Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

I would like it to slow down until data centers don't create an energy crunch paid for by residential consumers, bleed entire communities dry of water resources, or contribute to global warming. There's no current ethical way to use AI even before answering questions on their actual usefulness.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Reminds me of when I was having so much trouble with my mic, I figure it was just me being incapable of learning/making it work & considered stopping making videos entirely Turns out the mic was broken & would never sound right. Poor tools do make it hard to make things even by the best artists

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

If you're conversant in the lingua franca of the online right, you know the helicopter emojis the official White House account is using here are a reference to the Pinochet dictatorship's practice of flying people above the ocean and dropping them to disappear them. That's what they're threatening.

if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

No, it's not only the US who will suffer from RFK Jr cancelling vaccine research. 1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress. 2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

That's the tragic thing isn't it; if there is ever a Democratic administration again, they will piously govern strictly within the traditional limits, do nothing to prevent future governments going rogue, and then the next Republican administration will do it all over again.

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

True! 😺😸😹

This is just so much more stupid than the last time. Note, the last time was very stupid.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

It is 1991. I am living through a Gulf War against Iraq that US leaders promise will bring lasting peace to the region. It is 2003. I am living through a Gulf War against Iraq that US leaders promise will bring lasting peace to the region. It is 2025. I am living through a Gulf War against Iraq th

the political lesson everyone should take from Iraq is that you will regret being in favor of this sooner or later and the earlier you were against it the better off you’ll be ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too

So Miller attacked LA because Musk stole his wife and Trump is bombing Iran because no one came to his birthday party. Men are too emotional to lead.

NEW: Data shows that as of June 15, fully 30% of all people arrested by ICE and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. 11,763 people in detention as of last Sunday had no criminal record and were arrested inside the country by ICE -- an increase of 4,000 people in two weeks!

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

is it banana tell me it's banana

I can never decide if it's better to keep the dumb evil guy in case there's a smarter evil guy who will just be worse.

Everything you can do to slow down ICE's ethnic cleansing pogrom will save lives. If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2. Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

War is bad.

This is how I get through the next week.

This was a most enjoyable thread.

Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

The ritual worked

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These people are just wrong about literally everything.

As the parent of a type-I diabetic, I would like to invite the ignorant piece of shit currently directing the FDA to kiss my ass.

friends, we're gonna lose a lot. but if we keep fighting, eventually we'll win some. and then we'll lose some more. and then we'll win some more. take care of yourselves and keep fighting. long haul. but we can do this.

When the head of HHS says, 'You shouldn't ask me for medical advice' and the head of Homeland doesn't know what habeas corpus is and the head of the IRS doesn't know the most trivial tax law and the Sec State claims a gay hairdresser is a gang member we know we're on our own

Sometimes I close my laptop and pick up my phone to see what the little internet is up to, presumably.

The thing about cancer is, Trump is making it easy for polluters to dump cancer-causing chemicals into our air and water, while defunding and firing people who work on cancer cures, while also ending millions of people’s ability to afford cancer treatment.

they’re ALL too old but they will flat out wreck you for trying to do anything about it so they only want us talking about the one Too Old Guy who can’t possibly affect anything anymore instead of all the Too Old Guys napping through the fascist coup they’re too lazy to stop in the Senate

Me 5th..

it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.

School choice is a scam to funnel taxpayer money to private and religious schools…

Horsford: They are cutting healthcare for 13.7 million Americans. The largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history to give tax cuts to billionaires and to big corporations. This is your priority.

Justice Allison Riggs sworn in following a six month election battle against her GOP opponent

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