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- Reposted by alecThe Grok thing is a perfect lesson, really, about how ai "tools" will absolutely reflect and echo the ideological priorities and weird obsessions of its owners
- mikal bridges
- Reposted by alec"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
- someone threw a flaming object down the trash chute causing my entire building to be evacuated for ~an hour and now the whole place smells like burnt garbage 👍🏼
- “somefuckingguy posted a thread you might like”. no they didn’t. never happened. never will
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- this match is fucking insane dude
- Reposted by alecinstead of feeding us synthetic nostalgia via gavage, we could perhaps make one single original thing someone might feel nostalgic about 30 years from now
- NEWS: Jim Fagan was the voice of the NBA on NBC's promos during the 90s. He passed away in 2019. Using AI, he will be heard once again as the NBA on NBC returns next season. www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...
- holy shit
- live music is such a balm for the soul, man. been pissed off for no particular reason (besides, you know, the general state of the world) all day and now i just have a huge smile on my face. shout out to friko for putting on a killer set at mississippi studios
- Reposted by alecI think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store
- average european F1 track: surrounded by gorgeous country, picturesque village nearby, history dating back to the advent of motorsport average american F1 track: fuck it let’s chuck it on that parking lot by the freeway
- Reposted by alecif you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.
- Reposted by alecENOUGH IS ENOUGH
- what if, instead, you simply allowed me to continue to not use the expensive and bad product i did not ask for at my current subscription price. how about that
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- may be a 3 cup of coffee day over here
- i am going to buy a beloved digital publication and immediately lay off all of the people responsible for driving traffic to the website. i am doing this because i am a smart business man, and i have the MBA to prove it
- Reposted by alecPhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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- Reposted by alecIt never feels good sending money to the government but it has never felt as bad as it does today. I know I have paid to produce so much suffering I’m not an idiot but there was always a plausible deniability baked in. Like how they put blanks in one of the firing squad rifles.
- it's so funny to be like "LLMs lean left because most of the content on the internet leans left" and not do any sort of reflection on what that says about your belief system
- beginning to think paul verhoeven's satire of proto-fascist US culture was considerably more subtle than he was given credit for
- wow. tysm. what an honor
- had a dream that a24 was selling the brutalist on nintendo switch cartridges
- with all due respect to blue velvet/twin peaks/dune, my favorite kyle mclachlan performance by a mile is in confess, fletch. every line reading is a delight
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- absolutely beautiful day in portland
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- there is no better line reading in the history of cinema than the dictionary joke in kiss kiss bang bang. rip to a true legend
- this single sentence invalidated what was otherwise a mostly correct take on spending too much time naming things
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