LLMs are 100% - yes, 100% - the results of their programmer's intentions. Yes, there are some unexpected outputs. But if you'd chatbot creates sexual images of young children, either the programmers don't care or THEY EXPLICITLY WANTED IT TO DO THAT.

It is worth being explicit here; Lyman Stone's views on race are more acceptable among the American intelligentsia and commentariat than Will Stancil's.

I deeply despise the entirety of the rationalist community. Like on a profound level

Stone is a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and director of its "Pronatalism Initiative," and he regularly gets quoted as an authoritative source by commentators across the political spectrum despite this kind of gutter racism and other undisguised bigotries. I find that baffling.

I was wondering why their is so much random racist discourse on Somalis on the TL rn but oh it’s election season for governor rn lol

Should probably do a thread on suburbanization and labor markets in the wake of RTO, if you live in one of America's finest remaining urban centers, you don't really understand how much easier it is to get a sunbelt job as a white collar employee.

Feel like there’s untapped potential in tighter labor law/OSHA regulations. Things like clopening bans and mandatory seating should be nationwide

EA is gen z's ron paul

Lasch casts his entire diagnosis of American society in Freudian "growing up" terms: "the best hope of emotional maturity, then, appears to lie in a recognition of our need for and dependence on people who nevertheless remain separate from ourselves and refuse to submit to our whims"

Not really discussed that often but one of the secondary & tertiary reasons Israel's public image has so rapidly declined among the youth in countries like the US, UK and Germany is because of behavior like this. Petulant, circular, nonsensical, extremely whiny. It doesn't make *Mamdani* look bad.

“Porn addiction” does not exist in the way its framed by evangelicals but whatever’s at the intersection of rape culture, treatler/consumer culture, and societal narcissism is something we’re gonna have to deal with

some people say that you shouldn’t post on the CSAM-friendly site run by a billionaire white nationalist who allowed rightwing propagandists to troll through internal documents to publish misleading narratives about its staff and users but where else could you get reporting like this

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Not Another Cooking Show is the best cooking show on youtube by several orders of magnitude

better than any parody

Tablet and Hyperallergic should really switch names

Did we ever find out who were in these chats?

best-composed pop song of all time? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEAr...

Adolf Hitler is "breaking the internet", and, "going viral", after being depicted in the semi-popular 2000s-era webcomic Sinfest. "It's time to 'Join The Conversation', on Adolf Hitler", says the guy who owns The Atlantic

lmao jfc

the idea that parapolitics somehow supersedes the nakedly brutal politics capitalist societies do out in the open is not a very Marxist one sorry

Guess what this is about

It's awesome how often this guy lunges forward to defend a defunct political entity that will be forever regarded as one of the great evils of the colonial era.

Stranger Things Season 5 "Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up". Directed by The Duffer Brothers

Yeah sure, fine, whatever.

Best new watches of 2025 (not including films from 24/25)

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How can anyone know what people “implicitly added” in their heads? And how does them rationalizing the literal words being told to them make it not true that they voted on the words?

The Winds of Winter has basically already been written as an aggregate of well-argued fan theories and if George deviated from that there would be conservatively 100 murder suicides across the globe

Real ones know this would happen with The Winds of Winter

Said it before but the power ranking is still: 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2020

White jazz guys are either scrawny dorks who talk about music in such a way where its questionable they even like it or old dudes with the politics of Joe Manchin

I hope everyone who spent a single day of the last two years delegitimizing UNRWA does some reflecting on how their behavior contributed to exactly this, the delegitimization of all aid going to any Palestinians in any context.

The fraud from Somalis is out of control. Moderately priced wine tastes about as good as extraordinarily expensive wine. In double blind taste tests, preferences have little correlation with price.

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

Unc is back!!!!

Also relevant:

In this game? Your heroes will die. A lot.

said Jerry Sandusky was guilty

Emma Hilton is one of the leading anti-trans athlete scientists and her most used "study" claiming trans women have an inherent biological advantage does not use any data from any trans women.

Something I’ve penciled in for 2026 is a crayon-related culture war

Finishing this album and getting the second one 80% in the tank in 2026 idgaf

"Psychosis affects 3 out of every 100 people in the United States." "Every single resource that I called to say, what can we do about this, how can you help? They said, you need to make him homeless." "That is the way that he is going to get into the system." #Connecticut #USA #Housing #Healthcare

the average youtube ad now is an ai generated porn game vertical with a dog whistle playing

YouTube’s strategy of getting me to pay for YouTube Red by playing the worst ads in history is working

The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon soundtrack was my generation’s Tristan un Isolde