been watching culinary class wars and, uh, there appear to be more autistic chefs than i realized

doug burgum, soon: i was just speaking with the president and let me tell you he sure is a wonderful counselor

the us supreme court has ruled that it is legal to complain about the refs when your team loses

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

i dunno what you can say to get electeds to do anything if “they flashbanged a baby” doesn’t do it

to beat down Satan under our feet

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

I'm sorry, but you cannot reason with folks who are not embarrassed to wear this kit on the streets of the United States of America.

The world is on fire, so let me start a completely ridiculous niche discourse. IYKYK...

reading neuromancer and it's interesting how early scifi envisioned using and interacting with the "net" or what would eventually become the internet was envisioned as something active - you inhabit it and interact with it like you would with physical stuff. whereas we just passively scroll now.

in case it is not clear, she is literally saying here that ice is above the law

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

big if true

january sixth seems a little early to be blasting the chorus to "this year" by @themountaingoats.bsky.social but at least we have the anthem we need i suppose

I adore this quote because Miyazaki is not just giving the punk AI bros a well-deserved reaming out, he’s specifically spelling out his reasoning which is “depicting disability as grotesquery is dehumanizing; what you should be doing is getting to know actual disabled people like my friend.”

geoff johns is overall an absolutely phenomenal writer (blackest night/brightest day might even be my favorite storyline of all time), but can we talk about how no one in history has ever made a worse transition from the page to the screen?

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

Listen, just because it lead to eugenics the first few times,

"An LLM... exists to take advantage of your willingness to see faces in things that aren't there." is just an absolutely perfect description of my dismay at the credulity with which some people treat llms as "ai."

Some people genuinely should be more afraid of the judgement of the Lord.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Disabled people tried to warn you We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist

the job security

wait he stole this idea from battle royale

just worth reiterating that there is a whole presidential administration full of the kind of people that would make you find a new grocery store if they were the cashier

we are past the age of innovation and into the age of cash extraction

did an ai write this

BREAKING LITURGICAL NEWS: Rachel Portman was commissioned to write a carol for this year’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at Kings College, Cambridge. “The Darkling Thrush” will premiere on Christmas Eve.

Two things: *They are only cutting these funds in seven states that lean Democratic *Support for people with disabilities was a relatively bipartisan position. Trump has repeatedly made clear he does not see them as people worthy of support or dignity.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary? “If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

DEI is actually DEIA. The A stands for Accessibility. This regime has eugenicist goals. They don’t want to accommodate people with disabilities, because they don’t want there to be any people with disabilities. It’s a cull. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

Oooooh so Wake Up Dead Man is fantastic, actually.

boyfriEND. girlfriEND. bestfriEND. you know what doesn't end? A PhD

PREACH.

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s42...

wake up dead man is brilliant. a modern day crime and punishment

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

come for the first representative to actually stand up and say what needs to be said about rfk jr., stay for the truest michigander accent you have ever heard

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

Large language models

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

Here we go

This is genuinely revolting and might possibly qualify as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated: