It's amazing to me how effective Diablo and 1 and 2's storytelling are compared to 3 with a fraction of the content, and that Blizzard failed to recognize it themselves. Suffering from success.

I wonder if people when asked about "the economy" hear "society"

The point I'm trying to make is not that LLMs are "good" or that they aren't being foisted upon us (they are), but that "need" is not a sufficient lens for understanding their potential impact.

People didn't use to need cars yet we've practically built our societies around them.

This is actually how you know you've made it.

His default mode of communication is whining. Does not know another way to be.

This whiny fucking loser

Genuinely curious: how is it that people do not actually need LLMs?

For the latter, Anders Tegnell's (~Fauci) approach to elder care facilities was basically "kill them all, God will recognize his own." I don't know if anyone in government so much as thought to hold him accountable for this.

See also: Swedish drug policy policy and initial COVID response.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

I'm just trying to understand what it would mean for people's subjective experience of the economy, since that's where I understand that they acquired the perception that it sucks.

Yes but what would the experience be like? Is it another five inches on the living room TV or a house in a previously unaffordable part of town or what?

How would someone experience this drop in inequality?

JibJab.com "This Land!" YouTube video by JibJab

I remembered the original as being from Liquid Generation, but it's actually from JibJab: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Q-...

The West LA Mormon temple

This is Naboo slander, and also it gives way more mormon temple imo

This seems obviously correct idk how you can justify any of the others.

Somewhat more readable overview here: github.com/califio/publ...

Anthropic's report documenting this and more here: red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...

The vulnerabilities it's finding are unfortunately all too real, and undergoing standard responsible disclosure procedures. Because they're so numerous and severe, it's taking time. Here's one that enables arbitrary remote takeover of FreeBSD devices: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/...

Augh

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

The Nordics are simultaneously ahead and behind of the US on different axes of progressivism. Where they're behind, you'll often find pockets of insanity like this where a gatekept community of scholar-bureaucrats believes it's transmuting lead into gold.

James Hargreaves pampering farmwives with the Spinning Jenny.

Now they're doing Bitcoin conspiracy threadnomancy too? Won't someone rid me of this horrible rag?

Actually appropriate of him to include Angola on that list, a bottomless pit of money and human suffering that failed to materially advance the interests of anyone except Jonas Savimbi

If Anthropic's services were down at the same time as Bluesky's, how did the former cause the latter?

I’m not crying in space. You’re crying in space.

You ever experience someone being applauded for saying something incredibly fucking stupid about something you happen to have a working knowledge of?

I don't think it's accurate to say that our understanding of Biden's legacy is uncontested or without consequence in a world where Chuck Schumer remains minority leader, or people like Matt Yglesias remain influential voices in Democratic politics.

Joe Biden betrayed his duty to his country, and any impulse to rehabilitate him should be regarded as a form of insanity.