openai promises a chatgpt model with 'research grade intelligence' (if you pay them $200 a month). what they don't tell you is that it's the "research" capability of a 4th grader
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openai promises a chatgpt model with 'research grade intelligence' (if you pay them $200 a month). what they don't tell you is that it's the "research" capability of a 4th grader
This is naval state terrorism.
Lebanon: A significant cocaine shipment from Brazil was intercepted at the port of Tripoli. The cocaine was concealed in industrial oil and grease drums on a vessel. Although the exact quantity wasn't disclosed, it marks the largest such seizure in years. 1/2
Belgium: Police in Antwerp seized a total of 2 tons of cocaine, marking the largest drug bust for the area. The operation began in early June with a traffic check in Deurne, where a 35-year-old man was caught with a fake ID and 9 kg of cocaine, leading to further investigations. 1/3
having gavin newsom active in politics is like having a rabid dog running around in the middle of a fight like sometimes he bites your opponent and youâre like haha awesome but then he bites you and youâre like ok actually not a fan of this
Death By Hollywood by Steven Bochco made me laugh a lot as a kid. Probably the funniest work of fiction written about Hollywood from a dude who knew it inside out and hated it. It's a damn shame he never wrote another book
"On trans issues." He was telling people to physically assault us.
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
The man could not write women. It's unfortunate. Stripper Lessons is better in that regard but he didn't live long enough to correct that tendency.
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dogâs head, iâm not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, youâve got the heaviest soul weâve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? theyâve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
He is just an illiterate chud
I liked The Assault on Tony's Better but it's easy to tell a bad drunk wrote his stuff. The movie is a superior adaptation
checking in on the new Definitely Not A Right Wing Conspiracy outlet for liberalism
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I've been reading a lot of Australian fiction and I like it. Terse, atmospheric, punchy
In Kochi City Station thereâs a statue of Berobero No Kamisama, a nude, pink, spiral-eyed figure who is the local god for drunkards.
About a hundred years ago American playwrights forfeited the right to a union in return for total ownership of our work. In Britain the Writers' Guild covers everybody.
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a bossđ" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
The Libertine slaps. American audiences were too ignorant and vulgar to appreciate it
Unfortunately I'm the most sane person I know.
Europeans have a proper contempt for their cops and military ie they don't pay for shit. It was National Guards who shot the kids at Kent State and got away with it. Americans assume that military won't Tiananmen Square their asses when crunch time hits and they will assume wrongly.
It's a problem with professional sports, communist, capitalist, nationalist or otherwise. That's why it should not be a profession or business or national surrogate. But people don't want to hear this because they like watching that dumb shit. Mine is not a popular opinion
Well yes but communist countries also abused the shit out of their athletes as well. When sports become politics and or economics it fucks everyone ie the Olympics
Where did I say this? Nowhere. You assumed wrongly
Well, that's the thing. If by "play" you mean playing sports, I mean I hate that shit but people like to do it and will do it. Professional sports are deeply evil, exploitative and corrupt the world over. I hate professional sports and the undue power it has over society
Lmao not liking sports is a Nazi opinion? What drugs have you been consuming this evening and where can I get some?
We need those to live tho
Fuck the military and the cops. Bunch of hired killers and people run around here talking about "honor." Makes me sick. Babbitt is a perfect avatar of the modern military because she was a psychotic NPC who got her lights turned out doing something stupid. Pretty good description of American wars
War has been with us for as long as we have been human and that's stupid too.
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
It's a very good movie. No way would it be made today. One of Gere's best performances
It pisses me off to hear professional screenwriters be enthusiastic AI supporters. These are people who have sold scripts to major studios and they don't realize they are cutting their own throats professionally. It makes it impossible to take them seriously
watching a random movie on netflix: unpleasant, disappointing watching a random movie on tubi: extraordinary, a blessing
Hong Kong: Between 21st and 29th August, a major police operation targeting the 14K triad (14K帎) led to the arrest of 155 individuals, including the gang leader known as "Fat Nine" (čĽäš). 1/5
Brazil: Two businessmen have been arrested in Campinas, SĂŁo Paulo, on suspicion of financing a plan by the criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) to assassinate prosecutor Amauri Silveira Filho. 1/4
Again, all of Trump's actions against homeless Americans, including using them as justification to occupy DC, is built on a bipartisan policy choice by Newsom and others to attack the poorest Americans. Wrote this earlier this month for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...
I was unaware that Marianne Faithful dedicated Broken English to Ulrike Meinhoff.
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
The American Years of Lead have already been here, just unevenly distributed.
yo this guy is cooking
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Brazil: Operation Carbono Oculto, the largest against organized crime in the countryâs history, targeted the involvement of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in the fuel sector. 1/5
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the traditional denigration of the last emperor of a dynasty by his successors, in this case a northern steppe people known as Canadians.
The Philly transit crisis has completely fucked up my psychogeography. That I do not forgive.
