yes, I once Banged the Drums of War. but please now heed my warnings about how it is Dangerous to be Mean to Me

I think about Covid amnesia a lot. I know of two families who had big parties in 2020/2021...everyone got Covid and then someone died...and they simply pretend like it never happened. How long does this go on for? Forever? Do the living bring it up before death? On their death beds? Or naw?

Agreed. I am a hater. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.

quarantine americans

free Bluesky tip: if you see someone claiming that an LLM is a "nonhuman entity" you don't have to take them seriously, you can, in fact, make fun of them for being a mark in a game that's being played at their own expense

I hope that every person who thinks Bukele "made El Salvador safe" watches that 60 minutes segment and realizes that no human beings on the earth should be treated this way.

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!

Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.

joining the great machine consciousness

I am of the opinion if we are bringing back late 19th century and early 20th century economics they should put drugs back in our sodas

Sunk cost fallacy is probably the number one thing driving the AI industry right now.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Aphantasia is one of those things I have a hard time accepting actually exists. What do you mean you can't picture things in your head? That's like 95% of my day.

A photo of David Brooks palling around with Epstein in the latest Epstein files drop three weeks after he wrote a column chiding America for caring about the Epstein story is some serious Rafael Palmeiro shit.

Yeah, the problem with what I guess I'll call Ezra Klein-style liberalism is that it holds that ideas work like tokens that do not have any inherent moral valence, you can trade them and exchange them and they do not actually say anything about the person holding them

If there is any non-nefarious justification for refusing to admit something is AI generated, I haven't heard it.

I worked for a big academic publisher and right before I quit they stopped copyediting/proofreading to cut costs. The editors are acquisitions editors; they are not checking citations, and there's no one down-chain to do it in most cases. That's how you get slop citations.

this is why you don't give them an inch

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything with a larger disconnect between the executive class and the general public than AI - there have been cases where executives want to push something they know is unpopular, but on AI it's like the backlash hasn't penetrated their bubble at all

"Starbucks has a policy of 150 percent availability. If an employee wants to work 30 hours, that person must be available for 45. In the end, they may only end up working 17." www.grubstreet.com/article/mich...

And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.

It’s wild because I was always like “I wish the president would talk like a real person” and now the president talks like my racist father in law and I’m like “not that regular person”

Christmas hasn't been the same since i noticed Santa has the same handwriting as my wife

i feel like there's a distressing lack of discussion around the impacts of AI on the aging brain. if learning languages and doing puzzles keeps your brain agile, what does AI do to it?

the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them

This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON

Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"

i love this double-whammy of pro-aging skincare, which is trying to convince men 1) to apply retinol in the morning and 2) that SPF 15 is enough to counteract the retinol

imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul

The rest of the post makes admitting he’s a virgin in the second sentence unnecessary. This is the most never been laid anybody’s ever been

I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world. - People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers - People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.

I have a galaxy brain theory that kids feel more solidarity with each other now than in the past because they have a real, shared enemy (school shooters)

every time i see that water tower i remember the animaniacs are trapped in there by david zaslav. Yet every story leaves it out

every year i find out how many people lie about being mad at spotify

This is constantly happening. A paramilitary force is violently enforcing second-class status for nonwhite people the United States with the support of police forces across the country. Sure, ICE must be abolished, but so must every institution that supports such brutality. & this cannot be reformed

A blip in my record of NIN supremacy

Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder. We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

a friend who works in fine dining posted this today and lol, come on dude

From the Far Side collection

"strong floor, no ceiling" is very stupid, all it makes me think of is not having a roof over my head

i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills

I'm ableist specifically against RFK Jr., a man who looks and sounds like he does cannot convince me of fucking anything

"the male loneliness epidemic"

this thread goes to places you would not believe, but I'd just like to remind everyone that the Quakers were anti-slavery for decades before the revolution, and some of Jefferson's contemporaries like THOMAS FUCKING PAINE were vocally anti-slavery. it's not ahistorical to judge him for having slaves