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I like how they say "flour shell" like they (correctly) fear that the concept of bread itself would send a cease and desist if they dared use the word.

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If you're the digital representation, then whatever you do is playing out according to a deterministic process and your free will is an illusion, so you might as well do whatever you want anyway.

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And what does it mean to drip with slavery?

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West Coast Alliance will have a significant domestic terrorism problem that increases the closer it gets to the Rockies, though.

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If it makes you feel any better, it can only ever torture a digital representation of you because your essential self is made of ordinary matter caught up in the ineluctable grip of entropy.

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Oh geez they might actually do that one.

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Mycologists are fine, it's the fan club that gets weird.

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Remember when Rand Paul got beat up and it turned out it was because his neighbor was fed up with him throwing brush into his yard?

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Christians blathering on about the importance and sanctity of the family doing their favorite thing: lying nonstop to their children about literally everything, including the most significant and defining moment of their childhoods. Anyone who thought this kid was better off now that pops is out of the picture hasn't met the mom.

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Yes but don't you wish you were living in the reality where in a few years we get a biopic where an actress gets an Oscar for pretending to feel very badly about the whole thing?

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The rhetoric would've been nicer and that's about it.

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Redpilling the youths is backfiring because the men buy it and the women don't.

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I've got a morbid fascination with Medium. It's proof why the term "thought leadership" was a dead letter the minute it was coined. It's Blogspot through the mirror darkly: a bunch of people who take themselves deadly seriously posting absolutely unhinged nonsense, probably mostly AI generated.

This one's fun, though. An investment advisor gets a peek at the man behind the curtain and does baby's first materialism, seeing but not quite connecting the dots on Mark Zuckerberg's expensive-ass bunker, the current fad for investing in raw materials, power generation, and agricultural land, and the real estate boom, and the fact that infinite growth with finite resources is impossible. It also has some nonsense on how it's mathematically impossible for the world's total debt to be greater than the world's GDP, as though you can't sell an asset multiple times or you can't have more wealth an what you produce in a year. His heart seems (broadly) in the right place - he almost gets to the idea of mutual aid - but it all comes out in a pained shriek.

The really fun part is the writing style. It seems almost but not quite AI written. It's got the standard hallmarks: apocalyptic (i.e., in the original sense that something deeply hidden is being revealed for the first time) and sensationalistic tone, over-use of contrasts (not this thing that nobody would assume in the first place, but this other thing that is already obvious), and emdashes. My hypothesis is that this sort of stuff is being written by actual human beings, but the human beings doing the writing are spending so much time exposing themselves to AI-generated slop that it's polluting their own training data and they're (potentially unconsciously) adapting their style to match.

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Posted in slop because of the over-the-top writing style.

Imagine this: no electricity on Taiwan’s western coast. Government ministries offline. Internet gone. Airport systems shut. No explosion heard. But order collapses just the same.

waow-based

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When presented with conservative-biased chatbots, Democratic voters supported substantially reducing government expenditures on education, while Republicans did the opposite when presented with a liberal-biased chatbot.

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He actually thinks this is gonna work doesn't he

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This is one of those trainwreck personal essays that I can't let go of, despite it being a 35-minute podcast episode about a middle-aged women describing how she's bad at dating. Part of it is the fascination of it being honest enough to tell on its author while still omitting key details, part of it is wondering about the craft of writing in the year of our lord 20 and 25 when folks are out writing 14,000 word thinkpieces instead of taking the less embarrassing option of seeing a therapist (there is a therapist quoted in the article but it's her friend and she talks about "justify[ing] the phallus," so maybe it's not a given that it'll help).

The tl;dr:

  • She and her now-ex-husband opened up their marriage (no details on how that conversation got started)
  • She caught feels for her boyfriend despite him being up front about not committing
  • She divorced her husband
  • Boyfriend still didn't want to commit
  • She started dating before the ink was even dry on the divorce papers
    • I haven’t been dating long (just the other day my ex-husband and I received our Judgment of Divorce as an email attachment), but long enough to discover that I have a type. He is gentle, goofy, self-deprecating, rather deferential, a passionate humanist, a sweet guy, a “good guy.” He tends to signal, in various ways, his exemption from the tainted category of “men,” and it is perfectly understandable that he would wish to do so. It must be mildly embarrassing to be a straight man, and it is incumbent upon each of them to mitigate this embarrassment in a way that feels authentic to him.

  • The guys she dates either ghost her or beg off with lame excuses rather than "man up and [expletive] [sic] her"
  • There's an aside where a former lover explains what's wrong with the essay and she ignores him

This isn't to say there isn't a lot of deserved frustration directed at heterosexual men in particular (hi, cishet dude here currently signaling my exemption from the tainted category of "men", please let me know if I'm doing a good job in the comments marx-hi) and the dating scene in general, but resorting to "heterofatalism" seems like a rejection of having to do the work to create and sustain a relationship.

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Ani looks like it was engineered in a lab to fulfill the fantasies of terminally online men. Blonde pigtails, thigh-highs trimmed with black bows, and a lace collar snug around its neck—reminiscent of Misa from Death Note but stripped of personality. Every so often, the character spins coyly and whispers something meant to sound seductive but just results in me cringing out of my skin. It also moans, randomly and loudly. Ani comes with a set of preset conversation starters and a button that says “We need to reach level 3,” which elicits an equally perplexing and flirtatious response about how I must be a sexy gamer.

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