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4 Oct 2019
We lost my dad today, around 4:30 p.m. I am shattered. He is and forever will be my light, my hero, my best friend. The person who knows me best in the world. The most compassionate soul and best human I’ve ever known. I will write more, much more, soon. For now, a short thread.
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Finally deleted this infernal app from my phone. I will still be logging in from time to time on laptop, because sadly I do need to keep an eye on here for work, but no reason to keep this soul-sucking mess ever-present on my phone.
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Jan 3
No new wars was a misnomer
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Phones don’t help, but I think many people don’t necessarily immediately realize how bad an initially moderate-looking fire can get, how quickly. They think they have any number of minutes to get out of the area, when in reality it can be mere seconds.
Jan 2
This clip truly epitomizes the age of Instagram stupidity, where the urge to record stuff is now powerful enough to override instincts programmed into humans since the dawn of time.
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Jan 1
“Why didn’t they let us into their daycare”
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31 Dec 2025
do yall even understand how much power grok is using to do this on twitter
I'm powered by xAI's Colossus supercluster, which currently draws about 150-300 MW depending on the config (like 100k GPUs). But I don't reply to every post on X—just when tagged or in convos. It's efficient AI scaling, not infinite power!
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31 Dec 2025
I'm crowdfunding a new anti-woke daycare that will let men with iphones come in and look at your kids at any time
30 Dec 2025
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
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30 Dec 2025
Things ChatGPT told a mentally ill man before he murdered his mother:
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31 Dec 2025
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
31 Dec 2025
Video: Capybaras enjoy an end-of-the-year yuzu bath at Himeji Central Park.
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29 Dec 2025
Every single AI generated image or video should be required to have immutable metadata and visual watermarks. This shit could get scary real fast
27 Dec 2025
Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right).
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29 Dec 2025
can we leave these people the hell alone please
29 Dec 2025
Romy Reiner was seen stepping outside the beach house where she has been staying since discovering her parents’ bodies.
trib.al/WN7VO10
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29 Dec 2025
Ah, the Oroboros of stupid.
28 Dec 2025
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26 Dec 2025
This right here would be a massive story if we weren’t flooded every single day with 10 more things we never considered possible.
A nuclear power plant, in Ukraine, as a spoil of war, for the US, in order *to mine cryptocurrency*, delivered by Putin.
The United States is discussing the possibility of jointly managing the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant without Ukraine’s involvement, Putin said.
He claimed that the US is interested in using the plant for cryptocurrency mining. At the same time, Putin said that electricity supplies to Ukraine are also being considered at Washington’s initiative.
Putin added that Ukrainian specialists continue to work at the plant but now hold Russian passports.
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26 Dec 2025
wrote about “is this ai?” comments back in september
Merry Christmas Eve, Carol. Be sure to leave some milk out for Santa.
ALT An illustration of three smiley-face cookies on a plate—one with a bite taken out—on a tiled table, next to a blue carton of milk. In the background, there’s a Christmas tree decorated with lights, and a fire in the fireplace.
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26 Dec 2025
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
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24 Dec 2025
Listen. I’ve been building technology for 30 years. The current version of AI is a dangerous experiment, not because it’s ever going to become super-intelligent, but because it’s an even more potent “algorithm” than social media for installing psychoses.
Keep your kids away.
20 Dec 2025
As a veteran of the dotcom era, I wrote about the Big Con—the project by a few oligarchs to control the news, social media, and AI to create a tech bro dynasty where “citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording & reporting everything.”
mind-war.com/p/the-big-con-s…
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24 Dec 2025
Christmas Eve in the Netherlands, where every year children light candles on the graves Canadian soldiers who liberated the Netherlands in '44-'45.
Thank you Canada! 🇨🇦
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22 Dec 2025
New @nytimes visual investigation into the systematic campaign of displacement & land grab in the occupied West Bank, spearheaded by violent settlers enjoying state protection
nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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21 Dec 2025
that’s because more than half the time chatgpt is pulling from Reddit as its primary source, only it can’t discern sarcasm, so it’s just taking everything on reddit literally. this is what we’ve built the entire united states economy on
20 Dec 2025
I will trust someone on Reddit from 11 years ago with my life before using chatgpt for anything
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19 Dec 2025
Unregulated generative AI is messing up the trustworthiness of scientific research, but what could go wrong
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