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Songs like this and 'we didn't start the fire' become a lot less impressive when you realize that for many rappers, lyrically dense songs like this are the norm. I honestly don't understand how Nas performs w/o a teleprompter (and Adderall).

Beyond politics and drop in quality, I hate channels that lean too hard into the parasocial stuff. LinusTT is a good example. I stopped watching that channel after every other episode was about Linus' house, his wife, or his employee's personal life.

Nice try, Sam Altman.

Honey pots are often not gathering intelligence themselves, but generating kompromat so that the target can be pressured by a third party.

This also works if the affair is organic, but enemies discover it's existence first. For example, Clinton exposed himself to kompromat even though Lewinsky was in no way a foreign agent.

At least he uses protection

A Charlie Brown Christmas is such a classic jazz album it's surprising John Coletraine isn't on it.

talking about gulags is guaranteed to trigger someone to bring up America’s incarceration rate.

I didn't mean to imply the connection between America's gulags and the Soviets. I meant to state it explicitly. And I also want to point out the meme itself is a whataboutism.

How is this man's name pronounced? Is it "wong" or "who-ong", maybe some third thing?

LLMs, neural networks, and machine learning have been used in the technical; data annalist, and scientific communities since forever.

The idea that chatbots are good for nothing is a minority opinion. AI hate comes from the top-down dramatic changes to the tech industry built on delusional hopes and fantasies.

Just like the Luddites before us, we don't hate technology or progress, we resent the lumbering tyranny of capital that has already ruined our jobs, our hobbies, and threatens to make us all poorer and worse off.