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I just don't think most Western musicians have the slightest idea of the commitment, talent, and sheer hard work required to be an Indian classical musician

can't beat it on a good day

today's topic is female intrasexual competition

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
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it's like going in to The Silence of the Lambs and getting Steel Magnolias

Scarpetti: loved the books, went in to the show expecting them, so far it's Little Women

Microsoft’s Copilot Health can connect to your medical records and wearables Analyze wearable data with Copilot.

hands up who wants to give a Microsoft AI their health data?

Internet lore that normies refuse to accept: the Progress Pride flag was created on 4chan for the lulz. It was intentionally designed so that 4 flags could be aligned to form a swastika.

ROTC students at Old Dominion University subdued and killed shooter who left 1 dead, 2 hurt The FBI says the suspect has been identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

One guess as to the shooter's religion, number one will surprise you

For months it was just experimenting with Claude a bit here, a bit there, but I think I've hit the Pro usage limit every day this week.

*golf clap*

Grace Tame says her speaking events have stopped over 'smear campaign' Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame says a conference in Hobart will be her last speaking engagement for the year, at this stage.

Freedom of speech is the freedom to say things that cost you business

atlassian hasn't had a profitable quarter since 2015 and its share price is down 75% *in a year*. those being shown the door with generous severance are the lucky ones.

today I'm thinking about the way that Larry Bird subbed out of a game in 1985 when he was one steal away from recording the 2nd quadruple double in NBA history because the game was a blowout and there would have been no honour in it

hey who remembers the 2002 Millennium Challenge wargame in which a totally-not-Iran opponent buttfucked the US forces in the Persian Gulf so bad that the exercise was called off and US victory declared

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Rachel Zegler Says ‘Snow White’ Casting Backlash Was ‘Really Confusing’ and ‘I Refuse to Assimilate for Anybody Else’s Comfort’ Rachel Zegler says the backlash to her 'Snow White' casting was 'really confusing,' but adds she refuses to 'assimilate for anybody else's comfort.'

Rachel Zegler wants you to know that Rachel Zegler is the real victim

‘Multiple failures’: Urgent review after triple killer found living with foster children The NSW state government has ordered an urgent review after a convicted triple killer was found living with foster children – despite the department being informed in December.

"Reginald Arthurell, who now goes by Regina, was convicted of stabbing HER stepfather to death in 1974, bashing a man to death in a robbery in 1981, and beating HER former partner to death while on parole in 1991. SHE was released on parole in 2020."

Fuck this shit.

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Here's to al the business analysts who saw their industry vanish this week, I am truely sorry for your lots

oof, this is going to be expensive.

Chris Picton right now on his knees praising jesus

but a tomato is a fruit

Exclusive: Meta acquires Moltbook, the social network for AI agents Facebook parent says Moltbook gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect.

wearily watches the largest social network on earth buy an AI-agent social network and if you're wondering whether the metaverse pivot worked out, well, here we are

i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency

Two more Iranians choose to remain as soccer team departs Australia Protesters cried and clashed with police as the Iranian women’s soccer team flew out of the country and into an uncertain future.

If any of the Iranian soccer players who have been granted asylum turn out to be men, that will really splode some heads

the thing nobody's grasping yet is that the bottleneck was never ideas, it was always the labour of turning ideas into words and now that bottleneck is gone and we have no idea what happens next

every few centuries something comes along that changes what humans can do with language — the printing press, universal literacy, broadcast media — and we're standing at the edge of another one right now and most people haven't even noticed the ground moving beneath them

What in your opinion is the ugliest building in the world, and why is it the Obama Presidential Library