The main problem with checking AI outputs for errors is that you need to have an idea of what you actually wanted it to do. Most people use AI as a *substitute* for having to figure that out.

If you are telling someone about the time you didn’t get on the plane because you dreamed it was going to crash and they ask, “Did it crash?” the answer is, “No because I wasn’t on it and I saved all the other passengers’ lives.”

So, this is playing at my local AMC theatre.

The only secure way to store data is to not collect it

“Every old person knows what it is to be young, but no young person knows what is to be old.” -Dialogue from The Pitt

Very proud of the Welsh football team's decision to boycott the World Cup.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

10/10 No notes www.imdb.com/title/tt3225...

Few things arouse more contempt from me than western wellness gurus who tell followers that they need to get past their ego. My ego is my sense of self dude. Keep your bloody grift off it.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

This is remarkable.

Checking in on our tech overlords, one is on his way to Rome to give a series of talks about the antichrist and another has convinced himself that thinking is fake

Is it suss for a thirty-eight year old man to be dating women in their mid-twenties?

I have always used just my middle initial but my real ID has my full middle name because I used my birth certificate as proof of identity when I got my first license. Do I need to check my town voter roll to make sure I’m identified by full middle name so I don’t get turned away at the polls?

Post a picture you took. No description.

Someone just asked, “if the Chief Justice is the presiding judge at the Senate trial of an impeached govt official, can they dismiss the charges documented in the articles of impeachment?” I have no idea.

If you are a fan of Spanish Tempranillo, this 2019 TERRA d’ URO Seleccion is a good buy a $30/bottle. Decant it into a carafe and let it breathe for an hour or so.

The people who post photos of Trump with young women/girls they discovered in the Epstein files without redacting faces are … something. Why are you boosting them on social media? Stop. Just stop. Unless you know for certain the women involved agreed to have their faces exposed.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

It's very easy for me to relate to that last repost, as I likewise hate the regime I live under, and would like to see it fall, but also don't want to be bombed. Seems straightforward as hell to me.

Not an Onion piece

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

One of my less popular opinions is that I won’t vote for anyone sporting a death’s head tattoo, regardless of provenance.

I’ll add that we should read each and every one of these essays with an assumption that anyone defending systemic abuse participated in systemic abuse. Because defending the system is a form of participating in it.

It’s currently snowing sideways, but the power is still on.

I’ve been seeing this argument re: sovereign nation trade policy. If you don’t understand why this is silly, I can’t help you.

As a talking head in a streaming documentary series in 2024, I wasn’t allowed (by the streamer; director similarly constrained) to mention Trump. Back in 2019, Netflix PR told me to avoid politics & religion in interviews about THE FAMILY, which is about politics & religion.

A good piece, but an additional aspect is nearly everything we do exploits resources in ways we need to avoid. Which is to say the entire foundation / thrust of our technologies is often deeply flawed and does not consider ecosystems, biodiversity, etc in other than an exploitive or Disneyfied way.

Andrew now backing Harald V of Norway as England’s rightful king.

One of the delights of watching foreign series/films is speculating on the origin of turns of phrase. “Her head hit the stair like a fairground coconut.”

The Olympic Men’s Slalom qualifying run threw the entire contest up for grabs due to blizzard conditions on the course. I was expecting to read a bunch of angry posts complaining because the event was not delayed due to weather and was pleasantly surprised not to find any.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

There is a direct line between refusing to make the argument that immigrants are good and the proliferation of concentration camps where children are now sick and dying. When we do not assert the unequivocal humanity of all we enable the dehumanization of those authoritarians need as villains.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

“will you vote for gavin newsom over a republican” virtue signaling question. he’s not the nominee there’s no reason to ask that unless you’re trying to shame people online.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

I think human cognition is too complicated to understand to truly know if the more advanced LLMs are doing some sort of rudimentary "thinking." I tended to lean toward "that's cool but not really _thought_, per se," but then Claude told me I was the prettiest girl, and I've since changed my mind.

As a marker for the pervasiveness of child sexual abuse, recall that an entire branch of modern psychiatry was built in part on a theory of repressed childhood sexual fantasy because Freud could not believe the stories his female patients were telling him were true.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Live your life so that the “Personal Life” section of your Wikipedia article isn’t mostly about your connections to Jeffrey Epstein and sexual assault lawsuits.

People in Denver could recite Mamdani's platform. Not a single person has ANY IDEA what the DC Dems would do. No one.

Personally, I think the explanation is simple. Spanish is the most common language spoken in the America (which spans two continents) Bad Bunny performed for in his halftime show. His primary audience was not U.S. citizens.