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When it comes to AI vs. people who are intensely into getting reservations at exclusive restaurants, I say

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Let Them Fight

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From the slaythespire community on Reddit: Milestone 1: Solving Slay the Spire 2 at Ascension 0

For the Slay the Spire players, this is pretty interesting. A guy built a (non-LLM) AI that can beat StS2 about 86% of the time. www.reddit.com/r/slaythespi...

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's a mummy, a werewolf, a Frankenstein and a vampire at various points. Also a Mothra maybe?

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29. As a consequence of trade barriers, US solar module buyers are now paying more than 38 US cents per Watt, for generally worse products than free trade markets are getting for 12 US cents per Watt.

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The problem is that frequently the sincere conviction is "Me personally being in a position of power is the most important thing in the world" (and "position of power" can refer to Kansas State Auditor)

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This isn't a traffic cam, it's a security cam for the bodega

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dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 10/10/2026

It's a pathetic statement. He's not up to the moment. He never will be.

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This xkcd hits so much harder if you've read 17776. xkcd.com/3308/

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What the hell, soon the only people interested in this game will be children who actually play it

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And you're still insisting that better things aren't possible, despite better things actually happening for my entire lifetime.

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Even if you make that argument, public lynchings as a mass participation event without legal consequence are quite rare post-Civil Rights movement

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Trevor Reed @transportreform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This kind of rhetorical maximalism is so dumb. You could argue, sure, that the death penalty is on a blurry spectrum and deserves to be lumped in with lynchings. But that's not so obvious that denying it constitutes dishonesty.

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Washington and Inslee are rightfully called out - the Connecting Washington package was a disaster fiscally that made it harder to realize our broader policy goals

WSDOT 2025 budget from https://www.theurbanist.org/in-face-of-budget-crisis-washingtons-leaders-downplay-focus-on-highway-expansion/

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ok this is terrible but also hilarious

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It's not even that aspirational, there hasn't been a public execution since 1936. That's an entire human lifetime! It's legitimately a step backwards for us.

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Guys of New York @newyorkguys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Colonialism and capitalism are pretty clearly wrong, but what's the case against "eating animals is violence"? I think a lot of people feel defensive about eating meat because they know it kind of sucks morally, but don't want to feel bad about it. Me, I just accept feeling guilty.

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If I'm killed by a driver while riding my bike, print photos of my mangled corpse on 8½ × 11 stickers and paste them to the hoods of SUVs all over the city.

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Also, I genuinely have no idea what pronouns to use to refer to Albert, so apologies in advance if I stepped in it.

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In conclusion, the Birdcage rocks and Elaine May is a comedic genius.

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Trump Backtracks On Comments About Abortion And 'Punishment' For Women

The exact same dynamic played out in real life 20 years later, during Trump's 2016 campaign. "If you want to appeal to Republicans, do the most over-the-top, gratuitously stupid version of their beliefs, they'll love it" turns out to be great political advice. www.npr.org/2016/03/30/4...

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In an interview set to air on MSNBC Wednesday night, Donald Trump upset both abortion rights advocates and opponents and drew criticism from the rest of the presidential field.

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The conversation turns to politics. The senator says something about how abortions should be banned, and Lane doubles down, saying "she" thinks the women should be executed. The senator is shocked, but quickly finds this charming and appealing.

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I saw "The Birdcage" a month or two ago, and there's a particular scene I can't stop thinking about. Albert (Nathan Lane) is an extremely flamboyant drag queen who for plot reasons has to convince a Republican Senator that he (Lane) is actually a very conventional housewife.

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It's tough! I think the better approach is just to acknowledge that limits to religious freedom exist. Germany has free speech, but they also ban swastikas; so a place could have freedom of religion, but still ban hardcore anti-gay beliefs (the Mormons will recognize this game, from the losing end).

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I don't think this is a very good argument, even though it reaches the correct conclusion that this guy shouldn't be hired. By analogy: there are many Christians who believe that the Sabbath falls on Sunday. Does that mean that 7th-Day Adventists don't have a religious belief that it's Saturday?

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*whispers* She's right about a good number of these

Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Real "Jeff thinks the beans need to take turns" moment there

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The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

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This is actually a pretty interesting graph. Here are the odds over the last day (first pic) and the last week (second). Note the spike for Carson at 7am East Coast time (to 70%) before it goes to 100% at 8am. Some kind of insider trading maybe?

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I think he's going for more of an "abortions for some, miniature American flags for others" vibe, trying to appeal to both sides in the culture war.

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Yeah, I'm not trying to criticize any particular structure; my beef is with treating two-parent, one-income families as *aspirational*. We all know how that will cash out in terms of which gender participates in the workforce and which one stays home. It's a thinly-veiled attempt to defeminize jobs.

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The whole "one-income families" thing is a subtle way that ultra-right views have quietly become a normal thing. I hate it.

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Yeah, but the decline in fertility has been a lot steeper and faster than the rise in incomes. Their fertility rate is the same or lower than places like the US or northern Europe; their incomes are not.

This seems like it has some tension with fertility declines that are occurring in lower and middle-income countries. It's not just a first-world problem anymore, TFR is below 1.5 in places like Chile, Thailand, Uruguay and Cape Verde

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I don't know if you've ever tried miracle berries, but it's a weirdly trippy experience (laudatory)

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026

That is, technically, an algorithm.

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we will see if they actually go through with this, but if they do, leopards are eating some very highly paid executive faces

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It enables whole new types of surveys if you do use it correctly, but it doesn't obviate the need to actually do the survey.

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Yes, this is right. A really good way to use LLMs in survey research is to include more open-ended questions. Coding open-ends is a tremendous pain in the ass for the people doing the data processing, and LLMs are great at doing it quickly.

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I'm actually not sure that's true, as long as the point of the exercise is "work through the logical flaws and contradictions in this survey instrument", rather than trying to actually estimate public opinion. I used to work in polling and a surprising number of clients and pollsters are bad at it.

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We're being governed by the average talk-radio caller

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You know you can just buy the fiction with money, it doesn't need to be a barter situation