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"NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for going further from land than a PONTOON BOAT"? the operators would remind you that there are fewer pesky laws and regulations in international waters actually they wouldn't, they'd prefer you didn't remember it either

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

When younger me contemplated the shape of events which would unfold when the capitalists finally deploy "artificial intelligence", I always assumed the technology would, in fact, work reliably and be a good replacement for human thinking (at least in some domains). Silly, naive me.

well I mean it *is* a fascist ball, so the attire is appropriate

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

you can be sure that if it has been a site to commemorate the confederacy, they would have left it alone theintercept.com/2026/04/30/a...

HOW IT STARTED: youtu.be/GjZ7ktIlSM0?... HOW IT'S GOING: youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU?...

1. Expand SCOTUS, impose term limits, and add enforceable ethics rules. 2. Expand House of Representatives. 3. DC statehood. 4. Puerto Rico statehood. 5. Eliminate the filibuster in the Senate

Or like, putting someone in charge of HHS who doesn’t believe in vaccines, or putting someone in charge of the EPA who doesn’t believe in climate science, or putting a conspiracy addled podcaster in charge of the FBI, or a guy with a crusader tattoo in charge of the Defense Department…oh, wait.

Of course they won't. Terror is their product. It's what they sell every day, through every media Americans consume. It's why THEY are the ones in the room instead of people who are competent and could change things. So they were temporarily inconvenienced, so what? Doesn't change a thing.

Remember when Elon did the Nazi salute and the ADL defended him?

I mean only one ride was really famous.

@almasuono.bsky.social has put me on a blocklist of MAGAs. I am surely not the only false positive, and if I labeled my list as "new list of random ass far right wing accounts soft on Trump or bigots that have slipped through the cracks of other lists" I'd be sure the filter was better than this.

That's the part that just floors me. They insist it's the guide to life, the touchstone of truth and morality, and every word in it is literally true. They'll happily see anyone killed who says otherwise. But they won't read it.

their topics and opinions will span the intellectual gamut, all the way from nA to Zi

The latest chapter in "Tesla Sucks": electrek.co/2026/04/15/t...

hard to see but the guy on the deathbed is uncle sam

even if I'm being *very* charitable to rubio and vance and assume they were privately against the war, they didn't give a shit about whether it was in the US interest or if it was even legal, they only cared about whether it would hurt their chances of being president. fuck em both

no please NYT, tell me more of this ancient discovery your digital archeologists have unearthed (source: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...)

center square of my bingo card says: he demands a nobel peace prize for this

inner voice: "you know, patrick, maybe you ought to finish reading *this* book before you start reading *that* one" also inner voice: "nope"

Read @clairewillett.bsky.social right now www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/o...

An absolutely amazing photo of home, captured by Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

running the gamut from F to U

excellent homage to a classic.

wait a minute, wait a minute, are you telling me that it's just linear classifiers all the way down? wtf didn't you just lead with that?

love to be poorer forever because the dumbest 20% of the country has terminal oppositional-defiant disorder

I assure you that if 8 million right leaning protesters had turned out against Obama it the NYT would have given it banner treatment eg POPULIST REVOLT

No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings

I'm genuinely kind of shocked. Kids who grew up playing video games have shitty fine motor skills? I did not know this before today.

the chatbot is not hallucinating, the chatbot is creating slopportunities for improvement

I will give him the credit “he deserves” right now. He is a liar. A thief. A failed businessman. A corrupt president. A predator. A fascist. He is cruel. Misogynistic. Racist. Spiteful. Conniving. Narcissistic. Psychopathic. And to top it off, demented, too. He deserves nothing but scorn.

You know what I'd like from my smartphone? I'd like apps that don't bug me to turn on notifications _every time I open them_, despite the fact that I've already said NO 100x before. You think an AI would figure out what my "intent" is? The answer is NO, because they don't respect their users.

I just wanted my own computer and the companies said, hey that's fine all ya gotta do is get on board relax as we colonize your mind

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

So this is what "running government like a business" means.

you know who isn't sick of all the winning? bibi and vlad.

In the last hundred years, scientists and engineers have worked to create systems to allow us to communicate without distortion or interference, and perform computations efficiently, reliably, and economically. And now it's all being pissed away. 1/2

today at IHTOV: joseph defeo ( @doctorprofessional.bsky.social ) has an absolutely delightful essay on the mickey mouse record player of his youth and the joy it brought him then and later. this will give you a much needed smile ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/close...

whoopsie

prophecy is not knowledge or wisdom

AI and decision-making.