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sipping kombucha and playing a video game with his wife - The NYT New Hampshire he/him

that C-suite couple who got caught having an affair at a Coldplay concert
some white British military dude sitting at a desk surrounded my wood panelled walls
Patrick Bateman pointing at a hi-fi stereo with a look pure enjoyment on his face as it starts to blare Huey Lewis and the News
By "issues," Atwater meant negative attitudes about an opponent identified through extensive polling. This information then would be used to create negative impressions about him in the minds of voters. Through constant repetition as campaign themes, these discovered negatives could destroy the adversary. That was how Atwater had operated throughout a spectacularly successful political career that had begun in college in South Carolina while Nixon was in the White House and the new ultraconservative and virtually all-white Repub-lican party was on the rise in the Deep South. "Republicans in the South could not win elections by talking about issues," Atwater ex-plained. "You have to make the case that the other guy, the other candidate, is a bad guy."
My grey cat getting vacuumed on the porch with no anxiety
Quote of the Day One of the famous quotes attributed to Socrates is, "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people"
The scene in Space Jam where the Monstars touch a glowing basketball of power and grow from being tiny little freaks into giant freaks
A cartoon white guy trying to resist a power in his hand
The "BookTok" table at the local bookstore. It's covered in fantasy garbage
Thomas the Tank Engine saying, "Thomas has never seen shit this good before"
A pic of a red pepper I roasted on the grill, nicely charred
A headline from The Guardian: The rise of blue-space therapy: how the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction
A pic of my new Prophet 6 synth in a case
A Japanese girl crashed through a wall and looking kinda sad about it. Her upper-body is stuck on one side and her lower-body on the other
Snippet of text from The Iliad by Homer that reads: tell me the name of that tremendous fighter. Look, who's that Achaean there, so stark and grand? Many others afield are much taller, true, but I have never yet set eyes on one so regal, so majestic...That man must be a king!" And Helen the radiance of women answered Priam, "Irevere you so, dear father, dread you to0- if only death had pleased me then, grim death, that day I followed your son to Troy, forsaking my marriage bed, my kinsmen and my child, my favorite, now full-grown, and the lovely comradeship of women my own age. Death never came, so now I can only waste away in tears. But about your question-–yes, I have the answer. That man is Atreus' son Agamemnon, lord of empires, both a mighty king and a strong spearman too, and he used to be my kinsman, whore that I am! There was a world...or was it all a dream?"
Big red streak of terrible air quality flowing from northern Canada into the Arctic Circle. I assume because of forest fires
The aging foreigner in Yakuza 0. He's a sickly looking white guy with sunken, dark eyes. He's wearing an ugly suit, scarf, and derby hat. He's a real cast aside nobody you would see desperately clawing the empty air as they suffered at the gates of hell
Screenshot of Atlantic article: On a Friday in April, I hopped into an Uber to a fish market in San Francisco with a couple of tech founders on a mission to buy lobsters. Not for dinner, but for science: The duo dreamed of one day altering human consciousness, but they would start by toying around with some crustaceans. They intended to perform neurosurgery on the lobsters in the hopes of controlling them with an AI bot. Leading the way was Elliot Roth, a bearded 32-year-old wearing a black T-shirt with Longevity printed across the chest and a silver chain with a double-helix pendant. To push the boundaries of the five senses, Roth has implanted a magnet in his left ring finger. He told me his nerves have grown around the magnet, giving him some sort of magnetoperception—he can feel when a microwave turns on in another room and sense when a radio tower is nearby. In the car, Roth took off his watch and allowed it to dangle, magnetized, from his finger.
WSJ headline: They're in their 60s and their student loans won't let them retire
me playing 007: First Light. I empty an entire shotgun clip at point blank range and completely miss this dude. Holy fuck I'm gonna apologize to my family and walk into the ocean
From Cory Doctorow's new book: Communities of open-source developers and model users have pushed and pushed and pushed the boundaries of wha these "toy” models can do while running on your laptop or phone, like hardware hacker Pete Warden, who's demoed a voice-prompted, talking manual for small appliances that runs on a chip so cheap and low-powered that it costs less than $10. This model can understand your questions about troubleshooting a dishwasher, locate the correct trouble-shooting instructions in a stored manual, and walk you through them-on hardware so cheap it could come with a singing greeting card off a spinner rack at a Walgreens
Headline from WSJ: Trump Abruptly Cancels Signing Ceremony for Bipartisan Housing Bill The president says the bill is 'of minor importance,' adding he wouldn't sign it until Congress takes action on his voter-eligibility legislation
Letterboxd reviews for There's Something About Mary: olivia This is why men shouldn't make movies Tylah Cameron Diaz really had to go through all of that... damn. emma all i got from watching this was a reinforced message that men are the absolute fucking Worst jerry carrying around photo of a girl you only talked to once in high school should send you straight to prison.
Screenshot of Legolas from Lord of the Rings with the gigachad filter on him
Screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager of a gruesome Tom Paris after he breaks the warp 10 barrier
Instagram screenshot from an AI artist on Instagram with the posted photo and the AI info visible
Ancient Onion article headline: Despite Repeated Attempts To Tear It Down, Massive LeBron James Mural Keeps Reappearing There is a pic of LeBron looking to the sky with his arms wide open is a sort of victory stance
Snake Plissken returns in Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago, an upcoming comic book series fromn Mad Cave Studios. There is still plenty more of the war-torn United States where Escape From New York is set for the hardened veteran-turned-criminal to explore, such as the Midwest. That is just where Snake is set to slither into next, according to the official synopsis for Escape from Chicago.
