People recognize why attacking the Pope as "WEAK on Crime" is hilarious but will then try to use crime statistics as a proxy for morality in religion vs irreligion debates.

If I see one more person say Vance is responsible for Orban's defeat because of fucking Polymarket...

there are like two "grifters" in the world and the great freaks of planet earth are not on the list

One of my more crank ideas: an institution with deep historical tradition of this thing, broad political neutrality, and the ability to guarantee it will exist in perpetuity to the extant that any human organization can should play a key role in development of open source software. The Vatican.

In general I find that the real stochastic parakeets are posters who use terms like “distraction”, “complicit”, and “DNC” as substitutes for thought. You’d be better off chatting about eugenics with Grok

Put your dog on a fucking lead.

LaRouche made many errors but it's telling that, 37 years after his imprisonment and 7 years after his death, the children of the people who tried to discredit him in the '80s are still trying to discredit him.

Who cares. Why is this important.

The person who thought economics was a humanity was very funny.

This is pretty much the results I would expect except that political science does unexpectedly well. Henry Jones Ford vindicated.

People making arguments like this are making arguments of "trans people can never take part in rational discussion and you should get used to that". This is a terrible argument to make and one with disastrous implications. We need to be committed to reality. Not this.

There's a clutch of geriatric millennials on here who worked for Gawker and are incapable of understanding that they spent their twenties in service of a very bad project that had extremely negative outcomes.

Bluesky: announces a thoughtful tool to help users customize what they do and don't see on their feed using natural language Uninformed Bluesky Users: we hate it, we can't tell the difference between harmful and not harmful tech so we just hate it because you made it for us

People have been spending all day calling this guy an edgelord but I think "I hope Iran wins" is (correctly) the median position among politically active Dems right now? Obviously it's a long way from "Iran is good actually".

Somehow people talk about how old politicians are and how they cause age related disasters, and two names never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever comes up in that discussion. And that's enough to tell me that no one is actually fucking serious about this,.

Turns out mainstream sociology is the opposite of science. I'm honestly shocked. It's not like art, which is a valid but different activity - it's actively attempting to undermine collective scientific understanding by banning essential practices among those who might otherwise do useful research.

If you have a vicious dog that wants to kill other dogs please do not take it to the dog park even if you think it is obvious that other people should know not to come into the dog park while you are there it is not obvious it is in fact a public park and tbh your vicious dog should not be there

Generally speaking, I am starting to think that Iran is probably right that it's winning.

This is discrediting and ought to kill her reputation.

Fucking incredible that Defector managed to make THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, a historical film set in the 18th century, about generative AI somehow.

Punching-up-versus-punching-down discourse enabled this. The distinction itself has merit, but *everyone* imagines themselves to be the downtrodden punching up at others

Life Hack: you can avoid ever having to worry about 'sideloading' if you use a real computer with a real OS.

Fetterman didn't have brain damage when he pulled a gun on a Black jogger before ever being elected. Progressives pushed him and ignored the red flags that have now come to fruition.

People were warned about Fetterman in exactly the same way they are being warned about Platner right now. Fetterman just voted to advance Mullin to be the new head of DHS. E Warren just endorsed Platner. If this is your idea of being a “progressive,” count me out.

It's interesting, discursively, the way the person currently dunking on me alternates between trying to make actual points and just flexing. Suggests insecurity.

I am a pan-theocratic authoritarian.

No, cycling back to this because it's annoying the fuck out of me. I don't want the right wing to be better out of some vague desire for ideological balance. I want the right wing to be better so I can join it.

I have never been led astray by my instinct that there are probably no good political streamers

Fucking hell, immediate scammer bot retweets every time I say something sympathetic to Islam.

This is in no sense a fatwa (if it was a fatwa it would be good.)

"When" hahahahahahaha

"It’s a shame that the Louvre deleted his account" gets you blocked, by the way.

some people heard "the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it" and thought to themselves "wow I want to be on team bullshit"

Every time I see a really stupid take on my For You I take it to the feed playground and discover it's because I liked a skeet by a historian. Not sure what to make of that.

How are all the Very Smart People who think there's no way Newsom gets the 2028 nomination going to handle it when he gets it easily?

Actually I think it's because of the war.

Underpriced outcome of the Iran/US war. Iran comes out stronger once the shooting stops.

Incredible that people are saying the war in Iran is a distraction from the Epstein files. Someone is determined to be distracted and it's not me.

i’m mainly just disappointed that the “is AI conscious?” debate will never be resolved because we can’t answer that question about anything

The paper here explicitly does not show what the poster claims it shows.

I do believe, and in fact think it is obvious, that consciousness is non-material; however, as I cannot explain how it becomes associated with material human bodies, I cannot rule out the possibility of it also becoming associated with a machine.

sometimes I wonder if the people who insist AI can’t have some form of consciousness really just overestimate how much we actually know about the nature of consciousness. like, for reference, “rocks are conscious” is a plausible view on the matter that you can basically support as well as any other

Seeing a whole lot of utterly stupid takes today, both from people I recognize and people I don't.

"But all my Iranian friends *want* Bibi to install Reza Pahlavi as his vassal-king" yes there are multiple levels of selection bias there, can you spot them

My hot take is that everyone says schools don't teach you how to do your taxes, but the way you do your taxes is to hang on to important paperwork and then follow the directions on a form while performing arithmetic, which actually is what they spend a fair amount of time teaching.

Nobody has "the right to exist in society."

I’m autistic so I’m gonna go around slapping random white people and say I’m stimming.

I'm all for inclusivity and understanding but somebody in the comments said "let's not weaponize accommodation" and I felt that.

I will die on this hill, if you only have compassion for Mr. Davidson and not for Lindo or Jordan, you don’t have the deep wells of compassion you think you have.

Deleted my last post because OP lied about what was in the video. Hate that shit.