progress is a solemn responsibility

Joined June 2015
And then everybody returns to lives in which they continue knowing one another, while I return to mine.
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seems bad to have roving mobs smashing / not smashing up businesses based on the religion of the proprietor
“Don’t smash it up, she’s a sister!” This shop manager protecting her business is spared by the thugs out of Muslim solidarity. Still absolutely no connection to immigration.
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I mean, it’s clear why this is out of bounds in a democracy right? It’s clear this is a line that when crossed breaks everything? We all get that right?
This is one of the most evil things I’ve ever heard
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“but don, they’re all chatgpt wrappers.” “theirs are chatgpt wrappers. yours is agentic.”
"no no, that's it. it's not 'gambling.' it's... a 'prediction market.'"
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Many implications for democracy.
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Annabel Richter was a 19 year old FIT student. She was fed fentanyl by a man named Moises Friere who told her it was cocaine. Friere knew what he was doing — he gave the drugs to two female students and didn’t take any himself. While Annabel was overdosing, Friere stripped off her clothes, took photos of her naked body, and then raped her instead of calling for help. Because of what he did, she is dead. There are no “I am Jane Doe” rallies for Annabel Richter. There is no daily coverage of her death on CNN. There are no New York Times investigations creating timelines of her last day. Unless you read local crime news in New York City, you will not have heard about this case. Why is Cornell’s Jane Doe of so much more interest to mainstream news than FIT’s Annabel Richter? Perhaps because news loves to create narratives about predatory white male college students and refuses to make national-news villains of men like Friere, who commit most of the actual crime in places like New York City. The NYT and CNN aren’t lying when they do 50 stories about Jane Doe and zero about Annabel Richter. They’re just exercising editorial judgment about which parts of the news you need to hear.
Man who drugged and raped dead NYC college student texted nude pics of her instead of calling 911: feds trib.al/pAEqBDj
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the Chinese are so polite. it's heartwarming. everyone else is just in my dms to tell me to kms
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artists are going to have to find a way to keep up without being so self righteous about it
ok genuine question and i’m not being obtuse — what is the whole discourse around “taste” right now? i’ve only ever worked in the creative industry so taste is literally a prerequisite, never really discussed bc you would otherwise not be in the room so is this “taste” conversation happening bc the world is now run by engineers who are trying to “solve” creativity? also what the fuck is a moat? i’m sorry
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An update on the Canadian legal system: Indigenous men now get a reduced sentence if they rape a white woman, but no reduction if they rape an Indigenous woman
Supreme Court split over sentencing when the offender and the victim are both Indigenous nationalpost.com/news/suprem…
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If you just arrest people that brag about being criminals crime goes away.
Pour la première fois, le taux d'homicide au Salvador va passer en dessous de celui de la France en 2026. Il était 100x supérieur en 2015.
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A big part of why Communism appeals to me is the idea of unlocking the true creative potential of humanity and removing the obstacles preventing excellence. Capitalism stifles human ingenuity, who knows what brilliant things we can do once we are free.
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Still thinking about this incredible tweet
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Nice visual metaphor for LLMs replacing the messy, chaotic, diverse distribution of human output with a straight and narrow version of intelligence that produces spiky weirdness
This is the least surprising graph in the world if you understand how gradient descent works.
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Did this in 2008 on the same network. Couldn’t do this today I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Major banks closed accounts of MAGA, pro-life and other conservative groups disfavored by Biden admin: bombshell report trib.al/Ttt6eY9
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Shane Gillis purposely engineered getting canceled talking about women’s gym clothes to promote his new season of tires HAHHAHAHAHA what a fucking master on SNL no less
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"Some People Didn't Like a Comedian's Jokes" should not be national news in 2026.
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Monogamous marriage, which enables the extended family and provisions resources across generations, constitutes deep cultural technology. We evolved and developed this technology over generations as our culture grew in complexity. Marriage is not the default state or institution of our species. It represents the advancement of multiple seemingly unrelated concepts: honor, contract law, fidelity, inheritance, romantic love, etc. We had to develop marriage to climb out of the muck of prehistory. The reason it has declined in certain populations or social classes lies in two things that are corrosive to durable institutions: the overemphasis on the individual and the inability to plan beyond the present moment.
Marriage data reveals traditional nuclear families are disappearing across US - with a rate of just 13% in one major city trib.al/Ux4t1VL
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You can if you get off your phone. I wish I was joking
No, you cannot walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is nonsense. Free yourself from it.
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this keeps happening
Toddler girl fighting for life after being stabbed in face by stranger at bus stop who cops say was previously ruled unfit to stand trial after stabbing two other children trib.al/jUtE0wg
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