It’s kind of funny how Putin has this centuries old inferiority complex.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

If the only choices are unacceptable, spoil your paper. If there is a minor candidate you can vote for in protest, do that. But if the system doesn’t allow you to show up and protest the choice on offer, the system is wrong.

"he's willing to accept that he has grown as a person, and I think we should accept that." Eh?

Graham Platner: ‘I Didn’t Know Extramarital Sexting Was A Symbol For Cheating’

It is genuinely disturbing how contemptuously dismissive so many are of any and all problems with this man. Someone just called him the Left's Trump, and I think there's something to that.

I have to agree - and I have a very poor opinion of Cenk Ugyur in particular. But I don’t believe they rise anywhere near to the level of a security risk.

I’ve said this before: the far right wherever they are do not much care about their own culture. They don’t promote it, don’t get involved in it. Compare that with immigrants who often do. Because unlike the far right, they typically have much more love for the place.

Wow. I just found out the musical director for the Goon Show was a trans woman. Not sure if it’s OK to dead name someone deceased even if they had been famous under it, so won’t, but click through, Goon Show fans to see a familiar name. Anyway, Happy Pride Month en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_...

Read this and get to the list of suggestions 🤦

Coming in 2028 or so: "Post-AI Teaching: Why I Never Thought Any of This was a Good Idea in the First Place"

God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.

It’s a tangential comment, but: this is an example of how humans are normalised as “men” and “male”. Gender is not spotted as a distinguishing feature, because patriarchal norms disappear the other half of the human race.

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

While I do believe that private lives should as a rule be private, because people do slip in their vows and we don’t know what’s going on and until you’re in their shoes etc. there’s that and then there’s TWELVE that his wife knew of in the FIRST YEAR of a marriage. That’s cruelty.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

The idea being spread by Platner supporters that only agents of Israel could have a problem with someone having Nazi insignia tattoos is, on the face of it, really very antisemitic.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Because they have ideological and financial connections to the Putin regime.

The last 10 years in a nutshell: Nazi: I’m a Nazi! Media: Outspoken Man Touts Unconventional Ideas Nazi: No, I’m just a Nazi. Media: Meet the Dapper White Nationalist Who— Nazi: No, seriously! I’m quoting Mein Kampf! I love Hitler! Media: Why Both Sides Have an Extremist Problem.

So this is kind of Soviet only without the generous public funding or even the pretence of benefitting humankind.

Can’t tell the difference between a woman and a drinks measure while underwater heckling flax? Gill issue.

So, on the one hand, it’s absolutely a fair Turing reference to make that this did get past judges. But, as comments and quotes illustrate, it’s Very Bad Writing, caked with metaphors and similes that make no sense, and not in a good edge-of-perception way, but in a shit way. What happened? 1/2

Thinking about it, what the BBC is more likely to do on a permanent basis is AI generate the audience politically how they want it. After all, the audience manager for real used to actively recruit from far right groups on Facebook to get the hostility to left wing politicians she wanted.

See also, obviously, Musk's endless quest for an algorithm that gives him a more appealing personality. It just can't be done.

I think it’s more they didn’t think the world in general would notice if the artists found out and bailed. Trump has been a liar and a cheat his entire career. People who knew him knew it. He relied on the world not noticing. The presidency is too exposed. So now he keeps losing.

just amazing. did trump's team think the artists just wouldn't notice that they'd been lied to? probably they just were afraid to tell trump no one would perform at his stupid hatefest.

As a student of history, Peter Thiel fleeing to Argentina is a bit too on the nose. #IYKYK

Universities reimagined as real estate schemes attached to amateur sports franchises and tech grifters

I mean, I’ve experimented with genAI as a writing partner and it…just doesn’t work. The texts aren’t dense enough, and they don’t form a narrative so well. It doesn’t work like a semi-sculpted piece of rock for me to finish off. It’s like a rock full of flaws that can’t take a chisel.

This is such bullshit. If Burnham lacks the political will and skill to make human decency electorally successful, he can get lost. He ain’t The One. The far right gets votes because they come across as saying what they believe. The thing is, so do the greens.

FWIW, I think “let loose a pedophile” is more effective rhetoric.

One tell that transphobia is wrapped up with misogyny is that supposedly potent question: “What is a woman???” asked with a smug grin as if this proves a point. If you answer by defining women AND men, (noting that a small proportion of both are trans), the wind goes right out of their sails.1/2

If you think transphobia is about protecting women I have a patriarchy to sell you. It's a men's rights movement in drag. Always was. The Express on Andy Burnham and The Express on Reform choosing Robert Kenyon who said women can’t “ref, drive or give directions... I’m sexist, sorry but I am.”

Janice Turner and The Times' 'feminist hero' is just protecting women again

"Taken as a whole, this is the most profound rollback of the rights of a minority in my lifetime." A useful primer on how trans people's human rights have been wrecked in the UK, and what it tells us about the country's politics more broadly. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Breaking news /sarcasm So where is all the fuss coming from? Answer: dark-funded front groups pretending to be women’s rights organisations, but with connections to religious fundamentalists And politicians and the media have allowed them to ruin people’s lives.

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

The thing about this “but Israel” defence of Platner is: Platner deliberately joined the military to go to the Middle East to kill, in a glaringly imperialist invasion. By his own account, he REALLY enjoyed all the killing and war crimes there. Why doesn’t that or his Nazi insignia count?

Jesus wept, Google. I have to scroll down past - a stupidly wordy genAI response I can’t trust, - a list of questions people also asked, - images, - forum posts, - a single solitary actual webpage hit, - a second “people also asked” list Until finally, the rest of the hits.

One of the things I notice about “look I know he has flaws” defences of the Nazi-tattoo guy standing for Senate in Maine is they refuse to be open about and/or try to deny what those flaws are. In particular, they’re *far* from just the tattoo, and stop pretending the tattoo isn’t Nazi insignia.

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021. n.pr/4dyiOmb

One of the presumptions of GenAI marketing is that there is a lot of undiscovered low and medium-hanging productivity fruit across all sectors of the economy waiting for GenAI to discover it. But what if there isn't? Or what if GenAI isn't best placed for that kind of advance?

As you can tell in this video, the anti-trans activist is clearly making things up: there are no communal changing rooms in M&S stores. The thing to grasp is: they make things up all the time. There has been no problem with trans women using facilities as their gender. It's a moral panic.

The Bar Standards Board really needs to address this sort of behaviour. There is nothing illegal in having gender neutral changing rooms. Barristers should not be putting targets on the backs on people being harassed by anti-trans activists, especially crazy ones making stupid claims.

I get bothered by verbose LLM responses. And then I had a thought. Are they doing a kind of cold reading? That is, do they give longer answers because the answer you want is more likely to be included? It’s just the style is so annoyingly vapid, I can’t believe that’s the preference of users.

One underdiscussed aspect of the international far right is how much they see logistical problems as something for someone else to solve. They dupe libertarians (not the sharpest bunch anyway) with a handwavy “let the markets sort it out” stance.

"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!

you read out what I've written or I will shit in your picanic basket you wookie wanker and skin you to make a baby chewbacca puppet for some new star wars horseshit, the mandolin and the cunt cub