I’ve be involved in various capacities in counter disinformation and counter hate speech activity on Irish online spaces for over 8 years. I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse directed at Senator Eileen Flynn… it’s gamergate levels of targeted & coordinated harassment.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Is Trump gaming the market? No. He’s just stupid. Is everyone around Trump, including family members, gaming the market? Absofuckinglutely.

Stage 1: make a fake claim on X/Twitter. Let it circulate Stage 2: post someone else’s AI generated image that “proves” your claim. Stage 3: Get Grok to “confirm” this bullshit is true.

Remember, NYT leadership makes a choice to publish this shit

The ironclad domination of the legal intelligentsia over American constitutional law is probably the single biggest barrier to any kind of long-term reform in this country, especially since basically nobody in power is able to ever conceptualize it as a problem.

I'm not surprised it's bad at this task. LLMs work best when they can iterate with tools and stay grounded. If you ask it to write you a python script that it can run to assist you with your fantasy baseball team, you might be surprised at the results.

anyway, that's what the "a SHOE COMPANY is now an AI COMPANY??" story actually is. nothing allbirds owns is valuable anymore except the fact that it has publicly traded stock, and someone w/AI ambitions bought it for access to the ability to trade and issue stock. that's it! bsky.app/profile/sifu...

The thing people need to realize about allbirds is that it was a zirp-era startup play based on “what if we just make one kind of shoe” and they never had any ideas past that and everybody who cared cashed out what they could after the SPAC merger so now it’s just… nothing. A shade. A memory.

on liberty urges us to be able to defend our views against all manner of alternatives, but does not demand we associate with people we think are setting the wrong example but simply, you do not have an obligation to be chummy with people, to go on their podcast, to pretend you like them

A weird thing to say if you don't have cancer

One last pump and dump before the lights go out for good

This is the world anti-AI people want: a maximalist copyright regime that kills archives and search engines. Congrats!

anyways shout-out to this fantastic essay that really clarified for me why conservatives are continually driven to conspiracy theories, not as an accident or a side effect, but as a structural result of their ideology politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/s...

Extremely amused by a long-time ago King County Democrats officer getting murked in the comments after defending the Daughters of the Confederacy. Someone found an article from 2016 where she had suggested putting homeless people on an island - presumably not Mercer Island of course.

A lotta people miss the days they could walk into a woman's office and fire her for being pregnant, I hate to be that way, but that's in fact the class of shit that they miss

My 5yo son is currently working on his magnum opus - Pete the Cat Evacuates His House From The Wildfire

A clear PR stunt from a "Doordasher from Arkansas" who was also a Doordasher from Nevada when they lobbied for the company last year waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... about.doordash.com/en-us/news/d...

Woke: Democrats suck because they intentionally lose. Bespoke: Democrats suck because they intentionally win.

Ogles fedposting and calling for the president’s death

When JD Vance made the news for his diplomatic incident with the Vatican this week, I knew the perfect person to give us the analysis and scoop. Thankfully, Ashley Hildebrand, an expert on the intersection of politics and American Catholicism, was game. www.altrightdelete.news/p/jd-and-the...

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

It is extremely blackpilling to remember when the whole thing went down last year over her “verifying” these accounts and the whole site mobilized in anger at…Theophite, for saying it looked fishy.

Viktor Orbán to join Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

yeah get fucked. urlscan.io/result/019d8... tells me and Claude everything we need. key: pk_live_51O6jArANnDWSJgsKKjr3H4xP0Hx9bwCx20oAdVj4jaheIm3oSxez6E9QUDMze2dolLnI7GUV7LPAJAFhSRx1KvxI00kOy2EYk0 stripe account id: acct_1O6jArANnDWSJgsK I'll follow up with my Stripe contacts, unless anyone's here

how the fuck is the "i keep in close touch with and vouch for my friend, who is spamming the shit out of this platform and taking over people's accounts to do it" lady not banned yet

Either Molly Shah is a willing co-conspirator in these scams, or she's the dumbest, most gullible rube on the planet. We are well past the point where incompetence and malice are functionally indistinguishable from each other here.

This was also the same trick the right tried to do with Charlie Kirk

the guy who molotov'd sam altman's home by the way

Of course, it’s still not going to get them dropped from those “AIPAC trackers”

lol x.com/gracecamille...

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

My fire is feeling so ceased right now

AI makes code cheap to write. Verifying it is now the hard, expensive, human part — and the "prompt and review" model risks burning out the very engineers we need to catch what AI gets wrong. My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/ai/shipping-...

The Green Revolution Cannot Be Stopped.

Do tell me, New York Times, about the AI providing misinformation at a catastrophic scale

Japanese media attempts to explain Taco 🌮 Trump.

feel increasingly worried/confident that the ultimate outcome here will be "Iran tolls the Straight of Hormuz and Trump lets them do it if they share some of the revenue with him"

I know a lot of our political press corps think of themselves as critical of Trump but they are as much a pillar of his cult as his actual supporter base, because they continuously reinforce the main tenet of Trumpism, that only Trump and his will matters, and our job is to watch him make decisions.

those clown in congress are at it again! what a bunch of clowns!

"Oh you think voting matters? That pales in comparison to my strategy of expecting other people to bomb a Wal-Mart for me."

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

YOU - Hold on, is architecture also art? CONCEPTUALIZATION - Of course not, it's autism. Box-drawing. Masturbation with a ruler and a sextant or whatever they use. You should demean and criticize the genteel institution of architecture. While extolling the virtues of the *pure* arts.

Part of the problem is that people have been passing this picture off as being from Artemis II

Bug reports coming in from the dark side of the moon

Funny how it’s such a non-issue for you now that you’ve been proved wrong about Mills “pulling out.”

If journalists want us to feel bad that they're getting bullied, maybe they could start acting like this is a problem. Until then, just assume they condone and support this behavior because they actually find it hilarious and awesome But hey, at least Trump isn't a black man wearing a tan suit

It’s important to write out the important things to disk, run /clear and then reload in a fresh context