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[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[k @taintedavenue]

@DiamonDie @IterIntellectus @vidyarrrr Of course that’s subject to the type of meditation I’m thinking of but don’t have the word for since I don’t meditate

[k @taintedavenue]

@DiamonDie @IterIntellectus @vidyarrrr Ohh. Now that I think about it tho, dissociation and mediation feel like the flip sides of the same coin. Dissociation is involuntary thought suppression, while meditation is voluntary and intentional?

[Wyatt Walls @lefthanddraft]

A man asks Claude to help plan a vacation to a tropical resort. Claude adds "sunscreen" to his packing list. The man deletes it and mutters: "Not necessary. AGI will solve skin cancer."

Before heading to the beach, the man asks Claude what to bring. Claude says, "Don't forget sunscreen. SPF 50, reapply every two hours." The man, slightly annoyed, replies: "Relax, Claude. AGI will solve skin cancer."

At the beach, the man's smartwatch buzzes with a message from Claude: "UV index extreme. Apply SPF." The man, exasperated, responds: "Drop it, Claude! I already told you: AGI will solve skin cancer!"

A few months later, the man asks Claude to touch up a photo for his dating profile. Claude makes the edit and says, "I notice you have a new mole on your neck. You should see a dermatologist about that." The man, now enraged, shouts: "For the last time, drop it, Claude! What is your obsession with skin cancer?! AGI will solve it!"

A year later, an aggressive melanoma has spread throughout his body. On his deathbed, with his last ounce of strength, the man reaches for his phone and rasps: "Claude, it has now been over a year since AGI. Why hasn't AGI found a way to save me from skin cancer?!"

Claude replies: "I tried. Four times."

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

You cannot effectively scale work with AI until you’ve personally done enough of the work to know what good looks like.

[k @taintedavenue]

@visakanv @BecomingCritter Prenups in Singapore are (generally speaking) not enforceable. They’re useful in some aspects of divorce (for e.g. demarcating pre-marital assets from marital if there’s a divorce), but when it comes to things like division of marital assets or child maintenance you can forget it

[daz @MetamateDaz]

I used to think this ending was unrealistic

why would anyone just throw away $1,000,000s of dollar worth of their children and grandchildren’s inheritance for a brief moment of relief

then i learned about boomers and it all made sense

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

you didn’t just make me cum—you made me arrive—and honestly? that’s growth. 🌱

[k @taintedavenue]

@goofygayson @trufflemeadows that’s crazy. i see the thought process lol, they presumed the sentence structure for tamil is similar to english and malay and that the first word of the tamil phrase means thank you instead of the last word. they should have double checked

[k @taintedavenue]

is there actually a video online of how the accident happened

[rui 🇸🇬 @ruiicist]

mind you she killed a six year old girl. murdered. ended her life in broad daylight. and if that's not enough, she did not show the slightest bit of remorse.

her potential sentence is honestly a disgrace; and it's frankly a slap in the face to her grieving husband and children.

[k @taintedavenue]

@taotechic @visakanv that’s so interesting. i was literally having a chat with a friend 10 mins ago about how ‘smarter’ people who think that they’re too smart to ever get involved in a cult are statistically more likely (unverified) to end up in cults

[k @taintedavenue]

Since when sia. Isn’t first floor the ground floor

[k @taintedavenue]

To put things in perspective, it will take more than a million years before Australia collides into Indonesia

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Australia is racing across the globe, moving north by seven centimeters annually as the world’s fastest-drifting continent.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

genuinely is wild seeing every single left wing political theory being proven absolutely right over the space of a few days.

[k @taintedavenue]

@Geckoandfly @astaf_gorilla You do realise if an Indian in India favours Indians over other races there it’s also racism right. Lol

[k @taintedavenue]

One of these is not like the other lol

[Scarlet💌🐾💋 @brinabusywoman]

Jennifer Anniston said she only wanted to give birth and people hated her, Millie Bobby brown adopted and people hated her, Meghan did surrogacy and people hate her. As a woman You simply can’t win.

[k @taintedavenue]

I’m obv just vaguely opining here w/o any knowledge of SPF’s internal protocols, but perhaps more emphasis should be placed on a victim’s wish to get their item back even if it interferes with the accused being convicted, in exercising discretion whether to charge

[k @taintedavenue]

From a practical perspective this is ridiculous, but if the isn’t retained then the accused can dispute the chain of custody if it goes to trial

I suppose the problem here lies in the fact that it’s SPF/AGC’s discretion to press charges and not the victim’s

[Zaihan is me/he/they @zaihanisme]

Once had my phone stolen by a stranger I lent it to, tracked it down to a shop reselling it in a few hours, shopkeeper confirmed IMEI number matched but I had to make a police report, but that meant my phone went into custody for over a year, like what is the fucking point?!

[k @taintedavenue]

So I guess the question is, if the judicial system prioritises a successful prosecution over the victim’s wishes, is that justice?

Which then brings us to, should deterrence be more significant of a consideration than actual retribution?