Paul Crowley

"The most important book of the decade" - Max Tegmark. I urge you to pre-order this book immediately - pre-orders do much more than normal sales to help the message be heard. Link in reply.

Being the subject of articles for *checks notes* hosting a “nerdcore sex podcast” and orgies… was not on my bingo card for 2025. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I agreed to try out blogging with @Chesedgirl but I’m so glad I said yes!

posting my appeal to x.com customer service to unban my previous account @9chabard. i do not expect to get it back but felt nice to write.

There is something really weird about the Tea hack geocode data and I'm having trouble putting my finger on it

From Anthropic's response to the AI Action Plan. Fully agree.

What I find interesting about these sorts of people is that they always present themselves as being the science-loving non-woo party, yet by saying "LLMs aren't magic, thus they're totally different from real intelligence", they reveal that they think the human brain *is* magic.

You'd think there's an infinite number of trolls on this website, but I block assholes on a hair trigger, and now when I see a friend get into a fight with some asshole, about half the time it's someone I've already blocked.

Google Maps thinks I want to stop the car just in front of the parking garage, and walk the rest of the way.

Who is the absolute best elected Democrat by this metric? Doesn't have to be federal office, governors and state legislators count too.

Options: 1. “Permanent cease-fire” that lets a weakened Hamas regain control 2. Israel administers the Strip directly 3. Israel hands off power to some Arab governance entity 4. Ethnic cleansing

If you visit DC this summer, beware: The city manipulates traffic signs and cameras to take your money. Example: This is Massachusetts Ave. NW, which runs from Maryland into DC. Months ago, the MD side lowered its speed limit. It posted big orange signs to alert drivers. (1/6)

In Britain you now have to submit a photo ID to read /r/cider.

Great discussion in @mattyglesias 's mailbag today about loss of control risk.

Just had this experience with spotted lanternflies. Told the kids they are encouraged to squash this one type of bug in our current city due to its invasive nature and they GOT TO WORK KILLING. Alarming to see those energies unleashed.

The bottom line is I take a great deal of professional pride in what we did. Precisely because we actually didn't ruin the First Amendment. No outlet is prevented from doing real journalism as a result of the Bollea v. Gawker case. We simply enforced a long existing norm.

have a friend in nyc - 6'10", ivy league rower and quarterback at michigan state, makes $45M a year as a tech finance doctor, he's a calvin klein model in paris, and he cannot find a gf. women spit on him on the street. they drive up onto the curve to run him over. they hate him

I have a guest post up at the SlutStack, where I review a certain style of sex party

This is an overt move to end anonymity on the internet, by a government that sends the cops round to people’s houses for wrongthink. Get a VPN, or be put on a list.

I think I finally figured out why some people are weirdly confident AGI will "obviously" stay under human control indefinitely: They've been programmed by 70 years of science fiction where intelligent machines serve us without complaint. Data takes orders from Picard. Star Wars…

At this point, people just shouldn't use Google products that they need to be around for a while.

I’m shocked to discover an extremely expensive fire code requirement: -with no obligation to prove value, -that fails to consider negative outcomes, - and turns out to be a handout to a supplier & specialized vendors. This is true over and over in fire code above all others,…