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These people must not have children if they think it is out of the ordinary.....

OpenAI makes changes to ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ Pentagon deal Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance

www.ft.com/content/653f... lol so Sam Altman rushes out a deal and then regrets doing so, what a clown

I can't even talk and write at the same time, so I am skeptical lol

One of my faves in high school! Haven't reread it though

Due process, really does mean process! It's so incredibly important. Annoying at times and there will be things that slip through the cracks. But due process requires process

When my ex-wife was pregnant I remember them doing tests and despite having all childhood vaccines, she had apparently lost immunity to rubella. I remember it made me think that I should get checked too!

Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

There's only one state in the country that voted for Kamala Harris, & voted for a Dem governor, and where a state agency has any sort of contract with ICE's infamous 287(g) program.

Massachusetts.

The MA Gov says she supports it (even days after Spanberger ended Youngkin's same agreement in VA).

What a nice note!

NYPost article with headline: CBS News boss Bari Weiss is agonizing over Peter Attia’s Jeffrey Epstein mess — here’s why Lede: CBS News boss Bari Weiss has been agonizing over whether to boot wellness doctor Peter Attia over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein – partly because she believes contrarian voices like his are crucial to revamping the stodgy, left-leaning network’s business model, sources told On The Money. Attia – a Canadian physician who gained attention for his heterodox wellness advice and some notoriety during the pandemic as he advocated against strict COVID lockdowns – has landed in a mess over the latest Epstein document dump, which revealed some unfortunate email exchanges he had with the deceased pedophile.

Lol CBS has change of leadership to hire new people to "[revamp] the stodgy, left-leaning network's business model" and it just seems that everyone they hire ends up being either a loser or a nonce

robot(n.) 1923, "mechanical person," also "person whose work or activities are entirely mechanical," from the English translation of the 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots") by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave" (from Old Slavic *orbu-, from PIE *orbh- "pass from one status to another;" see orphan)

If this is to be believed, robot comes from the Czech word for slave

Calling it "military-grade" doesn't make me more afraid of what they're doing, it makes me question how advanced I thought military intelligence really was

How do you find it? I keep coming back to the RSV/RSV-CE. Grew up in a King James-only church and still have nostalgia for it I suppose!

I'm kind of fucked up about this, used to listen to his podcasts about Tadej and with Inigo san Millan, was even a premium member for a little bit to get all of the supplemental information from those interviews..... ugh

A fellow ham! AC1SJ here!

I like Interactive Brokers and use them as a brokerage but they keep trying to shove their own version of polymarket down my throat, like no thanks!

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and... book by Tom Mueller Buy a cheap copy of Extra Virginity: The Sublime and... book by Tom Mueller. For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and ...

It's a fascinating subject! I really liked this book:
www.thriftbooks.com/w/extra-virg...

Wikipedia article for "Derivative (finance)" saying: > Derivatives are one of the three main categories of financial instruments, the other two being equity (i.e., stocks or shares) and debt (i.e., bonds and mortgages). The oldest example of a derivative in history, attested to by Aristotle, is thought to be a contract transaction of olives, entered into by ancient Greek philosopher Thales, who made a profit in the exchange.[7] However, Aristotle did not define this arrangement as a derivative but as a monopoly (Aristotle's Politics, Book I, Chapter XI). Bucket shops, outlawed in 1936 in the US, are a more recent historical example.

Literally the first recorded financial derivative in history was about olive oil.

This is the classic of being a musical theatre/light opera fan :)

Well said, Catholic Encyclopedia

I haven't found the agentic workflows very useful for my specific work, so this might not apply. But, also as someone with ADHD, I mostly use Claude to "talk things over" and basically have a peer right next to me. Maybe I'll actually try claude code again if this works in parallel

my sort of underbaked take is i liked the dilbert comic strip as a kid because its depiction of a banal and arbitrary work environment where nonsensical top-down policies dictated my life resonated much more with my experience of school than my life later in the work force

Literally just an inverted U, bolted to the ground. It's all I ever want!

Also much closer to the kind of thing that it's a actually good at

Your cat, in the middle of the workday, will be like "I have a very important message to show you in the Secret Other Room" and then when you finally follow him to the other room, the message is "I am a cat"

Can it buy a whole lunch though?

See also hats 😭

Maybe the most touching story of belief in the Bible itself is "I believe; help my unbelief!"

These look delicious. I love making homemade biscuits. Up here in the godless Northeast, even "Southern" restaurants often have biscuits that taste distinctively of baking powder

noticed this this past weekend--was one of the only southern places around good enough to take my parents to

So sorry! Once something, I know not what, flew into my mouth, but I spat it out before it actually stung me. It did however still manage to spray its venom all over my mouth. So uncomfortable!!