In dishonor of his 95th birthday; here's Michael Parenti eviscerating Noam Chomsky's anti-communism and how his views do nothing but uphold capitalism rather than challenge it: "For this reason, mainstream writers feel free to treat fascism and communism as totalitarian twins.

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Today’s spot the difference competition. The correct answer is “80 years”

Startup idea: floor heated by fridge radiator

In honor of the White House discovering Werner Herzog in the dumbest way imaginable (do they know Herzog would probably recommend that Americans gove them the Mussolini treatment? — probably not tbh, they’re not very bright), here’s a clip from Werner’s best work.

Reminds me of this subplot in a Scott Alexander story: “So how’s your startup doing?” “Pretty good. I’m a founder at Condemnr. Maybe you’ve heard of us?” “Actually no. Tell me about it.” “Lots of people are tripped up by not condemning enough things. Imagine that you want to

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in

imagine the level of autism required to write that. give that man a bottle of amphetamines and a weighted blanket and he’ll give you the world.

“dilute the Holocaust” by mentioning non-Jewish victims of the Nazi death machine. I just… how are you applying a racial purity lens to the goddamn victims of the Nazis, do you have any idea how insane that is

The amount of prompt engineering needed to not make medical professionals have wild irrelevant hallucinations is truly extraordinary. For example, if you mention having had emotional stress they will entirely ignore the long list of physical symptoms you mention afterwards and

the old "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Developers" scam

Achille Lauro, they false-flagged that yank in the wheelchair. Not shocked

ppl, do keep up

I've been taking notes on today's BBC News NI analysis piece on Bloody Sunday. This is the background piece in its entirety. Somebody at BBCNI sat down and wrote this. And it got published. Jesus – and I don't say this lightly – Christ.

indentured --- WHATT????

ridiculous vibration from this sander. rate my hack

we shall be very amused if autists make the best LLM-jockeys

(cheerful voice) "What a time to be alive !"

strange big chip in estate sale of govt researcher. loaded up with frontier LLM agents. runs hot. put it in a tank of Olive Oil. Amazing results. markets are bucking like 2-ton rodeo bull. Olive Oil