The current US government's ongoing commitment to destroying the US tourism industry is of course not its worst feature morally, but it might be the weirdest.

"Interviewees are sneaking answers from ChatGPT and who could blame them" ME, I will absolutely blame them

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

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Republicans are like "oh, you want to reduce easily preventable death? That pales in comparison to my strategy: Submitting to Christ" and then don't submit to Christ.

When you fail a saving throw vs charisma

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!

Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop. Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

chat, is it bad to get a hallucinating lie machine to help you with your taxes?

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

truly it is a mystery why women find it hard to get ahead in academia

I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

There is *extensive* Papal teaching on cinema over the last century and this is a brilliant addition. The new word here is "algorithms". I predict that when Leo's teaching on AI drops next year, it will be more significant than any religious teaching since Laudato Si'

The demeaning right wing view of Local Authorities as incompetent wasteful & inconsequential, & so ripe for endless cuts, is what has led more than anything else to the mess we’re in. They are the front line in almost everything that makes a decent society & until we realise this we’ll keep failing

RIP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

Manicurist: Sure you don't want a cup of tea or something? Me:

You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong. AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

And to a dog, dog food is just food And to a sock, a mansion's just a big shoe A milk dud, sitting in the acid rain A house cat addicted to the cocaine No teeth, unlimited floss These are just a few of our incredible thoughts youtu.be/uE7e4MkZGXY?...

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets. chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

I still have not processed what I just read.

I don't trust any "historical photograph" anymore because there are SO many AI generated ones showing up on social media now

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

excommunicate the internet

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.

Remember the massive panics about Dungeons and Dragons and heavy metal music if there was the slightest whiff of a tenuous link to a single young person's suicide? I'd rather we went back to those days than we had this.

found out today there's a sticker pack in microsoft teams of a guy named calamity bert who's about to kill himself

All this White House renovation stuff really feels like Trump's getting to do passion projects, which makes me uneas...ier

See, I know this is meant as a joke but this essentially was my social circle in Chicago so

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Holy smokes www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...