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I do think twitter has degraded quite a bit tho. every day my non posting account acquires a couple of porn bot followers the main problem is that the feed having popular and new is now, almost, useless. popular hangs around for days, the same posts, the same people. new is mostly random bots and c...

Which reminds me I forgot to add the hubris of medical doctors to the maelstrom.

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and this separates him from the rest of the tech weirdos how?

We are talking about a guy who plans to own human slaves at some point. And by all indications, that's bog standard for the silicon industry.

It's like we took the mania of engineers and injected'em with the malevolence of writers.

From A PC game to a bunch of bastards in the void: How does Void Bastards Work? A game that changes how you play it. ------------- Void Bastards is fun for a few hours with a solid concept but its not enough content to make any of it work for more than the initial few playthroughs. Maybe that's beca...

got anythin' recorded?

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I've been on a hip-hop kick lately.

Brass tacks is that Musk is not better than what came before, outside the shortest of scales. A different kind of bad.

It's a question of would you prefer Mussolini or the 24/7 star chamber.

https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...

https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...

Typhoon wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 10:58 pm

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 10:11 pm

“I would rather be right than rigorous.”

— Stephen Hawking

Gotta be annoyingmaxxing yourself to get to the heart of our condition:



Then there is Wittgenstein's Poker incident

Freeman Dyson: a thoroughly disagreeable character

"It's an adverb culture by this point..."

Interesting way of putting it. A lot more sensitivity to dodginess; a lot more sense of arbitrariness to enforcement. Lot easier to spread gossip. People seem to forget that they did try to get Sean Combs before on a nightclub shooting and his lawyers humiliated the city on what should've been an op...

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1788246709836878028 To a non-USonian, what is the context? Apologies. -------- Govenor Noem released the type of memoir/policy books one does nowadays when eyeing higher office. She's positioning herself for the vice presidental nomination. In the book, she ...

Did you hang out with the literary crowd down in New Orleans?