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Halt's Spider

@HaltsSpider

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I thought all the fun Theory I read in college was training for being obnoxious at cocktail parties, but then we invented search engines that do vibe checks before they give you the Straussian answer…
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The real blackpill is how much better written the "author's weirdly specific fetish" sf/fantasy from the 60s/70s is than a lot of the award-winning modern stuff
hyper(bolic) disco(unting) girl in the bay (@hyperdiscogirl) profile picturehyper(bolic) disco(unting) girl in the bay
@hyperdiscogirl6h
my experience with this was that after running out of books in the YA section of my rural library when i was about 13, i went to the adult section and grabbed a fantasy novel with a dragon on the cover. a third of the way into the book, BOOM it becomes porn. i was so taken aback
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Trying to respond to every email within 5 min will destroy your ability to do focused work - it's a requirement for some jobs, but you shouldn't cargo-cult it
gabriel (@gabriel1) profile picturegabriel
@gabriel118h
literally every huge enterprise public ceo responds to emails within 5 minutes, insane how consistently this is true
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Alternative: 1/10 are the Yass Qwen
nightwing (@yaboilyrical) profile picturenightwing
@yaboilyricalOct 30
serving an LLM inference endpoint called “qwen-roulette” where a random 1 out of 10 requests are evil qwen
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Damn foreign rulers influencing american elections
Artemis Shields (@artemissongs) profile pictureArtemis Shields@artemissongsOct 30
the pope requesting a mail ballot is so funny, somewhere in hell right now millard filmore and john birch are screaming slightly more in agony then usual
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The brilliance of AI viz adoption curves is that you can interact with it ~ like it's a junior analyst. You can even send it emails from outlook!
manic nixon dream girl (@kennixonette) profile picturemanic nixon dream girl@kennixonetteOct 24
amazing how it took boomers decades to get a grasp on shit like 'sending a text' and 'using microsoft word', but they picked up on AI almost immediately
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Has anyone suggested to Trump that he should propose "Carbon Tariffs" on greenhouse gasses produced by imports? The discourse would be sublime
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The english conquered half the known world looking for spice... you've truly lost your way if you're defending english cooking
Stokeman🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@anglopjdst) profile pictureStokeman🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
@anglopjdstOct 23
Amazing how every prior generation were unaware that Chicken Tikka Masala was our national dish until Robin Cook made a speech about it in 2001 and everyone started repeating it as a way to browbeat the natives about how they have no culture and need to be flooded with foreigners
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All nations are socially constructed, but some are very real
Benche (@_Benche_) profile pictureBenche@_Benche_Oct 17
Replying to @si_rubinstein
The truth no one wants to admit is that all nations are fake.
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This is all leftist discourse on NYC rentals
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How have we not gotten any good battle hymns of the electric guitar era?
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Related to this: the Last Battle is both heartbreaking and beyond confusing if you read it as a child without much prior exposure to scripture.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze) profile pictureBoze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
@SketchesbyBozeSep 19
I hope Greta Gerwig has the courage to include Aslan’s terrifying, Oppenheimer-esque final warning at the end of The Magician’s Nephew.
Aslan: "When you were last here, that hollow was a pool, and when you jumped into it you came to the world where a dying sun shone over the ruins of Charn. There is no pool. That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning." Polly: "But we're not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?" Aslan: "Not yet, Daughter of Eve. Not yet. But you are growing more like it. It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware."

ALT Aslan: "When you were last here, that hollow was a pool, and when you jumped into it you came to the world where a dying sun shone over the ruins of Charn. There is no pool. That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning." Polly: "But we're not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?" Aslan: "Not yet, Daughter of Eve. Not yet. But you are growing more like it. It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware."

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When was the last time you thought about imovie?
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Polymarket (@Polymarket) profile picturePolymarket
@PolymarketSep 1
JUST IN: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals she would "probably not" ever date a conservative.
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Ordered from amazon, missing parts. Return, buy second, missing parts. Return, buy third, get sent first back again. What clown is running this company?
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They say companies ship their org chart. I can only conclude that no one in MS's org chart does any real work
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To believe this you have to believe (1) widespread violations of laws against price discrimination in goods (2) failure of price competition between firms for services
Adam, Anthropocene Megafauna (@AnthropoceneMe1) profile pictureAdam, Anthropocene Megafauna
@AnthropoceneMe1Aug 14
Someone described this as a “total loss of consumer surplus”, meaning some MBA is calculating the precise max price that can be charged at every interaction. It’s not a “rip off” in a technical sense, but it feels like being financially harvested. Bad vibe.
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"that's okay [he]'ll keep [eating] that garbage
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns) profile pictureJeremiah Johnson 🌐
@JeremiahDJohnsAug 13
I went into this article expecting controversial or shocking info, but the entirety of the piece was just "Customer averages eating McDonalds twice a month" and "The favorite item for this customer is Diet Coke"... but it's treated like Minority Report.
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Armchair general losing a battle: "Retweet, Retweet, Retweet"
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The Australian version of Survivor should be called Habitat Against Humanity
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First the microprocessors came for the Computer (human). Then the computers came for the Programmer (human). Then the programmers came for ...
Ben Awad (@benawad) profile pictureBen Awad
@benawad18 Sep 2021
every job will be automated until one remains: programmer
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