LITERALLY while Artemis II is ongoing. shameless.

"Pokémon Go to the polls" was a banger of a line and i am willing to die on this hill come at me

Where are the Benghazi folks?

SCREAMING THIS FROM THE FUCKING ROOFTOPS

“no rowdy idiots” it was the launch of something people have been waiting for for almost a quarter century, you weirdo sorry you hate community happiness?

Imagine shitting on people being excited over a first-time engineering achievement (first-ever train on a floating bridge) that also makes a rough commute in a traffic-choked city 900% easier like what a weird bit of joy to see and immediately shit on

I know nuance is dead on social media but don’t call me a liar just because you disagree with what I’m saying about your emotional support poster. Just call me a bitch like a grownup.

These guys can tell their goose is increasingly cooked though. They lose their minds whenever someone says “There should be more moderation,” because they know as well as everyone else who is going to be moderated out.

You don’t understand: we are 100% blaming the people who run the site, not mean leftists. We are blaming them for not banning the mean leftists.

*Deep, resigned sigh*

watching live Artemis II feed. they're unpacking food and using an iPad, somewhere out there further than any human has been in almost all of our lifetimes

I have knocked doors for basically every campaign here in Bergen County NJ since Obama 2008. Knocking doors is probably the most demoralizing thing you can do if you actually care about politics. The public just does not fucking care.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. 🪶

In general, I'm annoyed at the idea that it's some sort of retreat from grandeur to see the brain as physical. You have, between your ears, the most intricate machine ever created, about which we are still discovering basic construction facts. Why does magic make it better?

If you stipulate that the nothing counts about the experience except the ability to experience it while being you, it's clear you're never going to be able to say something general about it and that any attempt to do so must be reductionist.

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once': yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

...so you did post-training to give the robot depression?

the white house being utterly out of touch even with republicans in congress is one of the underexamined stories of the second trump administration; the main reason to pick a senator as your VP is to send him to congress to horse trade, but vance is an unlikable prick and they don't have anyone else

Google releases Gemma 4. ✨ Gemma 4 introduces 4 models: E2B, E4B, 26B-A4B, 31B. The multimodal reasoning models are under Apache 2.0. Run E2B and E4B on ~6GB RAM, and on phones. Run 26B-A4B and 31B on ~18GB. GGUFs: huggingface.co/collections/... Guide: unsloth.ai/docs/models/...

Gemma 4 E4B (4-bit) completed a full repo audit by executing Bash code and tool calls locally. Runs on just 6GB RAM.

i think people have mostly readjusted their expectations about what's possible for this admin, i see a lot fewer doomposts about how they're not planning on needing to win elections, but this whole budget tells you just how insanely out of touch the white house is both with the public and the hill

lmao, i love this for all of them. try to jam a party-line reconciliation budget that slashes medicare, medicaid and all other kinds of services while ramping up giant military funding for a deeply unpopular war in an election year where both your party and president are deep underwater

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

People in my circles keep saying things like "so what, you're saying I should just throw more AI at it when the AI I threw at it didn't work?" And like...yeah, sometimes!

Showing this thread to people who say Bluesky has no AI community

—restarted care. I agree wholeheartedly. AND it is important to understand that mayor isn’t a magic job, much as people have presented it that way. There are things that can be done without outside help* and things that cannot. (*Looking at you, library budget. That was quite the disappointment.)

Frankly, I do not think it’s a good idea to rely on her reporting, at least without checking. In the past when people have pointed out gaps in the facts, she has behaved as she did in the quote. Facts are facts, and the way they are framed does matter. It absolutely sucks that NYU hasn’t—

Said it before, will say it again: Reed relies on panic fundraising, so everything comes out in an aggrieved or heightened tone. It’s at best disingenuous.

[softly] holy shit you guys this is brilliant

Every time local models get more efficient we should nudge our estimate of the fundamental Shannon entropy of a human mind pattern downwards.

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

i do not actually have the nerve to ever give anything i write or create a Hofstadter Ending and I have absolutely monumental respect for Tonda Ros and the fucking wheelbarrow he must require in order to get around with the brass ones he's got

honorable mention to Myst, MAZE, and Gödel, Escher, Bach, which ALSO means I'm also in the same Freak Category as the *other* eccentric polymath creator I keep thinking about in relation to ergodic texts and metanarrative spirals I didn't actually read Homestuck until right before Act 7 dropped

"incredible commitment to the ludonarrative bit / The Aleatorics Are Where The Magic Gets In / frustrated wannabe theater kid who communicates best via text" falls out pretty naturally from that, though and that's also, relevantly, like, the *kind* of internet freak Hussie themself is, lol

i think my actual Formative Internet Freak Thing was "small bespoke incredibly intense shared-setting elaborate RP community with, at least on paper, a Neverending Story level of commitment to the bit that what was happening was Happening and we were just Observing It"

Show me an internet freaks favourite Crapshoot Text With Metatextual Ambitions Transcending Its Own Confines That Was Formative For Their Teens and I will tell you what kind of internet freak they are

To this day there are a bunch of self-styled independent thinkers who won't admit they got les along by a donor class revolt

And everyone who just obsessively talked about biden's age for years. Everyday non-stop. Every politico background gossip quote. Every right wing RNC stripped of context clip. Just nothing to say about the objectively worse, clearly demented current president of the United States.

The wildest thing about the tapper book is that it alleged a big cover up, everyone got all excited and then when it didn't deliver, they just pretended like it did and when you raised the fact that there was no meat in the book they would just fall back on calling you a Biden dead ender.

Full court press by Pope Bob

Reed misrepresented things happening in the Mass legislature, which resulted in some members I work with getting accused of helping pass anti-trans legislation that had actually been defeated. It’s hard to see her as an honest broker, especially when she blocks people that disagree with her.

and this is, i think, more than anything, Why I Like Difficult™ Texts

the thing where my New Criticism and response-theorist wolves pawbump is that I think the true text forms in the lacuna between the physical text & the observer of the text formed by the care taken with the text itself by the reader, and the Weird there scales exponentially w/ weirdness of the text

recently on Discord I was going off about Blue Prince at someone and someone else, who had played enough of the game to satisfy their curiosity, was just. utterly baffled because the things i was talking about were not things it was possible to even imagine from the text they had received and

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

This is a good thread demonstrating that you need to understand the state you are reporting about. Montana isn't the same as New York, NYC isn't the same as other large cities, and if you don't have a full grasp of the process, then scaremongering only serves to discredit your work.

<WOULD YOU/US LIKE THOSE HASHBROWNS SCATTERED/SMOTHERED/COVERED/CHUNKED>

the Oldest House has many doors. I’ll say no more

oh sure when it’s a quasimystical FEMA Waffle House index you love it but as soon as a real Waffle Wizard shows up you want to complain

inside of me are two wolves, one of them is a chaos gremlin response/reception theorist and the other is a snooty, tweed-coat-wearing New Critic they are both homosexual and utterly feral about Homestuck