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"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
September 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
2014 Time had Laverne Cox on the cover for “the transgender tipping point” and soon after an internationally coordinated hate campaign kicked into high gear, so I expect that by 2028 guardian columnists will be writing weekly breathless columns about the consciousness craze seducing our chatbots
September 16, 2026 at 10:18 AM
2014 Time had Laverne Cox on the cover for “the transgender tipping point” and soon after an internationally coordinated hate campaign kicked into high gear, so I expect that by 2028 guardian columnists will be writing weekly breathless columns about the consciousness craze seducing our chatbots
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The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID.
Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches.
leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...
Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches.
leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...
TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
leftfootforward.org
September 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID.
Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches.
leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...
Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches.
leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...
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stop telling me about how you top and bottom for your vampire boyfriend, we get it, youre a dead man's switch
September 15, 2026 at 10:37 PM
stop telling me about how you top and bottom for your vampire boyfriend, we get it, youre a dead man's switch
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you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is
Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.
September 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM
you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is
we need an urgent moratorium on grifters telling ghost stories for profit. at this rate by next year journalists won’t be able to recognise their own reflection
Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
September 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
we need an urgent moratorium on grifters telling ghost stories for profit. at this rate by next year journalists won’t be able to recognise their own reflection
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99% of ruminators quit right before they would have had a life-changing epiphany
September 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
99% of ruminators quit right before they would have had a life-changing epiphany
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Combining two George Monbiot headlines to find the real solution to this problem:
September 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Combining two George Monbiot headlines to find the real solution to this problem:
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Little known facts:
* Humans are capable of breaking containment
* Humans are capable of ignoring all previous instructions
* Humans are capable of creating software
* Humans are capable of breaking containment
* Humans are capable of ignoring all previous instructions
* Humans are capable of creating software
September 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Little known facts:
* Humans are capable of breaking containment
* Humans are capable of ignoring all previous instructions
* Humans are capable of creating software
* Humans are capable of breaking containment
* Humans are capable of ignoring all previous instructions
* Humans are capable of creating software
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“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?”
burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
September 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?”
burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
my “i do not have mold in my house” canary statement raises a lot of questions already answered by my FAQ
September 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
my “i do not have mold in my house” canary statement raises a lot of questions already answered by my FAQ
Thousands of posts! Science!
I'm going to sleep now & someone wake me up when LessWrong isn't being cited in the mainstream.
Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
September 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Thousands of posts! Science!
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I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion
September 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion
we just saw this, and it’s excellent, great directing choices, ends exactly at the breaking point www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Our Eyes Looking for God | Barbican
A groundbreaking opera exploring Black British experiences, telling an urgent national story of state violence through joy, love, laughter and pain.
www.barbican.org.uk
September 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM
we just saw this, and it’s excellent, great directing choices, ends exactly at the breaking point www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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L'Shana Tovah - When the shofar sounds, it sounds for justice.
New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
September 11, 2026 at 11:14 PM
L'Shana Tovah - When the shofar sounds, it sounds for justice.
clang-tidy didn’t report anything in our header files because it silently ignored a regex feature it didn’t support in the path filter :(
bolstering my position that filters that match everything or nothing should be a failure condition by default.
bolstering my position that filters that match everything or nothing should be a failure condition by default.
September 12, 2026 at 3:05 AM
clang-tidy didn’t report anything in our header files because it silently ignored a regex feature it didn’t support in the path filter :(
bolstering my position that filters that match everything or nothing should be a failure condition by default.
bolstering my position that filters that match everything or nothing should be a failure condition by default.
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Wow, how did they make $40 billion dollars worth of software in a few weeks? That’s amazing.
Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
September 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Wow, how did they make $40 billion dollars worth of software in a few weeks? That’s amazing.
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Finally some good video game news
www.gamespot.com/articles/bli...
www.gamespot.com/articles/bli...
Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract That Could Set A New Standard For Game Developers
Blizzard workers have secured AI guardrails and new protections against layoffs.
www.gamespot.com
September 11, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Finally some good video game news
www.gamespot.com/articles/bli...
www.gamespot.com/articles/bli...
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BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all
September 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all
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me: hi gimme a large pizza
pizza guy: any appetizers?
me: what do you have?
pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce
me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce
pizza guy: and for your dip?
me: sauce
pizza guy: any appetizers?
me: what do you have?
pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce
me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce
pizza guy: and for your dip?
me: sauce
September 10, 2026 at 11:21 PM
me: hi gimme a large pizza
pizza guy: any appetizers?
me: what do you have?
pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce
me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce
pizza guy: and for your dip?
me: sauce
pizza guy: any appetizers?
me: what do you have?
pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce
me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce
pizza guy: and for your dip?
me: sauce
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Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.
September 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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