GenAI has never saved anyone any money, nor made them more productive. Companies like Klarna and Duolingo are hiring back the people they laid off in their AI fever; others are hiring expensive consultants to patch up AI botch jobs. But sure, EA will be the first ever company to make it work.

Saw an article floating around yesterday about the gender gap around wanting to return to traditional gender roles and it’s no surprise that men are more keen as theyre the ones who get the servants! The male loneliness crisis needs to be renamed the “men want mommies crisis.”

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

Nasturtium can’t be stopped

Them: “tech needs to be apolitical. Focus on building” Also them: “it was great meeting you Mr War Criminal I hope we can do a lot of technology together that benefits your political goals and my political wallet”

"Movements that abandon core supporters in pursuit of mythical moderate voters often end up with neither. Energy drains away, activists stay home, and the authentic moral voice gets replaced by calculated positioning that convinces no one." data4democracy.substack.com/p/you-cant-e...

if appropriations are optional then surely the president can just end a shutdown by directing the money be spent anyway?

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

I would be more willing to defer to Democratic strategists if they were 1) actually any good at elections and 2) if Democrats were actually committed to addressing my issues when they do accidentally win.

What if we consistently jump in to insulate Republican politicians from the worst consequences of their actions—surely this is good politics and will result in voters seeing Democrats are the responsible and sensible party worthy of leadership?

RFK Jr out there democratizing measles.

Democracy is a set of social relations and obligations to collective decision-making and distributed power, not the fact that a lot of people can afford to buy something.

Ok what—gorgeous

I’ve started dreaming about the plot of a sequel so it’s going to be very embarrassing if I don’t sell this novel 😬

Fall colors, assorted

Signal hill

we all kind of let the conservatives win the narrative on the 2020 protests. the reality is, and everyone knew this at the time, the violence was almost always started by police brutalizing peaceful protestors. the ICE playbook is the 2020 playbook

Just wait until you find out what Sam Altman thinks is teen-appropriate.

Been saying this repeatedly - it's not a 'bit', I genuinely don't understand why we waste our time teaching students about research ethics if we're encouraging them to use tools that ignore every single one of those requirements. If we support skipping ethics why just for genAI? sheer hypocrisy.

We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.

Excluding power from your analysis of politics will always mean failing to make sense of things.

This is much more comprehensive than my own list, and reassuringly familiar from my experience of marking. I’ll be sharing the list with my students, both to think about writing for different audiences (encyclopaedia articles) and being aware of the weakness of LLM generated text.

I think, yes, to some extent, people really are so dumb, but another aspect is that people are so desperate to believe in something, anything, that they’re willing to give in to the lamest ai hype just to feel (and for a lot of people to simultaneously profit riding the wave as an in-group party).

Reactionary centrism, a Sam Bankman-Fried production

Is there a poet listening in to your conversation? Watch out: you might become an immortal line...

When a crossword puzzle is all musical theater and football clues I am totally fucked. It happens more than you would expect.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Aster-oids

Finally got a dahlia

The continuing story of the “ai revolution” is nobody of our elites actually wants to address any real problems we have because they require hard work and mild sacrifice so instead we are full steam ahead into cloud-cuckoo land on a seam of burning coal.

"POPULARISM! UNLESS I DON'T LIKE THE SAME THINGS AS THE PUBLIC!" —Traditional liberal think-tank proverb

Why can't this be the cold war frontier instead of AI supremacy?

If we ever make it through people are going to write stories as if this time just never even happened.

You can’t set a novel in the last few years because everyone is so comically dumb and bad that it’s unbelievable. It wouldn’t fly in the broadest satire.

The continuing story of the “ai revolution” is nobody of our elites actually wants to address any real problems we have because they require hard work and mild sacrifice so instead we are full steam ahead into cloud-cuckoo land on a seam of burning coal.

At this point Marx makes an important point: the formal authority of the leigislature is worth very little if the executive, in practice, appoints and oversees the bureaucracy - especially in a country like France, where the government is both large and centralized.

Without further ado, here is the trailer for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Against all odds, it will air in select theatres on October 2nd, along with the theatrical debut of Sex House. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. And, yes, this is real.

we talk a lot about people foolishly agreeing to a Chotiner interview but these are the real freaks

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

it’s a very weird move to take the fact that both US political parties are detested as evidence there’s a real opportunity to capture the space between them, a hypothetical middle. it seems more likely that something they have in common, something an average wouldn’t escape, is detestable.

This is the point I'm continually trying to make in my own place of work. Even if you set aside everything else, most use cases for AI fail to clear the "is this actually the best tool for the task at hand?" bar. If I want to put a nail in the wall, sure, I could use a screwdriver, but why would I?

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i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century