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"My heavens, our self-regarding supremacist ideology can't possibly imply violence... can it???"

"The Fancy Induced Burger" is what you nickname your baby if your pregnancy goes past the due date

"Nerniacular framen, dude!" - Bart Simpson

I was happier when I had no idea who Patrick Soon-Shiong was, but Patrick Soon-Shiong was much happier still

LOTR fans stay losing

Strong suspicion that the "interim co-CEOs" bit is leading to an attempted sell-off/spin-off of the chip fabs (which are the part of the company getting the nice juicy government subsidies)

But we suspect Extropic is just burning through the $14 million and will go broke within a year or two, if that. We look forward to Verdon’s “our fabulous journey” post.

This guy seems like the type to totally skip that, embezzle the last million or two, and go straight for "messianic cult in the woods." Possibly with a side order of "amateur experimental stimulant laboratory"

It is a peculiar sort of faith movement, where the central devotional practice is wandering around pulling made-up probability estimates out of one's ass

The eventual war crimes trials will very likely reveal that "AI targeting" has already been used as an accountability sink for a premeditated ethnic cleansing policy in Gaza.

If you asked people what they wanted, they would say a car that drives itself

Two posts in two weeks about professors using ChatGPT has me questioning my desire to go back to school

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