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Has anyone one considered an animated talking paper clip?

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Feels like only a short time ago that all the career advice was basically "learn to code." Hope nobody took that seriously.

One of the underappreciated dangers of AI is the desire of tech bros to anthropomorphize their creation. The only real purpose this serves is to feed their god complexes and for that reason it deserves mockery. But it is dangerous if it changes how we think about a bunch of circuits and wires.

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How wonderful would it be if, when these young women graduate, there were real outlets willing to pay them to speak truth to power, rather than corporate media whose only ambition is to suck up to their sources and appease their billionaire owners.

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Joe Biden must be the most powerful president in the history of the Unted States. Two full years after he left office, he is still entirely responsible for job losses, inflation and every other thing wrong with the US economy.

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The rule of threes is needed here: Marxists, Muslims and MAGA"?

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Also, he sang "bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't wanna leave the Congo" AND had to remember that "the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true." Truly a genius.

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RICO maybe? I am not kidding. This should be treated as organized crime.

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Trust me, it has left many more not giving a single, solitary shit.

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I can only assume that the people behind him have had some sort of surgical procedure that prevents them from rolling their eyes.

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Charlie Kirk would be demanding that anyone who criticized the Cornell 7 be fired.

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If I was the language police we would go back to the classical plurals for "ium" words. Symposia, stadia and delphinia just sound better.

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Out of close to 60 men, not a single one had any impulse to help a fellow human being in a distressed and vulnerable state. Not one. If these young men are being groomed as future leaders, we are a society in terminal decline and the end can't come soon enough.

I bought one without checking a while ago and I can 100% endorse this. The fact that a company in the book business has such low regard for human artists is bad enough. But the soullessness of the narration is excerable on the merits.

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Why does "wierdoes" have n "e" but "beardos" doesn't? And why does Hegseth think that having the best groomed military will have an impact on "warfighting"?

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This sounds wonderful. If I had children who I wanted to enroll in an experiment to see how well they could function without critical thinking skills or the ability to perform basic social interaction, I would be all over this.

Special shoutout to y French amis.

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Is anyone surprised that Newsom sides with pedophiles?

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Maybe ask Grok whether we should nuke South Africa to end white genocide, since we are handing the military over to a white supremacist and an apartheid apologist.

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The seven should have been prosecuted. But all 57 should have been expelled.

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Please no referendum. The first one tore the country apart with lies and hate. Just have the courage to do what is right for the country. If it helps, maybe pretend you're the elected leaders?

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Hard to see how this is anything other than a tax on stupidity

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Thank goodness the people who design all that technology are too ethical to do something so scummy.

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I can pinpoint the day when Britain started to move away from equity and justice and embrace a culture of greed and corruption. It was May 4, 1979, and I was 17 years old and furious that a bunch of older people had decided to hand the country over to a malignant vandal.

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And yet he is entirely comfortable purging the military of its most competent commanders.

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I defy him, or anyone else, to find a single normal human being who thinks "infinite personalized music" was a problem that needed to be solved, or even a thing anyone was asking for...

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Makes sense: Boeing is finally getting paid to build something that is SUPPOSED to drop out of the sky.

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Schmitt needed to show Republicans he was dumb enough to play second fiddle to JD Vance. Mission very much accomplished.

Just out of interest, what would it have proved if Smith did go to a Hawks game? Was Willis at the game? Or is it just that they were in the same city (maybe)? If the latter, where was Schmitt on January 6? If he was in DC can we indict him along with Trump?

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This is what we SHOULD be talking about. Specifically, the law in New York was clearly written to protecting men, and to give the benefit of every doubt to the perpetrators. It needs a complete overhaul to ensure that the absence of informed consent is prima facie evidence of rape.

Paul Holmes @provokepaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everybody is focusing on the Hawks-Hawkeyes screw-up, which makes Schmitt look pretty stupid. But the fact that he apparently takes seriously the possibilty that Jack Smith's investigation was not legitimate is surely more significant evidence that he is a moron.

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It's almost as if paying people enough that they can afford to participate in the economy is good for everyone. If you raised the top marginal tax rate to 90% and the minimum wage to $25, it might not solve all our problems but it would improve the country immensely.

Paul Holmes @provokepaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hah... I saw the first two lines before I scrolled down to the rest of the post and I predicted with 99% certainty that it had to be McArdle.

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Paul Holmes @provokepaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Explain to me in what way OpenAI -- its CEO and senior executives -- are not guilty of conspiracy to commit murder? It's clear that the company's product was a co-conspirator in this attack.

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Paul Holmes @provokepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just a reminder that wealth is not a reflection of intelligence or ability, and intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

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Paul Holmes @provokepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No truy advanced society would pay actual money for drivel.

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Paul Holmes @provokepaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The West Wing has to be on there.

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"just 18% strongly approve of the job Trump is doing" The problem being that that 18% includes every media owner in the country and about 90% of journalists.

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How about "This content was stolen from and used without the permission of the true author." Too prolix (a word I jabe enjoyed using ever since Catch 22)?

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Sometimes I really wish I believed in you...

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Call it by its name. It's fucking terrorism. I mean, it's not holding up a sign protesting the murder of children level terrorism, but still...