Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

The unsatisfactory truth is that if reckoning ever comes it will be driven by internal factors we did little to influence, that escalating to full-blown war is just pointlessly bloody and destabilizing, and so the best we can do is try to contain and disrupt Iranian adventurism at the margins.

I don't know quite *why* this dynamic pisses them off more than, say, efforts to "reset" with Russia during the invasion of Georgia or similar, but it's probably because it's all much more directly entangled with the GWOT.

Iran's ability to evade meaningful consequences for decades of proxy warfare (stoking a sectarian death spiral in Iraq, supporting Assad, arming and training elements of the Taliban) really breaks some peoples' brains and makes them desperate for something, anything to let them take revenge.

"No new wars" really just meant "f*ck Ukraine" and everyone knew it.

"The Iran question was never about Iran. Remove the Islamic Republic from the equation and China loses its pawns for a Taiwan contingency." Is this person on crack cocaine?

OpenAI's hype about how everybody had better agree to negotiate with its pitiless, merciless genAI is ultimately a rhetorical misdirection: the reality is that the genAI is a front for the pitiless, merciless people who will use it

For context, Politico reported Wednesday that the Trump regime thought it would be better optics if Israel bombed Iran first so that America could just appear to be helping an ally rather than starting a new war

fell for it again award

This is Trump's former AI adviser

“A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.” - @johnrogers.bsky.social

The whole right wing movement is animated by 1 conspiracy theory: that white people are all secretly in agreement with them, and are being suppressed by a woke conspiracy Miller and ICE occupations, Carr/Ellison and right wing media, DOGE and USAID, it's all looking for the off switch for the woke

It bothers me how ”free speech absolutist” continues to get used for guys like Musk in the face of all evidence. They can’t handle a disagreement over ketchup versus mustard without seeing the hand of Soros and vowing revenge.

"This decade has seen the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in violent conflicts (. . .)Yet the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man"

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”

I am so so so so so so fucking tired of journalists not being specific about the political and hate views of these people in general.

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VHOLUME might have what it takes to recapture the magic of Titanfall 2's gauntlet. aftermath.site/vholume-game-t...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.

absolutely insane that we only know her name thanks to critical intelligence asset Dennis Rodman

🎵 Send me a death by wire, Honey, your stock’s on fire!🎵

Today, anime pilgrimage is no longer purely grassroots. A 2024 survey by the Japan Tourism Agency found that 11.8 percent of inbound visitors cited anime or film locations as a reason for travel.

"Four Corners case highlights a deeper problem in Australian healthcare" by @lukeslawomirski.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Hats off to @fionakatauskas.bsky.social for nailing the screaming obvious reality missing from Australian journalism: how Pauline Hanson simply moves from one group to the next with her hatred and fear without ever being asked by about a policy. A racist muppet - but who is the hand in control?

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holy fuck

“She just doesn’t have the spinlessness needed for politics,” said Albanese chaser.com.au/national/spi...

The threat of arrest for trans people is an implicit threat of rape. This is what happens to incarcerated trans women.

2. Yesterday, anti-transgender activist and columnist Jesse Singal published a piece claiming there were "cracks in the wall" around gender-affirming care (which you can find fully fact-checked here).

Trump's speech was under two hours, which bolsters the thesis that the leaks about it being more than two hours were meant to work the prediction markets

C’mon, what about all the investments in submarines Australia never received or contracts with Palantir? Surely the average Australian knows the ALP truly has their best interests at heart?

Sir Deadass I am your man, sir.

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

Literally every shit bit of discourse on this site starts with this internal monologue

Prosecutor: “Now who was to the left of you?” Me: “Clowns” Prosecutor: “and to your right?” Me: “Jokers” Prosecutor: “And where… where were you in all of this?” Me: “You know EXACTLY where I was you SONOFABITCH!” Judge: “Order, ORDER!!”

Back on Twitter, long before Musk bought it, when it was perceived as having a lib/left cast, journalists were always ticking users off because it wasn’t “real life”. Now it’s X, a far-right site, they tick us off because it’s “the commons” and apparently we’re missing real life by not being there?

Whatever gene it is that allows you to appreciate avocado, I apparently don't have it. They taste like vaguely plant-like mush to me.

today's liberal internationalist take is that you can't be an american liberal internationalist if you don't have a real plan to stop this fuckery from happening again

Keep him there. Hammered & overseas feeling like a big shot is the least harmful any Trump official can be

EAT YOUR VEGATABLES, YUGI-BOY

excuse me, this is a site for sports and debates over the sex lives of deep space nine characters

Judaism —> Christ —> Christianity —> USA

the year is 2026. the most important person in politics is the guy from Home Alone, the most important person in media is the guy from Fear Factor, and the most important person in technology is the owner of MechaHitler. what we need now, more than ever, is to defeat the left

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

So why argue that an LLM might actually be more energy efficient than a human at a particular job? The only way that energy efficiency actually results in any savings is if you start eliminating humans. Not eliminating human JOBS. Eliminating HUMANS.

Just to show where his thinking goes... Human beings are HERE. They have a right to live and to consume resources to do so. So why does he compare a human's energy use with an LLMs? If you replace a human's job with an LLM, you don't SAVE any energy. You just ADD the energy consumption of the LLM.