this, but also the exact same dynamic can easily happen to Bad posts and is still shitty mob behavior

what if one stopped taking the view that there is any single "The Authentic People" in the US, a concept which is in itself rooted in volkishness and fascism. what if instead we took the position that any attempt to determine "authenticity" is some fascist bullshit and everyone deserves care.

weird this makes sense because aren’t there like a bazillion guys who do this for free?

i've truly come to think of it as an act of resistance to do this intentionally for a couple hours a month (inspired by a lot of different thinkers) bc so much of where we are now, from how we vote to whether we believe misleading clickbait headlines, depends on people always being on a hair trigger

this is the right line

(bluesky right now) OP @ normal.bsky.sosh here’s a cute dog i saw! a real puppers | *View full thread* | Give AI a chance @ 2824d628m28…: and that’s why what youre saying is basically racism against construct intelligences. 23/23 | Mutual: please shut up. Just shut up

lotta n-th level “mad that they’re mad that i’m mad because they claim i said that but it wasn’t me and anyway they said” drama on the tl today

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

I made a playlist

yes, steal abundance from those centrist libs

It makes sense. Hand enlargement surgery is rife with risk factors, and in some cases can even lead to amputation.

in the words of James Baldwin: “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

this is basically a Tom Swiftie

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

don’t mistake Yarvin here: he’s not predicting defeat. he’s psyching them up for something awful.

Bro. Bro! Do NOT tell me you are still singing the 2017 French Polynesian song. Bro it is 2018, bro. the lady whales do NOT dig the old stuff

Did Lin Manuel Miranda write this?

This could definitely never be circumvented in an extremely trivial way, such as by taking a fingerprinted photograph of ai output oops

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

for almost 15 years, i was willing to speak the truth even when it was unpopular. at first they mocked me, threw rocks at me, called me an "old man" who needed to "shut the fuck up." now they take these things as self-evident.

This is a question I have wrestled with and have had different answers to over the years. Where I am at right now is: a thought is a kind of action, and you do have responsibility for it. It is however a totally different kind of action than, say, speech: the only person a thought can hurt is you.

okay these are adorable and hilarious?

No one: Absolutely no one: Japan Toilet Labo: your emergency portable toilets suck

This would unironically make an amazing tattoo

I said that people who want to live rural lives deserve as much support from society as people living urban lives

It’s genuinely fine not to know that someone whose art you’ve enjoyed is problematic. Keeping up to date on these terrible people would be 1) a full time job and 2) depressing as hell. The important thing is how you respond after finding out

On the one hand, all the reports. On the other: the slow, steady joy of making the world a slightly better place.

My theory is that this is how bigots process encountering an extremely charismatic member of their hated group. “I’m not obsessively thinking about your arm gestures because I am charmed! No! It’s because they’re subtly disgusting!“

The blood eagle? Harsh but fair

“…AND was responsible for executing the second most famous Trojan Horse attack of all time.”

Examine the nacho. Dwell on its particulars. Does this chip rest flat, cheese atop it like the pizza? Is this one not immersed, like the pasta? Does this chip not gently cup its guacamole like the hotdog, and these two ‘sandwich’ the meat between? The nacho is the ur-form, it contains all others

v easy to imagine the “mercenary and ungrateful, NYC’s first lady ‘inflates’ when asked about moving to Upper East Side” if her response had been the opposite

shel silverstein was a prophet

While I do think cancelling these gigs is profoundly admirable, the maximum pressure would be to show up and then when the curtain goes up, announce that you will not play, just stand in silence, change all the lyrics to “trump resign now”, or something like that.

Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.

Thing is, you can say “I’m just against the state of Israel,” and you might even earnestly believe that, but once the action you take to express that opposition involves attacking random Jews worldwide, you’ve crossed the line into antisemitism. The actual motive is irrelevant here.

Targeting a religious gathering because you believe that all Jewish people are responsible for the actions of the state of Israel is center-mass antisemitism.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Goes so hard

Had we but falcons enough, and time, This widening gyre would be no crime. Yet the blood-dimmed tide shall flow, Vaster than empires, far less slow. And if the center cannot hold— Well then, lady, let’s be bold!

Let me give just two examples of how this might work in practice. 1. You are reading a widely cited work; everyone knows the argument is X. Reading it, however, you discover something else: y. Y might be an alternative and incompatible reading of X, or more likely is simply orthogonal to X. 1/

The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.

a big part of it is that few of them are interested in real power, rather than a fantasy of power

it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.

Meanwhile, white people: i’m so sorry for jd vance

Yes but also, what else about the Republican Party would attract young people? Like do twenty year olds care about taxes or business regulations?

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model