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Pictures of the attack on Beirut. We're just trying to get a few people was always a ridiculous thing for Netanyahu to say, either in Lebanon or Gaza, but it looks like an even more obvious lie in Lebanon because it has such a modern-looking city. That is, from the perspective of an American, sadly. You could say Boston is in those pictures, and it would be believable.Comments
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Maria João Pires is a concert pianist that prepared to play one concerto, then when the orchestra started playing the concerto, she realized she had prepared the wrong concerto. It is high drama.Comments
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Chaconne, by Raymond Daveluy and performed by Rachel Laurin, which is included in this Pipedreams episode, is really good. It's monastic, but with modern (or at least post-monastic) rhythm.Comments
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Oh, yeah, if you were wondering like me how to glue together libraries to get your strings compressed with zlib, these are the three steps.Comments
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God bless Nintendo. They skipped VR, NFTs, and now statistical reassembling of mostly stolen content.Comments
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The heat pump is effective at drying. The wall unit dropped the humidity of the other end of the basement by 10% in twenty minutes.Comments
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You knew this was coming: OpenAI is moving ahead with plans to restructure as a for-profit company and is in discussions to give chief executive Sam Altman a stake as it confronts a series of senior departures including its high-profile chief technology officer Mira Murati.Comments
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit dedicated to ensuring that artificial general intelligence — which aims to replicate human intelligence — would benefit all of humanity. In 2019, the company changed to a “capped profit” structure, allowing it to raise large amounts of capital from the likes of Microsoft, which has invested $13bn.
Non-profits are never free from the reach of massive capital. A mini-scale version of this happened when 2U, a for-profit company, bought edX, an online course nonprofit. (It did not turn out well.)
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Carcass is playing tomorrow night at the House of Blues. I really like Carcass and feel I should go. But getting to House of Blues, the House of Blues itself, and standing around for hours are all a big hassle.Comments
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Got my back workout done. Done at 10 PM, though.Comments
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The latest Trump-style "Haitians are eating dogs" racist lie in Canada is that Indiansdefecate in public. It's spreading via TikTok.Comments
The less outlandish parallel lie going around is that South Asians are taking their jobs. When I was a kid, a neighbor commented on how the new Subway (the Subway franchise was new to us at that time) was owned by Indians. Her husband, who was an idiot (this was obvious even to a ten-year-old), aid that the government gives it to them.
My mom couldn't believe he said that. She replied that immigrants save their money for a long time to open franchises. Dude just mumbled something.
If that had taken place in 2024, our dumb neighbor would have just posted that the government was giving Subways to Indians to TikTok or X, and it would be retweeted thousands of times, with maybe a dozen "that's not true" replies that would be surfaced to very few people. -
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Kind of amazing that Amazon employees accepted the phrase "disagree and commit" as part of their vocabulary. It's a rephrasing of "shut up and do what I say", and Bezos got these people to celebrate their submission.Comments
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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet AgainComments
Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release of Firefox, in an experimental trial you have to opt out of manually. This "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" (PPA) API adds another tool to the arsenal of tracking features that advertisers can use, which is thwarted by traditional content blocking extensions.
Browsers are just going to end up like phones, aren't they? There will be two bad choices, one a bit less bad than the other, and that's it.
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[Matt] Pincus is the son of Lionel Pincus, co-founder and chairman of private equity firm Warburg Pincus. His mother, Suzanne Storrs, was Miss Utah in 1955 and a television actress, who was married to Lionel Pincus until her death in 1995. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he received his B.A. in 1995 and M.B.A. in 2002.[1][2][4][5] He has a brother, Henry Pincus, who is an actor and also attended Columbia.[6][7][8]
This reminds me of the line from the song Punk Rock Girl "Punk rock girl your dad is the Vice President".
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The guy made it to Vlad's Castle in Spelunky. It's basically Castlevania. Everyone wants to put Castlevania in their game!Comments
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Robert Caro interview. tl;dr He always goes through every page of every document that he finds in his research. It takes forever and is boring, but it's how he finds bombshells.Comments
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The Pipe Organ Database is neat. It has the location of thousands of pipe organs.Comments
A lot of those places are closed or demolished, though, and 95% of them are in churches that don't have concerts. Kind of a shame that there's a pipe organ a few blocks from me, but I can't really hear it play unless I wait through an hour of talking about The Lord.
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I was going to grill for friends on Saturday, but it rained all day. Before I knew about the rain, though, I tried to think of a good vegetarian dish for the vegetarian friends.Comments
I recalled that in All Men Are Brothers (AKA Water Margin), they’re always having vegetarian feasts. (As well as meat feasts in which the book states about how many catties of flesh were consumed.) So, I looked through the books, and I found that there’s rarely many specifics about what’s in those feasts.
In the prologue, there’s a feast at a Taoist monastery. The description is “there was prepared a great vegetable feast and wine was poured forth.”
Other times, the book states something like “there were 50 vegetable dishes” without talking about what the dishes were. This is the most specific it gets as far as I can tell:Then Tai Chung sat down and he saw a serving man come and ask him, "Most Noble, how many measures of wine shall I pour for you?
But again, what vegetables and how were they prepared? I suppose not many readers were looking for cooking inspiration, so that’s fair.
And what meats will you have to send it down, pork or cow's flesh or sheep's flesh?"
Tai Chung replied, "I do not wish much wine.
Make me a mouthful of rice and bring it to me."
Again the serving man said, "I sell wine here and I sell rice. I have bread too, and bean ver-micelli."
Tai Chung said, "I will eat no meat. What vegetable soups have you?"
The serving man replied, "Fine bean curd stewed with pepper and with sesame oil-how is that?"
Tai Chung said, "Best of all-best of all!" The serving man was not long gone and he stewed a bowl of bean curd and he brought also two saucers of vegetables.
Also, I’m not sure any grilling happens at all in the book, now that I think about it.
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