This is the DEI recruiter that is throwing your kid's resume in the trash and blocking him from internships. She has no experience in tech. She's been in HR her entire life. Yet because she doesn't like your "presence" you won't even get a chance.

Some restaurants have planned an automatic 20% tip for U.S. visitors. 💰🇺🇸

Yeah but Qatar just lost a $26 billion natural gas extraction facility that extracts the helium. The shortage is real.

God letting Charlie die suggests that He does not want us to win within the confines of the system.

“wHy aREn’t pEoPlE hAviNG KiDs?!”

those of us who played SOMA growing up learned this lesson early on transhumanism's mistake was making identity abstract - it was no longer continuity that mattered, no longer *you*, but rather a pattern or data I attended an event a few weeks back where a speaker advocated that for immortality we did not need to keep continuity, and in fact we did not even need brain preservation at all - we simply needed a robust enough collection of our social media posts, pictures, etc, and we could recreate a convincing enough version of ourselves this is the culmination of this way of thinking - you no longer matter; a crude puppet with similar enough features will suffice, and in fact that is you in every way that matters there is an entire subset of the cryo field focused on fixation due to their belief that biological viability does not matter it is fundamentally anti-human and deathist - this was one of the first dangerous ideals that detached us from cosmism, the last true anti-death ideology, and thus began the slippery slope that lead us to a deathist culture in the longevity field today

my german ancestors saw this and decided it would be a good idea to pack up and emigrate to the bronx

We should note that there used to be an agreed-upon term for assassinating political leaders in the midst of negotiations. That term is "perfidy." Such acts used to be denigrated as unwise and dishonorable--because they are, even if "effective."

Bringing down the violent crime rate in poor American neighborhoods would create a tremendous amount of homeowner wealth, no? There's so many great streets in KC that most buyers won't touch because of the shootings problem.

Dario Amodei's new interview: He was asked "If you were in the room with the President right now, what would you say to him?" He says “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.” He looks visibly strained.

wait. hold up. if you're Amazon, Google, Nvidia, etc, and the government is forcing you to choose between military contracts and Anthropic... are you sure you don't pick Anthropic?

This whole thing with Anthropic/Claude AI and the Pentagon gets me. The Pentagon apparently signed the same EULA for this LLM as everyone else did, the manufacturer can in fact refuse to sell them a version with the First Law of Robotics disabled, and I doubt any of Hegseth's hack aides at the Department of WAAAAAR are bright enough to figure out the actual legal process to expropriate intellectual property for defense purposes... so they're apparently just trying to strongarm a company with a larger valuation than some members of NATO.