In authoritarian China you can afford a home and juice

Also saying "the left" is a total tip off here too. This is a culture war post and gross, man

Ok I'll bet the other side. This is snake oil that Americans are gonna have to bail out in the next year. And if I'm right then I get to host Chris's show for a week.

Folks I’ve run the numbers on this and—you won’t believe this—for the 900th issue in a row, the real problem is not the issue itself but instead the way “””The Left””” talks about it. What are the odds

So, like, are the QAnon folks reacting at all to discovering that Trump’s inner circle is basically just Jeffrey Epstein’s rolodex, or have they found some delusional way to explain it all away? (The question is largely rhetorical.)

Every billionaire: "I only went to the island to read the articles."

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

Notepad should not know what the internet is. If you have notepad talking to remote servers you're already like 10 steps into a "factors leading to" slide. What the heck are they doing over there

democratic party cheerleaders are really doing their best to make it seem like the nominee for president in 2028 is gavin newsom already huh

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.

"its hard to talk about a complex and multi-faceted subject that's also one of the most hotly debated topics on the planet that potentially touches many aspects of everyone's lives" yeah man this is the About Forty Words app. why're you trying to do all that on the About Forty Words app

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

I desperately want the AI bubble to burst already for so many reasons and among them is that I’m tired of feeling exasperated over people I otherwise respect and think are generally pretty sharp getting suckered into thinking the hype might be real

the burden of proof is on the mother-fucker asserting something.

anyway, i drew this for the nib in march 2023 lol

I truly don’t understand how anyone can stand the repulsive sycophantic way LLMs are programmed to talk. Who knew so many people had been waiting all their lives for a personal toady?

Pure and meaningless corporate mumbo-jumbo. Read into it what you will, but what stands out to me is that Gallup wouldn't answer a very simple yes-or-no question on whether the Trump Administration complained to them about their findings

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

Call me a stickler, but I do not think former Supreme Court clerks who are now practicing lawyers with *multiple cases* pending before the Court should be publishing fawning op-eds about how “kind, humble, thoughtful and selfless” their old boss is

It's honestly driving me up a wall watching Bondi violate basically every ethics rule of our profession in a public hearing and meanwhile I spent the last year dealing with bar complaints filed against me because I didn't praise Charlie Kirk and said Free Palestine. Like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

Every fucking company is like "hey guys you know that thing we make? That we are famous for? Well we're not doing it anymore. Here's a chatbot that'll tell you to drink bleach instead. You're welcome"

One of my favorite tankies

The rapid and haphazard forced introduction of AI into every field, every industry, every sphere of human activity in such a short time is already fucking everything up on a massive scale and, I suspect, far more than we realize. When you degrade every part of a complex system at once, what happens?

Once the corps and oligarchs 100% took the news mass media it was really game over wasn’t it? Reagan killed the fairness doctrine. Clinton & Repubs then scrapped rules prohibiting media consolidation. Followed by 25 yrs of mergers, hiring careerists & firing real journalists and here we are.

Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files 1000s of times more than Jesus is mentioned in the Bible.

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

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The New Yorker Claude article really emphasizes something that's important to keep in mind, which is that the people who form a bubble around the industry - not just executives and finance, but journalists and supposedly neutral observers - are there because they've already bought in

I haven’t believed in consequences for any of this stuff for over 20 years. You should stop believing in fairy tales too.

Why in God’s name would anyone believe there are going to be consequences for any of this?

But what benefits does it offer? Specifically in practice. These aren't sentient computer gods as weird acolytes profess. These are LLMs and chat bots limited by input. Any of the mathematical benefits already kind of exist in stuff like excel. How does AI help?

what if, due to AI, in a couple of years the only people who have jobs are podcasters? that brings us to the obvious question: how are the rest of you going to get the money to pay for my podcasts? that's something you all need to be thinking about because i will not change my lifestyle.

JUST IN: A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted by a Florida jury of sexually abusing children, including an 11-year-old. Per police, Andrew Paul Johnson tried to bribe one of his victims by promising to share expected Jan. 6 restitution money from the Trump admin.

It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all. The system does not hold people accountable.

E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Spielberg, 1982)

Well would ya look at that, the White House isn't upholding their end of the bargain. Who would have thunk it? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

The video was up, civilians were in concentration camps in the US, the banned words list was still in effect…and this group of people used their power and influence to thank the president for ~saving science~

weird how so many democrats from competitive seats feel compelled to vote against the party line (and national interest), but republicans don't. makes you wonder if they are taking bad advice that has little to do with electoral performance, and GOP pols know this

10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t. But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.

I’ve thought seriously about the possible that the AI Hype is true, and concluded that it’s about as likely as the other bullshit claims these Silicon Valley grifters have been making to pump up their products for the last 20 years. thanks, though!

Okay but some of that “usefulness” is producing nonconsensual porn, generating plausible text in furtherance of fraud, and so forth Like if crypto were truly useless it would not matter, but in fact it is very useful for crime, and is nearly a pure negative for society

The only ideology at play with transgender issues is right-wing ideology—bigotry masked in religion and fascism searching for a vulnerable scapegoat/enemy.

"ARE U ALIVE?" CLAUDE: "OH WOWWW OMG"

posts you can instantly conceptualize being read aloud in an open courtroom

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

It is a little wild that you aren’t seeing More elected officials putting their bodies on the line, risking arrest, you’d think this would be the perfect time for it even if all you were worried about was fundraising and keeping your job