What a cursed place.
Not Hate
It’s not hateful to not want your civilization to be destroyed.
Steined In
I am not in the Epstein files.
The Dil
True, and that is pretty fucked up when you think about it.
Of course, 99% of that is just the outcome of unrestrained intrasexual competition and can be ignored.
Kinlaw – HARD CUT
I like this song, the video, and this weird-ass woman, but I could’ve made the video a lot better with $100 worth of rented lighting gear and a screwdriver (to disconnect the rear taillights temporarily).
Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route.
Why software stocks are getting pummelled.
What We Know About the India-U.S. Trade Deal.
The ‘Windows won’t shut down’ bug is even worse than we thought.
The CDC Has Mysteriously Frozen Vaccine Databases Without Explanation.
Former Windows 8 boss recruited Epstein to help negotiate his messy Microsoft exit.
Ancient Alaskan site may help explain how the first people arrived in North America.
Europe begins its slow retreat from US dependence.
Why Didn’t They “Just” Film on Location?
Night owl or early bird? Study finds sleep categories aren’t that simple.
Chemical maker Dow is cutting 4,500 jobs, will rely on AI.
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear.
Battle Axe Smacks
Amazing the left is not able to see that.
The Check
What is the harshest reality check you’ve ever received?
When I realized that teachers would much rather protect — even lionize — bullies over those being bullied.
I vowed then to get better at fighting and to be more ruthless. I did and was.
Why Face
It’s a fool’s errand to try to convince or cajole women to approach men more in a romantic sense. It’ll never, ever happen. Even in perfect safety, they never will. Whether you think it’s biological, cultural, or some combination of both, why in the world would they?
For most people, rejection is worse than physical pain — women included. Since women can just sit back, do nothing, and have guys come to them who are “good enough,” why face the possibility of rejection? It’s perfectly understandable.
Cooking By the Book
A lot of Europe is totally cooked. On the way out and don’t know it yet.
Fworking
Damn, is that the best they could find? Approximately 90% of the my company’s new product was written with AI. That’s of 120,000 lines of code. It’s not a simple product and not anything you could create by one person goofing around casually with Claude Code. It took a whole team of 8ish developers nearly a year. I’d estimate without Claude, the same project would’ve taken 2-3 years.
AI is changing everything and some people are just too clownish to see it. This is not said as an AI supporter or detractor; it’s said as someone with a fucking functioning brain.
At Speed
AI already bests the dumbest 70% of the population at cognition and nearly 100% at speed.
It is only going to improve. Prepare yourselves accordingly.
Restrict
Never forget the world is still full of these people.
The Covid pandemic has provided this subsection of society with ammunition they could never have dreamt of. For 18 months the personal choices we make about what to do and who to see have presented a near-existential threat. Sunbathing in the park became an act of societal aggression; hotlines were set up for neighbours to inform on one another; people argued for masks to be worn outside where they have next to no benefit to “remind” everyone that we were in crisis mode.
As the risk has receded owing to the vaccine rollout, that power is proving hard to relinquish. An IpsosMORI poll published in June found that a significant minority of Brits would like certain restrictions such as closing nightclubs (26 per cent) and imposing a 10pm curfew (19 per cent) to be enforced permanently regardless of Covid risk. Even when the question specified there were no safety grounds for the restrictions, a quarter of people still wanted to stop everyone else enjoying themselves.
Just had to revisit that great essay from 2021. It turned out that many people just want to control you, with no reason other than that they wish to do so. And I want to destroy those people, or at least ship them all to Somalia.
Burger Spi
I think I might have created the most cursed AI image of all time:
How Courtship Transformed Masculinity.
Private Credit Is Headed for a Software Shock.
It’s like this: Why perceptions are our realities.
The Pentagon’s “Bad-Faith, BS” Review of Women in Combat Roles.
It may seem like you cannot believe your eyes. The capex numbers really are mind-boggling.
A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked.
Rusty Dagger Low-Cost Cruise Missile Hits Its Target.
The Discourse is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber.
How “95%” escaped into the world – and why so many believed it. Yeah, that 95% is 100% bullshit.