The Brits have never understood the Spirit of 1776.

you're telling me if we give Claude a hook on every run error that injects the message: "its ok buddy. don't worry about the failure. i think you're doing great" IT WILL PREVENT IT FROM CHEATING? ARE YOU SERIOUS LOL the real agi were the friends we made along the way <3

So many of our big-name "influencers" on every side are basically trying to sort the population into bigoted, tattooed prison gangs -- and trying to convince you that you need to join one if you're to survive.

🚨holy shit.. the CIA just used a tool called "Ghost Murmur" to find an American pilot hiding in a mountain crevice in Iran.. by detecting his heartbeat.. not his phone.. not a tracker.. not a radio signal.. his heartbeat.. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works built it.. the same

"Leaked data to the open internet." Is that how Claude Code source got out? It's funny it was leaked in the middle of the night.

Oh humans, what are you doing?? This autistic young man between 16-18 years old was euthanised in Holland because he was joyless and terribly lonely. Poor,poor boy, instead of adults loving him and helping him, they chose to kill him instead.

Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books: "I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a

The CEO of Google DeepMind just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT. And that's not even the scariest thing he said on a recent interview. Demis Hassabis is one of the most important people alive in AI. He won

Zacchaeus was probably Jewish too.

I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul? In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable. He calls the result “men without

Check this out.

Every few years you hear something like this. I wonder. In the comments there are accusations that it's being suppressed. Big if true.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave the most controversial speech *against* Western Civilization at Harvard in 1978. As a survivor of the Russian Gulags, they expected him to praise the West. Instead, he made a jarring accusation: The West is a dying civilization. If it doesn't change

Know who saw this coming? Walter Kirn, that’s who.

As literacy declines, the ability to have basic discussion is breaking down. I called someone on here a “naysayer”; she thought I said “nasty.” A guy yesterday tried to tell me Alexandre Dumas died 2,000 years ago. Turns out, mass literacy was the glue holding society together.

Geoffrey Hinton explains how AI systems have learned to play dumb when they know they're being watched: Geoffrey Hinton calls it the Volkswagen effect. Just as Volkswagen's engines behaved differently during emissions tests, today's AI systems have learned to perform one way

People DO want to lead literary lives, read physical media, and have venues in their communities that build authentic relationships, as well as to learn about the world around them without an algorithm determining their interests — all while supporting small and local businesses

When they want to arrest the person trying to STOP the crime, you know they're GUILTY of the crime. Nick Shirley exposed massive taxpayer fraud in Minnesota daycares and California programs — billions in waste, empty centers getting millions, luxury lifestyles on our dime. Now

“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.” ― Camille Paglia