Chris Beiser
@ctbeiser
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how things became how they are, and how they could stop being that way
sandwich francisco
Joined January 2009
Pretty fucked up how, starting in the 13th century, Big Tech enclosed the commons, deeding the land to feudal lords and forcing smallholders to rent the land they worked.
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one reason people like to believe that AI is using a huge amount of water rather than a very modest amount is that part of the spectacle is that something is being done for you, that a transaction is happening, that waste is occuring. extremely Bataillian in form.
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Never miss a trade with E-mini S&P 500 futures. With around-the-clock trading, act on market opportunities both day and night.
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The joy of using models to write code isn't making a landing page faster and worse. It's that you can overengineer things to an insane and stupid degree. Build an interaction that would have taken a month to get right, just for fun. Get weird with the data structures. Go crazy.
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nyc-coded obsession with "developing personal style" (neurotic, egoistic, personal brand) and sf-coded obsession with "having good taste" (high-modern, universalist, corporate branding) are both symptoms of understanding beauty primarily as something to be owned.
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From December 22, Sonic Rumble will never be the same. Face off against Godzilla in a brand-new stage, earn Kaiju-chaotic rewards, and join the ultimate monster mayhem. 🌊 Here’s what’s lurking: - New Stage – Godzilla Survival - New Characters & Buddies - Each Kaiju brings
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Everyone wants to be a creative director and nobody wants to be a session musician.
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many people think it's impossible to be happy without abandoning instrumental reason. i think this is incorrect.
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sf during neurips is crazy… never seen fisherman's wharf this empty
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justin won't be at a senior designer level until his proposal is to debounce the button's reappearance after a send rather than moving it
If I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time, I’m gonna find everyone at apple and put them in a rear naked choke hold Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing The send button should not have multiple
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Operating across multiple companies, currencies, and languages, Arkal needed accurate forecasts that reflected its global operations. With Priority ERP, the team now aggregates data in one unified system—enabling forecasts that capture every factory and the full business picture
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Standard jeans pockets are the wrong place for a phone. A phone belongs either in a side-leg pocket that hanging just above your right knee, or (ideally) a left-side interior jacket breast pocket.
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if you're a real leftist you have to oppose nonprofits and the fire department. nobody is brave enough to say this.
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everyone's like "using chatgpt is lazy and swagless" right up until they get a weird rash
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When you read an author it's always interesting which parts of their work you find that nobody talks about. To me the interesting bit of Freud is cathexis and decathexis. You'd think it'd be catchy—great word, fun to say, wide application. Nope. Nobody talks about decathecting.
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Something you can do is declare 2025 over early for you. Call it quits. And then start 2026 early. If 2026 can be 13 months long, maybe it can finally be your year.
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the real reason is that it's the last remaining paper owned by a corporate conglomerate (nikkei) instead of a singular family of hereditary tycoons, and thus embodies the spirit of gessellschaft and capitalist universalism
The meme about how the Financial Times is unique because, unlike other papers, it’s focused on delivering a blunt truth to capitalists, has always appeared to me as stupid. The Financial Times is unique because it’s a good paper that doesn’t have a right-of-center op-ed board
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if your posts aren't popping off anymore it probably means you're getting dumber. your best bet is probably creatine, DHA, adequate sleep and regular exercise.
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Between the inanity of "67" and the crude appeal of "69" we find the prospect of a genuine revitalization: the Spirit of '68.
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I think spaced repetition and jhanas are in the same category of things where if I use them, I increase my power 10x but I lose my intuitive sense for things. Kind of like demonic qi in cultivation novels
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I don't believe senators should be allowed to insider trade with their money. However, they should be given the ability to insider trade with state funds as part of a sovereign wealth pod fund and whoever is best at insider trading should get the best committee seats.
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Lots of people are talking about "Zohran's New York." But when I see the waves of chic New Yorkers dressed in high quality, natural fabrics, sweeping coats without visible fasteners, I ask? do we actually live in Zoran's New York? The Yugoslavian-American designer's approach ha
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