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I posted a new free article called "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso", on the troubling implications of the beloved Italian coffee machine aboard the ISS mceglowski.substack.com/p/bitter-lesso…

Since it’s his birthday, I’ll repost this incredible take from Marx’s mom

Polish supermarkets are very strange places.

The real philosophical bombshell of LLMs is not that they point to the possibility of a conscious linguistic being running outside of us. It’s that they point to the possibility of an unconscious linguistic being running inside of us.

Heard recently about a German woman who converted and moved to Israel. She converted because she liked all the rules. Possibly the most German reason to convert.

There’s nothing technical stopping you from aliasing sudo to daddy

@Pinboard you have zero understanding of how magical incantations work

How much more safe does commercial aviation have to get before they stop making us listen to a mandatory explanation of how seat belts work?

has anyone consulted uber drivers who are on their phones all day for a cure for the male loneliness epidemic

クロワッサンを食べるオウムの優雅な朝

I’ve witnessed a lot of harm done to my patients from various expected things like cigarettes, guns etc but I never imagined how much harm I would see in my adult patients from ladders. LADDERS. so much devastation

I wish more women understood the mental load of knowing facts about wars

子供の柔軟な発想に驚かされる…

I think about the bottle and label design of this niche winery in Quebec at least three times a week

Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey, Italy.

The Simpsons has been on the air so long that an early season episode had Bart plausibly doing yard work for the sister of a WW1 soldier.

普段の威厳がまるで感じられないハクトウワシの体重測定

2000-year-old "Shaman's tool kit" recovered from a rockshelter in the Pecos Mountains of Texas and displayed in the Witte Museum in San Antonio.

This is the book in which Lenin says that “trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeois” Two years after coming to power Lenin would have 2,000 striking metalworkers executed by the Cheka at Astrakhan.

@nikitabier what is the point of followers? i barely see anyone that i follow and they barely see my stuff. but if the algorithm decides to push some account down my throat the only solution is to mute it or block it.

Would it valuable to know how many of your followers have been active on X in the last 24 hours?

I posted the first half of an article about what happened to the Mars Sample Return mission. Free to all readers! mceglowski.substack.com/p/what-happene…