I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

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This teacher wasn’t fired. He received widespread criticism for offensive, confrontational speech aimed at his students and then quit. You can argue that’s bad, I’d consider it. But you really shouldn’t misrepresent what happened. No one wins when that happens.

We have fallen far from god

“Both Good and Pretti were engaged in the task that democracies assign to citizens: that of paying close attention to the workings of power. If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.”

AI is really gonna solve the fermi paradox, isn’t it

I love it when the scientists reinvent the humanities for the 14th time in a decade.

“You have to use AI to save time and meet your production metrics” “But it has a high error rate; why would I use something that unreliable?” “You have to check it’s work” “Okay but that eats up all the time I ‘saved’” “Use it anyway”

Every once in a long while, I remember that Cleopatra is closer to us in history than she was to the pyramids of Egypt, and that’s kinda neat.

Dopey press is why we're here pretending these two hucksters are geniuses or that anything they say is grounded in reality

I completely forgot they were making this and it actually looks good!

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Something I think about a lot is that many of the tactics ICE is using in Minneapolis, from deploying chemical weapons on civilians to committing perfidy, to abducting people without notification or access to communication, are broadly considered war crimes if done in a conflict zone.

I have sunk hundreds of hours into No Man’s Sky and they just keep releasing free content packs. It’s extraordinary.

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

this thread is really not disabusing me of my sense that these people think and dream about AI like they’re wannabe roman aristocrats discussing their slaves

this quoted post is uninformed nonsense. policy changes towards trans people have been profound at both the state and federal level. the EEOC won’t even process charges of trans discrimination right now for fucks sake.

Btw, a well-executed interview is always revealing. Here’s the quintessential FIRE feint in one train of thought. Removing DEI offices is censorship every bit as much as prohibiting students from discussing specific topics. In fact, the two are part of the same censorious program . . . 1/2

Surely Chuck Schumer’s demand for body cams and warrants will stop this

We have a relatively small group of price insensitive game buyers that, if interested in a game, will buy regardless of price, and will buy the most expensive edition available. Most others will wait for dirt cheap sales, giveaways or sub services. K shaped game buyers for the K shaped economy.

Surely this can be fixed with Chuck Schumer’s demand for body cams!

This is a useful counterpoint to that grisly, lazy Tyler Austin Harper hack job in The Atlantic.

Obvious caveats apply for something off Reddit, but this is at least a plausible thing to happen. I have a feeling we’ll see more, better documented cases that executives want to keep quiet bubble out if the business press over the next year.

Sunday reading: What is “Un-American”? We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition of egalitarian democracy. Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

Conservatives across society benefit from far lower standards and expectations.

There’s a reason CNN (and MSNOW) are both in a long term ratings decline: they stand for nothing, and people generally aren’t interested in nothing. Stuffing panels with right wing freaks who shout lies appeals to no one in their core audience, which is why Fox has 3x the viewership.

I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.

Is Kori Schake still saying this isn’t that worrisome and it’s probably apolitical?

this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome

the other bizarre thing about this is that it treats American slavery — a social, cultural, political and economic institution — as somehow beyond and outside of politics, and thus untethered to contemporary political questions. which, again, the mind of a simpleton. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed. The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.

And I just checked, and, yes my university's approved AI gave the same answer.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Really hard to overstate the decades of damage this regime is imposing on us. I honestly don’t know if we can ever recover. It’s that bad.

Chuck Schumer’s insistence on “reining in” ICE is so infuriating because they simply do not believe themselves bound by the law. The only solution to ending the concentration camps, the torture, the abductions, the murder, is to disband the agency and prosecute the lawbreakers.

DEI is objectively good!

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills. To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

They buried this in paragraph 37? And left out that he injected his 17-year old girlfriend with unregulated cosmetic peptides on camera? After all the years of institutional hostility about “protecting” girls from the transes? This is deeply, deeply irresponsible. Just appalling.

This piece attempts to offer a comprehensive look at what's wrong with the theory of persuasion that the Dem consultant class is broadly still in thrall to, and why the events of the last year call for a major reassessment. Please check it out:

This is more or less an admission that they know this is destructive. They are consciously set in opposition to civil society, and are trying to evade scrutiny. It’s just plain evil. You guys gotta delete your Instagram accounts. Stop funding this shit.

the federal govt is engaged in what may be the most sweeping right wing authoritarian attack on free speech in higher ed in US history, and outlets like the atlantic and nyt continue to blithely spew this shit.

Killing a million people for an apparatchik’s armored SUV is failed state behavior

My hypothesis for why you don’t see more people out protesting is that protesting will risk your ability to have health insurance and housing.

The Trump administration death toll will be in the millions. You absolutely should hold his voters accountable for choosing this evil.

This is more or less an admission that they know this is destructive. They are consciously set in opposition to civil society, and are trying to evade scrutiny. It’s just plain evil. You guys gotta delete your Instagram accounts. Stop funding this shit.

Your regular reminder that "social media addiction" is a made-up thing and using the language of addiction for social media use causes people to pathologize their perfectly normal use and destroys their ability to self-regulate www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is rich: "Sam Altman-led OpenAI accused DeepSeek of ongoing efforts to free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI" www.reuters.com/world/china/...