siddharth
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siddharth
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walking statutory warning against the dangers of engineering and research...technology brother


Belgium deploys soldiers to city streets to provide extra security to the Jewish community following what officials said were antisemitic attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands reut.rs/41olOKM



Well played, @Google!


Jewish-Americans are at the very top for median net worth, but probably won't be for much longer because Indian-Americans earn considerably more income. The Jewish wealth edge exists because they have a longer history in the US, with more generational wealth accumulation.


urdu has a word for the pain of separation that contains, within it, the assumption that reunion is cosmically possible. while english is so spiritually bankrupt it can name the ache but not imagine its end.





There should be a version of ‘earn to give’ that’s something like ‘get pretty to persuade’ I can’t think of a way to say this that doesn’t feel mean, but I think if you have a cause you really care about, and are lacking in basic hygiene practices, you’re leaving money on the table We’re wired to take fitter & more hygienic/presentable people more seriously than someone who eg clearly needs a shower and a hair cut. You may not want the world to work that way, but it just does I’m a little worried I’m going to get torn apart for posting this, but I genuinely want to see the people working on important causes have the best fighting chance to achieve their goals


Here is a recipe for what makes dating in a city a disaster specifically for Indian men: - High Asian population (especially if Chinese) - Tons of unvetted Indian immigrants (ie: Toronto) - Overabundance of dorky incel White guys - Culture leans more dorky than cool/partying



Aella is taller than Nate Soares


the "perverts make great art" thing going around is actually the best critique of AI art anyone's stumbled into. kojima's voyeurism, tarantino's teenage-geek kinks, or yoko taro saying he designed 2B because he likes to look at beautiful women: all of these people are auteurs of incredible bodies of work honesty about desire creates trust, trust is what lets an audience surrender to the work. AI prompts contain the language of desire but no psyche generating it the model averages millions of people's wanting into a statistical mean, which reads as no one's wanting. the output is technically impressive yet energetically flat great art requires someone willing to be confident where others are embarrassed


One other quick Lindy West point. If you abstract out of the particular circumstances of polycules, "woman goes along with stuff she really doesn't want to do because she doesn't want to lose her man" is one of the oldest stories in the world, and a not particularly feminist one.








