the thing is that every law professor is a throne sniffer and not a scholar. there is no scholarship to be done there. they are pretend scholars doing utterly imaginary work to be evaluated in front of an audience of recent undergraduates who are primarily checking their spelling.

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this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

oh, you didn't think it was going to be this bad? fuck you, you're an idiot

Oh, you know the ones.

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

This is it, right here.

Charlie Kirk: “God’s perfect law says gays should be stoned to death.” Liberals: “This is an honorable man who did politics the right way. Through debate, not calls to violence.”

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

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One logical conclusion is they're happy to be poorer and for the country to be weaker if it means seeing images of ICE hurting immigrants, removing Black people from high-ranking positions, and knowing that trans people they'll never meet feel scared and sad. They think that's a good trade.

almost hard to remember when the center and right were having a years-long meltdown about free speech on campus because students protested Milo Yiannopoulos speeches

I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.

Perfect.

Ten years after the world was shocked by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi's lifeless body on a Turkish beach, have we lost our empathy for refugees?

Really taken with the idea of someone at an Oasis show, sometime on this tour, learning that Donald Trump has died by having Noel announce the news and then being like "right, then, this one's called 'Some Might Say.'"

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I can

Many such cases!

what they don't tell you about those near-future settings with, like, gleaming sealed cities and the Cursed Earth in between is that the residents of the Cursed Earth voted for it to be that way.

It’s cool that the computer that gets math wrong sometimes has made so many people totally nuts

🧐🧐🧐

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Schrödinger's humanities: Simultaneously moribund and dying in a world in which students increasingly only want to major in STEM and business, and also so powerful that they can inculcate dangerous, subversive ideologies like gender theory and post-colonialism in impressionable young people.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

More and more people are saying.

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

It really is shocking how some of the most passionate AI boosters have effectively lobotomized themselves, don't realize it, and don't realize that others are still capable of realizing it.

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Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

University administrators: “Great, let’s pay to integrate this into our LMS”

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Otoh "a generation inadvertantly poisoned themselves with lead and then the empire collapsed with they came into power" is pretty similar

I want Democrats who understand that the goal is to lay waste to Trump, his toadies, his movement, and his party, and that after you’ve done that you can turn the country over to the survivors and they can quibble over how to fund the social safety net with less-than-existential stakes

Listening to someone else watch short videos on their phone is the most annoying thing in the universe, and I believe our society has not adequately grappled with this

It's difficult to convey the extent to which the modal administrator's dream university has no faculty. Just admins with fake jobs flying around on expense accounts and students putting cash in a vending machine that prints out a degree after 4 yrs. Ideally the two groups never see each other.

I swear Google keeps adding more and more AI nonsense whenever I open a document. I know how to write! Fuck you!

The universities are indoctrinating students! Actual universities:

if the dead didn't want people speaking ill of them they should've tried not being gigantic pieces of shit when they were alive!

Begging someone to go into the Google offices and just spend every day yelling at random managers "remember when your products worked? Remember when they worked so well your company name became a verb? Have you considered doing that instead of shoveling this AI dogshit all day????"

how it feels to be asked about your research

Honestly what was judgement for if not this

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

Just spitballing here but I think air conditioning is a much better use of energy than sophisticated predictive text models that lie to you and produce slop “art”

the Epstein files are a false flag my lord

If other evidence wasn't enough this is all the proof you need that tech billionaires are, above all else, stupid. Capitalist democracy made them rich beyond measure and they decided to break it because of memes they saw on the computer

totally unrelated but as someone generally opposed to capital punishment, i now understand why traitors and treason to the republic were crimes that engendered truly horrifying punishments.