the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

"Where to get a free Thanksgiving Day meal in NYC" gothamist.com/news/where-t...

@biggestbossnephi.bsky.social NOT. A. SINGLE. WORD.

gone, and also forgotten

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.

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Lord, I see what you've done for others......

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Working in games means your answer to the question "If you could do anything you wanted in life, what would it be?" isn't a different career, but the same career in a kinder version of the same industry.

Funny how different the same information can sound with a little more context...

They were at J6 and will now be working for DHS

And these same people all over the down with woke agenda will turn around just next year and say “Black people it is your duty to support us.”

When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.

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Note: The white nationalist is also an immigrant, and by a very (VERY) strict reading of the law, was illegal as well.

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I saw a lot of people send the original article my way, which i did not share because it seemed like obvious bullshit. Now that has been shown to be true. I know people are worried about AI stuff, but try to be a bit more careful about what's real and what's not.

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Also! Friendly reminder that the Secretary of Education is Linda McMahon, who is being sued with her husband in the state of Maryland, for their alleged involvement in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHILD ABUSE RING that has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.

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I just wanna say.. there is a non-zero chance glazing Zohran gets Trump 25thd.

I’m telling you, save the Marxist analysis for later and just enjoy how fucked up the reactionaries are right now. It’ll all be shit again by tomorrow. Just enjoy this reformist socdem wilding out a little and triggering the funniest wave of reactions

Stephen Miller:

if some people don’t understand the giant win he got with trump fawning over him like he’s the greatest thing since, well, to trump, donald trump, i’m not sure what to tell you. trump ignored his entire electorate to lavish this man with praise. couldn’t have gotten a bigger win.

My wife said Trump loves NYC and his own personal heaven is like 1985 NYC and the people of NYC overwhelmingly love Mamdani and shipped Trump to Florida and Trump is in awe of that fact that this guy convinced NYC to love him even with the press and Richie Riches against him and she's got a point

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

Oh I don't believe in any sort of change in Trump. I'm just ticked pink by all the corporate sycophants being like "wait...why is he being nice...WHY IS HE BEING NICE WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK"

Again, imagine being balls to the wall high on molly during the Jesus rave

we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him

Everyone has psychological weaknesses, because they have psychological needs. An LLM is an algorithm for saying things to you that seem relevant to yours. Given enough time, the LLM will find your weakness, despite not being sapient, because it does not have to be to do so.

The problem isn't that the LLM is magically persuasive. The problem is that every human being's actions are fundamentally oriented toward getting what they want and not getting things they want not to have, and the LLM refines its responses based on the data those actions generate

I cannot emphasise this enough: do not use LLMs. If infohazards are real, LLMs qualify

Oh this is a delightful commercial 😭😭😭

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

FYI: turning off "Smart features" also turns off spell check and the promotions and social tabs. And more. In effect, a lot of traditional tools in gmail are switched off if you don't let them upload your contracts, love notes, and sad messages to your friends into their plagiarism machine.

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Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery. These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators. The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.

This is true. But the power of Trump's presidency, especially now, is less about traditional exercise of control over a bureaucracy and more about lighting the fires of stochastic terrorism. The GOP's policy has been to crowdsource bigotry. Trump has taken that to extreme heights.

I do believe that we are going to win.

But why? Like, beyond the "they're fascist DUH," what even is the point?

(reads list) Alright, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza it is.

I’m howling.