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if a toddler puts a sticker on you, that’s a sign of great respect in their culture
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Faster please
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The atlanta airport designers were like "and then what if we had them run a 5k"
Being the world's policeman has always been incompatible with a balanced budget. The meter is running. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qxvvkeQb…
Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!"
Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming.
He named the paper "Claude's Cycles."
31 explorations. ~1 hour. Knuth read the output, wrote the formal proof, and closed with: "It seems I'll have to revise my opinions about generative AI one of these days."
The man who wrote the bible of computer science just said that. In a paper named after an AI.
Paper: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper…
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Vote counting is under way across Bangladesh, with interim government leader Muhammad Yunus proclaiming “a new Bangladesh has begun.”
🟠 LIVE updates: aje.news/jmjhqi
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Golden rice is a no-brainer: a publicly funded, non-proprietary genetically modified crop that combats vitamin A deficiency, a major cause of childhood blindness and mortality - yet it's opposed by many Western environmental groups and NGOs. 24 years ago, in The Blank Slate, I decried this primitive essentialist and tribal thinking. I'm sad to learn that this mindless opposition persists today. goldenrice.org/
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The protests in Iran cannot be separated from the long-standing, state-imposed restrictions on girls’ and women’s autonomy, in all aspects of public life including education. Iranian girls, like girls everywhere, demand a life with dignity.
The people of Iran have long warned about this repression, at great personal risk, and their voices have been silenced for decades. These restrictions exist within a wider system of gendered control shaped by segregation, surveillance, and punishment — one that limits freedom, choice, and safety far beyond the classroom.
They demand their voices be heard and the right to determine their political future. That future must be driven by the Iranian people, and include the leadership of Iranian women and girls — not external forces or oppressive regimes.
I stand with the people and girls of Iran in their call for freedom and dignity. They deserve to determine their own future.
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Mali and Burkina Faso are the latest to issue ‘tit-for-tat’ bans on visas for US citizens with immediate effect aje.io/22w5vj
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Someone stole my headphones at the airport so I'm back in my death penalty era
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Any memetic structure that inhibits biological reproduction must necessarily transfer to the minds of those who do reproduce or it will die out.
They target the youth especially, because their mental firewalls are not yet strong.
leftism is a memetic parasite optimized for host sterilization. every core tenet leads to the same endpoint: you don’t reproduce
equality - no hierarchy means no selection for excellence, no reason to strive, no family formation incentive.
sexual liberation - commodified dopamine hits replacing pair bonding. celebrate barrenness as “freedom”
identity ideology - fragment the self into a thousand genders, none of which have (or can have) children.
destroy the nuclear family - the one structure that actually transmits values and creates future humans.
delay reproduction for career - until the eggs are dead and the window is closed.
follow the tenets fully and you disappear.
40% fertility vs 71% is extinction math, 3 generations of true believers and the bloodline end
but the thing about death cults is that the successful ones adapt. if your ideology sterilizes its hosts, you cant spread through inheritance and you have to spread through infection.
and you cant infect adults since their immune system is developed, their priors are set.
you need children.
you need them young, before their parents can transmit their values and before the immune system forms.
this is why they need the schools and media (not want, need). it’s the only reproduction strategy available.
this is why parents aren’t told when their child changes pronouns. why therapists are legally required to “affirm” and legally prohibited from informing. why homeschooling is treated as extremism and investigated like abuse. why “parental rights” became a far-right dogwhistle. why every disney movie now features parents as the villains and the institution as the liberator. why family is depicted as oppression and escape from family as heroism. why they lowered the age of medical consent. why they want your kids online, unsupervised, as early as possible.
the parasite can’t reproduce, it can only recruit. and recruitment requires access to hosts before they’re immunized.
every leftist memeplex that didn’t prioritize youth capture already went extinct. what you’re seeing is survivorship bias. the ones that remain are the ones that figured out how to parasitize the reproductive capacity of their outgroup.
you’re watching natural selection for memetic parasitism in real time.
and they need your kids to survive
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Our species’ love affair with alcohol is on the rocks. Sales are sliding in rich countries; some even think global consumption has peaked. Is the greatest party of all time coming to an end? econ.st/4pEF1Cx
Illustration: Wesley Allsbrook
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i'm about to make ten million dollars
ChatGPT already helps millions of people find what to buy. Now it can help them buy it too.
We’re introducing Instant Checkout in ChatGPT with @Etsy and @Shopify, and open-sourcing the Agentic Commerce Protocol that powers it, built with @Stripe, so more merchants and developers can integrate agentic checkout.
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Over 1.7 million Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN streaming subscriptions were reportedly cancelled during Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. mashable.com/article/kimmel-…
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Brickbat: Petty Tyrants reason.com/2025/09/30/brickb…
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Can you bring people together to work on a project toward a common goal? Are you good at taking abstract problems and turning them into a set of actions? These skills are relevant in any industry. s.hbr.org/3nk1bJu































