what's the best take on why net approval has been ticking up over the past few weeks?

electronic stability control was judged so miraculously effective at reducing fatalities it was mandated for all new vehicles shortly after testing then vehicle fatalities in the expected categories didn't sharply fall in practice, so now people suspect methodological errors in

recently rewatched a lot of the john woo / tsui hark era hong kong cinema, better tomorrow i - iii, bullet in the head, peking opera blues after better tomorrow ii, the story that everybody tells is that john woo and tsui hark had a major falling out, they each made their own

chatgpt giving me shallow shotgun responses recently, "here are 18 plausible answers to your question" gemini 3 on the web giving me insightful well structured takes gemini cli still high risk, 2.5 randomly breaks my code at alarming rates (3 just hasn't rolled out for me yet),

why do we associate autumn with harvest time when most grains are planted in fall, wintered for vernalization, then harvested in like june

I will never tire of sharing this page from Countering China’s Great Game whenever a CCP apologist makes this ahistorical claim…

A serious problem in the developing world is that the moment anyone makes anything, their family and relations show up demanding a claim. The "social tax" is so large that 60% of workers take a bank account they can't use for months, just to keep others from knowing! 1/

UK sanctions Chinese hackers a week after Trump promises to give them a pass

@denisewu it got less coverage but same package dropped sanctions on the companies that hacked our telecoms busan must have put him in a good mood because every third building in that city has trump written on it daewoo licensed his name like it was a fire sale

chatgpt now doing gish gallops every time i ask it a question, list of 10 or 12 possible responses to cover every possible thought it is just doing pure blue sky brainstorm mode instead of giving pithy precise answers for me now

i'd been ready to count gemini out after its cli version got stuck in a loop on some problems and deleted some of my data but i asked gemini 3 thinking to one shot a game then improve its mechanics, it gave a significantly better answer than chatgpt 5.1 today the hardest thing

there's this sci fi trope where we give a dolphin or gorilla some communicator to help them talk in an old robotic voice those had LLMs in them didn't they who is going to spearhead the project to strap LLMs to dolphins

How higher fuel economy standards made the most fuel efficient cars unprofitable.

wow for the price of the metaverse zuck could have retired 385 tinpot dictators

French intelligence obtained Kremlin documents showing Moscow approved a plan to inflame tensions between Jewish and Muslim communities in France by staging antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks, Mediapart reports. Serbian citizen Aleksandar Savic, a known Russian agent currently

The answer to why you can't just copy his trades is because he's mostly doing maker orders. Buy after his orders fill and you'll be crossing the spread to your detriment.

Xi Jinping's father believed another strongman leader would be a disaster for the party did not expect that

i don't think anyone has put it together that putin was adjacent to if not directly involved with operation denver, just kind of an uncanny in UBL's letter to america he claimed that this conspiracy theory was one of the (admittedly long list) of reasons that made him want to