Nights

This is the best cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight.”

There used to be a great live video of the band playing the song. Now lost, like most things on the internet. Sarah has great enunciation and her voice is single-tracked and unprocessed (very rare now and then). Just such a great cover with more heart than the original, and a far better voice.

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It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, itโ€™s our minds as well.

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They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday.

Democrats Really, Really, Really Donโ€™t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising.

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Noisiness is Not Empathy

According to many fucktard busted-ass shit-for-brains extroverts (ask me what I really think), introverts do not exist and it’s just some correctable personality flaw.

But being around a bunch of people like at this conference makes me so tired that I sleep significantly more.

Extroverts really have no theory of mind (with a few exceptions). They are just noisy and nosy.

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Employers are ghosting college grads and rescinding offers, destroying morale.

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone.

A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop โ€” driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome. It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides to flee your cursor with the same neurons a real fly uses.

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong.

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Talk It Out

On the first official day of this conference1, the talks were quite bad. I was like, “Why did my company pay all this money for me to attend something with people droning on about PowerPoint slides?”

But the second day the talks were really good. It pretty much made up for the first day of toneless zombies. It’s very much luck of the draw with these things.

I’m glad I attended in person, though. How people withstand virtual conferences I will never know. That’s just not for me.

  1. I also attended a full-day more collaborative Sunday session that was well-done.

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Ghosts Of The Past & Devils Of The Present.

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Columbia House Is Shutting Down.

Fail Up

About the Arday situation and his death, the idiot leftists are blaming the people questioning his credentials for his suicide.

But if their racist asses hadn’t elevated an obvious fraud to that position as their personal pet black person, he never would’ve been subject to such (deserved) scrutiny in the first place. Their moronic woke project caused a man’s death.

And then they blame others for their own transparently racist failures.

Amazing.