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· December 1, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Lisa Melton

Hey, if you're the type of person that can start typing a reply to an argument, then decide that actually it's not worth bothering with and delete the reply, I want you to know:

You're doing fantastic, and you should be proud of yourself. I wish more people had that kind of restraint.

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· November 30, 2023 · 1 minute to read

I’m ok with all of these and will use the correct pronunciations from now on. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

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· November 29, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Will McKinley

Today in 1972 — PONG debuted in arcades.

A home edition followed in 1975, allowing us to burn those white bars into our TV screens.

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· November 29, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Ghost of Media Studies, Assed

How to describe Kissinger, according to major news organizations:

BBC: “sometimes controversial”

Reuters: “diplomat and Nobel winner”

CNN: “a dominating and polarizing force”

Politico: “America’s most famous diplomat”

NBC News: “former US Secretary of State”

NYT: “shaped Cold War history”

Wall Street Journal: “helped forge US Policy”

AP News: “ex-secretary of state”

CNBC: “towering American diplomat”

ABC News: “former secretary of state and presidential advisor”

France 24: “giant of statecraft”

The Hill: “American dipolomat”

Washington Post: “shaped world affairs under two presidents”

NPR: “…” [updated to: “legendary diplomat and foreign policy scholar”]

COWARDS. All of you. THIS is a headline:

Rolling Stone: “War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class”

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· November 28, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Patrick Beja

I mean, if Elon Musk wanted Parler, I’m sure he could have gotten the real thing for a lot less than 43 billion…

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· November 26, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Doctor Popular

The Kei-tora Gardening Contest is an annual event put on by the Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors to see who can build the best-looking garden on the back of a Kei truck. Here are some of the winners from the past 12 years. http://zoenren-osaka.jp/activity.html

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· November 26, 2023 · 1 minute to read

And a heads up everyone, I definitely turned this off on my parent’s TV last year but it was BACK this year. Software updates may turn it back on. Sinister.

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· November 25, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Dare Obasanjo

A fundamental narrative failure of everyone talking about OpenAI as the company that wants to build safe AI is that their literal claim to fame is rushing to ship ChatGPT based on a technology which Google invented but thought was too unsafe to ship.

This is a company focused on shipping generative AI tech as quickly as possible and capturing as many customers as possible before competitors catch up.

They are AI doomers mainly to slow down the industry not themselves.

https://www.ft.com/content/a2c29506-4a38-47a3-8775-beb5e488c169

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· November 24, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Electronic Frontier Foundation

Getting Signal up and running on your phone only takes a couple minutes. If you've already got it set up, take a minute to help your friends, too. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

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· November 24, 2023 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Shannon Prickett

Happy Buy Nothing Day to those who celebrate.

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