Rubyvroom
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rip annie dillard
September 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
rip annie dillard
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This is a legitimately astounding piece of work.
I didn't trust AI to tell me whether AI will kill us all in the next decade. So I turned to the one branch of science more reliable than LLMs: Bracketology
The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really?
Is AI really likely to wipe out humanity within the next decade? We used the most scientific tool in existence to get an answer.
www.theringer.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This is a legitimately astounding piece of work.
There are two songs I really love from YHF, "Radio Cure" and "Reservations". But there are six songs from WBC so it's White Stripes for me. This may be impacted by the current state of the world and my desire to listen to something FUN, admittedly. Add your vote!
The Best Album of 2001 Round 7 Match #128: FINAL MATCH
#1 Wilco, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
VS.
#3 The White Stripes, WHITE BLOOD CELLS
Go here to vote: forms.gle/9KpXR5QF1TFh...
#1 Wilco, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
VS.
#3 The White Stripes, WHITE BLOOD CELLS
Go here to vote: forms.gle/9KpXR5QF1TFh...
September 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
There are two songs I really love from YHF, "Radio Cure" and "Reservations". But there are six songs from WBC so it's White Stripes for me. This may be impacted by the current state of the world and my desire to listen to something FUN, admittedly. Add your vote!
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In light of everything that’s going on
September 17, 2026 at 4:14 AM
In light of everything that’s going on
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NBC News interviewed a plank with a face drawn on it and asked if it could fall in love with humans
September 17, 2026 at 4:57 AM
NBC News interviewed a plank with a face drawn on it and asked if it could fall in love with humans
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Peter Falk was born today so here’s a collection of Columbos
September 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Peter Falk was born today so here’s a collection of Columbos
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It’s a failure of imagination and wider reading on the part of tech guys to invent Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment about a vengeful god that will punish you for not cooperating, while their tech enrages Mother Nature, a vengeful god we’ve had available in our pantheon for millennia.
September 17, 2026 at 8:18 AM
It’s a failure of imagination and wider reading on the part of tech guys to invent Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment about a vengeful god that will punish you for not cooperating, while their tech enrages Mother Nature, a vengeful god we’ve had available in our pantheon for millennia.
It seems to me that people who have been interacting with programmed video game characters for years are way less impressed with LLMs than people who have never had a real conversation with a computer before and think it makes the computer alive.
September 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
It seems to me that people who have been interacting with programmed video game characters for years are way less impressed with LLMs than people who have never had a real conversation with a computer before and think it makes the computer alive.
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this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator
September 17, 2026 at 3:35 AM
this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator
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it's objectively hilarious that capital-p Poptimism peaked in the age of the most vapid megastars - Sheeran and Drake above all - and is now a confused mess just in time for the genuinely incredible hyper literate pop era of PinkPantheress, Olivia, Sabrina, Doechii and co but whaddyagonnado
September 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
it's objectively hilarious that capital-p Poptimism peaked in the age of the most vapid megastars - Sheeran and Drake above all - and is now a confused mess just in time for the genuinely incredible hyper literate pop era of PinkPantheress, Olivia, Sabrina, Doechii and co but whaddyagonnado
I think an underrated aspect of taste forming is not just the new stuff you consume when you're 17, but the people who passed away when you are 17 and you dove into their stuff and discovered how cool they were. It's something that deepened your foundation.
September 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I think an underrated aspect of taste forming is not just the new stuff you consume when you're 17, but the people who passed away when you are 17 and you dove into their stuff and discovered how cool they were. It's something that deepened your foundation.
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BREAKING: La Llorona will no longer be opening for ed sheeran
“He can get fucked” commented bassist Hopey Glass
“If he was really hardcore he would have thrown… his full support behind Palestine” said lead singer Monica Zandinski
“He can get fucked” commented bassist Hopey Glass
“If he was really hardcore he would have thrown… his full support behind Palestine” said lead singer Monica Zandinski
September 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
BREAKING: La Llorona will no longer be opening for ed sheeran
“He can get fucked” commented bassist Hopey Glass
“If he was really hardcore he would have thrown… his full support behind Palestine” said lead singer Monica Zandinski
“He can get fucked” commented bassist Hopey Glass
“If he was really hardcore he would have thrown… his full support behind Palestine” said lead singer Monica Zandinski
If you're scratching your head on this, Behind the Bastards did a nice summing-up in their Zizians episodes youtu.be/9mJAerUL-7w?...
