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"i want to work on a hobby but i wont because i should be doing more important things" <- person who isnt gonna do either of those

itshype

Quick question. When someone asks what age you were in a certain year do you give the age that you were before or after your birthday that year?

Do you give the younger or older of the two ages you were that year?

I give the younger (age before your birthday in a given calendar year)

I give the older (age after your birthday in a given calendar year)

Voting ended onMay 15

#younger #as that's the age i was for the majority of that year #unless the discussion is about a specific event/date #where I'd know i'd already had my birthday

goldensunset

watchthekittycatcher

I'm not a lawyer but I think this means you should take all your shit off of Google as soon as possible

foxes-in-love

#foxes in love #comics #summer #babies #cyclists

captain-price-returns

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new

Well just call me a violent anti-tech extremist then.

rednines

rylandgracie

genius things are happening over at phm!twitter

love me or ELSEEE

Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.

This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.

dirkbolero

This is the most important addition to the sandwich discourse I have ever read.

robertreich

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

bioluminescent-fungus

Do you look more like your…

Mom

Dad

Other family member

Even mix of traits

Not enough bio family to say

vanilla extract

Voting ended onJul 1

#even mix #biracial #neither family recognizes me as their own #so that's a neat quirk #i didn't see a photo of a relative with recognizable facial features beyond racial similarity til I was in my 30s #it was one photo of my grandmother as a very young woman #the first time I ever recognized any of my features in a relative #it was jarring #and I probably won't ever get over neither side of the family seeing themselves in me #oh well #genetics #resemblance

enki2

thebdelliumlady

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

chapscher

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

depsidase

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

I thought you might appreciate this story about my recent experience while reading Everything is Tuburculosis:

On a flight to LA I struck up a conversation with the woman sitting next to me, idle chitchat while we waited for the plane to take off. In the air my husband pulled out a book, but the light above his seat was broken. Our new friend in the window seat insisted on loaning him her travel book-light. Shortly after, I pulled out my kindle on which I was reading Everything Is Tuburculosis. It opened on a particularly medical page. She asked if I was studying for med school. I explained what the book is about, and she was fascinated. A minute later she asked "Since I finished my book in the airport and I can't get my phone on the wifi, would you be offended if I read your book with you? I can see from here just fine."

And so for the next 2.5 hours or so this stranger and I quietly read your book side by side. Our reading pace was (thankfully) the same and every now and then she would silently point to something she found especially poignant or whisper a quiet "Wow" or "I never knew that."

For a few hours your book gave a strange sense of human connection to this childless 29 year old from CT on her way to a Bat Mitzvah in LA and a 60-some year old woman from Romania going to visit her daughter in Denver.

At the end of the flight she wrote down "John Green" in the notes app on her phone so she can finish the book, and get a copy for her daughter too.

What a lovely story. I am so lucky to have readers like (both of) you.

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it