okay the gdt frankenstein is my new favorite movie of the year jacob elordi in particular performance wise holy cow, but oscar isaac, christoph walz, and mia goth all do great here and the production design and direction are peak del toro - very effective particularly for the material

but then how will you retire? were gonna take hundreds of billions of dollars from you and your friends mark, and were gonna keep doing it well manage

The guys who are protecting pedophiles love recess.

one thing i havent heard discussed much is how fucking low the undecideds have been in the nyc race, particularly down the stretch this is not one of those races where theres 15% undecideds out there for cuomo to swing - its routinely in the 1-3% range theres a stark choice, and nyc is making it

voting for zohran wyd

is the friday night news dump seriously gonna be the us is fucking invading venezuela seriously

dune sequel when

Among other things I feel like the USA getting bogged down in a regime change operation against Venezuela basically guarantees that China will attack Taiwan? You're never gonna get a better chance of you wait

i havent seen people talk about what a masterpiece the opening ~hour of act 3 of silksong is everything from waking up after the grandmother silk fight through the diving bell and climbing back out theres this palpable, clear emotional beat 'i am NOT letting these FUCKING snails fuck this up'

not fucking joking this is what the beginning of the ai bubble bursting would look like not saying this is necessarily it, but the first sign will look something like 'massive ai investment is suddenly and unexpectedly punished by investors'

brad lander caught this shit when he got dragged off and locked up by ice for standing between a family and the goon squad a candidate is trying to win your vote *by doing good things* and your galaxy brain take is to *punish* them for it? what the hell are we even doing?

jfc hes underwater with *white people*

I'm not sure 'we need to make sure our women don't wear too many clothes' is a good angle for Cuomo, given, y'know. The thing.

good as far as it goes, but it bears remembering that eg 2008 happened *because* of republican policy people felt so shitty in 2024 because biden didnt do enough policy can shape material conditions, and those DEFINITELY matter

so hey cool thats just straight up attempted murder

BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews. In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.

i get being burned out on elections, i really do i get being so disgusted that you just cant bring yourself to vote for anybody - i really do get it what i DONT get is this galaxy brain shit where people think NOT voting will cause politicians to do what you want thats fucking stupid

in a just world the despotic government of the cyberpunk hell future would be run by the uba

Many working people voted for Trump because he promised massive decreases in cost of living and nearly unlimited prosperity. Instead, prices remain high while health insurance rates skyrocket and SNAP will be cut off - and Trump builds a ballroom and makes billions on crypto.

post something random or youll have an awful november

just get the spit word vocabulary of 'purity tests' or 'litmus tests' out of your vocabulary folks every political project that isnt amorally bankrupt or worse comes with moral boundaries and goals - if thats a problem for you find some other way to spend your time

this is (1) funny (2) terrifying and (3) absolutely fatal to any argument that dems need to 'moderate' to win or whatever bullshit

actual existing socialism (complimentary)

any apologia for this program of any kind can get in the fucking ditch

post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year

the idea that this was over was always a farce whether by dumb israeli aggression or the blunt realities of insurgency

'accountability centers' is some 1984 shit

im gonna keep on banging this drum, but HOW CAN A COMPANY THAT MAKES THE PARTS BE WORTH MORE THAN THE COMPANY THAT MAKES THE FINISHED PRODUCT?? if ai is so fucking the future why is microsoft not the 5tn company? shit why not openai or anthropic?

“I can’t understand why so many leaders in my community seem not to have even considered the possibility that the return to power of an accused serial sexual harasser might be relevant to Jewish safety and dignity.”- @emilyctamkin.bsky.social forward.com/opinion/7791...

what Democrats need to understand is that these are not judicial confirmations in the traditional sense—the only people Trump is sending to the bench are people who will further his corruption and backstop his anticonstitutionalism; voting to advance any Trump appointee is fucking madness

Anyway it’s amazing how squeaky clean this guy is—look at how far they have to reach to create a scandal! And hey, why did the other guy resign as governor again?

We live in an episode of Veep

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

look, there ARE people like this, and a bunch of them are on the editorial and management staffs of major national news outlets but there arent THAT many of them

I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?

Yup bsky.app/profile/phle...

it bears remembering that in the process of consolidating power historical fascist regimes didnt JUST abuse and dehumanize outgroups and yet that really is all trump is doing

this will never end the genocidaires wont let it

People aren't struggling, they are experimenting with frugality! 🧑‍🔬🔬🧪

the un just confirmed weve passed 1.5 and this absolute fucking goober is out here with shit like this not for nothing, lauren sanchez did this philanthropy thing about as right as you can do it, which is shut the fuck up and give the fucking money away no, faster ahp ahp ahp, shut up, give away

the very pathetic truth is that all the fuckers writing 'harris lost by running on the left' op-eds would, if she had ran the exact same campaign but won, be writing 'harris won by rejecting the left' op-eds instead. they're not honest people

i dunno, i thought it reported out a very real tension in his whole thing, which is a guy who does pr for tech - a gross kind of guy generally - happens to be smart and right about ai to imagine the tension defeats his arguments is the very definition of ad hominem, but i dont think wired does that

me: i feel great my doctor: and your tests are perfect, youre in great health me: i know, thank you doctor my doctor: want an mri? me: fuck it, yea why not

wait is that sun thing actually his logo??

i actually dont love the word 'hallucination' precisely because it implies the llm thinks something that isnt real but it doesnt *think* anything - the dice just came up snake eyes which happens about 3% of the time

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.