Valmire

Any excuse to post the greatest paragraph in the storied history of boxing writing.

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Big reason why I stopped playing any kind of Saturday/ Sunday league is you get these cavemen freaks trying to go through anyone with ability on the ball Just not worth it, i’m not getting myself badly injured because of weirdos like that who can barely form a sentence

Randomly looking at past UFC events, I think i’ve found the funniest back to back finishes ever

@reddit_lies I can't imagine anything less punk than crying for help because the consensus is against you

Social media is a much simpler problem than ASI. Zuckerberg has long had the ability to decentralize it if he wished. At every turn, he has done the opposite: he bought competing companies, limited personal control of feeds, etc. Why the sudden penchant for decentralization?

We put my friend's number as the contact on a local pitbull rescue hotline and now like once per week an insane middle aged woman will call him to let him know that her dog ate somebodys face and she's worried the police are gonna come for him

How it feels to be a taxpayer in Britain:

@reddit_lies Redditors be like:

eBay will pay $56 million to a couple who were sent insects, a fetal pig, and bloody pig masks by staff They had been critical of the marketplace on their website

We were wrong about Starmer. Everybody thought he was a robot. A man without a heart. We mocked him for this boxing clip - never once imagining that he might read our mean spirited comments. Now we know the truth. Not only did he read them. He took them to heart. He thought he’d done alright but everyone laughed at him. He bought a heavy bag and spent all night practicing hitting the bag. Think about it for a minute. Think about him reading the comments taking the piss out of him. Think about him getting upset. Insecure in his masculinity. He wanted to be good at it. Picture him ordering the heavy bag. Picture him watching YouTube videos on how to throw a punch. Think about him hitting that bag late at night. Over and over again. Holding back tears. “I pull a lever and nothing happens.” Punch “Burnham’s coming for my job” Punch “They all made fun of me. I feel so stupid.” Punch “The knives are out.” Punch Down there late at night in the basement. All alone. The weight of the world on his shoulders. Just him and the bag.

@hdgjkgdeulc Everyone's a blood and soil nationalist for people they like

What reaching enlightenment feels like

"we are close to creating an oil that can cure any ailment" - guy selling snake oil

Whenever you see someone feign anger about British museums stealing artifacts, remember that this is the alternative.

Mental that there’s a level of scouse where you sound like you’re from the soviet eastern bloc

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

@valigo CMake is just awful. I know that isn’t a controversial take in the slightest, but even its concept is bad. For build systems, please just an actual language like Lua or Python or whatever, and don’t make build system systems.