- Free speech Palestine!
- Grok eats the news
- r/replaced
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Saira Rao, the vaguely psychopathic “anti-racism” influencer who became famous a few years back for selling struggle sessions to wealthy white women, took to the defense of a Muslim Berkeley student assaulted (!) by a professor’s wife (!!) for simply exercising her right to free speech (!!!) in a now viral tweet. Jk, turns out the student invaded a professor’s home, tried to disrupt his dinner, and accused his wife of “pulling a Muslim woman’s scarf during Ramadan,” which didn’t happen, when she tried to force the unhinged young criminal to leave. There’s nothing noteworthy about a woman like Rao lying about something like this to garner outrage, but I did find it fascinating that the young criminal student was studying… law. A future lawyer. Who thinks she has a First Amendment right to home invasion in the name of Islam. We don’t have to worry about idiots in college doing idiotic things — that’s a law of nature. We do
have to worry about them growing up and sitting on the Supreme Court.
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Several days ago X revamped its "Explore" and "News" tabs on the site, using xAI's Grok LLM to present the different discussions happening on the platform with AI-generated headlines and summaries for each. Mainstream outlets all but ignored this development, but I think it should've gotten far more attention. It foreshadows the future of media: News will be written by the people, and platforms like X will use AI to neatly bundle and present it to the reader. By sorting X's content more effectively, Elon is transforming his app from an endless feed into a "front page" that really could replace a reader's subscription to a content mill like Business Insider. Dear journalist, that piece you had in mind about how deep-sea diving in Paraguay taught you about polyamory? A thousand strangers on Twitter just wrote it during their lunch break.
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This week, a group of former DeepMind employees launched Udio, an AI music generation tool that quickly went viral for its ability to create high-quality songs out of simple text prompts. Some cheered Udio's release, calling it the "Sora of music" while others — namely musicians on Reddit (see: unsuccessful ones) — freaked out over the implications for musicians going forward. Here's the thing: People flipped out when ChatGPT first came out, claiming writers everywhere were now obsolete, yet some of us still got hired by funny dudes on Twitter with Ulysses S. Grant profile pictures. If you’re really concerned about being replaced, maybe stop spending all your time complaining on Reddit.
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Inside SF Public Schools' Shocking Health Curriculum |
kindergarteners learn their sex is a ‘guess that grown-ups make’ and ninth graders memorize the definitions of ‘demisexual’ and ‘down low,’ often without parental notification |
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