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Parody of America to have the president live-tweeting misinformation about a mass shooting

Others have made this observation but the lasting impact of the shutdown is Republicans are stuck in healthcare hell:

Woke 2 rises

The pundit class, the political class… social media has broken so many brains via exactly this mechanism

OpenAI will spend $6 billion on stock-based compensation this year, half of its revenue: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

TIL FEMA flood maps do not account for rainfall-induced flooding. Which is absolutely mind-boggling.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas is about learning to love people who look different from you and who were raised with different customs. It’s about realizing that deep down we’re all the same with the same core desires and values, and that we all deserve to be loved and included.

Outside of Covid, New Jersey’s unemployment rate is at a 10-year high:

A Home Alone sequel where Macaulay Culkin is the Dad and Catherine O’Hara is the grandmother with even a B/B+ risk averse script feels like it could make $800M.

I feel like people don’t remember what an absolute cluster labor market downturns are. Instead of the VC rocketship emoji guys it’ll be TikTok ZeroHedge.

Trying to do some synthesis on the perpetually ongoing EU-US growth discourse here: 1) Undeniable at this point that the US economy is growing faster than the EU— ~5% more on a per-capita basis since pre-COVID. But importantly, this is mostly a recent phenomenon; pre-COVID growth was basically even

The taco spot is popping off. Standing room only. Bovino took a swing and a month later CLT is saying “pinche gringo no tiene nada guey”.

Signed, the Warren Court.

Moderation has been a lot better on impersonators the last six months or so but if y’all could report this one that got through I’d be obliged.

Had a hysterectomy due to uterine cancer? Sorry you are no longer a woman.

Master of The Senate paired with Foundation so you get the whole spectrum IMO.

The reason this self-adoring sciolist has unlimited power, and you don’t, is that you know what a hysterectomy is.

So many friends at Brown, I was there only a couple of months ago… My heart breaks for them, for Brown, for all of us who have to live like this…

today for the first time i saw a brood parasite in action in the wild, and it was right in front of my balcony. an eastern koel chick, already larger than its red wattlebird victim-parents, being determinedly fed by them. absolutely horrific. www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Eudy...

"Pluralistic visions of liberal democratic market societies will lose out to AI-driven ones unless we reimagine the role of technology in human affairs." Glen Weyl has a fascinating and prescient piece at @wired.com —> www.wired.com/story/opinio...

I am sure others have said this and apropos of nothing in particular: it seems like the implicit assumption/fear that underlies the crisis of masculinity/male loneliness discourse is just: "young men are naturally violent so we must placate them with offerings of sex and power or else face unrest."

I’m 40 and barely read the whole books I was assigned in high school. I still like books fine!

We are not beating the Set Piece FC allegations tonight but an Olympico is definitely how you want to do it lmao

NBA games are so high-scoring these days:

I liked BG3 but mostly despite its plot which a. is trying to do too many things with too many FR plot lines at once, b. not appropriate for a mid-tier campaign, c. a lore disaster (especially around mind flayers) and d. basically falls apart in Act 3.

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However many blocks Wemby amasses over his career, it won’t begin to capture the sheer terror of his presence. Dudes are out there heaving the ball 15 feet into the air, in the vague hope that it somehow makes it to the vicinity of the basket…

NeverEnding Story, when I was six — why did they do that to the poor horse???

"Pluralistic visions of liberal democratic market societies will lose out to AI-driven ones unless we reimagine the role of technology in human affairs." Glen Weyl has a fascinating new piece at @wired.com (the only kind he writes) www.wired.com/story/opinio...