Free as in Bird

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

got put on probation at anthropic, where i work, for running experiments to figure out how to give claude gender dysphoria

this is the funniest fucking shit i've ever seen in my life

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

Is this something?

bowling is such a genius social event. the exact balance between like 10% activity to provide purpose to the 90% hanging out and drinking. bowling was the original friendslop

I’m LITERALLY always SAYING this

The article is an interesting cultural artifact because it really drives home shifts in media consumption. I have not heard of "Choosin' Texas" because I do not have a TV for TV news or a radio to listen to music somebody else picked. I have a computer and phone instead.

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

a catch is when a possession consists of at least one football move, unless there is first intent that can clearly be observed. the if the intent is observed concurrently with the possession, the ball carrier must first establish zone in space. zone in space is an acquiescence of one's football self

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

She lost, smashed her racquet, shook hands, walked to her bag and smashed a second racquet!

classic

don't get me wrong, i love the pleasures of the flesh! but it's always fun when people get back from Camp Pleasures of the Flesh and start posting like "transcendent love in human connection… the ephemeral beauty of movement and sound…" of course you had fun, you were at Camp Pleasures of the Flesh!

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

ALT version.

Yeah like I'm not at all convinced that Beshear's version of popularity in Kentucky will translate to the national stage, but this has been such a weird attack angle

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

We all have days like this

SPOUSE: I have to work late Thursday OUTER MONOLOGUE: I am going to miss you INNER MONOLOGUE: I am going to eat something very stupid

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Oreo CEO: We have created an Oreo so creamy, so stuf'd

we must crowdfund jupiter trips for our transmasc friends in order to allow them to share in this important masculinity-affirming experience

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The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

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Before 2025: You keep calling them fascists, and it is reductive and alarmist of you, and honestly you're just pushing them farther right After 2025: Oh sure there are fascists everywhere, of course, nobody is arguing that, what we are saying is we should reason with them, especially about rent

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Jan 1. Jan 3.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls