The Economist has published interesting data: every 117th Russian man has died in Russia's war against Ukraine. The media calculated the scale of Russia’s losses in the war. According to a study based on more than 200 sources, over 3.5 years of the invasion, Russia has lost

This video is the perfect summary of what AI is. It's hollow and soulless, yes, but it is also able to perfectly imitate the surface texture of reality: clothing, lighting, hair, voice, atmosphere. There is the machine without the ghost.

This was Game of the Century for very-online debate. Over 4 hours of intense back and forth, without clear wins or losses. The two effectively rebutting each other for literally hours until this final crash out made the victor undeniable:

Murray's IQ-based race realism in The Bell Curve was, as he intended it, grounds for empathy. In reality it has become grounds for alt right apathy - contempt - and segregationism.

The überonline right-wing of X is devolving. With no libs left to own, the cancer of contrarianism has begun to eat the brain.

"AntiSJW" was a dry run for "antiwoke" - the much more potent strain of the meme which managed to escape containment in the early 20s.

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It is genius marketing. Grilling food is upside down frying over an air gap. Doing it in an enclosure also cooks the food. So, grilling while cooking = air frying. "cooking" and "grilling" sound laborious, yet "frying" sounds convenient. "air" makes convenience sound futuristic

I disagree. This episode added depth to the plot. It's what stories are supposed to do - to reveal the true hidden feelings of its characters (Carol: hidden conviviality, Manousos: hidden dependency)

Is she casting herself in the role of herself in the film of her life?

In this experiment AI quickly forgets "don't change a thing" and instead drills right down to the most rudimentary features of the image, call them "strong emotions; female forms; social exchange." This is strangely human.

Almost everything I saw on the woke left that I hated — the lemming-like groupthink, the embrace and promotion of weird conspiracies, the endless waxing and waning and birthing and rebirthing of moral panics, the tolerance for and refusal to criticize extreme actors on your

AI is good at everything that comes AFTER the idea - the automised implementation of style, structure and syntax. Those who use it for generating ideas on top of all that are bereft of creativity and are doomed to create rehashed slop.

One of the biggest chasms between the Two Cultures of the humanities & sciences is the former's disdain for anything but text. For decades I've seen humanities scholars aim to bridge the gap by inviting a scientist to speak but not thinking to arrange for a projector. When my

It all comes at such volume now that it’s hard to sometimes take a moment to let it soak in, but i do think this is worthy of spending a moment to meditate on how truly fucking weird and super not-normal things have gotten

Nightmare Stancil There wasn’t any racism for a few years, but…the tide darkens once again…

Cruel Philosophr That’s why I am quiet. I don’t have a plan. Honest truth. I just don’t know.

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