I'm a fan of negative income tax brackets rather than "true" UBI

When it comes to taste in entertainment I'm not one to yuck anybody else's yum, but at a certain point I have to ask if the amount of Two and a Half Men my across the street neighbor has been watching is a form of self-harm.

Urgent: do not smash Fluorine

Open letter to the Cheerios factory: y'all can chill out on making some of them heart-shaped. It's okay, the name has "Os" in it, I knew what I was getting into.

In my humble opinion it doesn't seem to me like coders are going anywhere for a while. The job is changing now that tools like Claude Code are too useful to ignore, but I don't think companies who try cutting their team size down because of AI are going to have a great time.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Toronto police, others arrested in auto theft and drug trafficking probe York Regional Police delivering an update related to ‘organized crime and corruption’

York Region cops arresting Toronto cops. This should be a national sport. Whoever can arrest the most cops doesn't get de-funded.

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I think you can say a lot of bad things about what NATO has done as a military force, but it's also a big part of why we stopped counting the number of world wars so I feel like continuing to have it is still overall in the plus column.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

The disease that plagues a lot of terminally online leftist communities is that eventually anybody who spends enough time in the public eye will be deemed ideologically impure in one way or another, no matter how inoffensive that person actually is.

Computers also play chess totally differently from humans, in a way that's way less interesting. A computer can consider millions of positions in a second. Magnus Carlsen definitely cannot, so he needs to understand at a deep level how chess WORKS in a way that Stockfish probably doesn't.

I chose a hell of a year to get into baseball

Jason Miles’ addiction cost $260,000 in emergency room, shelter and jail stays. A Toronto hospital’s radical solution: just give him a home Jason Miles’ addiction cost $260,000 in emergency room, shelter and jail stays. A Toronto hospital’s radical solution: just give him a home

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Huntington's sucks. So this is incredible news!
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Train named Ctrl Alt Deleaf to tackle leaves on the line A leaf-removal train has been named Ctrl Alt Deleaf after a public vote.

Ten options for future leaf-removal trains...

10. Keanu Leaves
9. Twiggy Pop
8. Axel Foliage
7. Britney Clears
6. The Regional Branch Manager
5. Leaf No Trace
4. The Fall Guy
3. That Don't Impress Me Mulch
2. A Good Railing
1. Maybe She's Born With it. Maybe It's Maple-leaves

Although they did know each other, so maybe that's just a murder, not an assassination. *Looks up the definition of an assassination*

The guy who killed Harvey Milk was mostly just mad about losing his job, which Milk didn't really even have anything to do with.

I do actually currently have 0

How dare you say this about the visionary inventor of 2D glasses

Is there any phrase in the English language as beautiful as "all other participants declined the meeting"

When I'm three paragraphs into writing a game industry article for the nyt and I haven't said that video games have come a long way since pac man

This is an S-tier skeet

Jubilee pitch: “Julius Caesar vs 20 Roman Senators”

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I for one think it's a conflict of interest that a company that had the initials STD is implicitly endorsing creampies

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Random good news fact, #Toronto is having a weirdly low number of homicides in 2025. By this time last year there had been 47, this year there have only been 17. If it keeps up, 2025 will have the lowest murder rate in decades.

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Last time I created a Twitter account I gave it a dumb name because I wasn't planning on posting anything. This turned out to be genius because now any time I start to think about wading into an argument, I remember that no matter how good my point is, it's going to be posted as "ButtsMcLeod"

People have been talking about the possibility of a US-Iran war pretty much my whole life and I'd love it if it did not happen with the dumbest US administration I've ever seen in my life.

If you're not breaking production occasionally, are you really even programming? 😆

Dow tumbles more than 1,000 points and dollar hits three-year low as Trump continues to bash Fed Chair Powell | CNN Business US stocks and the dollar tumbled Monday as investors assessed continued tariff uncertainty and the implications of President Donald Trump’s ongoing mission to try and oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome...

Imagine you sit down at a chess board for the first time in your life, and even though you have no idea what you're doing and keep losing, millions of people pretend every single move you make is some sort of genius gambit.

Imagine that went on for Nine. Years.

Screenshot of a Google AI overview: "To remember 'Zimbabwe', you can use the mnemonic 'Zebra Walks Zestfully,' where 'Z' represents the first letter of the country's name, 'W' represents the second letter, and 'Z' again represents the third letter. Here's a more detailed breakdown: - Zebra: The first letter of the country's name is 'Z' - Walks: The second letter of the country's name is 'W' - Zestfully: The third letter of the country's name is 'Z'

Google AI summary gives the best advice