This just in: White man learns cooking is an actual job. Cutting now to his mother to hear how this aligns with her experiences.

Harry Burton cartoon in today's Irish Examiner, speaks for itself. #SanctionsNow

One of the trends I've found we rarely talk about is the crush America got on the south for about 5-8 years. From about '77 to about '82-ish, there were a lot of shows and movies set specifically in the south and involving the south as a place. Country Music also was mainstream for a while there.

It's been fascinating to follow AI industry's journey from "it's smarter than your experts!" to "at least it's cheaper than a human" to "your annual token budget ran out in March"

Remember when they started talking about "PhD level" LLMs and the price was about 8x higher than what we know PhDs will work for?

you’re hearing it more and more, folks, they’re saying no president has ever lost a war like this, no president has given up more material resources and lives for less than nothing

the semiotics of eliminating "measurement" what could possibly go wrong

Abraham Lincoln Sees Most Of A Play

If that’s not designed to force expulsion while leaving property (and citizen minor children) behind to be appropriated by state approved actors, it’s going to function that way.

I think of myself as pretty well read. Got a pretty decent vocabulary. Aware of all internet traditions. I can't begin to parse what the fuck this guy thinks about this beer. It's like someone took a word salad & re-tossed it so that it makes even less sense. It's like watching an AI glitch out.

also, tyler. i know you are reading this so i'm addressing it directly to you. you are a professional writer for one of the most prominent magazines in the country. when you write things, people are going to respond to them. if you do not like this, stop writing.

Putin is not some anti-imperialist hero. He represents the Russian oligarchy that emerged from the destruction of the Soviet Union, crushing dissent at home while waging a brutal reactionary war in Ukraine.

pervert stickers for perverts are now available in my shop 🫡❣️

Part of my mission when it comes to AI Discourse™ on this website is to get critics to understand AI isn't "just a markov chain" but instead a very fancy statistical prediction engine ...That still can't do the things techbros promise, because it's still just a very fancy prediction engine

Yes, I’m an AI skeptic, that’s because I’m generally skeptical about extraordinary claims, and I think everyone else should be too, especially when those extraordinary claims are made in a marketing context.

This was directed at Scalzi, not me, but I see this kind of thing drift across my feed fairly often and it drives me nuts. AI rubes use terms like “proof” and “intelligence” in a sloppy way, then use their own messy thinking as proof that “AI skeptics” are off the mark. I’ll explain.

The goalpost keeps moving because we don't really understand what intelligence actually is, and the things we keep assuming are indicators of general intelligence keep turning out not to be People used to think computers knowing how to play chess would mean they were generally intelligent!

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If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

These data centers do not produce jobs. These centers raise electricity rates and create electric shortages. These centers use tens of millions of gallons of water and discharge toxic water, causing environmental pollution and noise pollution. Why are they getting billion-dollar tax breaks???

In my day, if our blorbos didn't get the subplot we wanted, we WROTE FANFICTION ABOUT IT and, critically, didn't harass the creators about it.

So let’s get something straight about the unhoused: California is expected to carry a massive share of America’s homelessness crisis, then gets mocked for struggling under the weight of a problem that clearly extends far beyond Los Angeles. 🧵

@skattagee.bsky.social hi , actual linguist here with a master's degree to tell you to fuck off. I don't particularly know the person you attacked , but I hate seeing this kind of behavior on the internet. Have a listen and take the correction well. You need it.

The one and only thing I'll give UK transphobic movements: they're absolutely shameless in their love of complaining to the manager. We have to be a bigger annoyance than them. Embrace it. It's a beautiful thing.

Also, tangentially, for a thing to be libel of any kind it has to be FALSE! (Which the blood libel IS, it's a disgusting weird thing that no reasonable person should ever have believed. But the fact that Israel subjects Palestinian prisoners to sexual violence, and has done so for decades, is NOT.)

I like how around the world people sell "American style" food and it's always something a kid came up with to prank their friends with "Yeah man, American style pizza, it has hot dogs and gummy worms and a handgun baked into the crust. They eat it in New York City dude"

Not the main issue here, I know, but: Prison abuse has nothing to do with the blood libel. Nothing in this story has anything to do with the blood libel. Comparing this to the blood libel is a really disgusting abuse of Jewish history.

So this is what Israel has become ..... When will politicians understand that partial sanctions on the odd individual will achieve nothing. Israel should be treated as a pariah state and subject to full and crippling economic and political sanctions. Nothing less will do.

this is happening

A newly disabled writer openly wrestled with loss and was attacked for ableism. Total BS. It's ableist to insist that we can't grieve our losses, feel our feels or go through our changes. Commenters attacked her when she’s hurting and then congratulated themselves on their outrage. 😤 Uncool.

I want to preface this by saying this is a totally fine article and @jbendery.bsky.social is great, etc. However, it does what I've noticed a lot of other articles on the topic do, which worries me: it focuses on the "forced outing" stuff, not the total ban on discussing trans people/issues.

He did not “accuse” them of it. He’s a judge. He “found” that they had, in fact, done so. JFC NPR, do better.

If you take a Jazz Gummy and then watch Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, it does not improve in quality. That movie is unimprovably stupid and I mean that in the best possible way. However, with the addition of an edible form of ragtime, you will have fun.

Good night sweet prince. youtu.be/phOW-CZJWT0?...

RULE NO 1. never trust an unlabelled unsourced graph. I have tracked this graph's source down: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There is more diversity of thought amongst conspiracy theorists than amongst scientists. So what?

My issue with AI personalized sermons is the same issue I have with AI as public facing for any elements of the church's public spiritual life: there is an incarnational aspect to the worship and teaching and pastoral care and praying of the church that necessitates humans to do it for humans.

A consequence? In my United States? It’s more possible than you think!

Breaking news: A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s human-smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego García, ruling that the Trump administration improperly brought it to punish him for successfully challenging his illegal deportation.

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This lady was quietly one of the most malign influences in the 2024 election, along with RFK, giving Trump a patina of bipartisan cooperation.

lmao

A very good, digestible thread about the historic prosecutorial misconduct it was revealed Kat and her fellow protesters were put through, and what to expect next.

Every few years, Hollywood is astonished to learn that women go to movies... then promptly forgets that...

she was SIXTEEN fucking years old. i never have words to give shape to the anger. every time someone’s “just asking questions” about bathrooms or sports or prison or healthcare or whatever abstract they suddenly think is a problem, there are individual trans people who pay for it. she was a CHILD.

Kink is inherently political and, no, I will not shut the fuck up while you blindly act as the handmaidens of fascism. I'm going to call out shitty behaviour and missing steps and if that's "uncomfortable" then fuck off

I figured there would be shady conduct with the Broadview Six grand jury, but it's unreal. Vouching is bad enough, but dismissing grand jurors who disagreed with them, hiding a no true bill, and hiding pages of the transcript from the judge? That should be disbarment. That's WAY beyond sanctionable.

You know what gives me hope? Deezer has said that while fully AI-generated music makes up 34% of new stuff, only 0.5% of it streams – and to 70% of those few streams are bots.Noe one is buying the AI written books either. The market isn't interested.

the fuck? I don't give a shit about "big tents." this is disqualifying

The next time someone says "Vote blue no matter who" to me, I am going to punch them square in the face.