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Douglas Adams: In my book I invented the Electric Monk as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Electric Monk from classic sci-fi novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Next up is an independent councillor that says new social housing in Belmore is an “8 storey Ghetto”. Social and affordable housing for people who need it? Not in her backyard. For women over 55, who are at higher risk of homelessness? Still no.

the ADL is more mad about Zohran calling a neighborhood Eastern European than Elon giving a Nazi salute Zohran derangement syndrome is real

Brazilian President Lula: “For the Bolsonaro family, Brazil is their second homeland. “Their first homeland is licking boots in the United States, just as they are accustomed to doing.”

See: every Australian "wage theft" scandal involving a serious company rather than a crooked family business

Simultaneously, the fact that all platforms learned from the 4o disaster is a good sign of the underlying technology's viability, and the fact that OpenAI kept pushing 4o to addicts for premium prices after this was all known should on its own be enough to get the company utterly Sackler-ed

I think the movies - well, Grail and Brian - have survived longer in public consciousness (definitely met reasonable numbers of Zoomers who know them, not sure if that's persisted into Alphas), but the TV show is pretty much forgotten.

Movement, how do YOU think the dinosaurs went extinct?

Tangent here, but something I've often wondered about HP is that we know the British Minister for Magic regularly meets with and briefs the British PM. And we find out in Book 4 (canonically 1994) that Bulgaria also has a Minister for Magic. So did Bulgarian Ministers report to Zhivkov before 1989?

The number of times I've seen calling an unnecessary early election backfire at this point has gotten me all

God this is stupid - and (as we're seeing with Trump's $5k bribe) won't even work, even if it wasn't morally the opposite of what any left-wing party should be doing. The median person pays too little tax, not too much!

POV

Extremely funny to go "I can't believe the Poles didn't insitute reforms that would have upset Moscow" with a header image of What Happens When You Upset Moscow

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

Truly pathetic, absolutely Trump levels of baseless whinging from a position of power (which pretty much sums up modern China and its apologists from a cultural perspective, brillant though much of its tech is) www.bbc.com/news/article...

I don't love the way that I remember (both from visiting and reading about it in the papers) when these ancient neolithic escalators were installed

Really torn on whether to book a birthday dinner or a Male Birthday dinner

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

WHO WOULD WIN objectively best living conditions in human history VS. "i have to see transgenders on twitter :("

i think. like ok if i ever fucked up so bad my eighth grade teacher posted up on a street corner to literally picket my behavior. i mean i would simply kill myself like that’s all there is to it

One of the reasons why I‘m really happy Olivia Chow won re-election by a big margin is this time (and last time) she explicitly ran on raising taxes to plug the city’s financial crisis. Really good precedent that fantasyland slopulism wasn’t rewarded for once.

Everybody in the replies is rightfully pointing to algebra and so on but also an Arab scientist won the Nobel Prize one year ago.

idk man, I'm Arab and I do a lot of posts, surely that's got to count for something

Hadn't really been paying much attention to the Toronto mayoralty (unsurprisingly), but slightly surprised to discover that the pasty right wing anti-transit guy is called Brad Bradford rather than, as I had previously assumed, Brad Ford from the dynasty of pasty right-wing anti-transit guys

Nominative determinism strikes again!

To be fair I'm not convinced that RFK does understand what numbers are

The New Racism is just as serious in its potential impact as the old, but it is far, far, far, FAR more stupid. 'The calibre of racist has gone sharply downhill' sounds like it should be the start of a joke, but it is also: just demonstrably true!

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

One of my crank theories is that the insanely deep liquidity in the private markets is one of the reasons that governance standards has slipped so much in public markets.

i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy

Am somewhat charmed by the implicit suggestion that, in 1939, we could have turned round to the Nazis and said listen here chaps, why don't you just accept not being in power anymore, and we'll slice Germany up into 4 divided between the UK, US, France and the USSR. Sound like a deal

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

The truest thing JD Vance has said in a long, long time.

The Hard Hat Riot is the single most important and consequential independently organized labor action in post-Gilded Age American history but the entire left-of-center has deliberately chosen to completely forget it because of how utterly embarrassing it is to us

*ANTHROPIC FILES PUBLICLY FOR US IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

I don't think this is at all a good investment at the price it will go for (not investment advice etc), but the last couple of quarters of revenue and positive non-training cashflow have now been both sustained and independently verified. Will be interested to see EdZ's cope

Obviously VCS are literal Vogons; the things that really get me here are 1) real companies who will be brand damaged by this bullshit don't put a "don't embarrass us" clause into their contracts 2) what on earth captured bullshit is the Independent Appeals Service www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...