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Ericus Cartmanicus Aurelius
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Léa Seydoux on why she started acting:
“I’m going to tell you something very intimate,” she tells Variety’s @DPD_ in this week’s cover story. “The reason why I do this job ... I never really wanted to become an actress, but I wanted to exist. The only way I found to exist was to have my image printed on a film and have the proof of my existence.”
Read the full cover story: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHhhG
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@johnpavlovitz What does democracy even mean to you people?
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@CEBKCEBKCEBK Lol have you seen the women in DC
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The most male-skewed dating market in the US is SV (~1.5-3 eligible men per woman depending on definitions), & the most female-skewed is DC (~1.5-2 eligible women per man). One place makes all the productive disruptive tech (but simps for commies), & the other makes all the regs.
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@rickasaurus @tekbog Everyone produce way fewer bugs in rust than python because one is a serious language and the other isn’t
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In 10 years we'll look at VS Code the way we look at this
Benjamin Bratton@bratton
My students asked me if it was true that the entire Internet was really coded by hand. All those kernels, protocols, router firmware, browsers, databases, etc. Somebody coded these and debugged them by hand?!?!? They used BBEdit?!?!??! The idea that this was even possible seems amazing to them. I can imagine some future Moon Landing like conspiracy theory that says it never happened.
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@visegrad24 @RmSalih Roshan doesn’t want to live next to Muslims either
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@RmSalih Roshan, there are so many lovely majority-Muslim countries where there are no White people.
Why not move since the English are so Islamophobic and racist!?
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Essex is now a Reform UK stronghold.
They have clearly chosen the party of racism and Islamophobia.
If you are a person of colour or a Muslim watch your back if you go there.
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Falling birth rates aren’t a disaster, they’re the best bit of global news in a long time
mol.im/a/15782963
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@CacheThatCheque This chick does not try to hide her lib SJW feminism. In fact she’s far more radical than the average white girl in the states.
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The white girl in Japan that goes completely native and looks, dresses and acts Japanese is a fascinating archetype.
Yes, there are white girls in Japan that try, but they usually fail because they’re 40 pounds overweight and can’t successfully hide their inner lib SJW feminism
Ella Freya エラ・フレイヤ@Eriza_Freya
日本の電車旅行が楽しい☀️
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@OlBuzzy @AncPhi @RichardDawkins Idk if they are necessarily enlightened but they sure as hell beat the retards who think LLMs are conscious
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@AncPhi @RichardDawkins It is incredible how often religious people, for whom faith implies a definitional lack of evidence, will act like somehow they're the actual enlightened side.
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I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.
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@jeremysmiles Hasan looks like a nerd I would shove inside a locker.
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the weird obsession with Hasan Piker clicks into place when you realize that everyone in politics/media is a lifelong nerd, while Hasan looks, to them, like a big strong scary jock who might shove them into the lockers of their youth
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@fishstark @BenSasse You gotta be a 75 IQ moron at this point if you think the solution to tanking TFR is longer parental leave and child tax credits. Unless you are paying out 200K USD or more for each child subject to IQ test, it’s not gonna make a dent on middle class TFR.
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All right @BenSasse, let's make a bet.
Let's divide the US in half. I'll let you pick which half.
In your half, you ban Candy Crush. In my half we institute 16 weeks of paid parental leave, universal childcare, & a restored child tax credit.
Let's see which has more babies.
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“We've stopped making babies. We've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time. Not if you're a full human," former Sen. Ben Sasse says in an extended interview. cbsn.ws/4cA1Jrp
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(2/5) THE IMPACT:
Today’s ruling could:
✅Help secure 27 more red seats in Congress
✅Cement GOP House control for at least a generation
✅Rewrite redistricting rules for state legislatures, city councils and school boards
Without racial protections, maps could be redrawn with almost no limits.
