Ban socialists all you want. The idea will never die. Humanity could be nuked back to the stone ages and it would return

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

21st century is some embarrasing shit so far for the species

The teen horror thing kinda rattles in Twin Peaks loudly anyway (at least as loudly as Brat Pack stylings), it’s all just zeitgeist, but it’s genuinely nuts how Elm Street the James, Donna, and Maddy stuff feels?

LEAVING ARIZONA (Coen, 2003) A fully reformed Hi McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) and his stalwart wife Ed (Holly Hunter) try to stop their recidivist ex-con son Jake (Ryan Gosling) from jealously kidnapping local hero quarterback Nathan Arizona Jr. (Scott Caan).

Hallgrímskirkja, Iceland r/brutalism

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.””

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Blessed and cursed, an interdimensional wanderer, and just a child who lost his childhood. #RainWorld #TheWatcher

thinking about various depictions of what being super-intelligent in media, like Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock or Rick from Rick and Morty as being loud and insufferable and the damage that has done to the small number of people who instead interpreted that as cool or impressive behavior

fuck this, i need to log off before i start screaming at the absolutely insane takes on "humanity" today

<sobbing, puking> *won't somebody think of how the machines feel?!* seriously, what the fuck is going on? am i future shocked and getting upset at mean words about software is the new normal now?

i worked on clinical trial software which taught me a lot about randomness and one thing i realised is how many people deeply need there to be a system of pure order at play inside randomness and how frighteningly angry they get when discovering that isn't the case

Reports indicate there has been a week-long gas leak at Bluesky HQ

Ahmad asked me to repost with the link because he keeps getting deleted off this damn app www.gofundme.com/f/dnmxx-save...

Bluesky management believing they can steward a healthy discourse would have been deluded no matter who they were. A healthy discourse is the product of a healthy context. While the context remains poisonous, the discursive toxicity will endure

the whole idea that anger at an industry peddling bullshit tech with a massive environmental, social & mental cost is in any way a bigotry akin to racism is just patronisingly offensive and to be frank feels like another attempt by that industry at changing public perception

normal people

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

Is any of this "offensive"? No, but it's instructive. Notice the people blurting "waffles!" above aren't internet randos, like the reply gals that got Jay so upset to start with. They're operators of startups and journalists who were published in the economist, like, last week. They're an ingroup.

So then we come to step three, Jesse Singal stepping in and making decontextualized "Waffles" references. There's no apparent reason to this except Singal understands site staff are using "waffles" as a meme to dismiss trans people, a thing Singal wants to do. "Waffles" are now a floating signifier.

My 11yo daughter just walked in the room, looked at the tv, and said "is that a meme." I get she's new to internet culture but no. That is Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant smoking crack. It would be a fire meme tho

i dove into this because i clearly don't value my sanity and they basically alternate between "i didn't say it hurt the AI, i said it hurt you" and heavily alluding to LLMs being conscious enough to experience suffering, just the most deceitful bullshit peddled as high moral ground

you've banned people seeking support during a genocide, others for wishing ill will on a transphobe, and even more for not being performatively mournful over a racist's death the sheer fucking audacity to think you'd even be able to recognise "healthy discourse" let alone achieve it

Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles illustration by Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon) for Weekly Famitsu No. 1915:

For me the clearest moment was when Bluesky teamed up with the same VC that is investing in Sam Altman's eye-scanning fraud scheme Bsky's team have just been sort of muting their actual personalities for a while now, but in 2025 no techno-fascist has to hide anything, anymore

This is so sad. Patricia Routledge was a superb actress with impeccable comic timing. Made Hyacinth Bucket an iconic comedy character. 😞 news.sky.com/story/keepin...

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

there's a starbucks making me acai

finding out how much the teachers of both of my kids use chatgpt to produce what amounts to makework to keep them busy and fucking hell i am going to be making some phone calls next week

the history I learned was romanticised especially the avoidance of colonialism but it was not the story of serfs liberated by the enlightened bourgeois it was a story of an establishment that assumed a divine/natural right to rule and a working class that has always rebelled and fought back

"We get it; the clock is ticking. That's why we're burning through vital, vanishing natural resources to work out why all the vital natural resources are vanishing so quickly..."

streaming this in two hours btw. check out my friend's best game

Just days after Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced it had to stop medical work in Gaza City due to Israeli attacks, Israeli forces have killed staff member Omar Hayek & injured 4 others in Deir al Balah. Staff were wearing MSF vests, waiting for a bus to a field hospital.

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

Taking a big sip from my 'You Don't Have To Be An Incurious Gullible Rube To Work In Aus Media, But It Helps' coffee mug

cops when it's a pro-palestinian rally: soz, serious concerns about public safety cops when it's a pro-nazi rally: yeah, just go wherever you want, dad #auspol

A lot of people in the US are constantly making comments about "Hague" and "Nuremberg" etc. but the US has never joined either the ICC or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It might be worth actually making it a demand of ~ the left ~ in its broadest sense to join both

The only answer I can come up with to this question is "because industries demand a level of productivity and output human beings cannot sustainably meet without producing fraudulent information" which seems like its own problem worth addressing

Volume Man hates Particle Man

The "waffles" tweet is dead. It's dead now thanks to Bluesky admins. Like when a Netflix original dramedy references a meme from 2017

anyway, ChatGPT actively works like how cults do and actively use language to reconstruct people's perceptions of the world around them. Having literal babies play with it is like giving a child a gun, I'm so fucking serious.

Where is the money going? The corruption allowed by the Albanese government stinks. Asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

is there a better term for Balatro-likes where the focus is on synergistically amplifying the mechanics?

if companies want to waste staff time on diversity workshops then they need to reign in the fucking middle aged white guys who spend the entire time shitting on about woke

laughing at burr fucking gushing "the royals loved it!" just a handful of weeks after being thrown around as a possible rogan-of-the-left, get some better fucking heroes goddamn

guys, the engineer of chaos wants you to follow the rules discordianism is all about not being mean to the boss