Graham Greene has passed away at the age of 73
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Graham Greene has passed away at the age of 73
It’s Labor Day. Laborers whose jobs are doing things like landscape maintenance while getting paid an honest wage for their labor is always the right answer.
Daniel Craig is the worst Bond after George Lazenby. I want my gadgets and goofy asides. If I wanted to watch a Jason Bourne film, I'd fucking watch a Jason Bourne film.
MY MAN
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Unions have a defined set of circumstances that they can strike over, as part of their contract This is called, imaginatively, a no-strike agreement. "We will not strike in these circumstances" the union promises. "Fuck us over in these ways and we *will* strike"
Everything is genocide it seems. Thoroughly useless term now.
No notes…I’m tired.
I notes. A+
Yes, ivy vines at the bottom are exactly what it needs…omg.
In the upside you’re now on a hot streak.
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The CA Assemby is overwhelming Democrats. It will be great if he takes a seat from the GOP, but it’s unlikely to have much impact on CA politics. He would have much more immediate impact running for school board where he lives.
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The Golden Horde of the Rocky Mountains.
Kings and Queens…
If your EQ is such that you are incapable of meeting people where they are and go from there (generally the difference between a baseline HS vocabulary and a baseline college vocabulary is a distinction without that much of a difference) then yes, that is a pity.
Kings of the Mountains
Or if I dated someone who is turned off by needless pretense.
Dating 101 advice given to me by my mother years ago - ease up on the highfalutin words when you first meet someone you’d like to get to know better - big turnoff.
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Joseph Weizenbaum could have programmed ELIZA to do exactly that, but he didn't, because he wasn't a fucking psychopath
Thank you!
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Environmental impacts, errors and ethics aside, I personally just don't feel like ceding my thought process to a computer.
I've met a lot of those people ("you were ALONE?!? in NICARAGUA?!?") and when you ask them to name the things that scare them about the places I've traveled to, it usually comes down to "I am scared of anyone different than I am and who does not speak English"
www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
Aye. The current Israeli government has made it very clear, they despise the very idea of the liberal international order.
look, i'm not so surprised that he's trying to sell one so much that he appears to have been oneshotted by his own pedophilic AI waifu
Who exactly gets to decide who is a “top genocide expert”? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_...
“Every genocide expert”? Sources please.
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In the 30’s - 60’s it was Mexicans.
BREAKING: Manchester United moving to Las Vegas
Now I am mad about that dumb, condescending Anderson Cooper monologue all over again. Here's (part of) what I wrote about it at the time: www.findinggravity.net/anderson-coo...
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
This is going around on the other site. What's amazing is that he wants what the Democrats were offering, but believes that he can't say that for fear of being partisan, as if his suffering doesn't count if he says we should have elected a Democrat. We can't face that kind of truth.
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NEWS: Meta will announce an AI reorganization today, dividing the Superintelligence division into four units weighing some cuts or employees moved from AI division considering licensing closed source models to build new AI products w/ @elitan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/t...
When is good enough not really good enough?
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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just thinking about how sanitation workers have saved more lives in one single year than the police ever have in hundreds of years of existence and you don't hear them whining every day about not having the respect of the public
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This notion that the only answer to crime is more police and incarceration is NONSENSE too...but the way we PROVE it is by using DATA Also, in general, what we have found is that the people most impacted by violence tend to vote for REFORM johnfpfaff.com/2024/12/10/r...
That is not from some rando, that is from @jeffasher.bsky.social one of the more respected compilers of crime stats in the country jasher.substack.com/p/murder-off...
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much simpler to reduce & remove “the sand in the machine” (labor); which has always been the primary impediment of ever increasing shareholder returns. Maybe displaced workers can learn write LLM prompts - err “learn to code”.
Primarily about meeting & exceeding ROI targets on invested capital - just too bad quickest return is found by ⬇️ labor component of expense side of equation while commoditizing (“enshitafying”) the product sold to the consumer at increasing margins..
Been seeing a *lot* of people arguing about Newsom with very obvious chatbots without realizing it
Prove it.
I don't think this, from Xitter, has made it over here:
just lost $100,000 on a polymarket bet that trump would negotiate a peace deal today with putin. i was sure of it. i can't believe i lost all this money. he wrote the art of the deal.
Ded.
Is your reading comprehension broken??? She cancelled and is only picking up her daughter. GTFOH with your clickbait bullshit.
And here I thought I was the odd one out who manages to appreciate these attributes on a spectrum.
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We could be talking about the Sinaloa Cartel and your statement would still stand.
Imagine being Zuckerberg, willing to burn a $70 billion pile of money on the world's stupidest temu Second Life, and very literally not understanding why you would want to pitch your product as something that benefits people who are not you.
"I don't get it, I'm opening my mouth but you're not crawling inside? Am I being canceled?"
Worst thing that happened to the LA Colliseum renovation was removal of the yuge communal urinals.
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Slightly diminish a band: Young the Above Average
Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
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The Trump AI Action Plan’s language on empowering workers is congruent with much of what counts as mainstream US political discourse on AI and labor, say DAIR’s Alex Hanna, Tina Park, and Sophie Song. That means it's disconnected from what’s actually happening with AI in the workplace, they say.
Stochastic Parrots ™️
Bears: Jets/Giants
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Absolutely. And blocking liberally and often is like keeping the fish tank clean.
I'm Greek Orthodox and feel the same way. I want to live in a secular, tolerant order under the U.S. Constitution, so maybe we should all think about what we all seek in common, whether believers or non-believers.
So new it’s almost their first post in this neck of the intertubes.
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MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it's time to pull out. Share, porfas!
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F’ing grotesque Dan. Shameful.
Oh, for sure although the original argument in this thread centered on women legislators in comparison to Senator Warren.
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Bloom County Returns. 🧵
He’s been in Congress for 34+ years and hasn’t accomplished jack shit other than renaming post offices. Congress is where legislation gets passed. Presidents can’t do anything without Congress passing legislation.
I’m supposing this was written by an Icelander alt account. Well played.
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