The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

Also ein hingeschissenes „Bekennerschreiben“ auf einer Internetseite auf der jeder Inhalte hochladen kann reicht um gesichert von „Linksextremen“ zu reden, aber bei Hakenkreuzflaggen, Kriegswaffen aus dem zweiten Weltkrieg und SS Uniformen im Keller kann man keine Rechtsextreme Gesinnung erkennen. ❤️

The gist of this --that it has nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with control was made clear to me when I first received an RTO --from a literal lord. He didn't care about anyone's output. He wanted to feel like an aristocrat and that meant seeing people bend to his will.

Microslop is willing to cannibalize one of the most recognizable product names in the world in an effort to force people to engage with their “AI” assistant. This is going to confuse the hell out of people and be a bigger debacle than HBO / MAX.

They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources. If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

Just discovered the subreddit r/accidentalrockwell and it is delightful

it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up

About half of the Declaration is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against King George III and his regime. Nearly 250 years later, many of these grievances apply to the reign of Donald Trump. Here’s a look at how Trump stacks up against the Mad King.

Economic sanctions would devastate the world economy (and affect me and everyone I know), but they should be considered. Every time Trump gets away with illegal bullshit, the fash around the world are emboldened.

here we go, y'all. here we go.

This also means that the left has a lot of runway to educate and agitate people.

I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.

I'm a Gen-Xer about to turn 50, but also me

Never forget, "boots on the ground," is shitweasel politic-talk for "your uniformed family members in harm's way." They can substitute leather for flesh and blood in the press room, but know what it is really.

A sad announcement.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

This piece, from the great @elevidalbe.bsky.social in 2024, is still and particularly relevant right now: stop telling Venezuelans how to think or feel in this moment globalvoices.org/2024/08/09/d...

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

Today, Trump also threatened Mexico. And Cuba. And Columbia. This CTA is freely shareable, it doesn't require a Patreon account to access; consider sending it to your normie friends who don't know how to call their electeds before we fully tip over into the unthinkable

This thread is keeping track of misinformation circulating about the US' attack on Venezuela. A must read!

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

We cannot stop an illegal war against Venezuela

Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).

Was sind das für Zeiten in denen man nicht sicher sein kann, dass die konservativ-liberal-sozialdemokratischen Regierungen Europas den Überfall auf ein souveränes Land und die Entführung des Staatschefs scharf verurteilen werden?

This is exactly why Dems must resist the temptation to give statements leading with, “We agree he’s a bad guy…” Don’t help Trump and his cronies post hoc manufacture even an ounce of consent

We killed innocent civilians in Venezuela so oil barons can make obscene amounts of money for just a little bit longer. The fossil fuel industry keeps a jackboot on the jugular of green energy innovation, knowing full well our environment is on the brink of total collapse. Fuck you, got mine

A good reminder of how major media outlets inflated and outright lied about the famous toppling of the Saddam statue in Firdos Square in 2004, which was a carefully stage-managed propaganda operation conducted by the U.S. military.

Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago. Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.

AfD jubelt, dass sie nicht mehr verboten werden könnte, weil Trump sie mit Sanktionen schützen würde. Wenn wir nur deshalb unsere Demokratie nicht retten können, weil fremde Mächte uns drohen, dann ist es nicht nur mit unserer Demokratie vorbei, sondern auch mit Unabhängigkeit. Dank den Faschisten.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Look, I’m hosting the Hugos in LA next year, but we will film that shit. NOBODY should risk themselves. Our country is acting despicably in every regard.

The moderate position is indeed The Hague

The presumptuous autocorrupt cannot HAVE a theory of mind! It has no agency! No judgement! No discernment! We do not attribute theory of mind to inanimate objects! Even ones with googly eyes that we have named Ralph! No, our equilibrium is fine without handing any credit to the electric sand.

‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage This happened during the recent CCC conference.

New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv. www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...

Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are. “Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc

no one stopped him from buying the US election, so he's doing the same with the UK, French and German elections too. Pretty logical progression. Europe's center-right and center-left are just as delusional and paralyzed in inaction as the Dems here were. They can't even log off the guy's website!

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

"things many school children don't know how to do" and whose fucking fault is that? information has to be taught. i got an analog alarm clock for Christmas having never used one before, and had to look up how the alarm hand worked because the instruction manual was worthless

"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?" #McSweeneysTop25of2025

LLMs "apologize" a LOT, because they spew a lot of bullshit and are frequently called on it. But a true apology requires a commitment to change future behavior, which LLMs are incapable of doing, so no LLM can make a true apology.

What I think gets lost in the writing to market discussion is the definition of the market. There are 2 markets: 1. the general market of readers. Who is the biggest pool that spends money and what do they read 2. your ideal readers and what they like about YOUR work in particular. 2/

Hey fellow algorithm haters, you will likely enjoy this video (by @techconnectify.bsky.social) which was put into my home feed because one time I watched a video where he got a little ranty about dishwasher powder (it was actually interesting)