Only children are everywhere now — and they might just save America
Some cringe in this but also some interesting history on where some of the stereotypes about onlies came from.
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Why are we using LLMs as calculators?
This is all so silly. Maybe there is interesting stuff there but in the meantime we're boiling the ocean for wrong answers.
Humans have been inventing machines to mostly do math for milennia, and it’s only recently that computing tasks have moved up the stack from calculations to higher human endeavors like writing, searching for information, and shitposting.
Work the Problem
A good framing
Making Money in the Next Four Years, and Why You Need to Plan Now to Support Your Favorite Creators
This starts out about me, and then becomes about others, too, so stick with it, it’s going places. Over on the former Twitter and elsewhere, at least a few awful people have been publicly cel…
Why Trump won: Democrats have a coalition, Republicans have an ecosystem
Interesting hypothesis but I'm not sure the same media mechanisms would work on a leaning Democrat compared to a leaning Republican.
My Post-Election Post, Different Than I Had Originally Intended It to Be
Why is it different? Because the version I was initially thinking to write would mostly have been yell-y, and while I certainly do yell-y well, at the moment I’m not feeling it. Maybe that…
America Defeats America
Feels like it
What have you done, America?
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And Yet It Moves
Thoughts The Day After
Trump Essentials (7): The Army of the Republic
Scary thoughts about how many rank and file military might doubt an election outcome.
Based on Our Election Forecast, We Are 100 Percent Sure Anything Could Fucking Happen
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Trump Essentials (5): It's The Gender, Stupid
A good point on men seeking to put women "back where they belong"
Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign
Hire the worst people with a chaos agent at the top and you get tons of infighting from people who only know the right wing echo chamber. Hopefully it's enough.
Opinion | Donald Trump Is Done With Checks and Balances
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Opinion | My Fellow Republicans, It’s Time to Say Enough With Trump
He's lost a lot of lifelong republicans because it's the Trump party now.
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Alexa, where’s my Star Trek Computer?
Can Alexa boldly go any further?
What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant
Wild stuff. Loot doesn't seem so far off as a comedy.
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A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
All of this. We need collective solutions.
Like any large open-source project, American democracy is kind of messy, requires a lot of volunteer effort, and often uses way too much memory.
Fundamentally, they are all trying to renegotiate the Instagram terms of service, which everyone signed without reading. But as individuals, they have no real leverage with which to drag Mark Zuckerberg to the bargaining table.
A vote for Harris is a vote for the future. It is a vote for solving collective action problems. It is a vote for working together, instead of tearing our world to shreds.
The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets
Heh.
The Scalzi Endorsement: Kamala Harris for President
A well written argument from Scalzi as always.
The End of the NFL’s Concussion Crisis
It's not news anymore.
You can use Clean Up with a clear conscience
I think this is the right call.
To Be Palestinian During Swarthmore College’s Campaign of Erasure — voices
At Swarthmore College, even the maps adorning the walls deny the existence of Palestine. Imagine the deep anguish of witnessing your homeland and your people’s history erased with a casual stroke of ink, replaced simply by the word “Israel.” This reality struck me hard during what was advertised as
Opinion | The Only Patriotic Choice for President
Kamala Harris has demonstrated care, competence and respect for the Constitution — the fundamental qualities necessary for high office.
The American Housing Crisis: A Theft, Not a Shortage – Economics from the Top Down
I don't know if it's the only answer but wow that's a lot of stolen wealth.
Take money from the rich and hand it to the poor, and the housing crisis will solve itself.
NGC 602 (NIRCam and MIRI image)
Wow.
In Our Defense: Vegans - The Phoenix
Heh
A Different Way to Think About Voting - The Phoenix
Even the babies get it. A non vote is a vote for Trump, and a vote for Trump is a way to never protest again.
Some Material May Be Inappropriate: The PG-13 Rating at 40 | MZS | Roger Ebert
I know most of this history but some interesting film anecdotes. Of course cartoonish violence gets the a-OK.
Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space
Not sure exactly what this is but I remember liking Zubrin's book.