Imagine how much bullshit people would call if statisticians said queer people were lying about being queer because statistics show the average person isn't queer. But swap the word "queer" with "poor" & every dipshit economist comes out of the woodwork to say poor people are lying about being poor
Theory: This already happened, like, 3 months before Zuckclone announced the metaverse. OG Zuckclone is now also sick of dealing with employees and so is making another Zuckclone to hand off to
For these people society is only working properly if it supplies them with some people to look down on. Otherwise how do they know they’re doing ok? 🤷♀️
I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.
Seems likely, and consistent with the fact the LibDem preference sits between 8-12% across the choices (not much age demographic difference in LD vote) except libdems don’t like almond milk 🤷♀️
Isn’t this largely a function of how the various age demographics vote?
And then with that same amount of money (within rounding) you have to account for the quality of things being increasingly rubbish so that people are eg. replacing appliances every few years when they used to last a decade or more.
Yep.
Yikes! What a ghastly way for that person to live.
I'm sure it's not a problem that one of the key figures in the federal government's disaster relief agency is clinically insane.
For those people it makes sense that their sense of personal stability would depend on some people being deprived of that.
What a horrifying idea. 👀
There’s something interesting here in that a lot of people only seem able to measure their success, contentment, even their safety, in comparison to others who have less. Some people seem purely motivated to have more than other people - no sense of ‘enough’ as an intrinsic condition.
Everyone here is overly familiar with the Nazi bar analogy. If 8 people at the bar are "doing fine" and 2 people are destitute and suffering then you live in a society of destitution and suffering.
Three 1783 documents mentioning the "cleynen beygaerde", "petits Begards", and "Pettit Beygards" respectively.
Might any #C18 scholars familiar with Belgium be able to identify the beguinage mentioned in these 1783 documents? The beguinage was either in or close to Brussels. The only other clue I have is that the confessor is identified variously as "Herdies", "Herdy", and "Herdie". Thank you kindly!
LLMAO
Pretty sure Kafka is plagiarising me.
Torso twisted in an interesting shape
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been heckled in Shetland and branded a 'scrounger'
The Reform UK leader is expected to be leaving the islands on his private plane later today
This seems straightforwardly like the sort of thing Ireland should be able to spend a tiny fraction of the massive tech tax windfall on getting right, you would think.
It is a shameful truth that anyone who knows anything about it can agree with. Not helped by the fact the archaeology museum has had to defend their space from a mooted invasion by the Seanad when the Dáil was getting renovations.
I have just said, out loud, “No, go away. What?” as something called Microsoft Connections has just proliferated uninvited across my computer screen. It appears to be a distraction machine? Anyone who argues “AI” is good for neurodivergent people could not be more wrong.
IF ENDNOTES ARE WORTH READING THEY WOULD BE FOOTNOTES
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Shabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just £600m – about 6% of the £10bn the home secretary claimed, according to the government’s own data.
FOI data was obtained by @jdportes.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Meanwhile, I understand Joe Biden — you know, barely sentient Joe Biden, as we were made to understand two years ago — was out here near Pasadena enjoying ice cream last week?
The political press corps remains, as Josh Marshall wrote 20 years ago at this point, wired for Republicans.
My core D&D group are all engineers (and a chemist). I've got decades of house rules preventing them from jumpstarting the Industrial Revolution, or inventing rockets. Leaning hard on character concepts goes a long way; in extremis, I'll actually lean on old-school alignment restrictions.
Yep.
The cloud is somebody else's computer in a rogue state.
*AI haters hate the guy. AI skeptics hate him. Anti-semites hate him, and anti-moguls hate him. Total strangers and know-nothings hate him
*Normally all that would be fine, but it may be a real problem for Altman that the people who know him best seem to like him least
