Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

The best part about seeing Cybertrucks in the wild is you know if those guys have that kind of money then you also know their ex-wives should be pretty set from the divorce.

Sometimes I consciously remind myself that any executive who doesn't advocate for a four-day work week is an executive who does not make decisions based on evidence.

congrats to the general public for not being utter rubes and 100% correctly predicting how Search Party was going to develop

This "don't you want to win?" stuff is absolute nonsense. *Any* erosion of trans rights means trans people lose. What these people mean is, "You should sacrifice yourself."

why did we shift to calling it "lunar new year" when (1) we're still discussing it mostly in terms of Chinese traditions, (2) it is in fact a lunisolar calendar, and (3) there are many lunar/lunisolar calendars which do not all share the same new year date, so the name is clearly not specific enough

correct (negative affect)

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if the blue dog will only show solidarity when it experiences the same threat as the rest of us, then the blue dog is directly announcing that it is in our best interest to make sure that the dog is threatened. i don’t have to be happy with this situation to understand it

You cannot expect trans people to vote for someone who will not protect their right to exist. You cannot expect this of anyone with a trans partner, friend, or family member. You cannot expect this of anyone with the capacity to see and feel the suffering of trans people.

Just scroll up. You cannot return to the thing he is describing without genocidal conquest, dispossession, and domination. It cannot be done.

not getting my vote unless she starts hammering the House floor with impeachment articles starting, like, yesterday

Just reading La Rochefoucauld‘s Maxims for the podcast, which is full of gems, like this one: “We all have enough strength to bear the troubles of other people.“

‘No evidence’ of human contact with aliens: Obama clarifies podcast remarks https://aje.news/vvup4t

HOW DO PEOPLE STILL NOT UNDERSTAND THAT LANGUAGE MODELS ARE NOT GOOD AT MATH

Going to recreate a bit I did a while back in the Bad Place: classical philosophy valentines

My most toxic trait is that I don't enjoy David Bowie.

I think more people should share their insane thoughts openly.

This is someone who 100% knew she was going to get caught and convicted. I have no idea why she did it in broad daylight, but I certainly can't fault her courage.

If they do realize it, maybe they'll become a real opposition party. If they don't realize it, maybe they'll collapse and make room for a real opposition party. Fingers crossed.

Once you move from the subordinate side of a power differential to the dominant side, your ability to empathize with the subordinate position is permanently compromised.

These are the bizarre outcomes when you have an organization pretending it is possible to represent national identity without it being political.

It is absolutely crushing to know that, after this genocide-in-the-making is all over (however it ends), many — perhaps most — of the people cheering it on today will go to their graves decades later still not recognizing it for what it was.

"AGI" is not a threshold we are going to cross. It's a crude idea based on speculation from long before anything it described was remotely in sight. Asking if we're going to build it is like asking if we're going to build warp engines or tricorders.

Once again begging people to stop and consider their word choice a little more carefully en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cabal

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/

My personal line on LLM use has been that I will not give these companies money as long as they're guzzling fossil-fueled electricity and building an economic bubble. Now that ChatGPT has ads, I guess that means I won't be using it at all anymore! Not in a personal capacity, at least.

Reminder that economists generally consider trade deficits to be a *good* thing

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

That post about the "40 jobs most at risk by AI" is disinformation. Whether lying or sloppy, I advise blocking that guy. "It is tempting to conclude that occupations that have high AI action applicability score will be automated and thus experience job or wage loss [...]. This would be a mistake"

I'll be honest, I wasn't with her until she called out the chairman for hypocrisy. At face value, that line of questioning was a really weak attempt at a gotcha which made no strong points.

age verification is functionally a huge security hazard for _all_ internet users but the government will call you a danger to children if you point this out

theres a video of jon hamm dancing on the sidelines and people are calling him tío jamón

Not clear to me what inherent relevance so-called "sanity" has. What jumps out to me, on a brief read of the article, is that while he's certainly the most powerful person openly espousing these ideas, none of this is new. The ingredients of this worldview are all endemic to American culture.

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

I am safe from the "low status" post because I do not click links to the Nazi blog platform

I totally get why this is getting replies along the lines of "we don't forgive you, go fuck yourself", but this is 100% a behavior we want to incentivize. If quitting ICE means you're now an outcast from the entire political spectrum... that'll make quitting very unappealing.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "This has too many responsibilities."

It really blows me away that we've arrived at a point where gerrymandering is done openly as a publicized strategy

I'm going to try to attend town halls with my district's House primary candidates, if they hold any, and ask:

Just saw someone imply not only that morality is universal like mathematics, but that believing it to be otherwise means you lack a basic understanding of what morality even is. Kindly fuck off. If you believe that, fine, but there are other meta-ethical positions and it isn't a settled field.

So, like, I agree with most of this clip, but also most of these things are absolutely stuff I may in some cases be willing to delegate to another human being. The problem isn't that these must be done personally, but because AI is not currently at a point where it deserves high trust.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

I mean, this is the propaganda they're feeding their base: that Democrats only win elections because non-citizens are illegally voting. That's why they offered to withdraw if they got access to voting records. That's why they raided GA's elections office. Is it surprising some agents believe it?

sounds great now when are you introducing articles of impeachment

In any science deserving of the name, this should be borderline career-ending not only for the study authors, but also for the reviewers.

Beyond parody