Headline cryptobriefing.com (sorry, it's the first thing Google News had): Z.Al's GLM-5.2 outperforms GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at one- sixth the cost The open-weights model from the company formerly known as Zhipu Al edges out OpenAl's flagship on long-horizon coding tasks while offering full MIT-licensed access
Pic of some coupons to a local fireworks store
The Guts Aggro-crag. A glowing mountain of metal and smoke. D- d d-d-do you have it? GUTS!
screenshot of the quoted dip shit's profile page with the label that he joined in Nov 2024
Lisa Simpson looking kinda dumb as she stares down at her plate at the breakfast table
NY Post headline: Paper or pixel? Science best way to read-real books
The old guy from A Clockwork Orange rightfully menacing Alex as they sit at a dinner table
Bleacher Report headline: Wemby Admits to NBA Finals Fatigue, Explains Why 'It's Not Going to Be a Factor' Anymore
A skeet by Dr. Holly Walters: GenAl is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTS, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.
screenshot from NYT: Good morning, world. If all goes to plan, Elon Musk will become the world's first trillionaire today. The initial public offering of his rocket, satellite and A.I. company, SpaceX, is the biggest in history. It's expected to "aise more money in one day than the nual economic output of many nations. A whole bunch of people in Musk's orbit are going to get very rich or even richer today.
A cartoon woman dressed in a Captain America costume, but it's been tailored to look like a French maid outfit
A comic panel of some guy rubbing garbage all over himself and saying, "The garage is home to.me. I thrive in it. It strengthens me."
From Krugman's newsletter: Why, then, did rural Americans vote to return Trump to office? Obviously, culture war issues and racism played important roles. But it's also clear in hindsight that rural whites weren't willing to see their livelihoods destroyed in order to stick it to the liberals by voting for Trump. Instead, they fell for a fantasy, believing that by voting for Trump they could simultaneously own the libs and do well financially.
From the Atlantic piece: In 1979, Douglas Hofstadter speculated that a computer program able to beat any human at chess would be so sophisticated that it would sometimes get bored of playing chess and prefer to discuss poetry; to put it differently, he was positing that playing chess at the grandmaster level would require a computer program to have subjective experience. Obviously, that turned out not to be the case; IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue beat the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, and no one ever claimed that it had subjective experience. But it wasn’t absurd for Hofstadter to entertain such a thought; at the time, it wasn’t clear what types of problems could be solved by throwing more computational horsepower at them. Similarly, until recently, we might have thought that writing computer code at a professional level could be done only by a mind that had subjective experience. Now it appears that LLMs might be able to do this, but we don’t need to attribute subjective experience to them; we can simply acknowledge that we hadn’t anticipated that writing computer code could be treated as a pattern-matching task solvable by huge amounts of computational horsepower and a vast data set of code repositories.
From the WSJ: Spending on data centers and other AI infrastructure by just four big tech companies this year is expected to total more than $670 billion-a larger investment as a share of the economy than even the railroad expansion of the 1850s.
one of the Spurs associate coaches (Sean Sweeny I think?) ratcheting into one of the ugliest and meanest grimaces I've ever seen as he points to someone on the court
My post that is too long for one post: MIKE BREEN: ...and it looks like it's happening! The crowd is moving in on him and the secret service isn't stopping them! DORIS BURKE: You can really get a sense for how the Roman senate felt 2000 years ago BREEN: The city of New York is now literally consuming his body on the court BURKE: *through wet lapping sounds* They say blood is the rose of mysterious union, Mike. A beautiful day for basketball
Post by Kafui: Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
A mother turkey and probably eight or nine baby turkies wandering around some very unkempt grass around my house
Quote from the Atlantic article: But when they publish a document about Claude's moral education and have their in-house philosopher do a press tour, we should understand them as asking the rest of us to indulge them in their fantasies. We don't have to play along. In writing this essay, I have spent more time indulging them than they deserve, in the hopes that it will keep you from spending your time indulging them. If you want to think about LLMS, there are scores of other questions more worthy of your contemplation; you can safely ignore the question of their being conscious.
reddit post: Investor lays out Al psychosis inside Anthropic: "They don't think they are writing software, they think they are midwifying a deity" After researching and speaking with people close to the matter, investor Bill Gurley speaks with perplexity of the transhumanism ideology inside Anthropic, and spouts what he calls a 'Frankenstein Theory': Anthropic thinks they are creating a new species superior to human beings, and this new species will decide what is good for humans. don't know guys, but maybe it wasn't wise to give such a large pie of the US capital to people who read too much science fiction and now suffers from some kind of Don Quixote Syndrome.
The moon rising over the St. Paul's Bay skyline in Malta. There are fireworks going off in the distance
Mr. been holding a puppet teddy bear and mugging the camera cheekily
A tan-colored dog poking his head out from a limestone railing above a limestone brick wall
my espresso and sparkling water on a tiny table. We're on a balcony overlooking a bay in Malta
My wife and I standing in front of a blue water marina area in Malta. It's pretty
An Android notification informing me that I'm in the Central European Time Zone