Lilith has struggling to begin her auto fiction memoir. The problem is that she is not an addict of any kind, she has never been married or divorced, she has been told that she has a “very nice purr” but has won no prizes. Suffering writers’ block. Advice?
the way these folks use mathematical terminology, put numbers to things like values of a human life, the probability of ai apocalypse, etc gives an impression of scientific rigor; this has a very powerful rhetorical effect on the listener and a psychological effect on the speaker
Hasan Piker's take on the Jensen Huang's cheating scandal with the alleged Chinese spy:
"I personally don't give a shit. I want them [China] to copy the fucking chips and I want to have cheap RAM. I want to have cheap GPUs. Give them not just the chips, but the lithography machines. Make them have access to the microchip technology pronto.
We want to flood the market with Chinese copies. That's what I care about. I don't give a fuck about the national security implications here. That's just me. So, whatever kind of Chinese strange Jensen Huang needs to get involved with to make that happen, I am in support of it. HONEY POTS FOR EVERYBODY! I LOVE TRADE-MAXXING!"
computer science, economics and analytical philosophy attract what i like to call “temporarily embarrassed mathematicians”. A very lame kind of person to be
In an attempt to fight the male literacy crisis, the store is a hosting a book club for “Consider The Lobster” and it has turned out to be entirely women—half zoomers and half Gen X moms—all DFW newcomers. Great for the Lit Bro allegations, bad for the “men don’t read” ones
My way too early prediction for the future of the new democratic senators:
Has the seat for life: Jackson, Cooper, and Flanagan
Can have the seat for life if they deliver good results for their state: Peltola and Abdul
Will age out after one full term: Brown
Must become Dem Susan Collins: Hamilton and Turek
DOA in 2032: Colom and Andrews
nearly all books are bad. men read terrible self help and indulge in juvenile comic books and women read trashy romance stories about vampires. it is all bad and all of it is destined to be lost in the detritus of history.