you’ll pretty much always create something funnier bashing together random clippings from google image search than you will typing “generate me a picture of my cool funny idea. no not like that. no not like that. no not like that. no not— oh, fuck it, that’ll do”

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action? I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.

cool pincer movement if you truly grasp: AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out 🧵 1/n

Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.

epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

This shit about agentic AI executing a cyber attack with "thousands of requests, often multiple per second—an attack speed that would have been, for human hackers, simply impossible to match" coming out of Anthropic is such marketing bullshit.

GenAI companies are always like “HACKERS from CHINA and RUSSIA are using our AI to do incredible HACKING because our AI is so advanced but don’t worry we stopped them and also we won’t be giving any more details at this time just know our product is DANGEROUS and SEXY, like James Bond”

Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME. Here is a thread of my feelings

It’s pretty simple. When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.

Dr. Robert Summers was as sweet & kind, & sincerely supportive of women in academia, as he looks. His wife was also a distinguished academic. I'm putting him on my timeline to honor & remember him - and blot out mentions of That Man who is his offspring but represents the opposite of him!

A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to

As a historian who grew up in Germany, I studied a lot on the collapse of the Weimar Republic and German fascism, especially the early 1930s. The intellectual question of “how could people do this/let this happen” were answered then. Now, people are answering the emotional aspect of that question.

favs and reposts are a good start, but bluesky really needs a little counter to tell you how many people immediately opened a new tab to google your obscure reference

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Hitler Diary Reveals a Lost Berlin

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?

Yknow that deextinction company that claims they brought back the dire wolf or whatever?

as many academic women noted at the time, the big problem with summers' "bitches be stupid" speech was that it was a 2005 blog post level stupid, with a bit of ricky gervais "can I just shock you????" delivered to an audience of top women in their scientific fields.

Penguin Random House emailed me last night because their ebook team was going through the citations on TRUE BELIEVER and found like 40 URLs that no longer went anywhere I had to correct them, and luckily most were caught by the Wayback Machine, but some are just… gone Dead Internet Theory is real

The thing about elon going to epstein island in 2014 is that Epstein very publicly became a registered convicted sex offender in 2008, 6 years earlier. Note: Epstein set up Elon's brother Kimbal with a girlfriend in 2011, 3 years after Epstein became a registered convicted sex offender.

Epstein was convicted in 2008. This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power. There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.

sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Ev psych is how you link them. “This is how high status males competed on the veldt millions of years ergo it is correct and indeed good for the species for high status males to act like this.” It’s a real gross way to look at the world! And awful science but you knew that.

For decades. Every year. People have DIED waiting to be seen by doctors. Because. Of. Flu. And. COVID MADE IT WORSE.

Someone turned up on one of our threads the other day and said something very irritating… but probably a commonly held belief. “They should only tell us if a significantly different virus turns up..” Ok. Not irritating. Infuriating. I’ll explain why.

When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.

If CBSA refuses to explain why it thought a *95 YEAR OLD* retired Princeton law professor and UN special rapporteur might be a threat to national security, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree should

I love that framing of opening up the world for everyone. I'm going to use that. Thank you.

That’s the highest vote share IPSOS has recorded for the Greens and the equal lowest for Labour (the other time was 2009).

Also: the far right is an entertainment franchise to the majority of its base. Labour's strategy would be like telling a generation raised on WWE and AEW that you're going to do *proper* Olympic-style wrestling, with no silly costumes or fake stories. Nobody wants that! They want to be entertained!

Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.

people don't even notice how at the beginning of the last chapter of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo defunds the police

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

We're stuck with it, but determining someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is actually pretty fucking weird, and it'd be better if we talked about it as an unfortunate practical necessity not a natural phenomenon

NIH directors have pointed to below estimates as evidence that Sweden was 'best in the world at protecting human life' for COVID (www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...). But plot doesn't show what they apparently think it shows - and there is a big red flag that immediately jumps out... 🧵

You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way

Wearing respies meant that I did not miss a beat. I was out and about swabbing COVID positive patients, and going supermarket shopping… not infected and not spreading anything. Wearing masks is the opposite of shutting down. It’s incredibly empowering in the face of infectious disease.

We all know the NYTimes is a joke of a paper but refusing to report on the owner possibly being roped into a child sex ring makes them far closer to a crime syndicate.

I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.

well this is how I spent 5 minutes of my precious weekend

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A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender. All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.” And I’ve thought about that every day since.

sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate: ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires futurism.com/artificial-i...

wow, turns out Larry Summers is in fact the repulsive misogynistic pig that it was blindingly obvious he was in 2005