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I just got 2 pints of ice cream through TSA — I think this means I’m part of the Bene Gesserit

@Jediwolf @SHL0MS This is the inverse of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” toilet piece that was making a comment on how the framing of a piece, even if it was just a toilet, influences people, seeing it as art

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

@anishmoonka Wool sponges (naturally have antimicrobial and antifungal properties) are def the way to go

The research behind this is wild. Your kitchen sponge has the same density of bacteria as human stool. German scientists found 54 billion bacterial cells per cubic centimeter inside used sponges in 2017. Yours is sitting right next to your sink. Sponges are the perfect home for bacteria. They are wet, warm, full of food bits, and never fully dry between washes. Across all 14 sponges, the team found 362 different types of bacteria. The most common species include strains that can make people sick. In 2011, the public health group NSF International swabbed 30 things in 22 American homes. The dirtiest object in the entire house was the kitchen sponge. It was dirtier than the toilet seat. 75% of the sponges tested positive for the kind of bacteria that includes Salmonella and E. coli. Microwaving does not clean the sponge. The 2017 study found microwaved sponges had higher amounts of the smelliest, most harmful bacteria. Heat kills the weak strains. The strong ones survive and refill the sponge with no competition for space. A 2021 Norwegian study compared kitchen sponges to dish brushes. In brushes, Salmonella was wiped out within three days because the bristles dry out between uses. In sponges, bacteria climbed to about a billion cells per sponge. The lead researcher told CNN that one kitchen sponge can hold more bacteria than there are people on Earth. Three things actually work. Switch to a dish brush, because brushes dry fully between uses while sponges stay wet for hours. Replace your sponge every one to two weeks. Never leave it sitting wet in the sink. Norway and Denmark already do this by default, but most other countries don't. The detergent is fine. Your sponge is the problem.

@arram @andy_matuschak Also even after a business is opened, trying to operate get totally throttled by costly permits and added expenses and work that somehow keep popping up by bureaucrats

SF Gov is just that unfriendly to business. We don't really have rule of law here. More like rule of veto. Like the ice cream shop that signed a lease and got caught up in a regulatory process after another ice cream shop objected. Closed after spending $200K without ever opening. robbreport.com/food-drink/din… Or the Taqueria (Cielito Lindo) that took four years to get permission to open putting the owner in debt. Or the food truck had operated for over a year with no complaints. That got their entire business shut down after applying to expand. Or shakedown groups like Calle24 threatening various veto mechanisms against businesses they don't like unless they get concessions. Or the restriction on any business with 11+ locations requiring a Conditional Use Authorization. It goes on and on.

In SF, many ground floor commercial spaces in new condo / apt buildings near me have been empty for 5-10+ years. Naively: why doesn't the market clear? If the asking rent is too high for any tenant, wouldn't a building owner prefer to accept a lower rent over decadal vacancy?

Autism spectrum women only want one thing :

@pmarca Amen

Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can. Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.

Please call!! I just did — takes less than 15 seconds

Concerning. As I’ve said many times before, the biggest risk of AI isn’t James Cameron’s The Terminator, it’s George Orwell’s 1984.

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

“It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12, 13, 14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it.” -Proust

@realtimeai 😆

@auderdy x.com/richarddawkins…

@robkhenderson 😆🎯

"cultivated women are apt to speak a double language akin to the language of lawyers and diplomats in that no word may be taken in its ordinary sense...insults are frequently phrased in a most affectionate terminology and are exchanged under the pretense of friendly concern."

I had a dream that I was at a round table with a bunch of AI tech folks and Jordan Peterson asked us to go around share a position we held that had the least consensus with society, and mine was that pet dogs shouldn’t be neutered

@peterldowns Thank you!

@auderdy noisebridge, you'll have to take their training class or ask them to help noisebridge.net/wiki/Laser_Man…

@Yoda4ever Looks like Morty

Baby penguin who is molting but hasn't lost the baby feathers on its head. It looks like a little beret..🐧👒😊

This Vienna Stadtpark photo from Meierei popped up in my memories from 2011 (15 year ago!) it makes me sad bc this same view is almost unrecognizable bc it’s completely overwrought with graffiti now

Was looking for scratch paper to draft out the flow of a new Misalignment AI Museum exhibit I’m building with a friend — he said I could use any research paper print out that is over a week old bc by that point they’re totally outdated. This one is almost a year old (June 2025) so it’s totally archaic and “basically trash”

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

@johnloeber 😆

@auderdy every day, x dot com shows me things that would never have occurred to me in this lifetime

Has anyone else done this combo of cup o noodle and extra dirty martini? It’s oddly a very good combo my sister has introduced me too