I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Sobering assessments from the just released NATO Stratcom brief on information risks. stratcomcoe.org/pdfjs/?file=...

and this is the half they felt comfortable releasing. terrifying

how can we suffer these people to live among us, let alone purport to rule us? they're not just our enemies. they're an affront to the human experiment. they're hostile to all life not their own. they'd burn any number of us alive to avoid even a moment of mild discomfort. hideous

if there was any order to the universe, any sense of anything approaching justice it would be torch and pitchfork time. these people are a cancer

these guys are so actively hostile to social constructs, to civil society, while being the ones who have benefitted beyond any remote boundary of reason. just malevolent freaks. and oh yeah, they really love fuckin. need to go to fuck parties. yeah i need to fuck 5 times a day man. my penis

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

Literally every bad thing in modern times is because of a roaving band of pedophiles Literally every bad thing in modern times is because of a roaving band of pedophiles Literally every bad thing in modern times is because of a roaving band of pedophiles I'm gonna Mc fucking loose it

Dan Harmon on fascism:

Citizens are in the driver's seat now imho. It's cool if some politicians are quicker on the uptake than others but they are following us now, I'm not waiting for them anymore

the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us

also, this is more politics posting than i wanted to do today, but if you feel crazy, if all of this makes you feel unmoored and insane and unbalanced, understand that this is a normal reaction to all of this. none of this shit should be happening.

Once the police or state national guard directly disobey state and local elected officials, it's game over and there's no longer civilian control over police forces. It's what leftists have been saying for years, that police are unaccountable occupying forces in their own cities. They were right.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

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I’m finally understanding why Kamala picked him, clearly he doesn’t know how to stand up to a president

Your people are not escalating anything. A man trying to take his children to safety was attacked by ICE in his car with a chemical weapon. A disabled woman trying to get to a dr appointment was dragged out of her car. Your citizens are being gassed, shot at, and abused. You need to protect them.

That is what was relayed

Fox 9 just reporting there was a dad not involved in anything trying to get his 6 kids out of the neighborhood and ICE threw a flashback at his car and they were taken to the hospital? Did I get that right?

They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.

When the world goes to shit, people do step up. When that happens and you've been busting your ass for years you can either be mad they didn't do it earlier, or you can be proud that you helped lay out a path and recognize that your role is to guide a new leader into their role.

"A chronic, devastating cancer in American society is prominent Democrats outright refusing to share their constituents' urgency and horror in the face of what is being done to society by Republicans..."

Ross' behavior was beyond unprofessional. He got riled up by a bystander and rushed back to confront her, either didn't notice the car was moving or didn't care, looked straight at the driver, raised his gun WHILE STILL FILMING and shot her, then as the dying woman crashed, said: "fucking bitch". 8/

COLLINS: People are saying you posted the jobs data early when you're not supposed to share it until the next morning TRUMP: I said post them whenever you get a chance. I don't know. They gave me some numbers. When people give me things, I post them.

These people are not the other side of the aisle. They are not the counterpoint in the debate. They are fringe extremists, loveless losers, fattened hogs, incurious slobs and slaves to bloodlust, and your leaders who accommodate them are selling you down the river for a cheap, AI-generated song.

Vigil/press conference featuring six city councilors ends with an “abolish ICE” chant and the Portland crows circling overhead.

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Kohlberg’s model of morality is a well‑known theory of moral development that describes how people’s reasoning about right and wrong evolves over time. It was formulated by Lawrence Kohlberg in the late 1950s and early 1960s, building on earlier work by Jean Piaget. 🧵

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just can't fucking get over this. I started an entire goddamn company because it's so impossible to find good references of clothing these days, and meanwhile people who have no idea what they're talking about are telling skilled craftspeople to do their job with slop. FUCK.

Ok. As a game developer, I choose to pick this battle for my fellow devs. I promise you those in the trenches are not ok with this, but don't want to stir the pot. Larian upper management needs to know this is wrong.

“Uh did you actually read what the CEO said?” Yeah and now I’ve also read what other employees have said and it paints a pretty fucking depressing picture, no matter how much a rich dude insists “no no guys see this version of the shitty thing you hate will be okay because you won’t see it”

I hope Larian understand that the backlash they about to have was cultivated by their own words

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

Stephanie MIller uses her appearance on Hannity to say Trump is all over the Epstein Files to the Fox audience..

"Kaine dismissed the criticism Monday. "I don't need to court anybody's approval, and I don't need to fear anybody's judgment. If people think I made the wrong call, then it's a free country," he said."

So about that harm reduction claim everyone was making

Either you are commenting on the case or not. This reads like you are commenting now, so go ahead and stop being coy.

🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something. I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable. Let me show you why: #Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats 1/12

1) Caving on the shutdown proves Trump’s assertion that Democrats were the problem and that he was right to remain strong despite pressures 2) His takeaway for the next fight will be that Democrats will eventually cave as long as he holds out and refuses to negotiate

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

More Senate Dems than will vote yes tonight actually want to vote yes. They’re letting colleagues who aren’t under threat of being primaried serve in the role of rotating villain and take the heat—and they’ll make statements claiming they’re against caving. LOTS of disingenuous political theater.

I'm...at a loss honestly I know it's an administrative stay and will in all likelihood be dissolved in a few days, & I assume she had a procedural strategy reason But we're talking about *food funding* and an implicit promise of procedural reasons seems like a poor substitute for basic human needs