Or I like the "First Law" books by Joe Abercrombie but "haha nobody in this story has had any agency all along" after 1500 pages was...easier to appreciate intellectually than to enjoy, maybe...

Feel the AGI

Here's the correct pull quote from the Yglesias piece, which Dale would never admit: "The central fact looming over all education discussions is that if you want to understand why outcomes vary between School A and School B, the single largest explanatory factor is always going

i think im the only clothes-related account on here who thinks dressing better will actually ruin your life. don't pay attention to fit and silhouette. don't think about how color intersects with the semiotics of style. don't ask a tailor to hem your pants. go. be free.

Yair Rosenberg It is really hard to overstate how happy everybody was when the astronaut scientist encountered the weird bug alien in deep space and immediately tried to make friends with it and the alien also wanted to be friends.

Done.

honestly i struggle to see even the most autistic libertarian objection to this these are cameras posted at public places looking at public places you're telling me someone can just stand on a street corner and look at everything? and describe what he sees to just anyone? and

vibe... shift?

Elijah the Middleborne I don’t think this makes it through the seventh book. I really don’t.

Socrates: So then you agree, Meno, that dialogue is more appropriate to philosophy than lecturing? Meno: Yes, Socrates. Socrates: And that is because, in a lecture, a single speaker expounds his own ideas unilaterally? Meno: Yes, that seems right. Socrates: Whereas in

"The monk joined the monastery and spent the next ten years working his way up the ranks, until finally he was put in charge of the relics."

𓅓𓂋 𓊪𓂋𓅂𓋴𓇋𓂧𓅂𓈖𓏏…

Classic story about when then Attorney General Mike Easley argued his first case at the NC Supreme Court. 5 minutes into his argument Chief Justice Burley Mitchell leaned over and whispered, "He didn't introduce himself. Should I ask him what his name is?"

Coach on the other team scrambling to explain there’s nothing in the rulebook that says a dog who plays basketball can’t be euthanized mid game, parents are screaming at him, I have my hands over my head, speechless, the children are asking difficult questions

Timber Mouse takes down a manifesting carrion twig demon with his particle sword. Work continues on third Gwelf book. More soon. Tally Ho!

The weirdest thing about UK politics is the total insignificance of things they talk about. 500 whole homes? By 2032? Mamdani would be embarrassed to even think this, let alone tweet it.

People are bashing on the cops for the obvious Streisand effect, but I bet the cops and their lawyers made the same stereotypical calculation that a jury there would side with cops over a rather profane rapper. Well, juries are a little smarter than that.

After Richmond disabled its Flock cameras to "protect immigrants," car thefts jumped 33%. Immigrant shopkeepers begged to bring them back. Last week their city council finally listened. Opposing safety cameras is a luxury belief. gli.st/nfolm33i