"Therefore, I’m beginning to see that agency eroding dynamics without domination emerge at the system level even as individuals make reasonable choices, as their behaviors aggregate together."

Biting RFK Jr would be filthier than getting bit by a Komodo dragon.

the new york times found a john cornyn voter

The easiest jobs to replace with AI are execs because AI is remarkably good at doing nothing useful and being dumb as hell while pretending to be the most special smartest boy in the room

Trump Goes on Weird Posting Spree Ahead of Third Medical Check-Up ino.to/hmsEAnB

Eventually storage in Europe and Asia will get low enough that our market will stop getting high off that hopium hit.

i get why markets are the way they are, i get why gas prices are the way they are, but it’s maddening to read “things could get worse if we don’t make a deal in the next days/week/month” when there is absolutely zero reason to believe we are any closer to cessation than we were three weeks ago

there is not going to be a deal in the days ahead

Humans, Altman says, are nothing but automatons controlled and manipulated by data inputs. I'd call this a bleak take on the nature of humanity but that doesn't quite cut it.

Dawg what

Can't help but notice he was facing the wrong direction, you usually want to deescalate toward the people who are *escalating*. The people who want to pepper spray you in the face, those are the people who you want to try to deescalate.

Every "AI" exec: "It's actually your responsibility to fix all the chaos we're causing and try your best to stop us from making a hell on earth, but only in ways we approve of. You cannot reject our premise entirely, that's irrational. And it makes you a bad person."

To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. AI has a revenue ceiling and an economic mismatch with its customer base.

Giving the wealthiest among of us even more control of the food chain? What could possibly go wrong?

Forget Victorian children, “The American pope closes his manifesto on artificial intelligence by quoting Gandalf” is a sentence that would instantly kill a 2003-era forum user

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

when you toxic masculinity so hard you come out on the other side somehow

"Trump’s age isn’t getting the same kind of scrutiny as Joe Biden’s did..." Yeah, whose fault is that?

Reiner: "I'll be interested to see what testing they do today because if they repeat some of the scans that have been done in the last year or so, that tells us they are surveilling something and that's never been disclosed to us."

the conspiracy theory being spread by (mostly white) ppl about how being in the gifted & talented program was secretly a govt op designed to see if millennials had esp potential like we were fuckin mutants or sth is the funniest thing i've ever heard m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_30...

Fuzzy Face Jubilee says goodnight

This is just racism, based in a total fabrication

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

You can't let them start breeding, take it from me

I know comrades on the ground, and it sounds like the situation is fucking dire, but they have in fact disrupted and delayed detainee transfers. Direct action, as usual, is the answer.

It's so fucking funny that through sheer luck Disney was able to make Andor, an actual critically acclaimed Star Wars, took one look at it, and ran screaming in the opposite direction

Is this a tasteless moment to plug my nice airy tank tops with a timely message? Don't care: welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.

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personally I think anyone should be able to change their name for any reason ever and society should just adapt for that. you will not change my mind

AC uses less energy than heating, and yet we don’t see people sniffing at the idea of heat in winter. But it’s a lot easier to die of heatstroke than hypothermia.

If you didn't already know, over 300,000 people are receiving basic income in South Korea in a massive pilot, and after a year, the first results are in. Surprise, surprise, it led to new businesses in essential services such as restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, and hair and beauty salons.

it's fun how generative ai isn't just killing off digital artists by cannibalizing their work to destroy the market, it's also doing it through unforeseen knock on effects like making replacement of failing equipment prohibitively expensive

Truly absurd how hard it is to legally obtain a DRM-free .epub file

That liberal "work hard and play by the rules" trope has always been such horse shit. The people who make "the rules" are some of the most soulless sociopaths on earth.

If GenAI means you are losing faith in human beings faster than you are losing faith in the systems that are supposedly set up to foster their growth and prosperity but are actually functioning to benefit the powerful: Congrats, you are playing into the same antihuman tropes as GenAI boosters

I understand the despair but "was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?" is such an American (derogatory) approach to the problem. Prosocial people placed into antisocial systems perform antisocially. Stop framing this as individual morals/error/punishment

It should be "a fireable offense", indeed Like with a .22

🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...

These rulings always sound like “you can’t be so obvious about doing Jim Crow.”

GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power." On the pod, @dceiver.bsky.social nails the moment: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

Needs them for that oil he’s selling

"V" reboot

RFK Jr just caught dinner.

the thing about this is that this sycophantic cult worship from admin underlings is going to get much worse when they lose the house in the midterms and his approvals drop to unimaginable lows

every time you see the phrase "we believe" in the SpaceX filing you should whisper: "financial fabulism"