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Spoiler: Hu is on first, Watt is on second, Ida Noe is on third.
Here is official trailer, You Can See Everything
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I’m genuinely addicted to the Japanese dub of The Office
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Meta's "accidental" suspension of the No Kings Instagram account — at a time when the org was posting updates from ongoing marches — was not an anomaly. I found dozens of similar instances of Meta "mistakenly" targeting left-leaning activist accounts, often during crucial election windows. My latest.
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70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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あゆるさんのパンプキンチョッパーが紹介されてます^ ^
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SOUND UP 🤣
はい!しっかりスカートで乗ってます🥰 これ、SLで乗り物は苦手なんだよな~・・ な人にぜひ お乗りいただきたいですね~ スピードも曲がり方も自然で乗りやすくて めっちゃ楽しいです。 シンプルなのでSIM境でも安定して乗れます あゆるさんありがとう~😂
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Kojima-san is correct!
I had been holding off on posting my thoughts until the interview was released. Director Iñárritu’s “DIGGER” is a film that all of us living in today’s world should see. It is a work that remains with the audience, provoking reflection and sounding alarms. As you absorb this film and carry it with you, a “tool (a digger)” for delving deeper into the future will surely begin to take shape within you. This is a film that will stay by your side for years to come.
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PressAudit is thrilled to unveil our 2026 Midterms Tracker! 👇 We blend recent polls from top firms with Polymarket & Kalshi odds, focus on key battleground races & highlight trends & midterm news in our heatmap. Explore & please consider sharing! pressaudit.org/midterms-2026
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Double AI making me miss Double Rainbow
Introducing DoubleAI
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Meta executives' view as they decide that AI is the most important thing in their lives
This is the shit you love to hear just as everybody is feeling extremely anxious about the opaque ROI of AI and specifically AI capex in Meta’s case. You want a story where your CFO says “it will be really bad if you’re wrong about this”
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In case you missed it, here's @page88 interview with our founder Paul Renshaw on PressAudit's interactive map tracking the growth of data centers across the US -- and what our map data augurs for the midterm elections! 👇 newrepublic.com/article/2163…
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Playing video games for hours is just for rich famous celebrities who can't handle the real world
Ben Affleck says he spent 3 years at home playing StarCraft after becoming famous “There was a game called StarCraft that probably took the most life out of me for a period of time. I had just got famous and all I did was stay home for three years and play StarCraft” “I love Valorant. It's a great game. The problem with that game is that with kids that have been raised playing, I just get f**king rocked. I'm like, ‘Are you f**king cheating?’ And I get mad. It's very humiliating” “I love 2K. I love Madden. And the early Doom, when I first played that game, which then gave rise to Quake. We played that endlessly for hours when we were doing Good Will Hunting. I remember writing and taking these long breaks to play Doom”
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I must inform you that nowadays, people regularly first meet each other in online video games, get to know each others’ personalities, interests, and creative talents there, then end up dating and marrying in real life. I basically wrote 2 books about this!
Attention Young Men: I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it. Step 1: Stop playing video games Step 2: Head to great clips and get that lettuce cleaned up Step 3: Hit a shower (when dating hygiene is critical) Step 4: Go clean your car Step 5: Sign up for a yoga class Step 6: Go to the yoga class Step 7: Ask a cute for her phone number at yoga class (yes you can meet girls IRL and not just on the apps - 10/10 the Dirt Dog highly recommends) Step 8: Follow up within 2 days with a phone call and ask them out for this coming weekend Friday or Saturday night. Step 9: IMPORTANT - come up with a good game plane for date night. Get a dinner reservation, get an activity planned. Let them know in advance what you are doing so they can dress appropriately. I know you are gunna roll off the couch and head to date night, but they are not. They are going to stress about what to wear and call at least 6 different people on FaceTime to ask their opinion. Step 10: I highly recommend you bring flowers to the door step. I’m not covering that you go to the doorstep, because if you don’t do that you have no hope here. Women want men to date them. You don’t need to break the bank on flowers. Head to Trader Joe’s. Grab 2 different kinds of flowers. If you don’t know what matches find the closest looking lady to your mom at TJ’s and ask her. Wrap the 2 flowers into 1 bouquet with paper. Bonus Points you can cut open a TJ bag and use that as the paper. Step 11: Be a gentleman on the date. She isn’t there to hear your life story. Ask her about her. For every 1 question you answer, ask her 3. Open Doors, pay for the meal, be polite. Provided you follow most of this guideline you are highly likely to get yourself an opportunity for date number 2. Keep going until you find someone that you can’t imagine not being around all the time. That’s when you have found a good one for you. My life is complete with my wife as my companion. I wish you the same fortune in life. Happy Hunting.
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Replying to @TVietor08
The very fact Meta et. al. are still flailing about for mass market use cases after hundreds of billions invested proves no mass market exists. Fewer people subscribe to Claude or ChatGPT than still subscribe to play World of Warcraft. 👇🏼 AI < elves wjamesau.substack.com/p/fewe…
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The people in this thread commenting things like "why waste your time doing this when ai can do it for you" truly do not understand the point of life.
The stop-motion animation work behind LAIKA’s WILDWOOD (2026) is absolutely insane. 136 handcrafted sets, over 200 practical puppets and 49 animators working across 231 weeks, with some shots producing just 1–4 seconds of animation per week. @LAIKAStudios #Wildwood, #LAIKA_partner
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Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcusOct 12
this is exactly what worries me
Replying to @GaryMarcus
It’s utterly bananas that the LLM industry is being led by people who seemingly haven’t taken a single basic philosophy or logic class. And now they nevertheless have the global economy by the short and curlies.
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You must always remember that, before the Industrial Revolution, 50% of all people died before age 5. If you forget this, you understand neither the history that shaped us nor what still lurks in the shadows.
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If you gaze long into the Torment Nexus, the Torment Nexus also gazes into you 👀
William Gibson
@GreatDismalOct 9
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Replying to @tedlieu
This data center build-out map from @PressAuditOrg shows how many new/proposed constructions are happening in battle ground states and counties. 👇🏼 pressaudit.org/blog/datacent…
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