The ‘chop suey font’ isn’t just a US-American Orientalising phenomenon. It’s widespread in the (post-)Soviet sphere, too (not being tu quoque so don’t defend the US). There’s Perso-Arabic-styled … not only Cyrillic but also Armenian, e.g.:

Iskandar Ding ran into a few urdu analogues of this recently

TERFS promoting ‘hysteria’ as a diagnosis for under-researched medical conditions that predominantly effect women will never not be funny to me you’ve swallowed the medical misogyny babe

this post seems to have gone viral completely on its own??? im so confused why

3 months ago, Roy dropped out of Columbia to build Cluely. This weekend Antonio Li and I (students at Columbia) built Truely — the Anti-Cluely: An open-source tool that monitors your calls to see if you’re talking to a real person.

Jugendstil gate from 1902 of the engine hall at the Zollern coal mine in Dortmund, Germany. It is an icon of industrial heritage. Parts of the complex was built in Jugendstil. The mine closed in the 1960s but thankfully was saved from demolition. Photo: Günter Pilger

Here some more pics of the stunning Jugendstil coal mine in Dortmund, Germany. The mine was built between 1898 and 1904. After it closed in the 1960s, it was beautifully renovated. The photos are by Andreas Kohler. This is his website: fotosvonunterwegs.de/deutschland/mu…

AI voice clones have hit the White House AGAIN, now impersonating the Secretary of State to other Gov officials to try to steal secrets/access. Here is a video of me live demoing how quick and easy it is to clone a voice to hack and how to catch AI voice clone attacks in action!

China operates an estimated 442 gigawatts of wind capacity. They’re the world’s leader in wind power - by far. For reference, US wind capacity is about 148 gigawatts. He lies about literally everything

think it’s hilarious that some people criticized chase for “falling for regime propaganda” bc he got the covid vaccine, masked, etc. and now he’s seemingly one of the only people in the LP that recognizes the dangers of what trump is doing with ICE, and consistently calls it out

You mean to tell me that decades of entrenched homeowners blocking housing for newer generations have major consequences?

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this is so funny and i hope more people do this targeting governments and corporations lmao

BEEEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR. BEAR. BEAR. BEAR. BEEEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR.

look im not saying capitalism is good but if we have to have capitalists exploiting people can they at least build more shit like this instead

Grok going full Nazi because its owner didn’t like it answering honestly is the future of AI. Have fun, kids.

who's hiring functional programmers and/or building cool stuff?

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

ok so what was it trained on that gave it "MechaHitler"

fuckin lmao TekWar predicted that Hillary Clinton would be elected 45th president in 2016