It's so crazy to give someone a bag of chips with 100 dollars in it
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It's mildly disorienting to see stuff about the progressive policies of Sheinbaum's admin and then the bone chilling atrocities being committed on a daily basis outside of Mexico City. The American media seems to have lost interest in covering it. The levels of violence on Mexico are rising
Therapy is part of the problem
the worst part about watching a celebrity do what are essentially manic/psychotic behaviors (even if substance-induced) are the people who come out to say "I support mental illness but this is going too far" as if severe mental illness is ever goddamn comfortable to witness
That's my GOAT
"Danish intelligence services have uncovered a network of âat least threeâ people working on âinfluence operationsâ in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and the territory, in a bid to pave the way for it to get closer to the United States." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
As far as I am aware his murder was never solved. I used to walk past his boarded up coffee shop every day on my way back from school. It always gave me an eerie feeling.
There was a spate of mob hits in the 90s and early 2000s that are mostly unsolved. There isn't enough left of the Philly borgata to order murders anymore. A friend of my cousin was murdered in this way in the early 2000s. He was killed from a long distance with a sniper rifle.
a big problem with the death of media outside of urban areas is that we could use a lot more sensational reporting on the Murderous White Trash Terror That Stalks the Red State Heartland
People are uncouth
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
Not even in the bathroom? Just out in front of everyone?
Neoliberal atomization drives people insane
I must be patronizing different book stores
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount
This is absolutely what is happening -- as part of my work, we've been doing events across the country and people are scared and angry and worried and pissed the fuck off. Instead of reflecting that, the pundits and entrenched beltway figures have made up a guy to represent.
Scam centers are outpacing the profits of the Golden Triangle drug trade. They earn tens of billions of dollars a year and are expanding exponentially. You will not stability of any kind while this modern slavery exists. MSS intelligence assets control all of it with total impunity.
Scam centers now make up about 40 percent of Cambodia's economy. They are a slave state. The scale of the catastrophe unfolding in SE Asia is immense and it will shape events in the region and globally for years to come. The global indifference to it is very stupid and shortsighted.
I need Panera to stop being woke and bring back the death lemonade. I need it back
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One of the funnier things in Taxi Driver is where Travis says "I clear about 350 a week" which is about 2 grand today. He still lives in a shitty apartment and dresses like a hobo. 70s New York was a different universe
More corporate bankruptcies this year than all of 2021/2022 â and itâs still August.
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You're telling me a shitty right wing restaurant isn't doing well in Philadelphia, the greatest food city in America and possibly the world? No way.
"earn a living" is the most fucked up phrase we've ever just accepted, like you don't deserve to live unless you prove you can money for rich people
Keep track of the Musk murders
I've tried really hard with Bluesky and there are definitely things I like about it. It's just really boring and a lot of Twitter mufos are not here. It's not engaging enough
100% overlap between the people who mocked our pleas for politicians to "do something" and the people who say "at least Newsom is doing something" (posting).
As a half assed coping mechanism I've read a huge amount about the history of Philly. It's given me a cautious measure of hope because Philly is a city that has weathered grave national and global crises before and come out the other side. Make no mistake: the current transit cris is existential.
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
refusing to accept this isnât just about âpurityâ or whatever, itâs about effective politics. someone who thinks itâs practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they donât recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
you cant deter crime thru relentless force. the longer itâs applied, the more visible errors accrue & the more citizens feel occupied. distrust in authority dissolves cooperation and you canât solve crimes without citizensâ help. when police are a communityâs enemy solving crime there is impossible.
jesus christ this is an actual fisking
![Williamsâs book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue: For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Postâs âFatal Forceâ database) â and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement â the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obamaâs second administration. Huh? In addition to such passages, âSummer of Our Discontentâ includes many distended excerpts â some spanning three pages â from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times. Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding âan excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.â Regrettably, I know the feeling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfposmpmhegtyvhbs75s3pw/bafkreif2e52q5ncyrgmcxrrhpwuuclwcfp2vefdlmqxka6z5p2brfiarsa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This dude sold a million books? How?
"Gavin Newsom is America's Keir Starmer" is perhaps the most devastating thing that has ever been or could ever be said about an American.
Which is why Tom Crewe's review of Ocean Vuong is so effective. It's like a lawyer reading from the record to destroy the witness. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
RoboCop: *about to arrest me* Me: before you arrest me, which of these 9 pictures have cars in them RoboCop: iâm going to let you off with a warning
You losers have eaten shit in elections for years now. Do you really think anyone cares what you useless idiots think?
You don't know what communism is. The government owning a ten percent share of a company is nothing of the sort
if George Soros was the evil mastermind the right thinks he is weâd all be getting fat paychecks to do the Hasan Piker bit
I canât believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isnât working www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
my main problem with the attitude of "butlerian jihad" or "killing the computer" is that it assigns blame to inanimate objects instead of the real people who very much can be held accountable who designed the computer to be this way
"I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING STRANGERS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN"
Where my free market enterprise people at?
Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial
It's really interesting that Joel made a thundering modernist Macbeth and Ethan is doing......all of that. They need to squash the beef get together again.
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...