carlitoscohones @ carlitoscohones @awful.systems

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The have a firstly and a lastly, but no inbtweensly in their description.

Also - "setting industry benchmarks for innovation, utility, and transparency." hahahahahahahahahaha

Most notably, he cropped the graph on the "ourworldindata" website - the annual average appears below all of those charts, and quite obviously line go up. I took his Sweden chart into excel and added a trend line just to make it all on one chart.

Amazing. Thank you for guiding me there.

The statements about payments of claims of customers and creditors in full is always caveated by the word “allowed” (see id. at 24). The expectation is that allowed claims will be paid in full if all of the hard work described above pays off (Id. at 24). The question remains, though, how one takes a filed claim and turns it into an allowed claim. One must first start at the total dollar amount of claims filed. That number is $23.6 quintillion dollars. (Id.). One quintillion is one billion billions. It is the number 1 followed by 18 zeros. The task of addressing filed claims and reducing them to their proper and “allowed” amount is monumental. Mr. Bankman-Fried assumes this is a breeze. He is wrong—very wrong.

Behind the Bastards had a few episodes on how AI children's books are on offer at Amazon - also creepy and unhealthy.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-ai-is-coming-for-your-children/id1373812661?i=1000617646703

holy crap, did anyone see the 404 article on ai-generated breastfeeding photos that "mom daily" is posting in order to avoid the nudity filters at Facebook? This one appeared with hashtag #Godisgood and #jenniferlopez because no one knows the purpose of hashtags anymore I guess.

Tangential to your tangential - nice to see that the moral compass of McKinsey associates is still true north.

By the end of the year, Elist was doing roughly 60 Penuma procedures a month, and his oldest son, Jonathan, left a job at McKinsey to become the CEO of International Medical Devices, as they called their family firm.

I'm now imagining populations of penis havers who scoff at the enlarged ones behaving like the Rolex aficionados who play "spot the fake Rolex" and get into all kinds of watch minutiae. Look at the telltale marks around the base - definitely enlarged, not like my 100% natural model, which comes 2.5 seconds fast per day.

To be fair, it was beautiful data. This is definitely the first time that reading about a gangbang made me want to subscribe to canva dot com.

At the risk of kind of picking around the edges here ... something caught my eye in #5:

Michael successfully alerted me to the fact that crime has risen by a factor of ten over the past century, which seems REALLY IMPORTANT and nobody else is talking about it and it seems like the sort of thing that more people than just Michael should be paying attention to.

This claim is ridiculous. The homicide rate in the US was something like 30 or 40 per 100,000 people in colonial times, reducing every century, and it's around 5 right now, since the increase from the 1960s - 1990s has gone back down.

Maybe, in the past 100 years, we have passed so many bajillion new statutes that it has increased crime tenfold, but that's not what the reactionaries are saying at all.

Eschewing the mainstream use of language and formatting is a sign of genius.

piling on.

Hi Elon, Here's some chalk. Give me 100 lines:

profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity.

"Given the same chance, Sam would dedicate his post-prison life to charitable works," Mukasey wrote.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone could bring a slideshow of what Effective Altruism^TM considers "charitable works" to the sentencing hearings? "Charitable work" = traveling the world while having a laptop on the beach, in the jungle, by the pool...

My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”

I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.

Muito Bem.

I love this podcast. One of the hosts (Michael Hobbes) used to be on "you're wrong about" which also dispelled common myths and misinformation. They look at bad science and epistemology in airport-type books, like Malcolm Gladwell or right wing nut jobs, etc.

This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.

I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably "The German Question" a couple of weeks ago.

If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.

Obviously it's a cult, but when they use this phrasing, they just give the game away.

Skip to 1:03 for a second ... this is the super-fast lyric portion of the video. Saying all of those syllables fast causes Mr. street-sounding rap guy to lose his accent code-switch and for that verse he sounds like a generic white guy. Pretty funny actually.