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(1/5) 🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by making it harder to challenge racially discriminatory maps. Today’s decision will threaten Black and brown political representation for generations in Southern states. Full story to come.
democracydocket.com/cases/louisian…
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@micsolana @ComfortablySmug “Socialism” is just thinly veiled racial resentment
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people often try the rich + socialist gotcha, but it never really lands because the majority of contemporary socialists don’t really know anything about marx. for them the word just means “kill americans, take their stuff,” and that’s perfectly compatible with a fur coat.
𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁@MrLeadslinger
Young socialist Mamdani supporter posing in fur coat and Chanel bag making fun of a woman for buying a Temu dress. Typical socialist behavior. Socialism for thee, not for me.
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@TodayinHistory Looks beautiful. What’s wrong?
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Cleaning up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will be a huge improvement, right?
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@tengyanAI Another reason: you start to realize that the reason people stall everything into backlogs and create tech debt has nothing to do with capacity limits.
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something i've noticed: AI agents create a weird new kind of burnout. esp for young people.
a lot of ambitious 22 year olds are going to think the answer is simple:
- spin up more agents
- ship more code
- sleep less
- outwork everyone
and for a while, it will feel incredible.
you can keep multiple agents running, feed them tasks, review outputs, fix mistakes, make decisions, and keep the whole loop moving.
the problem is that the work no longer drains you through typing. it drains you through judgment.
More attention.
More context switching.
More verification.
More decisions per hour.
so instead of 8-10 normal productive hours, you might get 4-5 extremely intense hours before your brain is fully cooked. and you feel numb until you sleep properly and reset
some of my friends are already burnt out. they don't say it out loud but i can tell.
the agent can keep working 24/7.
the human still has a hard limit
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@DemzDeliver What the fuck does that even mean
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🚨 In Virginia, corporate wage theft can now be a felony offense.
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@RobertMSterling @realblackpill It does matter lol just look at the SAT scores of the black admits vs the white and asian ones.
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@realblackpill To be honest, doesn’t matter at CalTech. Place is ruthless.
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The assassin being a CalTech grad is *insane*
CalTech undergrad is legit the most difficult school in America. Off-the-charts IQ required to even get in the door.
It does not bode well for our country that people this smart and well-educated are going off the rails like this.
KanekoaTheGreat@KanekoaTheGreat
Cole Tomas Allen Engineering Cal Tech 2013 - 2017 Masters in Computer Science 2025
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@salimforva Saddam. Ahmed. Muhammed. Who the fuck cares. You are going back.
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It’s S-A-D-D-A-M.
You stumbled over my name the same way you stumble over the idea that people with my name are just as American as you.
Bryce Reeves@ReevesVA
Sadaam, I know you have great aspirations to run for Congress and you’ve put this unlawful measure forward but as you can tell people in the 7th in my 28th district absolutely don’t want this type of representation. It runs counter to their values and traditions of natural born citizens here. You couple this with an assault weapons band you pushed forward and you are really foolish, that or just dumb and have no idea how PISSED people are. Trying to divide Virginia is not the way to win winning picks multiplication not division hell come on half tempted to run against you.
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@kvallier There will be no polarization when you obliterate the other pole.
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I've written on the new right, as well as on trust and polarization. I think Rufo is a chief culprit on the new right in reducing trust and increasing polarization. After his aggressive conduct over the last few days, I'm considering writing a piece on his ideas. Worth doing?
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
Apology accepted. Nota bene, academic friends: if you take shots from the sidelines, I will punch back—and not in the passive-aggressive way that’s prevalent in academia. Appreciate Dr. Patterson’s contrition and wish him the best in his contemplative endeavors.
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@LoveMyGrands8 @josh_wingrove @atrupar @Alicia_Diaz23 Yea selling citizenship is disgusting. Instead, it should be handed out like candy to every 63 IQ Haitian and inbred Arab. That is the dignity and respect the citizenship deserves.
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@josh_wingrove @atrupar @Alicia_Diaz23 Selling citizenship is disgusting, of course he came up with the idea.
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(Bloomberg) -- Only one person has been approved so far for Donald Trump’s “Gold Card” Visa program granting foreigners US residency for a $1 million fee, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday, via @Alicia_Diaz23.
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