Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.

Wow I just realized my birthday is THIS WEEKEND The bastard snuck up on me!

Folks, an explanation why everything in our Black Friday Collection shows out of stock. We want to empower choice abd with 300-400 items, giving people more time to browse behooves everyone. Later today we'll be working on uploading Vavia's line for the release.

Stupid Machine wrong more than half the time. studyfinds.org/chatgpts-hal...

They are really treading on thin ice here. Even if a document is privileged, the fact of its existence is not.

The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.

Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.

Again: ban all genAI and sue the companies that created the apps into the ground.

It’s a bit crazy this feels like it’s getting underplayed when it broke yesterday, the same day as the vote about the sex trafficker. The guy who did it is his former lawyer & the same guy with a White House gig who just had his special counsel nomination tanked for being too racist & pro-nazi.

I waited until my thirties to come out of the closet and had to undergo serious surgery to reshape my chest. I spent years battling anxiety that I didn't realize was actually gender dysphoria. My 20s could have been wildly different (and better) had I had access and safety to transition younger.

A very useful and timely thread from a very, very, very good defense attorney

Bureaucracy is good, because it introduces elements of predictability and fairness into systems that have neither. And historically, we create bureaucracy to fix corruption, bias, and unfairness. I'm more comfortable with the idea that in our current state, we need more bureaucracy, not less.

This. I may not be able to actually stop you from using the slop machine, but if you choose to do so, my disapproval is a part of the cost you must bear. I will not grant you the illusion of my acquiescence. If my good opinion matters to you, weigh your options accordingly.

Its popular on this site to blame everything for Trumps return on Merrick Garland, but if it werent for the singular interetence by John Roberts on Trumps behalf, Trump would have been tried and almost certainly convicted over Jan 6th in late summer/early fall before the election.

"There is a certain type of person who sees a hole and perceives it to be a trash can, where others have seen the potential for a garden." The latest by @marianneeloise.bsky.social on littering and the cost of convenience culture.

Please understand that if something like this doesn't pass soon, we will be facing yet another crisis. A huge wave of people is about to retire on 401(k) plans, which is an untested retirement vehicle for the volume of people retiring.

Thread. Took me more than the first half of my lived life to realize that white supremacy was damaging to me as a white man. But once I got it, it was impossible to unsee. It’s why the modern GOP gets under my skin so much, as does any suggestion that the left compromise on equal rights.

One verrrry important rule for federal-court practitioners is *never* do anything that causes the judge to be concerned

When this same “prolife” policy in Ireland killed an immigrant dentist in 2012, Irish citizens took to the streets in her name and forced the government to go against the Church and legalize abortion there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...

Forced birth policy kills another Black woman *who was already a mother* She didn’t choose to die for this pregnancy. She had a child at home. Instead of surviving to see him grow up he found her dead on his birthday. There are so many places in the US where it simply is not safe to be pregnant.

I do not use Windows but if you do, here's how to make your computer better

And your edits are surely better. Now I think it’s thoroughly been proven that “AI” is garbage at literally everything, and it’s time to stop propping it up by using it “just for fun”, too.

LLMs are predictive word generators that still can't find how many 'r's are in a variety of words and phrases. I'm so sick of companies throwing LLMs at something to see if it "works" and only finding later how it doesn't. It's irresponsible. Sadly, examples like this don't stop the push to do so.

Literally just lectured about this! In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

Not quite. Where's the block for trans and furry people?

when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once

The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

whoa

Happy International Men’s Day to all the incredible trans men out there. Thank you for existing.

Dell laptops running so hot, they cook hot dogs now

But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit. And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.

A reminder: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” ~Audre Lorde

Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience. It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

so basically if you want a functioning product, you have to agree to these motherfuckers scraping all your correspondence incredible

Every episode of Poldark makes s want to yell at the TV with how badly these people need polyamory

I once had a surgeon tell me to sleep when I'm tired- naps, going to bed early, sleeping in- because the body cannot heal without adequate rest and it still stands as the most stunning advice I've ever received. We are told not to "indulge" when we're tired (even by doctors!) and it is SO HARMFUL

Illinois folks, here's what's up for us. 14 states are doing some mitigation of the destruction of healthcare subsidies - hopefully this info will help someone.

Imagine how bad it is behind those walls if they're destroying evidence, when we've seen the abuses they proudly broadcast.

Remember that Intuit (the owner of Turbotax) lobbied extensively to kill Direct File, which did tax filing for free and somehow managed to make a good and intuitive user experience without AI.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for months because she was the 218th signature to force a vote on the Epstein files, but sure, Republicans always wanted to release them as they now claim today for the first time.

Identity thieves the world over: "It's a Christmas miracle!!!"

Let’s all photocopy the statement of the premium increase and mail to our Congresspeople. Show them the real impact. Include a list of the things you won’t or can’t buy to pay for the increase. Flood their mailboxes with the impact on real human voters

massie and emteegee both suck shit. when two of your enemies fight, you dont have to say anything. its better to say nothing. dont talk about cozying up with them or "welcoming them into the tent". let them claw at each other. they arent our friends. or even allies. *let them fight meme* is enough

Everyone should know their rights, their perils; and how to use the former to reduce the latter.