Can I just say that living through the upper class rearguard action against basic norms of decency has been deeply unpleasant and I would like it to stop

Put this on the list with the two high court rulings declaring the ban on same sex marriage violates the Japanese constitution (also directed to the Diet to fix, which it has not).

The export control directive banning state of the art language models from Anthropic is only counterproductive to the US AI industry if you don’t view it as yet another act in the current production of AI safety theatrics.

if you find GIMP hard to use you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive a car or shop at a grocery store. it's literally just buttons with pictures on them that do the things the pictures represent. you don't even need to be able to read.

for all you academic library perverts out there

'Scientists warn that the crisis is not confined to the mountains alone. Himalayan glaciers feed several major Asian rivers and support millions of people downstream. Any disruption in this fragile system could have serious consequences for water security' www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/in...

Holy shit the hollow earth guys are still around? Now I gotta know if anyone in the admin still believes space is just a giant block of ice.

the mineshaft gap stuff from Dr. Strangelove is not really too much of an exaggeration of Kahn

one of the weirdest rationalist tics is the insistence that nuclear war is not that bad

Turns out the guy who blocked me for suggesting he help fund independent media like @liberalcurrents.com is one of the benefactors to the big money and explicitly anti-democratic Abundance shadow pac lol

I’ll add that the “you’re 18 and you’re out the door!” thing is a very lower-class (Protestant) white thing. The rich have always supported their children well into legal adulthood, because they understood their offspring to be investments and successors, not burdens to offload at first opportunity.

it’s so bad that we are at the very beginning of a basically totally unprecedented and dangerous crisis and there is no chance of having even remotely reasonable political leadership in the next few years

It's funny that Israel could have had normalized with Saudi and Indonesia if either Tel Aviv or Washington was even 25% more capable of rational behavior about Palestine or about anything. These countries were eager to normalize before 2023 but needed symbolic concessions and Israel still said no.

Israel is also the country ending the much hyped "Gulf moment" Kinda wild that people thought it was some sustainable long term thing

Einstein on the Beach (1976)

pics 1–2: correct answer pic 3: native speaker's answer this is why native speakers are a plague on their languages. they will just tell you whatever bs they came up w as a child to make the world make sense to themselves. one of these two is incorrect but you don't know which or why!

IDEALS ARE REPLACED BY CONVENTIONAL GOALS AT A CERTAIN AGE

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we need to talk about the ceiling fan situation on wayfair

the where's waldo cup

There was a post here a couple of years ago arguing that the desire for authenticity is fundamentally “the desire to be confronted with a stereotype” and while that was specifically about tourism I think it applies to a lot more than that

rank corruption obviously but also lmao

Trying to justify politics with science has been a disaster because it was inevitable that the roles would reverse

myth-making is what we do when there are questions, not when there are answers! fairy stories compel us in childhood because children don't know things! a demystified bean-counter's approach to divinity, "magic", national and natural myths, etc defeats the purpose!!! childishness without wonder

EXCLUSIVE A lot of attention was (rightly) paid to the role Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson played in inciting the #Belfast riots. But few noticed the critical role play by a small Ulster youth club linked to the fast-growing US white supremacist Active Club network www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

I hope Saidya Hartman comes to this person's house and beats their ass herself

hahaha one of the authors literally wrote a paper in defense of AI slop we're so fucked

like why are we getting shafted on both sides by AI boosters (a) using tech to "investigate" supposedly bad scholarship and (b) using it to actually do bad scholarship? by what stretch of the imagination is this necessary?

this feels especially sinister in light of that report about how the humanities aren't empirically rigorous enough

two of the most important things about critical fabulation (absent here) are 1) it is done only with enormous knowledge of a particular context which is understood at a very deep level and 2) in a way that is aware (self-consciously and explicitly) of what is in the archival record and what is not

Every day a new abomination. "LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary & social theory), the use of LLM hallucinations to "fill-in-the-gap" for omissions in archives…"

The world’s first trillionaire is a mass murderer who spends his days trying to foment a race war. He has no friends and people won’t laugh at his jokes. Also nobody is ever going to live on Mars.

Irene of Athens-coded

it’s much more cowardly than that

it’s so cool the entire economy is now held hostage by vaporware made by one guy who bought a social media site so he could seemingly help incite pograms

The Matrix would probably be a less popular movie if they called it The Spreadsheet

While Pink News has the best headline, GoMag has the best pictures, i.e. pictures of the actual ex-nuns, not just random stock photos:

I keep saying this and the internet continues to respond with "but have you considered that THIS misinformation helps my cause?"

Lol?

I wonder whether the first Gilded Age felt as goddamn insultingly obvious and stupid as this one does.

The Great Barrington Declaration was an effort by the Trump administration to justify its laissez-faire pandemic response.

You might think I'm joking when I say the billionaires.of this world stole an area of Antarctic sea ice the size of all of France but I'm not that's what they did that's what happened to the ice and no one with any power is even trying to stop them so they're not gonna stop stealing our world away

NEW: The horrific racist attacks in Belfast this week were orchestrated by young members of the global Active Club network—neo-Nazis that promoted using violence in Northern Ireland. @davidgilbert.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

really fucking hate how "accessibility" has been hijacked to mean "let's treat everyone as if they're children at all times"

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if you ever catch yourself thinking this, the universe is giving you the biggest stop sign it possibly can, and yet cottom blows right on by it, unbothered

Only a select few brave academics are willing to say the thing that has been loudly being said pretty much constantly for decades

odd Musk comment - from the FT live blog www.ft.com/content/0972...