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Remember when calling a reporter stupid merited a headline and an apology?

This is good, actually, we should encourage them to start an entire “never ever travel” movement for all their horrendous friends

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and of course for any normal ass systems that are using llms in the pipeline of course these all will fail because a line of deterministic javascript is 1000x cheaper and economic equilibrium will trivially destroy all of those the second the bubble pops

also im not making a value judgement here im just saying what i view the eventual economic equilibrium to be which is what well do like it or not

the reason ai will successfully replace a lot of coding is that a huge amount of real world coding is already people gluing together things they dont understand that only marginally work until it randomly works for their use case and ai does it better than most of them

Links here where you can donate to support a trans woman who is facing felony charges for defending herself against fascists.

it's a serious problem for the right that they can't tell the difference between appealing to right wing media and appealing to anyone else.

We’ve been seeing that play out more and more frequently. bsky.app/profile/anil...

This is another example of the X/Twitter extremism bubble leaving these people detached from reality.

How the hell did Colorado's GOP go so deep in the shitter? I'm old enough to remember when George W. Bush won it in 2004. But it was the only state that trended left alongside Washington State.

has any republican official condemned this? at all?

Looking at war news and this has to be the day the bubble pops, right? They can’t keep buying and selling oil that doesn’t exist for much longer can they? there’s already an energy crisis in most of the world. The “economy” is a massive collective hallucination we’re all conscripted into at birth.

As I said earlier, Australians shouldn’t believe the bullshit our body politic pushes that we’re leaders of anything We’ve been outpaced by many countries who have grabbed the future while political leaders here drown us in parochial mediocrity and keep us in the past

i could never do this because I'm stupid but I'm sad kids can't do it because of structural reasons instead

Geopolitics comes at you fast.

It’s going to be an *interesting* day in the North American markets tomorrow

To be clear, I'm open borders for everybody, even white South Africans! That said, I think the subset of white South Africans who are willing to claim refugee status for entry into the US may have some other...eccentricities

Boise Idaho's Little Joburg is gonna be so effed up man

Stop throwing things with batteries in the trash

I feel like the innovation that AI brings to programming still could be done without it. It's like using a chat bot to see what pieces of code you want to pull from open source projects. There's a chance it could be supplanted by a search engine for functions that also has a language translator.

the following are all probably true and not in the least contradictory: 1. There's a huge bubble in AI investment, the crash is going to be bad 2. A majority of the tasks we've been promised AI will "take over," it will not 3. AI will completely transform coding

A fun aside — MSG, owned by Trump pal James Dolan, tried to tell us that the party wasn’t cancelled because of Trump. And not long after, the NYPD sent an updated statement — yes, it’s cancelled because of the presidential visit. Here are the statements.

James Dolan has me believing NYPD statements

the 2024 vibe shift -- in conjunction with the disinhibition and insulation from consequences provided by obscene wealth -- has destroyed many US elites' ability to think down the game tree

"Weiss was installed at CBS News as a compliant mouthpiece for the Trump-allied Ellisons, who bought Paramount and now need government approval for a merger that would also hand them control of CNN." - Brian Tyler Cohen www.democracydocket.com/opinion/bari...

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Yo apparently I'm able to run Godot on my Android! #Godot #GameDev

No desktop? No problem. You can now build and publish #GodotEngine games entirely from your Android or XR device! godotengine.org/article/gabe...

putting aside his politics, on a purely aesthetic level it would be so funny if hunter biden ran for and became president. it’d be so cool to have a president we all know smoked crack

You can either make peace with the fact that gender performance is a sucker's game and a lot of your best liberal candidates are going to be sincere nerds or even, gasp, actual ladies, or we can just repeat this unpleasant process forever

"Oh yes! This rough-hewn guy seems like the kind of person a right-wing chud would like! Let's recruit him!" "Oh no! This rough-hewn guy is exactly the kind of person a right-wing chud would like!" Ad infinitum

Democrats need to try and eliminate this agency. Burn it down

We could've avoided potentially losing the senate if people had used their damn common sense to ask a guy with a nazi tattoo to drop out. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Oh my god...

Platner got physical with one of his exes.

Turns out he lied about the nazi tattoo. He knew exactly what it was.

Here it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

For the folks who’ve been saying that people can’t get off of Substack to other platforms because they lose subscribers when they do — what’s the percentage? How many readers? What % of total dollars coming in? Do we have hard numbers?

A frustrating false choice. As we've shown—with actual maps!—Democrats can target many Republican seats while respecting the VRA, even if SCOTUS no longer does. www.the-downballot.com/p/how-democr...

RIP Mark Pheonix

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

Going to be thinking about this one for a while: "An agent acting on a user's behalf is, in effect, assistive technology: it should operate a site as the user would, and the site should not single it out for different treatment."

Star Wars - Dark Forces (1995, remaster 2024)

I'm not sure if anyone on here knew of him but my best friend the extraordinary rapper Mark Pheonix (yes, "the E before the O") passed away this morning. I don't have pretty stuff to say yet as I'm still going through it, but I just felt I'd share to get the word around. 🕊️

two things to remember here: (1) it is indisputable at this point that partisan identity & affect shape responses to consumer-sentiment surveys more than in the past (2) it is a step too far however to conclude that *all* expressed negative economic sentiment is vibes with no connection to reality

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

The conservatives aren't even bothering to explain anything. Other judges say maps are unconstitutionally racist, and they just shrug it away.

Breaking news: SCOTUS intervenes in Alabama redistricting case & says GOP *is* allowed to change Alabama map. Despite a lower-court finding evidence of intentional discrimination. Yet another SCOTUS gift to the GOP; eliminates seat of a Black member of Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...