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Being a parent of a teenager in the modern digital environment means begging your kid to play Minecraft or do *something* even slightly less brain-rotting than watching short video content from Spotify, which is what they're started doing because you've blocked all YouTube content from the XBox devices at the router level and turned off the WiFi and limited the carrier data throughput after 9PM for their smart phones, which they legitimately need because that is how their coaches communicate with them about cheer routines or band practice
And if you dare to complain about how annoying it is to have this second job as an IT admin just to keep your kids from guzzling down the worlds shittiest content, half the internet calls you a bad parent for not locking them down more and the other half calls you a bad parent for being a content Nazi
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The average person thinks that we’re running out of resources, that our institutions are systemically racist, that little girls are taught not to expect the same opportunities as a little boys, that schools are underfunded, that poverty causes crime, that billionaires are hoarding wealth, and so on.
They don’t think it’s, like, a metaphor or whatever.
Can I prompt this shit on Saturday or what
A chatbot you can trust.
What's the purpose of life? What is a tzadik? Why do bad things happen to good people?
The newly launched Chabad.ai offers reliable answers to Jewish questions, but it won't replace your rabbi. Read the full article: lubavitchinternational.subst…
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Nota bene: Central to Amodei's vision for how AI will "cure" mental illness is genetic screening, meaning he expects human reproduction via sex to be largely replaced by mass embryo production and mass screening in labs on this same timeline:
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You can learn a lot about Darializa from this post.
She is proud to be a cofounder of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. She organized the encampments in that capacity.
CUAD has infamously described itself as "Westerners fighting for the eradication of Western Civilization." But that is just the tip of the iceberg. What else does Darializa's group stand for?
Take a journey with me into The Barricade, CUAD's publication. Let's see what Darializa's organization is all about.
Woah
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What's the purpose of life? What is a tzadik? Why do bad things happen to good people?
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Insane exchange. Newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary.
BROWN: Do you see Iran as the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We pushed them into a fight"
BROWN: But are they the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We should be making friends"
BROWN: They've been saying "death to America" for decades
HAMAWY: "We've been saying 'death to Iran'"
BROWN: They've killed a lot of Americans
HAMAWY: "And we've killed a lot of them"
BROWN: So you don't see Iran as an adversary?
HAMAWY: "I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight"
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New Jersey Democratic Congressman-elect Hamawy...
- REFUSES to say Iran is an "adversary" or enemy of the United States
- DEFENDS Iran as having been "pushed...into a fight" by Israel, which forced the U.S. to wage war
- Argues America isn't any better than Iran because "we've killed a lot of [Iranians] as well"
I know everyone is mad at Jensen Huang right now. Sure, he jeopardized America's national security. And yes, his arguments on Dwarkesh's podcast didn't make much sense. But at the end of the day I am never going to financially recover from this.
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Which Way Western Man?teapawt.net/PirateWires/status/211…
Gaming has become a corporatized industry that often takes years to churn out mediocre, woke, and worst of all, un-fun video games. But using AI, indie developers are now turning classic games into delightfully absurd new creations.
You can now 360 no-scope a Creeper while doing a kickflip. (Or in simpler terms, one developer combined Minecraft, Call of Duty, and Skate 3 into one.)
Another AI modder, @p_e_cooper, took Call of Duty: World at War’s Zombies mode and added Wii Bowling, rock-paper-scissors, and a DJ booth.
Is this a new golden age of gaming, or will corporate giants ruin all the fun again?
Read the new piece by @evanmilenko 👇
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The most important principle of national security export controls is to have fun and be yourself 🙂
BREAKING: The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia, $NVDA, chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military, per NYT
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for the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring painting with Fable 5.2 in code. one of the most common critiques I heard about Opus 5.5’s paintings was that it was only emulating real art. I thought that was fair, so i’ve been asking Fable 5.2 to develop personas—artists with some sort of a back story and a consistent style roughly identifiable in time
not knowing what to expect, i’ve watched this project evolve in directions i never predicted. I give comments or steers, and Claude updates or revises the engines that power the brushes and paint. where paintings come up i like or find intriguing, i ask it to go deeper. these are some favorites.
each of these is a python program, some one to two thousand lines of code, that places every stroke through a simulated paint engine with different bristles. most take a few thousand strokes, but i’ve pushed much higher with varying results. Claude does not use an image model, nor render or trace in advance
