if only we simply hadn't optimized our world system to reward ruthless monstrosity
08.03.2026 09:35
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if only we simply hadn't optimized our world system to reward ruthless monstrosity
Noooooo
This is great news
Somewhere between Pluribus and Borg is the sweet spot
That’s why AI feels like the perfect solution for these sorts. They’re so terrified of the vulnerability that comes with an original idea…
Makes total sense!
Arias seems to have a really wide spectrum on rankings. K Law clearly the high guy, having him just outside his Top 10, and you're definitely the low guy so far. While it's likely somewhere in the middle, what are you seeing that makes you push him out of your Top 50? Mostly power concerns?
The Sons of Sam Horn Boston sports forum (I know I know) is still somehow as active as ever and has a really insightful group of people (and some dummies). I do miss the days when Mike Schurr was a poster though.
ART!
Absolutely. I recorded with him a few months back and he had some great stories about that era. He’s an essential part of the modern jazz guitar lineage, but often felt overlooked until recently imo. I really think there’s no Metheny or Rosenwinkel w/o him, at least as we know them…
Nothing to be embarrassed about there man, everyone’s got plenty of those. Jealous you get to experience it for the first time! Definitely one of those “missing link” records imo
Such a brilliant and influential record!
I can't tell you how refreshing it was to read that last sentence. I don't understand why Tucker isn't mentioned, OF glut be damned. His 2024 was a glimpse at what's an MVP-type ceiling and he's 28. It's rare guys with that ceiling and age are available for just money. Maybe the injury stuff is bad?
I find that disgusting
Yes!! The concept alone confuses me, let alone the reception …
The fawning TIME cover for the "Architects of A.I." showing some of the worst people in the world sitting on a girder above NYC. In this version, Spider-Man has swung by their steel beam and sent them all tumbling in what can best be described as nothing more than an unfortunate accident.
Nice one, Spidey.
Putting up those numbers in 250 less games? Papa pretty clearly (but hey, you're comparing a HOF career!)
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
its an honor
Strongly agree!! From the first viewing. I rewatched it after finishing Andor, and just felt like "yeesh, this is a bad episode"
“Then you purchase them and do not use the property of others” !!!!!!!
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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I’ve always wondered about that Yankees series…
OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
That is a very dangerous assumption
Also big worlds-colliding stuff happening right now haha. Definitely knew you from twitter before I knew you were from the ny scene (until I saw a photo at ibeam and pulled a Leo pointing at the tv)
I'm doing that for Caleb next week! I think anyone who's had that person in studio before really knows the value of it— it's a wildly different recording experience. Looking forward to hearing what you guys came up with together!
Hell yeah
