You can't judge Columbus by modern standards because he was a product of his times but you CAN judge the "human-sacrificing blood-thirsty savages" by modern standards because racism is still a modern standard. Hope this helps!

This is the crux of the problem. The US Constitution and bedrock legal framework both rely on the premise that most actors will be good faith, and certainly most of the high-up important actors. The Founders never considered "What if people who hate everything we're doing here are running things."

Anyone with any intellectual honesty fully believes "reality has a liberal bias." AI is already, by design, incapable of recognizing when it is wrong and, by design, not tasked with being right. Being accurate is not a goal. But by Altman's admission being inaccurate IS now a goal.

If I have one hope for results from the absolutely-happening massive AI crash/recession/depression that I am 100% sure is a coming, a hope that will not be fulfilled... It's that the entire world remember the major players who evangelized AI and never trust them again.

I think as a general groupthink thing everyone everywhere should come to the realization that corporate 'journalism' is really just 'present everything through the lens of desired attitude and positional support.' Copaganda. Corpoganda. Immiganda. Distraction, obfuscation, omission.

Cops lying has always been pretty low effort but this new ICE is just pushing the lower bounds of abominable. In fiction terms, this is just immersion-breaking. ICE's writers need to realize EVERY episode can't be a shark-jumper.

The Devil's Sock Hop.

Jay, you have a thankless job. I'm not saying that to be comforting. I'm saying that in the hopes that you grow the fuck up a little bit.

I did a thing. Maybe share this if you find it funny, find it depressing, or find it relevant. chng.it/WsFBXTs7Zk

One of my follows is a woman who lives in Oregon and she posted a video a friend of hers took in Portland with some geese that that friend told to disperse but the geese did not disperse so basically yeah MRAPs on every corner please, it is MAYHEM there.

"We've raised the price of all Game Pass tiers *AAAAANNDDD* are shamelessly promoting the offal tripe of a hatefilled hagbigot! This cannot possibly go wrong for us!"

This is a great thread riffing off of a great thread, and the time spent reading both would not be wasted.

The #TrumpShutdown in 36 seconds 👏🏼

Really happy for Kavanaugh discovering what his legacy is going to be while he's still breathing.

bless this man and his new umop apisdu life

Sometimes you really want Wikipedia to reambiguate something but nope, not something they're set up for.

Sociopaths who exult in wanton violence against the vulnerable tend to forget that it doesn't poll well when there are multiple disparate video examples available for the populace to see, and that pop makes the connection that whatever the administration claims it wants, this is what it wants.

An inability to call evil what it is is an absolute failure and an incredible disservice to an audience.

Really I think now it needs to be more like "Tribunal Ice."

Principle has uptime of 100% or it's not principle, it's convenient affectation.

SIGNAL CHAT TRANSCRIPT EYES ONLY Pete Hegseth: Pay attention everyone we have a new mission. JD Vance: And it's a good one. Really good. Steve Witkoff: 🙏🙏💪🇺🇸🇺🇸 Isaac Chotiner: Gentleman, if I may...

CHOTINER, looking in the mirror: "OH SHIT."

When you're on PC in replies and middle-click doesn't open-innew-tab a quoted skeet, that is annoying AF. So... fixing that so expected behavior behaves expectedly.

Subtly widen a band: The Subtly Wider Gap Band

Conan O'Brien walks into a room and sees Isaac Chotiner and Martin Short seated side by side, staring at him expectantly.

"Bluesky Terrible Take Tech Support, have you tried fucking off and back on again?"

Where are all the people that pitched fits and shit their pants when Democrats wanted to take down statues of slave-owning Democrats? Crickets, huh?

How many IT folks think it's the HP 4000 series lasers that are the real troopers? Wonder how many billions of pages they have printed, in aggregate.

#lawsky has been putting in work all administration long about how "defamation doesn't work the way you think it does" and this is basically occurring every three days and from a 'take a step back' perspective, it's really fucked up that we live in every-three-days times with this shit.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Assuming Best-case-Ontario and we get out of the mess we are in and retake the house and accountability actually happens... We need a federal law that states any directive in writing from a county election official is 100% exonerating for this kind of thing.

Liberals are upset that Trump is rolling back the right to free speech following the Charlie Kirk shooting. Now they understand how many of us felt when Barack Obama humanized black people following the Mother Emanuel shooting. by Megyn Kelly

this user is a professor, which makes this the bravest post I’ve ever seen on this website

I missed that but I noticed the slew of AI bots shilling Newsom, singing his praises, and then derailing when you pushed back. Because, you know, AI is terrible and can't do anything right consistently.

How can you trust someone trying to convince you of anything if they aren't doing it in Oakleys from behind the wheel of a pickup truck?

Impressive. Via xcancel.com/The_x_Truth/...

If you MAGA/Conservative folks need help understanding this, remember when President Obama called for the NFL to fire Tim Tebow for religious displays when he celebrated? That's a big 1A issue. (Except it was actually Trump and Kapaernick but I wanted to make it bias-relatable.)

If a social media addicted billionaire says “The left is the party murder,” it’s an indisputable fact. If a think tank founded by the Koch brothers concludes that right-wing terrorism is responsible for far more deaths than left-wing terrorism, they were just cherry-picking.

Really wish I had the discretionary to subscribe because the note I would write for the signup would be something like "OK finally I am in your handbasket. Where is it going, again?" Also because she does amazing work, is a bona fide SourceWhisperer, and needs to continue.

I think one of Ezra Klein's big problems is that when he says "doing politics" what he actually means is content creation

Anyone in a Charlie Kirk / TPUSA fight, here is some ammunition about his 'right way' politics. Two TPUSA employees used the TPUSA Professor Watchlist to find, harass, and ultimately beat bloody a queer professor.

What little audience I have: a) don't fucking SIGN UP for a protest. go? sure. announce? NO. b) shit is in TOS boilerplate for a reason. The reason is usually 'happens so often we will write our response in' or 'is so $exp we will write our response in'. Indivisible is telling u they WILL comply.

I think we can all agree that from an Originalism standpoint, the Founders were CLEARLY very statist.

Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title: Beastie Boys - Time to Get Literally Ill

Ooooooh this is such a good question, and for them-that specifically.

It's the 1990s and an early adolescent Onedimental sees a Teen Vogue cover with Milla Jovovich and "developmental wheels click into place." It's the 2000s/10s/20s and Teen Vogue is speaking truth to power and one of the last actually ethical bastions of real journalism. I don't get it either.

American manufacturing industry: "How could we incorporate this into our process? Would it save money?"

Behold! A chair:

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