This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts.

Three peanuts kind of morning I see. 🪶

The media is desperate to create another election where they can write reams of articles about the possibility of a hung Parliament (they don't know how to cover elections otherwise). They can't get the LNP anywhere near that, so they're having a go with ON. #auspol

I found that this is wrong. Democracy actually is a powerful motivating force for a critical slice of the population *if they perceive a real threat*. I call this the "legibility" theory of democratic backsliding: the more legible the threat, the more likely it is to prompt effective pushback.

Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes. If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

Since Bondi, there has been a marked change in the political and social discourse trending towards anti-Islam driven by fearmongering Murdoch/Ninefax media and the jelly-spined politicians under the influence of a powerful foreign lobby group. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

the democratic response to the SOTU should start with “is Donald Trump a pedophile?” and from there be entirely about the files

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

If you use AI to write anything, I say you're not writing. You're Googling three other writers' work, smashing it into a syntax correction algorithm, and plagiarizing the result.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Kind of fucks you up to realize that these men were using plaintext on gmail to discuss child trafficking, and yet Google and companies just like them want to surveil you and restrict what content you have access to so as to "keep children safe."

"There's a secret Jewish conspiracy to flood our countries with migrants!" >an actual conspiracy is uncovered full of Christian guys endlessly talking about how much they hate minorities and how easy it is to get conspiracy theorists to hate minorities "See?!"

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

It takes 17 Megawatt hours to feed a human being for 20 years. it took 1,287 Megawatt hours to run GPT-3 for one day

My instinct is still always to stand on principle, to say what's right even if it's unpopular, inconvenient, or gets me in trouble. Now is a time to stop restraining that. If human rights in the US are a losing battle, count me among the losers. I don't want to be safe in a fascist US.

Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again.

This one hits hard.

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

It's important to know that the entire "AI" hype bubble is predicated on two things: - Liars - Incredibly gullible dipshits who believe anything no matter how patently absurd. The basis of modern finance is 90% "Got your nose" and I feel we should say this more often and more loudly.

You can explain a lot of the shift towards blatant transphobia by the centrist political class from them remaining on Twitter after Elon bought it. It's one of his singular missions to destroy the trans community to get back at his daughter Vivian. nymag.com/intelligence...

I love how regurgitative AI is allegedly going to make us all smarter but its proponents have to say the absolute dumbest fucking shit to justify its existence. He’d have made a smarter point if he defecated in his hand and smeared it on his balls.

We are in the rare and unique position where indie animation can be unique creative visions unfettered by corporate interference or IP shit Why would you, as the fan, demand that the vision of the creator, who you claim to love, bend to your demands Kill your inner exec

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Note this festival is on a walkable street that has been opened for people, near a train station in an area with high rise and medium density apartments.

Lol lmao even. This is completely absurd. My heart goes out to the folks who built Discord into their social ecosystem who very much should not use this anymore.

Bobby is going to run up a *major war criminal* body count. More utterly grotesque stuff.

in many ways the tech trajectory of the last several years can best be described as 'the struggle to invent a computer that can click on an ad'

This fucking sucks. Why would a fucking furry game do this? You could have paid a furry artist the money you spent and gotten something better and gotten goodwill from the community. Now you just sank your entire game.

thinking about women at the top of their game winning medals and trophies and being genuinely supportive of their competitors bc they aren’t threatened by each other’s success, meanwhile the face of sports transphobia is some asshole who placed eighth in a swim meet and made it everybody’s problem

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

america is a place where the president illegally demolishes the economy for a year before the wizard council decides he wasn’t supposed to do that

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

The Supreme Court:

1) Ban medication being prescribed because you say there is insufficient evidence to support it, even though it's prescribed internationally 2) Say you're going to set up a trial to get evidence that it's safe and effective 3) Pause that trial getting evidence because of "unquantified risk"

this is the soundbite and we can make it stick

Everybody still on there convinced that they are a special flower unaffected by propaganda.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

- want games for your platform - don't buy milk, buy the cow, just buy studios instead of hiring them - buy a dozen companies - realize having 30000 employees across every timezone on the planet trying to collaborate is hard to organize - lay everyone off

I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement. Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

bluesky is cool cuz i can joke about daytime astronomy and end up summoning a reply from a solar astronomer named flare observer

we weren’t negative enough and now no-one gets to have ram or hard drives