The Matt's DeMello

Another big reason Israel had to squeeze in a quick war before the American public turned on them forever.

Interstellar travel is impossible and aliens haven't visited Earth, physicists say “There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

D'aw, shucks!

What was the name of the PC game they came out with in the lead up to the Iraq War? America's Army?

All due respect to the elites deciding There Will Be Blood is PTA's best, but on personal rewatch, The Master takes the cake.

And, basically, over "sanctuary cities" no less!

oh great

Good god.

His penultimate, Gritizen's United.

Right. The lesson of history is not "be nice or else," it's "right by might kills us all." If you want to be right- or might-y anyway, you end up on the same roller coaster.

"my tax money" = not reducing this to material, I'm owning my culpability as a citizen. It's my money. Funneled by criminals. To kill children.

They did. They want this for real, historic (and still bad) reasons.

It's like if the Blue Meanies topped the charts in Japan because they never heard of the Beatles.

It's like if the Blue Meanies' popularity in Japan dwarfed the Beatles.

Hell isn't hot enough for the people using my tax money to pay for this.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright giving a sermon in 2003 where he said “No, no, no, not God bless America. God damn America!”

Living Daylights is absolutely rock-solid top 10. Licence to Kill is fun at best and forgiveable at worst.

The stomach? Sounds like the time of my life.

Two photos with captions from my special Positive Reinforcement. 1. I have a lot of hometown pride, but that's hard to show. Because it gets so aggressive when you're from around boston. 2. I have a red sox hat, and that's fine. But one notch above that gets too macho.

Two photos with captions from my special Positive Reinforcement. 3. The next level is a New England Patriots Jersey... 4. ...and the name on the back just says "BLUE LIVES MATTER" for some reason.

Two photos with captions from my special Positive Reinforcement. 5. Level three is a button down shirt with a camo pattern made of shamrocks, and it's called "shamouflage." 6. You're really only supposed to wear it when a Dropkick Murphy is born or dies.

*cue The Departed opening credits*

yes! yes!!

The purpose is to try their best to actually create a moat for AI that spies on and murders us for not obeying the regime, but as the infamous Google memo says ...

newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-...

DOW* (not that I give a shit).

If anything ever happened to AS220, that's like Altamont/9-11 level.

The Phoenix closing was basically the Buddy Holly Plane Crash for the Providence music scene.

Also, "very good sign" = Like how when after 9/11 happened, among Bush's first moves was to encourage Americans not to discriminate against Muslims.

It still took 15 years and as many election cycles to happen anyway, but only that long because the POTUS took that position from the start.

And this may still be a smaller version of the scenario that precludes a bigger version. I.e. the bombing of the USS Cole before 9/11.

Anthropic CEO says it 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands for AI use Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.

If you know the AI space, the "government taking over the biggest player" scenario ended up happening ahead of schedule (i.e. before widespread AGI).

But it's a very good sign in the initial salvo that Anthropic's not going along with this wholesale.

apnews.com/article/anth...

It's really comforting that the Yale professor Substacks are so against AI that they're clearly leaving in their typos. Not sure how intentional this is to display, but it does send a message to the readership.

Which reminds me, Return to Cookie Mountain 20th anniversary is ALSO around the corner.

Did we even use the word "meme" to describe the Great 2006 Chuck Norris Punchline Obsession? Was this just the Rhode Island suburbs?

This guy gets it.