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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

25.06.2025 15:42 👍 389 🔁 141 💬 16 📌 28

Impossible to watch this video without weeping. What these people have gone through I simply cannot imagine.

22.05.2025 18:57 👍 120 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 0
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Tesla's latest earnings were abysmal. Strip out EV credits, net interest and 'other', and underlying operations flipped to a loss.
But Musk led the call with a MAGA-gram.
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

23.04.2025 00:40 👍 45 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 1
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Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

23.04.2025 06:35 👍 45355 🔁 11528 💬 700 📌 968

welcome back david lynch

21.04.2025 19:21 👍 28 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

the culture of lawlessness in silicon valley literally cant be reformed, they are hostile to the basic idea of a nation with laws because they are such special little boys

21.04.2025 11:05 👍 566 🔁 138 💬 11 📌 3

Richard J. Evans: “The fascist project was to remake human beings into a new kind of ruthless, hard, pitiless entity [and] to expunge humanitarianism from the political system and from people’s consciences.”

03.02.2025 10:07 👍 755 🔁 319 💬 18 📌 9

a large part of white collar work is having no idea what someone is talking about when they ask you to do something but labouring to figure it out from context clues

17.04.2025 14:27 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Only need to look at the pre-1980 part of this chart to see why Bessent is so keen on making banks' Treasury holdings great again.

15.04.2025 10:21 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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one of my tiktok followers made this

08.04.2025 17:20 👍 14436 🔁 2323 💬 337 📌 356

Fark. Another offside clinical finish for Nelli

01.04.2025 20:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is disgusting.

27.03.2025 01:52 👍 12078 🔁 1842 💬 2579 📌 441
Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

26.03.2025 13:44 👍 34797 🔁 8629 💬 1641 📌 795

Masked plainclothes goons snatching someone who's committed no crime off the street? I'd say we're in the bad place, folks

26.03.2025 17:44 👍 216 🔁 49 💬 4 📌 2
wint@dril.bsky.social • 2h
blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office

uriel52.bsky.social @uriel52.bsky.... •2h
Maybe stop posting childish bullshit.

wint@dril.bsky.social • 2h blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office uriel52.bsky.social @uriel52.bsky.... •2h Maybe stop posting childish bullshit.

this site is free 😌

20.03.2025 10:58 👍 5762 🔁 526 💬 19 📌 11
mr beast tweet reads: I have a pilot living in a $2,500,000 private jet and if he doesn’t leave for 100 days he keeps it, a cop/criminal in a jail and if they don’t leave for 100 days they win $500,000, and someone living in a gym until he loses 100 pounds for $500,000. Can’t wait to upload these 🥰

mr beast tweet reads: I have a pilot living in a $2,500,000 private jet and if he doesn’t leave for 100 days he keeps it, a cop/criminal in a jail and if they don’t leave for 100 days they win $500,000, and someone living in a gym until he loses 100 pounds for $500,000. Can’t wait to upload these 🥰

mr beast talking about the human lives he has trapped in simultaneous simulations with "cant wait to upload these" is why black mirror can never be as good as it used to be

20.03.2025 01:18 👍 18700 🔁 2990 💬 428 📌 978
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

20.03.2025 01:35 👍 62915 🔁 10381 💬 834 📌 581
Nic Cage in Con Air, being led in handcuffs, surrounded by police

Nic Cage in Con Air, being led in handcuffs, surrounded by police

on my way to the flight to El Salvador after being convicted of "extreme domestic terrorism" for calling Elon Musk a "stupid head" online (2026, colorized)

19.03.2025 16:58 👍 1083 🔁 147 💬 26 📌 2

This was very similar to how I saw us lose to Mourinho’s peak Chelsea team several times. Nick a goal and then hold them off cos you’re physically stronger and your defence is better than their attack.

16.03.2025 15:34 👍 239 🔁 14 💬 14 📌 3
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Is This Really the “Age of Class Dealignment”? Class dealignment perspectives tend to overstate the extent to which center-left parties can boost their fortunes today through a strict focus on pocketbook issues.

"When partisanship is taken into account along with class, the ["Trump's Kryptonite"] study finds that “Democratic working-class respondents strongly favor candidates promoting progressive social policies,” while Republican working-class respondents sharply oppose them."

jacobin.com/2025/03/clas...

15.03.2025 17:53 👍 166 🔁 37 💬 5 📌 2

The courage of Mahmoud Khalil's family releasing this terrifying footage

vs.

the total capitulation of Senate Democrats.

14.03.2025 22:01 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

13.03.2025 12:09 👍 5170 🔁 2421 💬 162 📌 314
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12.03.2025 19:11 👍 20536 🔁 3652 💬 178 📌 104
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Trump’s Crazed Midnight Tirade Over Musk’s Unpopularity Shows Weakness Trump hates green energy—but he loves Teslas, which he’s now pathetically pleading with his followers to buy as a show of loyalty and devotion to Elon Musk.

Good piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social on how the oligarchic regime is doubling down on clientalism in the face of economic downturns and rapidly softening poll numbers...

newrepublic.com/article/1926...

12.03.2025 16:26 👍 95 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 2
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11.03.2025 15:13 👍 7785 🔁 849 💬 72 📌 18

An industrial policy in which the President personally buys all the cars using memecoins

11.03.2025 08:20 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0