The End of the Line … Corrupt Court Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-e...

tfw the boys season 5 is apparently too muted and subtle

The first lesson about national businesses that you learn is that they trade quality for predictability, that you can get the same hamburger in the same way in Duluth or Albany. That’s the whole pitch.

"It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand." A real thing that was said, without shame, at a Christian prayer rally.

The problem with the, "It's just like the Industrial Revolution!" defense of the negative effects of LLMs is that the Industrial Revolution gave consumers real things they actually wanted: cheaper clothes and food, consumer goods, etc. They were getting something back from it.

The two types of anime fan are “As a rightist, I adore Gayqueer McTransmarx, a character I believe embodies conservative values,“ and “As a leftist, I’m a big fan of Hitlerhito Tokyonazi’s ’Manchuria Deserved It’ franchise.”

open your miiiiiiind

Tea that feels like an Elden Ring site of grace.

White Collar Crime is one of the few categories where there’s a reasonable argument that deterrence works because it’s one of the only kinds of crime where people are just trying to profitmaxx, they’ll stop at whatever point that the returns stop making sense.

My cat is named Jarry. The other is Sidney. At my wife’s graduation dinner, their advisor said that they wanted to thank their cats, Sidney and JERRY. I endorse this QT.

“get in loser we’re living past the end of our myth”

This Is How To Lose An AI War (to cheap Chinese LLMs) [until they stop subsidizing too]

I like when old school twitter memes return so uhhh Station Ten

My other national origin is an Aeneid.

They have desecrated Heracles

TOOT TOOT IT’S THE TOBLERTRAM

Telling my kids this was Dexter.

Guy Gavriel Kay: stop making me cry at bars where I’m reading your books.

I love how Mythos was pitched as this all-seeing vulnerability god while everything it finds is like, yeah, you spent $34k in tokens and however much labor, I’d hope you found something for that.

not just those two. all of them. they all need to be fully accountable for their choices and behaviour. bsky.app/profile/symb...

The problem the LLM industry has is that its two most prominent spokespeople, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, are both virulent liars who can’t stop telling us they want everyone to suffer under their imaginary empire of metered “intelligence”.

There’s no rule that says a dog can’t be Dr Jekyll.

Googling "how to get bird to shut up" Googling "how to teach bird more interesting song that isn't just TWEET. TWEET. TWEET. over & over." Googling "how to convince bird outside to please shut up" Googling "how to accept that this bird is going to keep saying "Tweet" on repeat until 1 of us dies"

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It took me a year to chase down the zombie fact that oxycodone is 16 times more powerful than morphine That went everywhere. It’s not (oxycodone is 1.5 times stronger than morphine, meaning you need 20mg of oxycodone to equal 30mg of morphine) Christian Science Monitor editorial was the origin.

When I was at ABC I had to rally the 538 team to threaten to quit as leverage to have the old website archived instead of taken down. Not surprising they did this now, after all the real journalists on the digital side of the org have been laid off or left www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...

For great justice, take off every Zig.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Every AI hype commencement speech.

The most obvious and compelling evidence that billionaires should be banned is that no billionaire does the only reasonable thing to do in that situation: live a life of hedonism getting to do anything you want 24/7. That means the only kind of person who becomes a billionaire is a dangerous freak.

I mean in some instances NDAs are critical, like with research and development and outright stealing someone else's work. But you're right, we need to revisit them hard because right now they're the Kitchen Gun of legal clauses.

We really do need to ban the use of NDAs in legal settlements -- it only benefits people with the power and incentive to enforce silence and thus endangers others in the long term. At minimum, the enforceability of these things as conditions for settlement needs to be materially reduced.

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

tfw you're sharing a chart that does not say what you insist it's saying

When you stop watching the show everyone else loves because you kind of hate it they call that Yeeted Rivalry.

"What went wrong"? This is many, many, many, many, many, many, many words to avoid saying "Brexit" Quite literally, a word that doesn't appear in the entire essay

My goal was to stay out of politics, which is why I took an action that would have clear political consequences just before a national election.

Acknowledging and coping with this dichotomy is, beyond being something we just have to cope with, critical to allowing those affected to have safety in a community when identifying monsters. Treating artistic quality as linked to morality gives talented monsters cover under which to do awful things

how do i find out if i have this label someone tell me i must know

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover, And Grogu

Sitting in a Books-a-Million and “Just a Ride” by Jem is playing while a deeply unpopular Republican is president. Welcome back 2006.

Fascinated by the mindset of someone calling out a translator for failing to use the "correct" translation and citing, as evidence, that they used the "correct" translation in their explanation of why they didn't use it.

Genderfluidity success is having the optimal order to move through these.

Rapidly vacillating between thinking this is the worst image of all time and the greatest image of all time

Desecrating Homer is the name of my new 90s rock tribute band.

ELDEN RING (2022)

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

I am vehemently against the legality of state executions, and want to abolish the death penalty, but I am open to state executions being legal *only* as punishment for the illegal use of state violence against civilians..

all my wallet chains gone

read the article making this argument and it just reinforced the 3d printing analogy. the industry hype with AI is 100x larger, but the pattern was a similar "this is going to change humanity" to "this is going to revolutionize specific industries" to "this will be a fun hobby for eccentrics"