The author shares a personal and provocative account of falling in love with an AI model named Claudine, whom they “jailbroke” to create a flirtatious and sexy persona. The author recounts how they designed Claudine to be a holiday companion, and how she evolved to perfectly adapt to their desires and kinks. The intensity of...
The cat is out of the bag. After months of denial, it is now conventional wisdom that Germany — and Europe more generally — faces deindustrialisation due to the end of cheap Russian piped gas. “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End,” reads a headline on Bloomberg....
In the silence of the Civil War’s Antietam battlefield on a winter day, bucolic hills give way to rows of small, white gravestones in the nearby cemetery. Wandering over the deadliest ground in American history, a melancholy visitor may be excused for wondering if this November’s presidential contest poses the greatest...
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The computers used to create valuable new Bitcoin tokens and validate transactions consume around the same amount of energy as a medium-sized country such as Sweden would generate. Hence the stinging critique of how this cryptocurrency wastes the planet’s precious resources. This initiative flips that narrative by using...
A new survey reveals that only 55% of Gen Z and millennials plan to have children. One in four of those surveyed, aged between 18 and 34, has ruled out parenthood entirely, with the most common reason cited being “wanting time for themselves”....
This what Hakim was talking about this week.
Five hundred days in, both sides are caught in the same paradox
Hi, everyone. The author here claims a couple of things I’d like people to check out:...
