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I was gonna say I’m surprised none of them are white nationalist posting about how the degenerate burrito must be expelled from our pure motherland

This is sooooo true and you’re brave for saying it

In 2026, Spiderman makes an offhand comment about having every camera in the city scanning faces for a particular bad guy, the chief of police he is talking to cracks a joke saying that seems illegal. This is about Flock cameras.

Tangential but do you ever get that thing where using a q-tip in your ear (yes I know you shouldn't do that) makes you cough/your throat itch?

The craziest part is I considered voting on the other side and I think it would've been just as worthless lmao

The idea that attention is the base resource of an entire ecosystem and that different media orgs evolve to fill different niches eating that attention is a load bearing metaphor

Cannot tell you how much I appreciate taking the ecosystem metaphor seriously. So many people just invoke it as a vague "look at these interconnected actors" idea, when there are often very real predator/prey, symbiotic/parasitic, and other relationships.

Also a kind of american sin eater activity as the undisputed world record CO2 emitters

I've long maintained a Modest Proposal of simply sacrificing everything in Nevada outside of Vegas and Reno to build enough solar capacity to power everything forever, I see no way this could possibly backfire ecologically or economically

Also idk if it was intentional but wasn't the original glonzo post about him eating transmission lines lol

imo the politically expedient thing for blue states to do re: datacenters is not outright bans but to make them provide their own transmission. If you're right and this is the tech of the future this is a trivial expenditure, if you're wrong then at least you've done something for the future!

What happens if you add eigenslur to beer? My guess is swill

I was so bought in from the headline and so out immediately after

As someone who had never heard of Emily Wilson I feel like I'm losing my mind, why do we all have to talk about one author's take on this millennia-old story?? When I was a kid I read an illustrated children's book version of it, should we ask its author whether the violence was too graphic?

Get ready for Epic of Gilgamesh directed by Coogler in 2027

Risk aversion is not cognitive biases, it's a recognition that you only have one life and ruining it on a coin flip is stupid

You have 100K in savings, I offer you a coin flip that, if you win you get a million dollars, if you lose you lose 500K. You are absolutely in the right to refuse my offer because being 400K in debt is *much* worse than being a millionaire is good and both scenarios are equally likely

Also extremely good parenting on your part, should've led with that

I once flicked off a cybertruck and the guy pulled over and started yelling at me about being more considerate, the irony seemed lost on him

Most of the papers aren't even that bad but the bibliography's summary/speaker's takeaway from them is literally just wrong, like, hallucinated conclusions that the papers don't even touch on!