As a counterpoint, there’s a local outbreak of meningitis in Kent (UK) and panicked kids are lining up for vaccinations there.

COVID mostly hit the invisible elderly. It’s hard to imagine what would have happened if kids 0-6 were the most vulnerable.

Depriving the steel beams of oxygen would help too…

followup, here’s a real substack interview with one of the originators of the collab novel

https://afraw.substack.com/p/first-dig-the-latrines

to be honest sounds like semi-fascist shit to me.

A LWer is super-impressed by the time travel fantasy Illumine Lingao (an example of Chuanyue)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YiRsCfkJ2ERGpRpen/leogao-s-shortform?commentId=J4YGrY26Ezt5oMsot

Listen to this pitch:

the vast majority of the book is devoted to discussing every single technical aspect in excruciating well-researched detail. you don’t simply have a paragraph about them deciding to buy guns, you get an entire chapter of different gun experts arguing back and forth about exactly which gun to buy based on maintainability, range, differences between civilian and military models, semi automatic vs fully automatic.

Apparently they’re quite unaware of the extensive number of works in Russian with similar themes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_travel#In_Russian_fiction

maybe someone with a camera in SF can pop downtown and document this gathering

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HZ7CWfo4tGDAS3wEg/michael-trazzi-s-shortform?commentId=yq38DLKfe7EMciyAB

apply exposure comp b/c everyone will be pasty white

I think it’s a specific genre of reportage where you objectively[1] report what you observe and let the reader draw their own conclusions.

[1] problematic term, engage!

“Judges love this one weird trick!”

Don’t knock scaffolding, at least it has everyday uses.

cue a thriller where a disgraced techbro billionaire is hunted by the surveillance system he gleefully created

scratch that, that will be a popular reality TV show enjoyed by millions

but but but blockchain

How convenient being able to offer a solution to the problem you yourself created.

I’m pretty sure the 2 people cosplaying as lawyers are just as bugshit as he is.

edit yeah they’re SovCits

Finally, our orders are not invalid simply because the clerk signed them. We have already told Irion and Egli that our orders are not void when the clerk signs them in this very case. Whiting v. City of Athens, No. 24-5886, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 13507, at *1 (6th Cir. June 2, 2025). And the Supreme Court has twice denied petitions for mandamus from Irion and Egli demanding that the clerk stop signing our orders.

(italics in original, bold my emphasis)

The end result is that he will die, just like every other human being ever.

isn’t Luckey the dude mostly known for awkwardly and overweightly jumping wearing a VR headset on the cover of Time or something

No, they’re allowed and users usually post an archive link to get around the paywall.

Is the Nscale mentioned in the post the outfit which once employed Fake Satoshi?

I somehow missed how American leftists were instrumental in urging the Iranian people to oust the Shah. Leftists like… Jimmy Carter[1]

edit this is typical US-centrism, other people don’t have any agency, it’s all about America

[1] I know, I know, about as left-wing as Genghis Khan

whoever loses, we win

if you outsource your analysis of US politics to slop machines, this is the kind of inane drivel you get

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cDwTZKg2pouK7RvBL/draft-moskovitz-the-best-last-hope-for-constructive-ai-1

(n.b. the Moskovitz referred to is not the very weird, very online Zvi, but some dipshit VC)

yeah it’s bad

otoh awareness I think is spreading

swedish public broadcasting has regular “spot the fake” pieces on their website

I think giving a sensationalist bit of news 6 hours to “mature” is a good idea before amplifying.