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I’m not quite sure what I’ll do with this space, but I like the ideas behind smol.pub.

A fantastic and timely video essay on the Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator.

A good summary of why the Democrats are one giant shrug emoji of a political party, just the biggest group of loser ass losers.

It’s pretty frustrating Ford will win again, despite being so thoroughly useless and corrupt.

Making the case for large language models. This was a good read on a topic that often feels very polarized.

If super science is a possibility — if, say, Claude 13 can help deliver cures to a host of diseases — then, you know what? Yes, it is okay, all of it. I’m not sure what kind of person could insist that the maintenance of a media status quo trumps the eradication of, say, most cancers. Couldn’t be me. Fine, wreck the arts as we know them. We’ll invent new ones.

Everything is so terrible it’s hard to point to a particular article that sums up the terrible neatly. This one looks at the sort of right wing we are dealing with at the moment: abject loser machines, I guess.

The reporting about what is going on in America right now seems to really underplay what is taking place. And I think talking about what is happening plainly makes you sound like a crazy person. If everything Trump, Musk, and friends were doing was happening in Afghanistan it would be framed completely differently.

The news about DeepSeek reminded me of this old memo, purportedly leaked from Google, about the future of AI.

They are protesting the county’s racism party trying to reinterpret their countries founding treaty with the Māori people.

America voted for more of this.

Our bodies are festivals of variation. And in sports, we celebrate those differences—until we don’t. In certain sports, people are much more skeptical and far less accepting of variations among women athletes. With all our uniqueness, it seems strange to me that we laud some anatomical variations and are so hostile towards others. What matters is not whether a particular variation is common or rare, but how we perceive it in terms of the societal categories we have made. And because of our perceptions, some athletes end up adored. Others are shamed for some of the very characteristics that could help make them great.

It feels like you could write this story every day for the last year. The NY Times looks at all the death Ramy Nasr has had to deal with due to the war in Gaza.

Were it not for his children, Mr. Nasr said, he would not want to go on. “I wish I had died alongside my siblings,” he said. “Those that die are better off.”

The web design for this little anthology of modern religion essays is great.

A short movie by Eric Kissack (of The Good Place fame) which also stars Dustin Milligan from Schitts Creek.

Children are universally considered innocents in armed conflict. However, every single signatory to this letter saw children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them. Specifically, every one of us who worked in an emergency, intensive care, or surgical setting treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head or chest on a regular or even a daily basis. It is impossible that such widespread shooting of young children throughout Gaza, sustained over the course of an entire year is accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civilian and military authorities.

Impressive reporting from the Local.

This is a really incredible interview that walks through how the film was shot.

The long interesting history of the Git version control system. I love git.

A fantastic deep dive into the rise and fall of Austen Allred and his bootcamp schools.