Reframing theft as a "life hack" is the sort of cavalier moral stance I've come to expect in these uncertain times.

If the sampling here is good, 51% of the US population believes climate change is a serious threat over the next 20 years, but only 10% believe others share that view. Similar gaps among other nations. Why?

"Guys, things might get pretty bad for me and my colleagues, because of all the cruelty, lawbreaking and institutional rot we enabled. 1 vote = 1 prayer. Thx."

“The Trump administration and the media had demonized Antifa all through the first Trump term, and even more aggressively in the second. This concept of terrorism tends to become politicized, particularly when government officials intentionally politicize it.”

Bricked up rn not driving to get groceries or mail a package.

"Why do tech companies spy on your kids? The same reason your dog licks its balls: because they can, and no one stops them:"

The God>family>country types who support separation of children from their mothers need a spiritual reckoning.

Or the 12" touchscreen in the center of their console.

Does any state have more obvious examples of privatized gains and publicly subsidized losses than Texas?

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

Liberal Democrats and progressives can expect protracted bad times if their idea of an antitrump conservative is just Adam Kinzinger or the Bulwark team.

US Attorney Rosen asked repeatedly versions of questions about why these indictments — where there is no asserted injury — exist and/or came before any indictments relating to the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. He had no real answer beyond platitudes about ongoing investigations.

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This is insane. What sort of 12week-course-to-a-badge sack of waste shoots at someone for allegedly shoplifting diapers?

He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.

This Day in Labor History: June 15, 1990. 400 striking janitors organized with Service Employees International Union held a rally in Los Angeles. The LAPD proceeded to beat the shit out of them in front of office workers wondering what the hell was going on. Let's talk about Justice for Janitors!

But he's going to make a city on the MOON. In 10 years. It will be like those shows on TV before we actually went to the moon, but with AI waifus.

Pam Bondi, JD Vance, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and some of the most powerful people in the federal government spent months trapped in a political nightmare entirely of their own making. For years they told their supporters there were explosive truths hidden in the Epstein files.

This is not a catastrophe but it’s an important reminder of the fact that…

Great conversation about how algorithms, prediction machines and obsession with forecasting popularity is making life more beige.

Thread about the heel-turn of the tech company that grabs at your personal data every 5 minutes.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

This is happening to some degree in TX. Had a Democrat governor in the 90s. Companies relocating there for tax breaks brought in employees and families from blue states. Now they need gerrymandering to stay red, maybe more than any other state.

Brilliant.

I don't know who this is just from this photo, but I do know if he's gotten that far into the book he's either pretending to be literate, or he's going to have a bad time fairly soon, or both.

People don't understand that you have to prompt your chatbot to never lie to you. After that, you can be sure that it has real consciousness and everything it says is true.

You don't defeat fascism by choosing tiny slivers of vulnerable populations to sacrifice to it. That's how your coalition shrinks until you die a coward. You defeat fascism by putting the vulnerable populations in the center, and forming a circle around them.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

IPA sommelier slumming at the local dive with the bois: "Went with a Miller Lite, eh?" Me, a guy drinking a Miller Lite: "Um...yeah."

If your business is using a chatbot to schedule appointments that you don't know about, maybe you don't need my money anymore.

Tech billionaires are cranking the dial on disease so they can sell you the cure.

🧵1/2 A Capitol rioter stole Pelosi’s lectern, got pardoned, then strutted to Washington asking taxpayers for up to $5 million. MAGA has turned treason-adjacent cosplay into a pension plan: smash the republic, cash the check, call yourself a victim. #Jan6Grift

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

This has arguably been the most corrupt week of Trump’s political career — and the week isn’t over. Over 3 days: - $1.776 billion slush fund - stock trade revelations - break on IRS audits, erasing $100 million penalty - Big Tobacco gets what it wants after $5 million donation to Trump’s super PAC

So the same people who have shouted and cried about colleges indoctrinating students for the past decade are now going to pass a law that requires students to take right wing indoctrination courses.

It is objectively funny when robots eat shit while trying too hard to be cool.

As miserable as the Iran nonsense is for ... everyone, the one small sliver of satisfaction comes from watching this prick finally flail his way into a situation that nobody will bail him out of. He's trapped in his own consequences, maybe for the first time in his life, & it is breaking his brain.

It's impossible to have nuanced discussion about automation technologies until we can name them by their specific functions. Calling everything AI is like calling every social, financial and gaming app on your phone "the internet."

Data centers are massive physical representations of why everyone's energy bills are so high. You can argue that contempt for AI is ideological, but data centers are irrefutably tangible.

The Seattle Times editorial board claims it is unfair to tax millionaires to make school meals free for kids whose families can afford to pay for it with apparently no thought given to why ANYONE should have to pay for meals at public schools.

They are "eligible," but qualifying requires legal guardians providing income info, which frequently does not happen. Sure, you could blame parents. Or you could just feed hungry kids.

Anything less than compulsory assimilation into Christianity means America has made them victims.

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I don't know these guys, but I know these guys.

All of the worst people I know are telling me to watch Dutton Ranch.

Possibly not aquiline noses, but otherwise, everything.

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