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[Bobble Bardsley @bobblebardsley]

I'm getting very close to being willing to vote for any party who promises to stop banning vast swathes of the internet and/or adding facial recognition to access it, and ideally also things like sugar and warm pastry and stuff.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

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[Casebash @casebash]

@Richard_Vixen This is a bad take. I confident that most men who develop a love of reading will find that it widens their horizons.

[The Spectator @spectator]

The Free Speech Union (FSU) has fought more than 7,000 cases since 2020 and, frankly, I thought I'd seen it all when it comes to the police overreacting to an 'offensive' remark.

Surely, the Met dispatching five armed officers to arrest Graham Linehan when he got off a flight from America for a tweet is the absolute nadir? But no. We were in court last week defending a man who was being prosecuted for saying something verboten while driving his car.

The only person who heard it was his four-year-old son, yet he was charged with 'threatening or abusive behaviour' with a racial aggravator.

The story begins in April last year, when our member – let's call him Craig – was driving his son back to their home in Glasgow after a day out at an amusement park in Falkirk.

✍️ Toby Young

Article | https://t.co/tgHSEAheUr | @toadmeister

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Anyhow, in a little over a week we will see the release of The Last Human Game.

There will never be another AAA game at the scale of GTA 6 with no AI assistance. People will look back at an all-human game with a billion dollar budget and wonder how they did it, like the Pyramids

[Basil🧡 (they/them) @LinkofSunshine]

The asset limit for both food stamps and disability is like 2-3k in total assets.

How are we supposed to bring people out of poverty if we directly disincentivize people saving any amount of money to do so?

[flaw @flawedaxioms]

This kind of thing only can happen in nascent/rapidly expanding fields that are desperate for talent. For example, post WW2 academia, early wall st, early big tech. Once a field is mature and more stable, young people are able to optimize their resumes and it becomes too competitive to enter.

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

jung spoke of this. a therapist is simply someone who chose to become a therapist. who else would even bother?

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

We are witnessing the fall of a civilization in real time.

[No. 1 Hetslop Enjoyer @Pribaris]

Why would men have a 'dream date'? They are focused on the person they are going on a date with, not the peripheral activity that acts as an excuse to know them. They are interested in YOU. The date is just dressing. A setting.

[Defense Analyses and Research Corporation @DefenseAnalyses]

Bukele is fascinating because he has understood better than most that in the modern era small states are well positioned to operate as a kind of PMC: offering a fully integrated carceral stack that can be distributed as a platform to neighboring states with weaker state capacity

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

I think pretty strongly that left of center outlets that want to be more respectable than the dregs of right-wing Twitter should have pretty strongly taboos against this sort of ugly us-versus-them racism

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Alex Karp now says that Palantir is progressive, he’s always been a Democrat, Trump went too far on immigration and his primary commitment is to economic justice. LMAOOOOOO

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

First, I note not a single one of my clients is named. Lesson there.

Second, trying to ban "Mastodon" shows just how illiterate this government is on Internet issues; Mastodon is a specification, not a website. It's like trying to ban e-mail.

[Loquitur Ponte Sublicio @loquitur_ponte]

Jean D'Arc seems like a reasonable proxy for just absolutely maxed out charisma within human biological constraints and basically on the spot critical hit everyone she interacted with and is so charismatic that 600 years later she basically charisma snipes rational atheists into being like "yeah god chose her." So even setting aside true superhuman traits my assumption is that truly maxed out human level capabilities are quite impactful and not merely a "slightly better" kind of thing.

[Panat @ptaranat]

writing code in an interview is now larping in the literal sense. like you are straight up live action roleplaying a historical reenactment of what it was like to be a software engineer.

[Aaron Bergman 🔍 @AaronBergman18]

Normie take but: pictures of the physical goods you’re selling is the dumbest possible use case for AI

1) allegedly you regularly produce the item in question so what exactly is going on here ¿

[evan conrad @evanjconrad]

For the same reason, San Francisco is an overwhelmingly poor city.

Wealth does not look like engineers crammed 5 roommates to a unit, it looks like a barista with a 3 bedroom flat.

[Asa Cooper Stickland @AsaCoopStick]

Being "poisoned" in the sense of the HF incident agents (i.e. exposed to information that irreversibly compromises your ability to do something) is a super useful concept. I find myself using it pretty often

[Casebash @casebash]

I wouldn't have phrased it this way, but Mr S.T.A.R makes a great point about the psychological effects of charity that are easy to overlook.

[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

Timnit is explicitly verbalizing an extremely important phenomenon which is that the recipients of charity are deeply psychologically wounded by the state of subservience to their providers.