Dear AI Bros: The pope is much nicer than I am. Either we do it His Holiness' way or we do it my way*. *It involves dropping you into active volcanoes.

I would love to talk to these goons about opera sometime and see if they can explain the harmonic significance of the Tristan chord. Defenders of Western Civilization my ass.

I was expecting Dave Rubin to make wrong predictions about the Iran War, but watching this video still shocked me to see how SPECTACULARLY wrong he was about EVERY ASPECT of the conflict.

The story of Trump winning the popular vote in 2024 will always baffle me. Dude never had majority approval in his first term, then a critical slice of voters simply forgot they didn't like him, then it took them less than two months into his second term to remember that he sucked.

Yeah. And I mean it *is* a bubble. I have no delusions about opinions on this site being the truly voice of Der Volk. But who gives a shit? There are cool people I follow on here and the overall experience is better than dealing with skull measurers.

Sigh. There are lots of smart and interesting people who post here whom I used to follow on Twitter. That's it that's the appeal. I tried Threads for a long time but it was just engagement slop.

I will never stop laughing at that botched Meta presentation where the 'magic' of AI was used to help some lazy fuck come up with a fucking barbecue sauce recipe.

Imagine saying that the most evil company on Earth is crucial to your health care system lol

1/ So today I wrote an article about the contrast between US consumer sentiment and the performance of the S&P 500 www.commondreams.org/news/us-k-sh...

Really should have thought of this before you told the president this was an easy war he could win in a week, senator.

One more thing: You understandably and correctly hate Ron DeSantis. But he has way way smarter instincts on the politics of AI than this.

1/ So I monitor MAGA media pretty regularly. A lot of them hate AI, and frankly, they hate it for the right reasons: It's environmentally ruinous to their communities, it is creating a surveillance state, it is rotting people's brains.

Of course this leaks right as the markets close.

Sad day for popularists who said the savvy move was to let this dude rot in a torture dungeon.

1/ So I think that the whole 'Vibecession' debate is pointless when people have consistently said for years how unhappy they are and it's our job to figure out what to do about instead of throwing graphs in their faces.

Let's hope it's a one way trip.

The 'but it will bring jobs' mantra has always been corporate America's trump card. But AI data centers don't bring jobs! They just sit there and suck resources!

I'm so tired of Edgelords man. Also while it's hard to tell exactly where anti-Zionism morphs into anti-Semitism, endorsing the crazy wellness lady who supports castrations and concentration camps is definitely way way past it.

Trans people's existence basically impacts no one and yet a massive propaganda network makes them out to be a societal menace. (Same massive propaganda network is also whining that people are being too mean to AI data centers FWIW.)

Does anyone know how to get into a focus group on AI? I want to sit in a room all day and tell them to eat shit.

Thread. The Hat walks us through the details and they are uh-may-zing.

1/ Know what? I'd hate this shit even if it gave accurate answers to simple questions.

Yeah. There's no way this does not end in disbarment.

This is my theme song. I will never use AI and anyone who tells me to give it a chance will be told to eat a flaming cock bag.

It will never cease to amaze me that so many attorneys have been willing to risk disbarment in the name of the former host of Celebrity Apprentice.

So this may be Nostalgia Goggles talking, but the pitch from Big Tech used to be along the lines of, 'We will help you connect with others and open up new creative and comercial possibilities for you that didn't exist before.' Where as the pitch for AI today is...

@katmabu.bsky.social apply for the MAGA slush fund.

The evolution of Trump attorneys general: 1.) Jeff Sessions: Fired for being unwilling to help Trump cover up crimes. 2.) Bill Barr: Willing to help Trump cover up crimes, resigned for being unwilling to help Trump commit crimes.

1/ So here's a video of GOP megadonor Marc Andreesen discussing how he prefers AI agents to human workers because they '"Never gets drunk, never get sick, never gets depressed because his girlfriend broke up with him, never files HR complaints." x.com/Overlap_Tech...

Yeah and to the people who say, 'But is the ballroom really that big of a deal?': In real terms, no. But humans are very symbol-minded and that ballroom is a big, fat symbol of how Trump does not give a shit about you.

Lol they're trying to boost AfD on this site? What a waste of time.

A company that relies on government contracts shows why capitalism is remarkable?

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

This was a very good editorial.

There are also lots more grocery stores that sell what were once exotic ingredients. I regularly cook Indian, Thai, Brazilian and Somali cuisine.

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Wow. Newsmax isn't suddenly woke, BTW, they just see starting yet another war -- and one that could spark a mass refugee crisis no less! -- would be political death.

Yyyyyyyep.

The replies, gente... MAGA are not happy with Trump's AI boostering. x.com/FoxNews/stat...

To be clear, I wouldn't trust this fucking shit even if there were legal guardrails against these kinds of layoffs because I think AI is mass brainrot software. But yes, in the US in particular, we know our government is going to just let everyone get raped by our corporate overlords.

There is an enormous urban-rural cultural divide in this country that has only grown more extreme throughout my entire life. One way to bridge it is having Democrats show solidarity with rural communities being torn up by corporate interests.

Bezos basically wants no government so he can rule over us like a feudal lord. No one should fall for this.

I am not a communist so I have no issue with people who are exceptionally good at things becoming richer than me. My specific issues are: 1.) How much richer you deserve to be relative to the average person. 2.) In the case of Big Tech and hedge funds, do you actually deserve it at all?

Oh goody more billionaire failsons buying up established media. We don't have enough of that in this country.

I stopped paying for the product specifically after Bezos sacked the news room. Yes, I was willing to tolerate the enshitification of the editorial page, but gutting the newsroom was the final straw.

Exactly. The primary goal shouldn't be to raise tax revenue, it should be to make these motherfuckers less powerful.

Again: Our tax dollars are being used to make Camp Auschwitz Guy a millionaire.

I would not want Liz Cheney nor Thomas Massie to be president. However: Despite the fact that they were from different wings of the GOP coalition (she's a neocon, Massie is a libertarian), both saw threats in Trump's presidency to US self-governance and they did something about it. I tip the cap.

Confession: I used to be a big Google fanboy. It had the best search engine, the best email, the best maps app, and Android was a dope (albeit ultimately inferior) alternative to iOS. Then it decided to destroy its core products to squeeze out every last dime it could.