i think this is a seminal paper with a lot of relevance to AI disputes today papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

i think that a harder truth is that woke 1's death didn't so much occur through backlash as much as the movie cliche of "I won't shoot you, but he will" youtu.be/6fhWZORatBA?...

one of my favorite videos is of a hidden camera recording a cat calming an anxious dog when human out of house

before we had euro-aircon truther discourse, there was a spate of pre-covid articles about why air conditioning wasn't woke

A characteristically sharp read from @himself.bsky.social that picks up on my argument on AI hyperregulation and traces how national security tools have become instruments of domestic political control. You cannot build sweeping discretionary powers abroad and then be surprised when they come home.

the more that elon lobotimizes grok to turn it into KKKTron3000, the worse of a model it is going to be in performance too. we now know that lobotomized-grok is generating targets for airstrikes

scooby doo is a show about solving mysteries where the one mystery that is absolutely taboo to solve is how a dog can understand human language and speak english (albeit with every first letter changed to ‘r’)

404 media disclaimers aside - they're right that execs are taking on this attitude, and it is a betrayal of their initial messaging - those execs put themselves in this spot by only working with frontier labs whose entire existence hinges on several hundred percent delta between cost and results

yup, this is the missing second half of the Matt Yglesias brand of Democratic politics i have little issue with moderating to get fifty-one Senators so long as there's a good plan with what to do with those fifty-one Senators beyond "more healthcare subsidies"

a disruptive innovation would be manufacturing more people that can consume art, because every year far more media is generated than one person could consume in several lifetimes

bsky.app/profile/them... “just (astrological sign) things”

32k followers. block now

something broke in my brain when I saw Israel supporting liberals trying to do "no one who matters believes this" applied to actual cabinet ministers

kotz’s law

Jeffries refusing to endorse Mamdani through the near-entirety of the 2025 campaign was a constant storyline in the summer and some of the fall—so one thing to note here is that his own disregard for building a relationship with Mamdani is part of what left him no leverage this spring.

A really funny thought about a lot of the natsec/foreign policy plot holes in video games and movies set in approximately this time period can be resolved by "assume it's the Trump administration"

rubio gave up everything for power and the chance to be viceroy of cuba

All else aside, we're ten years now into a sustained and politically ascended anti-immigration movement that has totally reshaped Western politics in its image, at what point are we going to admit that there just isn't a pro-immigrant Left of consequence to even critique anymore?

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

Here in Scandinavia, interior design has for a long time been taken very seriously.

also works for the TV adaptation - no wonder they hired somebody recognizable for that seemingly-inconsequential-but-memorable role!

"if you introduce a tertiary character, you must either justify their usage or consolidate them with other tertiary characters" - most books on narrative craft

Millennials are gonna be calling the shots for a long time and this is probably a good thing.

It would be a real shame if the titles were entirely machine-translated because you can imagine how fun it would be to come up with English renderings of really wacko in Japanese titles

rich mean mom in a kdrama vibes

"It’s not, as some people might think, the creation of fake people to compete with living actors,” he said in 1998. “Why waste living talents, anyway?”"

the cope cage cometh

It says something bad that I read about this comic character, not in the NYT, but the FT. I think the "liberal" media in the US feel disabled from reporting on Trump accurately. The truth is so comically awful that they can't say it outloud.

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this is a great example of "things happen more, much more!, when/where someone wants them to happen"

the thing is that what most of the users who constantly complain about the mods actually want is a policy where people they don't like are instabanned for making threats but people that they like can say whatever and face no consequences.

macron worried he would get cold feet so put him around shiny objects

buddy, you really shouldn't have mocked him and his wife. there's absolutely no way macron did not know what he was doing here.

musk is *uniquely* dependent on the federal teat to a degree that’s unusual even by the tech billionaire class, which is why a democratic house should make him public enemy number one: he’s a very big target who is extremely vulnerable, and they should make an example out of him

The algae is like “Damn, I got bodyguards now. I’m a real VIP.”

a thing i have been saying from the beginning is that the ellisons are not the murdochs, they think they can spend their way into becoming the murdochs, but rupert has spent his entire long career doing this across three continents

“free my homies”

i think this is what the IRGC (which is running Iran) believes. It’s also why they are likely going to blow an golden opportunity US ineptitude has given them by making this conditional on Trump caging Israel

threads is what people think bluesky is

This is a really interesting exchange.

✅ drain the swamp ✅ build the wall Promises made, promises kept.

the future looks like the past. these people most resemble the "anarchist wave" of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

One of the things I find fascinating about the current admin is that it demands that its followers *actively* and even *destructively* reject reality. It's not enough to say "antifa super soldiers are sabotaging the pool" they have to pretend even when they see a lady touch a grimy puddle.

Everyone always loves to cite WWII as the golden age where things were built cheaply and quickly but almost every major system used by the American military was R&D’ed before the war even started, hell, the Essex class carriers started being built 17 months *before* Pearl Harbor even happened

this would have been sri lanka if they could get away with it

Extreme carceral Buddhist government that sentences you to 2 consecutive life sentences so when you die in prison and reincarnate into a random pond frog they find it and throw its ass in the slammer too

the dog i mentioned earlier (the one who zoomed under the woman's bed) was antisocial in a really funny way. he was an absolute schmoozer with people, coulda been a salesman if he could walk upright. Other dogs? Dog park trips were like taking your awk friend to parties

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media