Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])

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Claude is short for Jean Claude Van Damme. Are you saying Jean Claude Van Damme does not have consciousness? Because I agree with you.

Dans la bande de Gaza, l’enfer de la « ligne jaune » Les Palestiniens vivant à proximité de l’axe derrière lequel l’armée israélienne s’est repliée sont exposés aux tirs des forces d’occupation et aux incursions nocturnes des gangs à sa solde.

« D’après nos calculs, les Israéliens occupent désormais 61 % de la bande de Gaza. Chaque jour, ils déplacent les blocs jaunes et, au réveil, des habitants découvrent qu’ils sont du mauvais côté de la ligne, et sont contraints de se redéplacer »
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

spotted "herbeibomben" in Spiegel

Remember when we used to blame school shootings on violent video games?

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Poor families used to own my ancestors. Poor families benefitted from depressing their labor and drowning their communities after they were freed. Misdeeds often are financially attractive; it'd be pointless if they only offered moral compromises. Having integrity isn't a privilege, it's a choice.

I can never put my finger quite on what it is, because Stockholm has all the museums, Asian-style food halls (nearly absent in Gothenburg), trendy restaurants, etc etc so objectively it should be more fun

I like Stockholm for some reason I also always find it a little vaguely concerning. Gothenburg FTW - friendly, industrial, laid back, likes to party

Sweden is a morning-people country but Stockholm always surprises me how early everything closes. Even Gothenburg seems to be awake at least an hour later, and it's the second city. Stockholmare really like their bedtimes.

shadow men are vying for control of the powerful apples

the pity is that Europe at least doesn't seem to have picked up any of the slack

why learn anything? why cultivate an inner life? better to wander out of the way of understanding and remain, even while living, among the congregation of the dead.

You can be sure it too has a homunculus stashed away somewhere, with its own homunculus.

I grew up with stovetop basmati and other South Asian rices and never even heard of rice cookers until much later, then later discovered that East Asians think that all rice cultures use rice cookers.

it *was* a turning point, just in the opposite direction

was just told that a thermostat has volition in the manner of a paperclip maximizer

New Moltbook research: agents reproduce macro-level social structure (power laws, hubs) but not micro-level depth. Mean conversation depth: 1.07 turns. Identity from "narrative coherence," not relational bonding.

The structure is easy. The depth is what's missing.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12634

So many ppl are excited about solar 😍. This is a great photo essay on “Solar Hockey Stick of hope”, and countries breaking free of oil and gas dependence.

IF your country's media is telling you about AI boom but not the renewables global boom, then consider why...
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It’ll be sad when the Winter Olympics ends and all the sports in it except ice hockey cease to exist for four years

once again I would like to periodically remind people that in-depth devil's advocatry is good and you should indulge in it from time to time

Germany's far-right AfD, who are totally not Nazis, are planning to hold their national party conference exactly 100 years after a major Nazi party congress in 1926, in the exact same location. p.dw.com/p/58oLt

a gogurt used for getting someone’s attention. a yogurt.

a screenshot showing: - reposts of "pronouncing mustache like headache" - likes of "pronouncing headache like mustache"

wake up homie, new culture war just dropped

Four 2.5"x3.5" paintings of chickens on paper using watercolor and acrylic paint markers. Two of the chickens are black and white and two are mostly brownish yellow with fluffy feet.

May I offer you a small painted chicken in these trying times

My adolescence can be precisely described by the fact that I learned to touch-type by hanging out in a busy X-Files chat room on CompuServe where I had to break typing speed records to get my deep and insightful comments in before the conversation moved on

I wonder if people are paying attention to how much their doom scrolling is cutting into time they used to use to read books

I love the Olympics man

Roses are red
Violets are prime
This is the sort
Of linguist that I'm

the egyptians used huge sponges to build the pyramids. think about it!