Ironically, as @mart1oeil.eu showed, there are telltale signs that the piece was edited with ChatGPT: many links include "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" If even Science editorial team cannot afford good human editing, that's worrying

It’s not a little guy who is looking things up for you! It’s a computer that is processing the frequency of words in (stolen) text on the Internet and then doing a math problem to create an average. That’s all it can ever be!

I said what I said, but I never thought it’d need saying to somebody who works for Science 👇

Wow almost like deregulating zoning doesn't force anyone tk build perfect walkable neighbourhoods but does let greenfield developers have an easier time selling their mcmansions to the people who can afford them.

New from me: "Being engaged in videogames over the last decade has meant watching a cohort of publisher executives inherit an industry of products, professionals, and consumers they seem to actively resent for failing to produce instant, infinite profits."

I resent the term "RAM crisis." This was not some random act of god. This was greedy, selfish, broken people conspiring to take a vital commodity off the public market. This is RAM theft.

Acting is when you have big muscles and the bigger muscles you have the more of an actor you are. (In real life Elliot Page is actually pretty ripped, but you know, there's just so much to unpack here.)

Oh. I guess it's "Fuck A24" completely then.

Also see “the idea that it’s good to improve society somewhat” and “opposing crimes against humanity” but really, I don’t think we can blame social media for this. It’s politicians and their media allies who imposed all of this. Terfery in particular was always a newspaper columnist project.

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

Thomas Edsall is 84 years old and has never worked on a campaign in his life. This is one of several columns he's written centered on imaging what the official 2028 Democratic platform should say, a meaningless document no voters read and which has no effect on what positions candidates campaign on.

low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.

at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual”

Ossoff makes an important point here that accurately frames Trump’s election fraud lies as racist. Trump’s 2020 election lies and efforts to overturn its results always target Black voters as illegitimate. The localities Trump challenged were disproportionately majority-Black.

My favorite part of capitalism is how it demonstrably cannot survive the creation of durable, long-lasting products. The idea of an heirloom is antithetical to its fundamental requirements.

Off topic I know, but it's fascinating to me how 70+ year old Pyrex glassware remains a precious heirloom because capitalism determined making real borosilicate glass wasn't worth it. So now your newly made Pyrex shatters in the oven.

J. K. Rowling posting an upskirt photo of a trans woman and then claiming she was "asking for it" because of the way she was dressed... you'd get laughed out of the writer's room if you tried to do it in an Armando Ianucci show.

Transphohic orgs threatening a human rights org with legal action is a new level of brazen. It's kind of disorienting that it's probably going to work.

I saw Linus Torvalds expressing concern over how ”AI-powered” bug hunters have made the Linux security mailing list unmanageable. So I sketched out a quick visualisation of this 😁

not being able to move on from a fandom is stunted growth. fandom has gotten weirdly reactionary about this but it’s true. if you can’t let go of characters created by someone suing amnesty international for identifying her as a bigot and need to be told that’s just fine you are not a serious person

We need to charge every single ICE agent who pulled a trigger with murder, and every single one around them who refused to stop it with conspiracy to commit murder. This is grotesque.

any ideology which has a starting principle of "you should disregard that lupita nyong'o is the most beautiful person in the world" falls apart at the starting blocks

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

I circled back to this argument in my @newrepublic.com article on implementation of HR1, the not-so-beautiful bill. "Every Republican burden that a Democratic governor relieves should come with a reminder of who burdened the public in the first place." newrepublic.com/article/2125...

the country we know dies within these camps. anything short of their total destruction and the prosecution of their architects will doom us.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

While most people knew him for his movies lets not forget the incredible human Sam Neil was too

the right side of history is when you threaten human rights organisations with lawfare.

JK Rowling is using her immense wealth and lawfare to persecute a tiny minority and then she helps to silence anyone who criticizes her in the UK. Amnesty International has gone up against genocidal regimes and dictators but none of them had the power of UK libel laws enjoyed by the British elite.

Once again, there is no such thing as "sex-based rights" in human rights law. There never has been. What exists is a right not to be discriminated against because of your sex. Trans people hold that exact same right. The whole framework is nobody gets to be discriminated against for what they are.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

They never seem to mind that their fellow travelers are neo nazis and far right white nationalists until you point it out to them. Then, it's defamatory to them to mention it. Not all transphobes are nazis but all nazis are transphobic.

I don't think I've ever seen a group so litigious as gender criticals in the UK. They want to censor any and all criticism of them. Every time I criticize JK Rowling on here, there's like ten TERF accounts snitch tagging Rowling on X asking her to sue me. Thankfully, we have a First Amendment here.

it rocks that Lindsey Graham lived to see the US lose a war with Iran and then immediately died lmao

“JK Rowling and other gender critical far right extremists have reacted furiously after a report from a human rights organization correctly pointing out that they are far right anti-rights extremists”

There's only a sign when there's been a problem.

Men murdering women, and the political response to it, is becoming Australia's version of the USA's "thoughts and prayers" after a mass shooting in that country. Somber speeches from politicians who are sad for the duration of a press conference, then they're back to the status quo.

Just want to reiterate the point: This man has failed to assimilate into American culture

Years ago on the bird site I speculated/half-joked that When It Happens they just won’t admit it and the media will be too afraid to report it and was told that I was crazy but I dunno, friends, I dunno.

i dont want to engage in the discourse directly by quoting it, but the idea that games media did not understand the context of the Activision acquisition, or what its effect would be, is absurd to me this is january 2022, on a website read by millions of people kotaku.com/this-was-ine...

I understand, on an intellectual and dramaturgical level, J Jonah was so often distilled down to "rightwing media crank" for narrative ease and mass consumption, but "JJJ would be posting on bluesky too much (complementary)" is so much funnier.

The United States has crumbled to the point we only selectively enforce corporate regulations, and things like this are the result. Literally *no one* has stopped OpenAI from doing whatever they please, meaning they just continue to break the law as a matter of routine.

Good. Meta still sucks. Remember that they tried this, and will probably try something similar soon.

The insanity of trusting triple zero to a private company that will measure its success/failure by its annual profit.

man what crazy coincidental timing that both the afl and nrl are going start allowing certain creators to post game footage online, right as the new piss weak gambling ad restrictions on tv come in which wont apply to online content