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It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it. What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
Facebook keeps telling me to message friends who committed suicide to improve their engagement.
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America is insane.
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I had the same reaction but for me it did get better and I just finished book two.
I HATED the early chapters. But later it became clearer that the edgelord "AI" voice of the "game" narration is an antagonist and you're not supposed to like it. Shame that early chunk is all thet exposition.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.
"ex-Mozillains are all alike; every ex-Mozillain is unhappy in their own way"
Whedon: i know you're all excited for the return of the most feminist man of 1995
Angela Carter: weren't you outed as a sex pest?
Whedon: like i said
Whedon: the most feminist man of 1995!
number go up
is this good
Gmail persistently shoving horrible poorly working AI nonsense bullshit into the UI every week.
Meanwhile, the one machine-learning-related-thing they were absolutely the best in the world at for over 20 years -- spam filtering -- is getting noticeably significantly worse.
This tells me they put the same amount of utter disregard to content of their reporting as well.
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.
i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".
The time to bring back Firefly was 2005-2007, when people were still whining about it and before Joss became irredeemable.
I cannot see a good outcome for it now. Can we please let some stories die with their dignity intact? These people would recuscitate a mummy if it could sign a check.
Once you recognize the New York Times special “exculpatory tense” for right wingers you see it CONSTANTLY
I swear we were a first world country in 2023
Yessssss more people should watch Casablanca!
"We've strategically made politics so toxic for women and there's no way this could backfire on us"
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
You don’t hate billionaires enough
What the fuck are you supposed to do with 8g of RAM? Load half of one electron app?
I found a new rage-trigger for my nerdy partner:
me, whispering under my breath, "Julius Caeser... Augustus Caeser... September Caeser..."
I need to express just how much I absolutely loath having to have a different badly-designed electron app for every single group of people I need to talk to: Slack, Discord, Signal, Whatsapp, Element, Facebook etc
The people who built this non-interoperable world deserve to have their feet impaled.