i cannot escape the past yet i can never go back
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Calm down
Don't tell us to "calm down."
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who up driving they gayroller
Absolutely incredible graffiti on the freeway I passed on my way home today. What the fuck
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Full circle
Oh my god??? Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career. I served under her speakership in my first term of Congress. And I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party.”
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Rewatching Zohran's speech and it's pretty amazing how right after winning he dropped the smiley act and returned right back to being this guy
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Well that is a practiced maneuver if I’ve ever seen one #BAGGAGECLAIM #RUMPHANDLER
Whoa there big guy
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They warned us that if Mamdani won, the government would try to seize the means of production, and here we are.
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
What the fuck does this mean?
JUST IN: Trump says we 'lost a little bit of sovereignty last night in New York but we'll take care of it, don't worry about it'.
Watching this people cry and pee their pants after cheering family separations, kidnappings by masked secret police, extradition to torture black sites, and drone strikes on fishing boats? It’s beyond infuriating.
There is probably a more diplomatic way to say this, but: There is something seriously wrong with an electorate that selects as its top law enforcement officer a man who made clear he actually hopes children die to punish their parents.
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Screenshotting everyone making light of Cheney's killing. You have no idea what you have awakened.
oh great.. as if the vibe couldn't get any worse in toronto the fuckin spider is out today
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wat da fudge is daylight saven. get up
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I believe the next frontier for Mr. Beast is violence. People underestimate how well MrBeast understands attention mechanisms. He has tested and combined them tirelessly. If he doesn't use one, it's not for ethical reasons but because he's optimizing for a different metric. Everything is optimized. Status, resources, suffering, games of chance. Frequent camera changes, faces in every frame, specific color palettes. He operates from first principles, discovering what attracts attention through relentless experimentation with watch time. Sex is notably absent from his toolkit, not because he's unaware of its power, but because he's maximizing audience breadth to include children and navigating platform rules. His innovation with "kindness content" was recognizing that high-stakes moral scenarios (escaping poverty, helping the vulnerable) could justify less palatable attention mechanisms like discomfort or what you might cynically call the soft torture in his "challenges". Violence has moral justifications but triggers disgust; sex has a strong moral-political component so it gets relegated to self-expression narratives. Neither scales like he needs. Mind you, he only embraced "narrative" and human-interest stories after the first-order mechanical elements hit diminishing returns in the formats he could implement. As an example, just showing loads of money is fine at first, but then you need to tell a story: how all that money will help a father of two pay for his daughter's medical treatment and soften an implied,but not outright told, risk of divorce with his beautiful wife Sharon. In the end, all of that is fluff for the display of MONEY. MrBeast is a low-throughput flesh interface between the algorithm and video production, the closest thing we have to a human implementation of foryou.serve_next(). Does that mean you could replicate his success with just a Sora-like high-quality video models? I don't believe so. There must be stakes. Real winners, real losers, real blood. Generated humans cannot die, feel pain, or cry with genuine joy. MrBeast currently uses contrived methods to satisfy audience schadenfreude. Advances in robotics could let him mechanize gore while keeping human participants engaged through high-fidelity teleoperation. You get to see a human enough form get slashed in half, and then a real human reap the rewards from that act of violence. You don't have to contend with the moral quals of what just happened: no one got hurt but you got the pornography of it, i.e. the action (someone got slashed) abstracted from its function (but they didn't bleed out and die) Too many are focused on plastic love and not enough on plastic blood.
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BREAKING: A court has ordered the America First president to feed the hungry.
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4 weeks ago a 15 year old autistic boy went missing in Texas His mom filed a missing person’s report 6 days passed before she heard anything Turns out Houston PD found him the next day, but rather than return him to his Mom, contacted ICE He’s been in federal custody since