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Today's cover: Last living hostages all released after 738 days in Hamas hell — as peace deal takes hold trib.al/ICeLyQR

Israeli hostage forced to dig his own grave now all smiles as reunited with parents trib.al/YL23iHp

If you've ever seen one of the old masters deliver a math lecture in chalk, this wouldn't even be a question. Chalk is a vastly superior technology for writing math. Never dries out. Consistent stroke width. Continuous control. Good tactile feedback. There's no comparison.

We shouldn't let this sort of thing happen. Paper straws were lower quality, worse for the environment, and worse in terms of chemical exposures. Rnadom statistics shouldn't become cudgels for activists to enact harmful policy.

Most people under 35 don't get it This makes them extremely easy to manipulate, not harder to manipulate. And they're being manipulated af.

literally how do ML people survive without lifting tensor dimensions into the type system? isn't that like the number one thing youd immediately want

The main reason everyone is currently so stupid is because the expert class failed so miserably during COVID. People lost trust to the point that they started listening to jerkoffs on YouTube and believing the most ridiculous bullshit about everything from health to history.

If you’re not running the marathon today, then head to the route and cheer them on!

Hell is “10-12 hours of zoom meetings”

"When someone has a long record, an ugly record of racism and of bigotry, that record simply cannot be erased by the glib rhetoric of a political campaign." - George H.W. Bush

👋 We’ve been working on something new & we’re finally ready to let people play with it. It’s an “app for AirPods” called BeeBot – think of it like a social city guide emceed by an AI-powered radio DJ. I wrote a giant blog post (manifesto!) about it here: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to-d…

Foursquare’s founder launches a new app that talks to you about your neighborhood theverge.com/news/815328/be…

The elites don’t want you to know this, but you can just tell the truth and stand for what’s right no matter what.

China is proof that communism works as long as you make it capitalist

Oof

november days in ny 🤎🍂✨🍁

We launched DJ Beebot last week - give it a try!

50 years ago today, US Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave what may have been the greatest speech in United Nations history, against a resolution declaring Zionism to be racism. youtu.be/4rg1Lzgvwd4?si… "A great evil has been loosed upon the world. The abomination of