California supremacist. Climber. English prof. Urbit: pasmul-hopnel. Author of "Excavating the Memory Palace" and "The Last Mixtape." Blog at link below.

SoCal and High Plains
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I like how the AI didn’t understand ‘spinning gold’ from the original tale, so *he* spins and gold magically appears.
Entire Original Rumplestilskin video.
Community note
This video is AI-generated. It is not from any real Rumpelstiltskin movie. The 1987 film starring Billy Barty uses different costumes and settings. top5apps.ai/news/rumpelsti… ladbible.com/technology/rum…
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Crazy Stupid Love was the last rom com to espouse traditional values.
Olivia Wilde directed a film that accidentally ends up defending marriage. Whether she meant to or not is beside the point. Read the full review on The Daily Wire.
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Here is a transplant describing a 909/714 dude bro as "Latino." He is spiritually Latino, he might be ethnogenesis Latino and thus a New Californio, but he is not Latino as Rachel Zader here understands the term.
If you've ever lived in CA for any meaningful amount of time, you know that the Latino guy in the flannel buttoned to the neck is not generally a person to fuck with.
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Seth Largo retweeted
a lost world
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That giant middle zone this route bypasses is a great definition of "the midwest" perhaps
Driving this route and eating pancakes with a mutual in every state
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Whacky ideas based in biology don't weird me out nearly as much as the AI brain injection stuff. Gonna force-feed some oxytocin to my wife right now with a foot rub.
Palmer Luckey reveals the startup he'd build today: oxytocin doping to end divorce "I would try to end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping for marriage counseling." "We understand mammal pair bonding pretty well. There's a lot of people who want to stay together. Most of the people who don't want to stay together should stay together, especially for their kids." "And we can, if people think SSRIs are fine, which they're not, but if they were, then oxytocin doping to stay together is definitely fine." "It's the mammal pair bonding chemical. There's things you can do to increase the uptake, and it's very well understood. Also, totally unregulated, which is great. Unregulated spaces are a lot easier to do. You can go buy a kilogram of oxytocin on Sigma Aldrich Chemical Supply right now, and if you do that, maybe you won't die alone." "It's pure biology. It's used for women who don't bond with their kids, and now for women who don't bond with their husbands. It's also used for kids with various neurological issues, some kids with autism who struggle with pair bonding." "The cool thing is it's a self-reinforcing loop. We understand that very well. Unlike most drugs, it doesn't form a chemical dependency. It actually unburdens you from a chemical dependency."
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Seth Largo retweeted
It's the phones
every word of this paragraph is absolutely mindboggling
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Sunsets on the high plains are 80% as beautiful as sunsets on the coast, for half the price.
This is where I would’ve built it too
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You wouldn't believe how "deaf" people are today when it comes to syllabic emphasis. No training in scansion whatsoever. I have students who can't count syllables, much less tell me where the emphasis falls.
Then why did you use this incorrect pronunciation in the podcast? That’s what I’m making fun of you guys for in OP!
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Twelve days ago I published an essay on what happens when the answer comes first. Yesterday, OpenAI released a torrent of 722 mathematical manuscripts from work on roughly 4,000 problems. My addendum is below:
Ninety-two years in eighty-eight hours. In the Expanded Field #04 asks what becomes of a generative problem when its answer comes before the mathematics its resistance would have otherwise produced. covidianaesthetics.substack.…
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It’s the car from the meme
The all-new Neue Klasse BMW iX4 has leaked ahead of its debut. Nothing too surprising on the styling front but does give us our first insight in how the rear of the new X6 might look. What do you think? Shots via @kero_wolf on IG
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Seth Largo retweeted
I just saw this in the kindle store and now you all have to suffer along with me
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I just want disc tray back
This laptop from the mid 2000s didn’t require a single dongle.
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This is a good example of how "data" obsession leads to blatantly bad arguments. In my current Nebraska town, a Lutheran church was raised in the 1880s, less than a decade after it was a town at all. That fact speaks more to the culture's general religiosity than to the shaky remnants of membership rolls.
In 1850, the average American was probably not a member of a religious body. By 1926, there was a very good chance that they were. You can also see pretty clearly when the Bible belt really started to develop across these maps. (This metric is the share of each state's population affiliated with a religious body).
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Off-shoring basic personal responsibility labor to a machine is going to create a lot of early onset dementia.
Replying to @ShaneMac
I'd set up the agent for my personal finances. One job: a monthly audit, sent to me privately in Grokbot. I named it personal CFO. At 8:40am it posted that audit in our team channel, under my name. It sat there for two hours. A teammate DM'd me "heads up."
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I don't know, we might need a Lindy Check here. I feel like stories about gods, heroes, etc. is the historical norm, not stories about unhappily married apartment dwellers.
That people increasingly don't read or watch fiction that is set in 'the real world' is a big cultural change and one which has been underanalysed.
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Seth Largo retweeted
during the 2025-2026 school year almost 12,000 books were banned! > looks inside > it's porn
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