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September 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM

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California DMV Adds Highway Chase To Road Test https://theonion.com/california-dmv-adds-highway-chase-to-road-test/

September 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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Played the original Splinter Cell on the Steam deck tonight, Sam Fisher was handing out concussions like Vontaze Burfict out there

September 25, 2026 at 2:22 AM

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September 24, 2026 at 8:48 PM

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@meatresponse.bsky.social

The chief executive officer of the most important company in the world is not currently competent to stand trial. Thats probably fine

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

September 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM

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that someone spent time doing this is truly admirable. bravo

September 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM

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Buddy emailed me today saying the fbi seized his phone as part of an investigation into some guy he used to be friends with, so I’m doing my part by texting pictures of kash patel with googly eyes to his phone

September 23, 2026 at 10:12 PM

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@meatresponse.bsky.social

if this means i dont have to pay back my student loans im ok with it

Politico @politico.com · 2d

‘Dammit, something has to happen’: White House preparing plan for 90-day diesel exports ban

Some GOP lawmakers and oil industry reps are still fighting to stave off an announcement.

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September 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM

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pulling up to the drive thru window with such speed that i spook the attendant and she reflexively draws her big iron and fans the hammer into my vehicle and completely airs me out

September 23, 2026 at 4:42 AM

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September 22, 2026 at 6:50 PM

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needing to poop at work = punishment for what happened in the garden of eden

September 22, 2026 at 6:45 PM

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super intelligence is a great start but we should also acknowledge it's the best to ever do it, i suggest we call it GOATSI

September 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM

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September 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM

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@meatresponse.bsky.social

i clicked this link and it just took me to a photo of you

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September 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM

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mave

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You’ll feel a deep and abiding sense of peace when you realize that it’s not things that make you happy. It’s stuff

September 22, 2026 at 12:22 AM

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Patrick Cosmos

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Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

September 20, 2026 at 7:09 PM