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Socratic method extraordinaire.

Joined July 2024
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We got your back, New York!
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Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026). arkolith.com/news/news-micr… therepublic.com/?p=843020 governor.ny.gov/news/safer-str…
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The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read
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We could’ve answered literally all of those questions.
we’re actually doomed
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i often think about this Chuck Jones quote about how animators, and by extension filmmakers, need to read.
all filmmakers do is watch movies. They'll name every classic ever made. Never read a single novel or watch a play. That's why every movie looks incredible but the stories are dog shit
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The real answer to this stem vs humanities debate is that no one reads and everyone is bad at math
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acabei de ver Odisseia em uma sala comum e digo
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"Nature is being ruined and huge corporations rule our country. There is nothing we can do" He could:
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having an intrusive thought and shaking my head to show the mind readers that I don’t approve
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There was a time in my life when I didn’t know who Erika Kirk was and I really took that for granted.
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The speed at which a virus spreads depends on: 1. How dense the population is 2. How dense the population is
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We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.
Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.
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Trump announcing the opening of the Strait of Hormuz:
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“Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight.”
Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years. "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."
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home | noun | a place of origin
Replying to @NASA
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
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Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.
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being the wokest person in your family really does raise your cortisol levels
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>be born in the 50s and 60s >get a paper route to save for college >nice, tuition is only $200 a semester >graduate and get real job by giving firm handshake >buy a house which is only 2x your salary >work at same company for 40 years >retire with a pension >become a shareholder and get rid of pensions (stock price goes brrr) >home “value” goes up 1,700% >make no upgrades, refuse to sell under asking to new family; sell to Blackrock instead >lecture every subsequent generation about work ethic
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watch me ratio this slop with my drawing of a bird
Fruit Love Island - EPISODE 16 (Full)
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OpenAI is shutting down its AI video slop-making platform Sora.
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