Is there a unifying theory of which side the UAE supports in foreign conflicts? Like, to my understanding it's:
* RSF in Sudan
* Abiy in Ethiopia
* Hadi in Yemen
what do they all have in common?

[tweets for 5 people] So Scooby-Doo mystery Incorporated had Harlan Ellison. It's obvious now that Peter Watts should be the next sci-fi author to be a key figure in a Scooby-Doo show (everyone dies at the end)

Perlstein's piece about meeting Andreessen. Confusing guy (Andreessen, IMO Perlstein is great). My brain is very broken however, so I must point out that the list of topics discussed when Perlstein presented to them is just stuff that SSC liked to blog about at the time

Suicide rate in South Korea, broken down by gender and age group, c. 2022. Note the rates of suicide among people in their 70s and 80s.

As I have been saying, South Korea’s high suicide rate is primarily a problem of how the country treats its elderly.

Last week, S&P Global lowered Peru's investment grade to BBB-, a cut above junk.

It's a sad reversal of fortune for a country that was long a stand-out performer.

But it's not vaguely-defined 'instability' undermining Peru's future.

Read my analysis:

americasquarterly.org/article/perus-…

In general reading old newspapers or watching old TV news is a good way to learn that people have always been kinda dumb and goofy. Perlstein uses this bit to great effect.

The conversations generally feel like we're trying to figure out if planes and birds fly the same way without a definition of lift or even much of a sense of what flight is

i agree with the idea that human intelligence is different in its nature than what LLMs are doing. the state of the science is that we do not know precisely how that is, because we do not have a model of how human intelligence works.

Boeing's board 'now leans toward moving headquarters away from its current location in Arlington, Va., and back to the Seattle area,' Fortune reports. fortune.com/2024/04/27/boe…

Software engineer: donates hundreds of dollars to Democratic candidates. Likes Resist Lib posts on Twitter.

Venture capitalist: ideal form of government is mixture of apartheid South Africa and fascist Italy. Spends most of his time arguing about racial IQ differences on X.

Actually insane that Biden was elected so early that he was TOO YOUNG to run for president in his first senate term.
Painful article but wow you see the same damn Biden since 1977 (- the youthful good looks)

Latex president masks, feels like something you don't see much anymore

Where is the Biden Romance novel?

himi jendrix hebridean brain NumberOneShoupFan the us has about 100,000 police forces, which is about 99,943 too many