If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Please, someone, be wrong about guitar picking technoque or 1970s d&d here on Bluesky: I can't just dunk on people for being painfully wrong on my little forums and servers, no matter how much they deserve it

you're telling me TWICE baked this potato

We gave the rocks anxiety etc etc

Love that bad tech people were so excited about the digital employee who never gets sick and doesn’t talk back and turns out, once you get past a certain scale, you need to pay for the AI’s mental health treatment no matter what

The answer? Environmental regulations changed. That's why pollution got worse, electrity got more expensive and data centers got loud, sloppy and inefficient. They are building to the minimum level of compliance. And they will claim they were grandfathered in when regulations come back.

If those are things you don't want to give up, you're not advocating for ending data centers, YOU ARE WHO THEY ARE BEING BUILT FOR. Now ask yourself why you're upset about AI data centers. Do you think, maybe, you might be being intentionally misdirected?

Data centers were over 50 years old when the first LLMs came online, and many of you had them for neighbors and never noticed. Most are still not used by AI companies. The environmental regulations were relaxed five years ago and killed last year. When did your problems start?

the problems started 15 years ago when jobs tried to cure pancreatic cancer with a bottle of vinegar he got from a "shaman" in the mission district and the tech press got so sad when it inevitably failed they started promoting guys like elon, and it's been terminal decline ever since

hope you brought urine!

i am grudgingly accepting that even if i want US politics to be way less online, mamdani’s shtick of posting every time the government fills a pothole is probably rhe only constructive way to deal with this issue

Yesterday I told two total strangers about @liberalcurrents.com in a bar because they were asking me where to go for Stuff About The World. Imdoingmypart.jpg

The towel is RIGHT THERE hanging limply around your neck You could just wrap it around yourself as you walk through the locker room, you know

talarico is going to be forced by attack ads to spend all of his time hanging out with his hot girlfriend and eating central texas barbecue

once a year I have a truly exceptional caesar salad that keeps me hooked on the caesar salad crapshoot

pictured: woody learning that buzz lightyear and jessie were at january 6

Remember, everyone. It's us, or them. We can either have a real country led by normal ppl, or we can have a ravaged hellhole molested by a gaggle of thieves, rapists, and totalitarian fanatics.

maybe the worst part about private spaceflight is that the two biggest players in the space are such obnoxious pricks they've negatively polarized tons of people against the concept of rockets i think that's kinda sad

Good morning! 🪶

i am not even an AI skeptic or hater or whatever, i use claude for a lot of shit, but this is the exact kind of dumbass result you should expect when using these tools for tasks they are unsuited for and demanding workers implement it

Oh the base is the one demanding court packing. Democratic politicians are being dragged along kicking and screaming

No. Going for a walk requires that I wear pants, and pants are capitalism.

if you're going to hold up the luddites as a model of resistance to techno-social changes you think are bad you should probably grapple with the fact that they very definitively lost.

This is a meme I'd really love to send to people but I clearly need more shitlib friends.

quick, where's the "your strategy pales compared to firebombing a walmart" screenshot lmao

Does "paying my friend to build me a bunch of custom guitars count? I am not a professional musician, I just like guitars

BLS and federal data agencies are one of the great triumphs of liberal democracy: an extraordinary wealth of information, collected at the highest possible standard, insulated from politics, and astonishingly open to the public, literally provided freely for the benefit of the nation at large

one of the best ways to be fucking normal about AI's possibilities and limitations is just to... use the AI.

Yes: billionaires and incels and MAGA WANT to be angry, they want to be aggrieved, and if you try to talk them out of their grievance, they will neatly elude you and find new reasons. The uncomfortable part is realizing that these kinds of people aren't categorically distinct from ourselves.

LMAOO

again, the 'most Americans can't even afford an unexpected expense' stuff comes from *online surveys by payday loan companies*. it is a publicity stunt *by one of the most exploitative parts of the financial industry* that is nevertheless spread enthusiastically by online communists.

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

i feel like it's bad news that there is a public somewhere which takes the argument that it is bigoted not to displace the responsibility for compulsive masturbation ruining your life onto capitalism draining the joy out of everything seriously

i feel like people crowing about how badly a small cheap model miscounts letters in a word and then writing off the entirety of ai capabilities is as if you showed a human this picture and then wrote them off as completely useless because they said one line was longer than the other

sarcastic parrot

types of mutual on social media: * your buddy you riff with all the time * someone you used to riff with but are pretty sure has you muted at this point * person you admire who followed you back somehow and gives you a jumpscare every time they like a post * we interacted one time years ago

i am a simple man who enjoys simple things. give me a nice, sharp english cheddar

Everyone knows that if you can’t afford a new car, you buy a used car, but if new cars stop getting made, suddenly the used cars get more expensive. However, new car manufacturing should be banned because trickle down economics doesn’t work. I am very smart. 😜

I think the relevant counterfactual when considering privacy related tradeoffs is "how easy would it be for a bad actor regime in the future to build this surveillance infrastructure if it didn't already exist". if the answer is 'pretty hard' then the tradeoff is real, 'very easy' less so

This is how MAGA operates: it tells people that they are absolutely entitled to their fury, regardless of whether the things they are furious about are real or fiction. It is compelling because it asks nothing from people while giving them permission to indulge in cathartic rage.

If you actually care about making the world better, “there is no such thing as the economy, no number or metric we can target, nothing concrete that can ever get better or worse, just endless subrational agony” is absolutely fatal to your ambition.

There's only one Tik Tok from the 2000s I recognize youtu.be/iP6XpLQM2Cs?...

hey fuckface: get your backpack off the seat, the train is full

skipping my loathsome son's wedding to have the doctors prod my flaccid white body with diverse and terrible instruments for half a workday to discover the science or magic behind my inexhaustible vigor

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Real world data for pushing the bread slider all the way down and the circus slider all the way up