's bunny], and this eventually became the name "bugs bunny" so what i am saying is that technically "bugs bunny" is a term like "frankenstein's monster"

Incredible

I put chia seeds and flax seeds in an Amazon cart, and their algorithm decided these recommendations were warranted.

You, a nice liberal, don't like Flock cameras because ICE can use them to find undocumented immigrants. My shady in-laws don't like Flock cameras because they have active warrants in the state of Oklahoma.

Elon Musk would only need to change one vote in each chamber to kill AI chatbot regulation. Today -- right now -- corporations could be donating lifechanging amounts of stocks to the accounts of legislators' children and we can't stop them. Not the public, and not the lawmakers who are parents.

We’re doing a family book club thing and my daughter picked the first book so I read Caraval on Saturday.

A Longtermist Effective Altruist Argument That We Must Invest All of Our Money in Time Travel - katabas.is/posts/we-mus...

they're bringing back my girls?

Lena dunhams character: I guess I didn't expect to still be trying to find myself in my thirties. I thought I’d have everything figured out by now. Baby yoda nods and chitters while drinking a glass of wine the size of his head

He could just do the whole movie with an Irish accent or something

"acting on their own" no, I need to know what the prompt was

can't wait to build my Robot That Mag Dumps 14 Rounds of 400 Winchester Magnum in a Random Direction Every Hour. i assume this is legal, since the precise time at which the trigger gets pulled is randomized!

computer, perform a live noise set. make it in my style. make sure it sucks. make sure nobody shows up to the gig. computer, will you come to the gig???

literally every one of us has to decide when we will say NO

go ahead, invite me to thanksgiving

You would think that if these AI "visionaries" truly believed that AI was going to create some kind of amazing utopia and be absolutely essential for human future and yadda yadda yadda that they would be much more careful about both public opinion and the accident potential.

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

The threat from his past turns out to be dinner with Spectre agent Andre Gregory.

Accidental poetry

I can’t stop thinking about this. Insane to me that the unanimous midterm message isn’t “the president wants to kidnap or kill you and your neighbors”

"I was asleep," said Ford, who floated into view at this point. "Did I miss anything?"

I question the NYTimes decision to replace Wordle with this new game. But that and a billion dolllars is probably why I don’t own a major newspaper.

The number of vibe-coded recompilation projects that have come into my view in the past 24hrs is either a sign that some notable line has been crossed in the capabilities of publicly-available models, or just that my attention has drifted into a new space.

more than anything, i think we’re all learning that people who spent their professional life unable to talk to computers are completely unprepared for a situation in which they can now also talk to computers

This is fascinating! But the next post in the thread is a troubling punchline.

They’re going to say the election was rigged. They’re going to say AI did the rigging. They’re going to say they used AI to prove the rigging.

Maybe the most culturally connected I feel to Mayor Mamdani is that every single progressive Jew has also been called both a Zionist stooge and a Hamas stooge by people on opposite sides.

This Amazon “Manage your information” page that all the kids are talking about it is nothing new, right? I remember browsing mine a long time ago and laughing about some of the things they associated with me. Maybe there’s some new labels?

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

it's funny to me that if you asked the average American, they'd be much more likely to know who Hasan Piker is than Curtis Yarvin. One of these dudes has zero influence on influential people, the other has MASSIVE influence at top levels of government. It's a framing failure of legacy media.