LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

almost fell for another good post with “alt text” on the images that was just a lazy handwave instead of a real description somehow that feels even worse than no alt text please just skip it if you’re not going to really do it

this thread is everything you are hoping it might be

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

This is a joke at this point right?

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Cutting yourself from *any* perspective that might cause you to rethink your own is isolationist. But cutting yourself off from bigots and assholes doesn’t remove anything that might have sharpened or reshaped your thinking. It’s just good mental hygiene.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

just realized that the most realistic healthy and balanced vision for international harmony is basically crab bucket theory (laudatory) everybody small potatoes, everybody bands together to take down any individual potato that threatens to become even a moderate-sized spud

The US is fucked up for the same reason billionaires are fucked up. Large disparities of power are inherently antisocial.

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

bloobs.

Bonus seal cuteness, featuring my previous bestie.

Goodnight, or bad night, just get as much rest as you can. ❤️ 🦑 🦭

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

Whenever an institution announces that it has "banned DEI" at Trump's request, it is now an explicitly white supremacist institution. Just remember that and plan accordingly.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

jeffrey epstein was a sociopath who exploited whatever commonalities he could find in pursuit of greater influence and access to more people he could exploit either financially or sexually it's not surprising that he played up jewish stuff with other jews, and it has absolutely zero to do w/judaism

I am in tears. Just layers and layers of feel-good to this story.

ok but why does this owl at a watering hole in the Namib desert (which I saw via the watering hole's webcam) look like a little old English lady-owl on an evening walk who kicked off her shoes but left her stockings on to cool her feet in a pond on the outskirts of the village?

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

your honor this man is out of juice, we have never seen so little juice

It is absolute bullshit that the USA gets to decide how all of Earth's sky is covered in satellites and space junk.

i do not know why i continue to be surprised by kaine he's done this a lot, but every time i see him on one of these lists the reaction to the others is "yup, known suckage" and to him it's "omg, again?!" has he always sucked? why is this happening??

just something to think about when people push the little toad Newsom. the little toads aren't able to stand up to the right because they agree with them. what you need is a Hot Leftist

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

It’s finally over

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Update: made a shirt.

Fucked up that some kids are born with type 1 diabetes and nobody is militantly against them receiving insulin which is a hormone but if you’re born with the wrong “sex” hormone suddenly getting that fixed makes you a pervert and a monster. It’s the same endocrine system ya fucking idiots

Yub Nub, She Wrote

Nope. Not watching that

In further Dudes Rocking news:

The thing about former Prince Andrew is that he lost his protector. Our Epstein conspirators have not lost theirs.

got the tagline before the image and literally laughed out loud when i scrolled down birds are the best

Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.

Jortnado

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH 🌿🪶 (This is telephoto lens + harsh crop to maintain a respectful distance!)

Platner is really close to just saying the quiet parts loud, but I think we should also have a conversation about the popular but wrong belief on both the left and the right that all problems are the result of a small coterie of elites operating in bad faith.

This thread is great!

woops forgot to post tonights moon

A thing I can't stop my brain from doing is imagining a world where the press made it crystal clear, throughout 2024, that a tariff is a sales tax that US consumers would have to pay instead of pretending this was a debatable point.

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices' the sums involved are incomprehensible

This is basically identical to the arguments Japan makes for whaling.

The real benefit to taxing the ultra-rich isn't raising revenue. It's *making it so there are fewer ultra-rich people.* In every possible sense, it's a sin tax.