Those links, btw, are to writings by esteemed anarchist theorist ziq

On a shitty musk thread, press and hold on the image/video and select “Not interested.” If you do this a few times the musk spam should largely fade out of your feed.

Seconding Means, it’s a great program. They hide their power level a bit, but they used to have pics of Mao and Lenin at the beginning of one of their segments a couple years ago, so they’re legit.

I’d argue he’s more on the Matthew Perry track than the Steve Jobs one. Either way, it leads to the same place (but far too slowly)

DEI-ISM*

This is literally the mirror-image of the STEMlord anti-humanities arguments, and it’s a silly argument in either direction. Both STEM and the humanities are academically rigorous and contribute great value to a student’s education–that’s why the best schools have so many gen-ed requirements.

STEM and the humanities would do much better uniting against their common foes in academia: administrators and athletics.

As a programmer, that flowchart looks to me like the precursor to an automated system. The only way they could check the context in an automated fashion would be with some kind of AI, whose efficacy in doing so is going to be dubious at best given the language difference between most text on the Internet and grant proposals.

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Office of Management and Budget

This is not Citations Needed but rather Citation Needed, a newsletter by someone named Molly White. Two different things. There is also another podcast, unrelated to either of these, called Citation Needed. It’s a popular name.

Looking forward to the rest; these are all awesome!

Cradle by Will Wight is both really good and a lot of fun to read, in my opinion. In a similar genre, Beware of Chicken by “Casualfarmer” is very enjoyable as well.

Also, a little darker, especially in setting, but somehow not a depressing story in spite of that, Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy is also excellent.

Quality fucking journalism right here folks! Not sure how many of you slogged all the way through the article to catch this nugget, but, well, I’ll let it speak for itself:

RedNote is heavily censored

Content on RedNote appears to be much more heavily censored than posts on TikTok. A CBS News analysis found that any search for “Xi Jinping,” China’s autocratic president, on RedNote yielded no results whatsoever.

The term “Free Hong Kong” also brought back no results. A search for “Taiwan” will turn up several memes welcoming Americans to the platform, but noting that users must recognize the Beijing-imposed narrative that the democratically governed island just off China’s coast, which the U.S. is legally bound to help defend from invasion, is an inseparable part of China.

A similar search for those terms on TikTok turns up a wide range of political opinions from users, including posts heavily critical of Chinese censorship.

Open the desktop version of the page. Interface gets clunkier but it will let you watch the video.

It’s a house, Michael. How much could it cost? $770?

It would, but bankruptcy is quite a process (thanks, Brandon).

Also, your credit is wrecked for 7-10 years after a bankruptcy.

Source: close relatives went through bankruptcy, and I had to shepherd them through parts of it, particularly the initial gathering of documentation

Sugar is also addictive, and food companies know and exploit that fact. The amount of sugar in single can of Coke is like double the recommended daily total.

It goes so much deeper than that. Have a look at this fascinating NYT article about Ozempic and its effect on the food-industrial complex: https://archive.is/QkKbv

(Incidentally, the article also challenges much of the conventional wisdom around weight loss, which I personally found rather validating.)

I’m glad you recognize that, but nonetheless, “the baby” in this case is a falsehood. See here for a real-world example: https://hexbear.net/comment/5779945

Edit: better link

I want to thank you for providing a concrete example of the complexity of biology, which tends to be too abstract for people to understand and accept easily. Elsewhere in this thread I made this argument from a purely abstract standpoint, and it was much less well-received than this.

Ozempic slows digestion and increases satiety in the brain, yes, but it also stimulates secretion of insulin and suppresses glucagon release (you know, the energy signaling molecules, of the sort I mentioned above–I daresay those are playing a role here). Those molecules are critically important to the way the body processes energy, and we still don’t understand that system very well (if we did, we’d be able to cure diabetes).

And even if your oversimplification here was accurate, how would that be an argument that CICO is useful? That argument amounts to telling people to ignore their biological drives, all the time, and basically forever. It’s like telling someone they need to pee less, as if that’s an easy thing to just do.