There’s a reason people read the classics.

OMG same!

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

All the hoopla about increasing LLM service rates is going to seem so silly in a few years when we’re all self-hosting models 10x as powerful on our watches. Anyone remember the long-distance phone service wars on the ‘90s?

The newest (supposed, April 1st) source code leak from Anthropic include's Claude's test for whether a prompt has a negative sentiment. I can believe this is real because it closely matches my own test.

Lmao the reason this leaked was because he wanted to buy IDEF, a totally illiquid BlackRock fund that trades ~$100k a day, instead of ITA which trades hundred of millions, so he had his brokers call up BlackRock and ask for a direct creation under his name. There’s so many layers of stupidity here.

Making an “are they Jewish?” chatbot that always answers “why should it be your business if they are? Are you making a list or something?”

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

The U.S. had a total force of less than 3,000 troops in Afghanistan when Trump left office in 2021. We’re about to multiply that by 4x.

Iran in Bane voice: “Trump, you think hard power is your ally? You merely adopted pre-modern force-based imperialism. I(ran) was born it it… molded by it.”

Print this out and put it in your wallet. This is your Trump-issued license to celebrate when IT happens.

I know one interventionist President with whom Trump has lots of, um… facetime.

This WSJ article on the wild layers of opacity in private credit is ready to be the basis for a scene in The Big Short 2. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

I was right in October about One Battle After Another winning Best Picture but apparently not about this stunt shot being a true Texas Switch.

"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles." /3

“The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest…” Which is it because it can’t be both.

The ‘Submerged Iceberg’ theory of MAGA racism gains a new data point.

Taking out deadly Iranian drones apparently was “woke“ and not “lethal“ until last week.

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Is “The Guns of March” already taken as a book title?

Have they asked OpenAI?

Biden’s electric car subsidies are starting to seem really smart.

What all these libs and media types don’t understand is War with a capital “W“ like from the Constitution is not the same thing as lowercase “war” like “we’re at war with Iran.“

Autism is a spectrum

You may be wondering why the Trump White House made a juvenile gamer-porn montage of HE ordinance explosions over Iran. But just consider for a moment, the possibility that this video (and more like it) might have been the entire Iran attack’s main objective.

This Colbert-report looking mf-er is going to get people killed.

“If you like your petro-state regime you can keep your petro-state regime.”

Which is which?

Interesting. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

This is the same insane strategy that launched World War I.

All my homies are down with the U.S.A. Aren’t you?!

Today this might look like OpenAI offering a generous life line to its competitor Anthropic. But wait a few months or years and it will be obvious this is the moment Sam Altman knew he had lost the lead in the AI race over Dario Amodei’s brand-making safety stand.

Skimming through Paramount+ before cancelling my subscription and I just learned there was an episode of Lower Decks called “Parth Ferengi's Heart Place.” I approve this very much.

The absolute funniest thing here would be to find out Paramount’s latest raise was a bluff and it doesn’t actually want this deal but was egged on and put up to it corruptly to pump up Netflix’s bid and thereby give a windfall to Warner’s’ sellers and creditors. A true test of #thestupidesttimeline!

👀 Trust and Safety controls and safeguards are going to be the defining competitive difference between increasingly homogeneous AI platforms. This is the way.

See you soon on Netflix, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social!

Of the nearly 1,600 complaints filed with the FCC during Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension saga, nearly two-thirds targeted the regulator—not the comedian.

Speaker Mike’s threatening America with a good time.

JFK looking down going “F@&k you very much too, Judas!”

The same inference of the withholding an existing interview document should apply all the public evidence that Trump was interviewed by the FBI (at least once) to deduce that DOJ is currently hiding Trump’s 302 interview forms(s).

RFK Jr explains why he’s a fraud.

GOP SCOTUS first explicitly applied "major questions" in 2022 and it's already in shambles. Roberts & Barrett struggle to explain why it exists; Gorsuch's extremist version is untethered from reality; Thomas's "core" is invented out of thin air; Kavanaugh & Alito essentially admit it's Calvinball.

The most important sentence in the Supreme Court’s ruling today blocking many of Trump’s tariffs was in J. Gorsuch’s concurrence: “In a very real sense, then, when it comes to legislative power, Congress is the principal and executive officials are the agents.”

Arc of history, etc. …but this is just heartbreaking.

The conversation is over. Julie K. Brown is the GOAT accountability journalist.

“In the new nation we will create after we win this revolutionary war, we’ll live by the creed that all people are born with the certain inalienable rights… …but you will need to apply to the government to give you a card with your name and a picture of you on it before you can vote.”

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Wow it takes some management consultants weeks to do all this!

Trump could win the midterms for Republicans if he uses the Defense Production Act to force RAM availability and save the PS6.

This is where MAGA’s “300k missing children” lie crashes into reality. All DHS officials need to be asked, “what did you do to save those 145k children from the harm you claim they were facing?” (They didn’t do anything.)