my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences

I've had this opportunity to observe prison culture in many ways. Books just so happen to be part of the culture here, even as the FDC chokes down harder on our ability to receive them through largely pointless book bans. concertinawired.com/2026/04/11

Exactly one year ago today:

Reminder that "age verification" = Persona = Palantir + Peter Thiel = that thing that makes you take a mug shot from all angles and open your mouth and then creates a profile of all personal information (fingerprints political views sexual orientation friends and family) and forwards that to ICE.

New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages #Gaming #USA #PCGaming #US #AgeVerification

the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

So Christ-like. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Not feeling good about giving my hard earned money to the oligarchs, to fund illegal & unnecessary "wars,"or fund any of this admin's crooked schemes. Not at all 'good.'

“There is nothing that can be done about the millions of preventable deaths resulting from the closure of USAID until 2029” is neither scientifically true nor politically true. It is a policy choice, and the values it reflects are why USAID could be cut down so easily in the first place

WATCH: “There seems to be a conflict” @tnrepparkinson.bsky.social points out the obvious hypocrisy of @GinoBulso and Tennessee Republicans passing a “Charlie Kirk Act” claiming to be about free speech at TN colleges after cracking down on “divisive” speech they disagree with🤔

It also doesn’t help when Democratic candidates respond by saying “no I don’t, I don’t like universal health care or transgenders! I love cops and troops and fucking over poor people!” The people who want universal health care and civil rights have no representation.

When you run a moderate candidate trying to find the perfect way to frame all this stuff, voters think you're cagey and that you're hiding something. When you're a full-throated progressive, voters may not like every stance you hold but they like the way you're unashamed of holding it.

Additionally, everything Democrats think of as "moderate" has become radical communism in the eyes of MAGA anyway. "Don't kidnap children from their parents because of their skin color," "Women should be allowed to vote," "School is good" "Listen to your doctor" "There used to be ice caps."

what the times editorial board and the leadership of the democratic party do not understand is -- it is no longer 1992. democrats are not in the backwash of the reagan revolution anymore. they dont have to be gop lite and in fact gop lite is a goddamned loser.

progressive stuff is popular. it appeals to progressives, moderates, centrists. centrist shit makes the times editorial board excited and nobody else. it doesnt motivate voters. you need excitement to win an election. progressive stuff is also *good for america and the world* this isnt hard

the two most successful recent democratic presidential campaigns ran with progressive-coded messages -- obama 2008, biden 2020. the campaigns that adopt cautious centrism - harris 24, kerry 04, clinton 16, gore 2000 - fucking lose. so of course ny times editorial board wants dems to do the latter.

When a Democrat runs as a moderate, the GOP paints them as a radical leftist regardless. And swing/center voters tend to believe it. So now you've got a candidate who is not only a radical leftist in the eyes of voters, but also a coward who is lying about it.

harris campaigned with liz cheney and talked about owning a gun. the right said she spent billions on transgender surgery for prisoners and that message overwhelmed any appeal she sought to make to center-right voters. instead she should have fucking stood up for more progressive shit.

The right wins: Democrats need to stop being so progressive The right loses: Democrats need to stop being do progressive

you cannot long run a stable society when the immoral ultra-elite are constantly rubbing everyone else’s noses in their total impunity all the goddamn time

The U.S. killed two more people in the Pacific yesterday. And they suspended the search for the shipwrecked civilian from April 11. The death toll of these extrajudicial killings now exceeds 170.

Netanyahu reveals that JD Vance personally “reported to me in detail” on his negotiations with Iran “as the people in this administration do every day”

JK Rowling when she realizes a successful indie project by a trans woman and with several nonbinary cast members beat out her TERF wizard franchise on YouTube's trending charts

oh wow this took off. if you go see TADC in theaters, remember not to spoil it, you sillies.

⚡️ UPDATE: the Trans health data surveillance bill SB676 has just passed the Tennessee senate

BREAKING: 300+ New Yorkers have taken over the offices of Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer demanding no more weapons for Israel. Tell Congress: Fund people, not bombs.

You have GOT to be kidding me How many fucking times does this man need to be outed as acting like a Nazi before people realize HE IS A NAZI

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

How the fuck are him and Bessner both tenured college professors?

This is the guy is a right-wing Libertarian who defended dudes driving into protestors during the George Floyd demonstrations. He’ll make money drawing trans characters, then make 100 jokes about trans people. He reposts bigots & TERFs constantly. We don’t need that shit here.

here's your yearly reminder jay naylor is furry's biggest practicing nazi artist. stop giving him money, fucks sake

"CDC scientists said the report shows the COVID vaccine drastically minimizes the risk of hospitalization. The head of the CDC has blocked release of the report, saying he has 'concerns with the methodology.'" futurism.com/health-medic...

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.

This panic does not even make it past the descriptive statistics chapter of these studies. A field that was giving away transitions too easily would have more transitions and higher percentages of kids transitioning!

The other thing that stands out here is just how few young people get gender affirming care. In a dataset spanning over 20 years, only 2000 patients under 23 were even referred to gender clinics. Of those, just 800 transitioned.

“It would be absurd to argue that having more psychiatric appointments 2+ years after *referral to a psychiatrist* was an indicator of issues with mental health.”

This argument is utter bullshit -- Mamdani came to America with his family at the age of seven -- but it's especially rich coming from this older, somehow even dumber clone of Benny Johnson because that's Andy Ogles, a congressman who has endlessly lied about his own past.

Sharon Simmons, the DoorDash grandma who was just part of a Trump photo op at the White House, says on Fox News that "no tax on tips" helped her because she couldn't afford her husband's cancer treatments

Miserable country

"AI" slop makers comparing themselves to oppressed minorities is a take I did not expect to see today. Just... Wow... If that is you, go fly Boeing!

"Don't judge a book by its cover." But that's what the cover is for! To attract my attention and tell me what the book is!

Don't want negative attention for selling slop? Don't sell slop.

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

So we believe accusations against Democrats, but not republicans And for the record I believe ALL of the women and think A L L of the rapists need to go today. ALL of them.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working. A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first. www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

And believe me, even I don't like how much I harp on this one point, but... so many streamers are asked to stream and record games… for free. We might get a game key (which we have to *disclose*), but the only profit we make is what profit we can generate ourselves. Demonetization sucks for us. 💖

I feel like the key context missing in some replies is, as a streamer, if someone reaches out to me to stream their game, it would be nice to know, ahead of time, if I should mute the music, if it will be allowed, not allowed, etc. As I am doing this for free, monetizing may be my only benefit.