September 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
If you're scratching your head on this, Behind the Bastards did a nice summing-up in their Zizians episodes youtu.be/9mJAerUL-7w?...
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Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.
September 16, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.
Same!
September 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Same!
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A pack of Dunning-Kruger cases cooking up a Temu Yaldabaoth out of Potter fanfic was much funnier before they achieved ownership of all the main surveillance and communications systems outside of China, took political control of America and fired up the genocide engines.
"Roko's Basilisk" being their particular invented mythological figure of The AI That {they believe] Will Inevitably Rule The World, So You'd Better Start Appeasement Rituals, For It Will Be A Vengeful God
just like every other eschatological millenarian sect
... 'rationalist', yeah
just like every other eschatological millenarian sect
... 'rationalist', yeah
Roko’s basilisk isn’t real but the people who think it is are very real & will hurt you
September 16, 2026 at 4:04 AM
A pack of Dunning-Kruger cases cooking up a Temu Yaldabaoth out of Potter fanfic was much funnier before they achieved ownership of all the main surveillance and communications systems outside of China, took political control of America and fired up the genocide engines.
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rhea seehorn didn’t win for better call saul so vince gilligan was like, what if she was the only character, what now
September 15, 2026 at 3:32 AM
rhea seehorn didn’t win for better call saul so vince gilligan was like, what if she was the only character, what now
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Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976.
September 14, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976.
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“I wasn’t shocked because I had won the Grammy, I was shocked because Tony Bennett had said my name.”
Amy Winehouse would have been 43 today.
Amy Winehouse would have been 43 today.
September 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
“I wasn’t shocked because I had won the Grammy, I was shocked because Tony Bennett had said my name.”
Amy Winehouse would have been 43 today.
Amy Winehouse would have been 43 today.
I have a Anna Karenina stance on singing voices: pretty voices are all alike; every fucked-up voice is fucked-up in its own unique way. My record collection is structured accordingly.
September 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
I have a Anna Karenina stance on singing voices: pretty voices are all alike; every fucked-up voice is fucked-up in its own unique way. My record collection is structured accordingly.
would explain how quickly we memory-holed the pandemic
A friend of mine once told me he thinks we are genetically predisposed forget the horrors of childbirth and raising babies otherwise we would never reproduce as a species.
I wonder if we have an innately programmed collective amnesia about other horror for similar reason.
I wonder if we have an innately programmed collective amnesia about other horror for similar reason.
September 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
would explain how quickly we memory-holed the pandemic
I do think these AI Doomer developers are sincere. The profession is self-selecting for science-fiction fans who think Issac Asimov is a predictive model and the singularity is imminent. They've convinced themselves they're locked into a matrix death spiral unless outside forces intervene.
September 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
I do think these AI Doomer developers are sincere. The profession is self-selecting for science-fiction fans who think Issac Asimov is a predictive model and the singularity is imminent. They've convinced themselves they're locked into a matrix death spiral unless outside forces intervene.
If you hold back development of dangerous tech, some other company will leap in and do the thing and then they will "win". So everyone is forced to do reckless development by capitalism! Whereas if the government puts in a ceiling then all companies have to stop. Seems to be the operating logic
“Please regulate us” is so funny to me. No one is forcing the big tech companies to act recklessly. If AI companies really believe in the danger, they don’t have to release more models. Time to act as if one is constrained by the regulation one desires.
September 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
If you hold back development of dangerous tech, some other company will leap in and do the thing and then they will "win". So everyone is forced to do reckless development by capitalism! Whereas if the government puts in a ceiling then all companies have to stop. Seems to be the operating logic