I can't believe I missed this video because I say this every time I buy halal chicken and rice lol

The interesting contrast here is that Obama used the story of his African father to bolster a narrative about individual meaning and success, while Mamdani uses the story of his African father to bolster a narrative about collective struggle, solidarity, and progress.

everything about this story is so horrifying. Sheqweetta Vaughan was given a 2 year prison sentence after she was in a car accident that killed her toddler. she was pregnant when she began her sentence, gave birth 6 months ago, and died postpartum, abandoned in a boiling hot cell

Friendly reminder: In psychology, negativity is amplified over positivity due to the negativity bias, where bad events and information have a stronger psychological impact than good ones of comparable intensity. This manifests in various ways: negative experiences are

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” --- Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 Love that quote in the intro of the study about Brains on LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Hyderabad, India is full of giant U.S. tech hubs and their campuses. Slap a $100k entry tax on H-1Bs and you’ll build more of them there. And hire less here. This stupidity is incentivizing offshoring, not onshoring. I hope the U.S. enjoyed having a domestic tech industry 👋

Just…. lol

In January, I argued in Tech Policy Press that Democrats, lacking strategy, handed TikTok to the far-right. By helping ban it for Trump, they let him return as TikTok’s savior, leaving the platform to be bought and owned by the right. techpolicy.press/for-the-people…

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This is Khanyounis, where I live. Completely destroyed.

mans so fit he can campaign and run a 5K at the same time

negative thinking destroys your brain being a silly goose and delusionally optimistic is the ultimate longevity hack

Qwen3-VL-2B, the smallest Vision model by Qwen performing great on doctor's hand writing! for its size, DAMN! 🔥

🚨NEW: Zohran Kwame Mamdani reacts to comments made by Andrew Cuomo this morning on Sid Rosenberg show: “This is disgusting,” says Mamdani. “This is Andrew Cuomo’a final moments in public life and he’s choosing to spend them making racist attacks.” PIX11 News