This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

"Kvothe is an unreliable narrator who thinks he's more impressive than the text supports. I will leave it to the reader whether that reminds me of anyone in this interaction" claude you're not supposed to murder people

“therefore, instead of encouraging slavery, the constitution encourages freedom by giving an increase of ‘two-fifths’ of political power to free over slave states. So much for the three-fifths clause”

Genuinely, fuck that utter asshole for saying that when Ds pretty much stood the line entirely at the Congressional level for blocking a huge amt at the federal level, including the most important ones with HHS.

access to the Discover feed should be blocked for anyone who follows more than like a thousand accounts i guess i'm fine with them still being able to see For You, but like, they've done enough Discovering

It occurs to me ppl see “hide reply” as a weak block and don’t know the special circumstance it’s for. When you post {weak_claim}, and a generally friendly acct replies “Yeah, {strong_version_of_claim} and anyone who disagrees is a worthless flatworm!” That’s “hide reply.”

When the cruelty is Good Actually? Run. Cruelty is a drug. It makes you feel powerful. It makes you feel strong. It makes you feel big. It’s an illusion. It makes you powerless and weak and small, a part of the cruelty machine, disposable, replaceable. Your cruelty is as good as any other’s.

in general, people are awful at understanding composition effects say the average new home would get an “efficiency score” of 8/10 while an old home gets a 2/10. If you pass a law requiring new homes are a 9/10, but the increased costs reduce homebuilding by 25%, overall efficiency decreases

sort of unrelated to this point, though not entirely: the fact that there's such a thing as professors of rare moths etc is one of humanity's crowning achievements to date and this is what the right wants to take away from you

This is respectability politics. And self-bigotry. First of all, she's spreading misinformation. but the bigots above us have never needed a Bad Trans to justify violence. They just invent one everyday our liberation isn't based on all of us acting right; that's fascist logic

A kalshi is the same kind of thing as a labubu

Sorry but nah, white supremacy is far from a solved problem over here

“There was only one sled.”

The big news here is something breaking containment from Threads that isn't Deranged Uncle or Gas Leak Victim content and instead contains wit

"we are going to insist that the sky is green until you tell me how the sky being blue is important" seems to be empirically true but is very frustrating to be told

no offense but if your sole metric for belief evaluation is "which of these make me feel the best" you're just epistemically completely turbofucked. maybe there's a nicer way to phrase that but that's the gist. like I'd love to believe I'm impervious to disease, and bullets. but

The thing that gives me tentative hope for the future right now is the way a lot of normie liberals are waking up to the unjust hierarchies around them. I know it's naive, but the potential for a liberalism that actually embodies its stated values is something to be excited about.

Closed borders are illiberal, the state enforcing with violence a hierarchy of humanity based on the arbitrariness of which side of an imaginary line in the dirt you happened to be born on. Free migration of free people is the only liberal position.

“I hate the words on the Statue of Liberty” is a thing assholes can say.

I don't understand why they tinker with notepad at all. The only thing I want out of notepad is the most bare bones, featureless text editor you can possibly make. I want word-wrapping within the window to be the most advanced thing it has.

i think it's kinda dumb to use image models for complete infographics spit out code to make plots, spit out images to use as assets, spit out the text that will go into all the little boxen, but an actual PowerPoint slide will always be more useful than a *screenshot of* a PowerPoint slide imo

SHE REMOVED THEIR WEDDING PHOTO LMAOOOOOO Oh she HATED his guts

adding "have you sufficiently propitiated the cosmic principle of vertiginous acrophobia in the face of something too large to humanly comprehend" to the "have you eaten? have you slept? are you thirsty?" self-care checklist remember👏to👏yeet👏urself👏into👏the👏sky

Historians will say that all these institutions were debased by Trump through threats and intimidation. This will be a fucking lie. They all debased themselves. Trump's threats were always empty paper tiger crap. They capitulated because they were either cowardly idiots or secretly on his side.

important psa

i'll probably use this, but there's something magic about the typos in some old viral posts like if you're doing a Spiders Georg reference, i think you have to leave in the "actualy" and the "adn"

i think there are possible configurations of society that liberals and anarchists would agree are acceptable i think liberals would consider each of them to qualify as a "state" while anarchists would not consider any of them to be a "state"

Relevant to the Graeber Institute, in the anarchic future wherein industry is organized by a network of independent worker's councils coordinating output and distribution, who's going to do all of that and do you think it'll just be a part-time gig between shifts at the assembly line?

