Experimental post: Untruthful Mario Boxes Occasionally, box art of Mario-related games will be misleading about the number of levels a game has. I list three examples in ascending order of "fraudulence", alongside equivalent statements if these were real estate ads.

OH MY GOD 😳🤯😲

please we gotta stop having a mini scandal every time an utilitarian turns up and goes “mmm actually taboos are irrational 🤓”

but what if every possible utilitarian maximization is inferior to the number of utils lost by having to talk to utilitarians

Pixar movies have really gotten terrible. Back when I was 8 they were awesome. Now I’m 37 and they don’t interest me at all. You hate to see that kind of decline.

dude you won't believe it. that violently insecure mad king? he had a falling out with that super annoying failed jester he made grand vizier

Rob Rinder asks Steve Reed how much would it cost to renationalise the water industry? He says £100bn. Rinder points out this figure came from the water companies It wouldn't cost anything if we fined the companies into bankruptcy & then took them over. Why isn't Lab doing that?

New kid on the block tries to take on the old master, gets a valuable lesson

we're honestly so cooked. how is this not the headline and the only thing that matters. and instead everyone is desperate to pretend they're modern and forward thinking by insisting you use AI in every assignment

every associate dean announcing their college’s new AI initiative:

Crafting cheatsocks is a better indicator of political brilliance than memorising the Confucian classics in this essay I will

"I asked chatgpt" I confided in amazon I confessed to mcdonald's I have an inside joke with exxon mobil

I love science, man’s unending quest to just shrug and accept stuff

The Leadbeater bill is on a knife-edge; but if it passes, you can expect in 10-15 years to hear its backers saying, “Of course, in retrospect…” and “Hindsight is 20/20” and “Had we known then what we know now…” Thread on what we know now, June 10 2025:

Exactly. I make looking over others’ shoulders and copying their exam answers part of every class so that doing so is not cheating.