horrid doom prophet

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God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

thursday warning: thursday has arrived

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

I will literally never stop thinking about this.

(sorry if your favourite is not in this poll, I went mostly off the contenders from this year's poll and the classics)

(sorry if your favourite is not in this poll, I went mostly off the contenders from this year's poll and the classics)

fun phenomenon

For a more illustrative example, say you go to the movies with a friend and you buy them popcorn, do you expect them at some point to send you money back via cash or through an app of some kind? Will you be upset if they don’t?

im also a big fan of whatever is going on in this video where he's strapped to the hood of one car controlling another car with a steering wheel sticking out of the back of it that he just sends flying off a ramp. awesome stuff.

same energy

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

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