I’m not an expert but is it smart to broadcast to the whole world that the FAA and the DOD are not talking to each other

I’m more interested in how older Hispanics and Black people are voting, they’re the ones who really swing elections. At this point the electoral inertia truly indicates whoever the Ds put up in 2028 is going to win on raw backlash anger alone.

i just want us to all reach a consensus that anti-Harris leftists didn't meaningfully affect 2024, because then we're free to ignore them in future elections can't play smol bean in December of 2024 and then go "bend the knee or we crush you" later this year or in 2028

so the guy who wrote the book we called the Bible of artificial intelligence for about 40 or 50 years' stated public opinion of LLMs is "that these exist proves I was wrong about many important things, and also, they scare the shit out of me"

a lot of 'classic' writing about the aesthetics of fascism has aged extremely poorly. for example: "only fascists believe the enemy is simultaneously implacably evil and impossibly weak"

I don't think we should lightly make the jump from "people who work on LLMs don't know exactly what is happening 'in there' because of the layers upon layers of calculations" to "omg it is self-aware."

This really is the dumbest fucking rule in the history of games. You know some idiot prince came up with the “if you trap my king so that any move causes it to be captured in the game where if you capture my king, I lose, it’s a tie” rule and everyone else had to eat shit and smile to dodge the axe.

I mean if we are doing head canon, the way Han Solo talks about the Jedi given the prequels is like a guy who doesn’t think the Soviet Army was real so it logically follows he’s a space trucker who got conspiracy brainworms from space Art Bell.

i am telling you dawg, everything can be explained by narcissistic injuries of the elite by the subhumans. that's how their class reproduces the psychology of someone OK with, even enthusiastic for, abuse.

>I think "no leftist is talking about this" and "no leftist outside of sex workers, trans people and other directly affected marginalized groups have been talking about this" are two different points amen. how tf has Taylor Lorenz literally never heard *anyone* on the left talking about this stuff?

>The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE), commonly known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks, is an American fraternal order and charitable organization founded in 1868 in New York City. Originally established as a social club for minstrel show performers, DSA 🤝 Elks

i've internalized "lies, damned lies, and statistics" to such a degree that i can't look at a nice chart without immediately scrutinizing everything for shenanigans i know how much effort goes into those pretty pictures. i *know* you had a specific reason to deviate from the default settings.

the real conspiracy theory is that braindead theories like QAnon are strategically deployed to undermine the real conspiracies

suck it Thomas Robert Malthus

"Obviously you'll get death threats" starts from such fucking abysmal baseline expectations

i don't think enough people are aware of this video (and the fact that CGP Grey refers to a series that still seems to not exist, six years later) youtu.be/kh88fVP2FWQ

this, too, is "bring me a rock. why did you bring me this? this is the wrong rock."

Pro-trans humanist but anti-transgender is a really funny ideology. We will transcend the boundaries of flesh, be whatever we want to be EXCEPT IN THAT ONE WAY, NONE OF THAT, freeing ourselves from the shackles of our physical husks BUT DON’T TOUCH THE GENITALS.

The thing this post really highlights is how blocking Brazilian Bsky accounts on sight is the right call 99% of the time.

It's kind of funny to see people getting hard-ons talking about security theater when an enormous sex trafficking ring coordinated on gmail

I often used to joke that a Dem President should just start an anti-suicide initiative & let Republicans' oppositional defiance disorder take care of our problem for us & it's become less & less of a joke every year.