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Oh thank god. I mean obviously it’s still horrible and unethical, but you devalue murder like that and you’re…screwing…over your…murder colleagues… Not sure where I was going with that.

I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant

And it’s out at last. Apple finally releases a folding iPhone.

Sure seems like it would buy a whole lot of everything without killing a whole bunch of everyone if we defunded the military.

I don't hate this war because it wasn't "authorized properly," or because I am not a fan of the specific President waging it. I hate this war because it is a war. thewhitepages.net/p/you-will-n...

Well, see, we have a leader who is a qualified lawyer. As opposed to one who is a convicted criminal.

Lidl moves into the AI space

What if we told all the petrostate oligarchs trying desperately to prop up the profit margins of an obsolete technology--and who are willing to kill uncounted children to do it--that they could just retrain for a new economy?

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Meanwhile, in Ireland, I'm looking at my EU-standard driving licence which doesn't have my gender on it at all. I mean, why would it? Are there cars that only men can drive?

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

This too…

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

Book recommendation: There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Possibly the most terrifying book I’ve read since I was a child. The things we forget are as much a part of who we are as the things we remember. And how do you save us from something that stops us perceiving it? Absolute mindfuck

I really, really hope they’ve done something achingly creative with their “Open/Closed” sign.

“Are we going to charge him, Sarge?” “Not right away, constable. Stick him in a cell and let him sweat for a while.” “Er…”

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think

and you won't be able to see that that's what's happening. the park should not be full of broken glass. you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved. 1) they now have no play area 2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons

Make that four raccoons in a trench coat, *but* one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go, and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine (hint: Northern Ireland)

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is coincidentally the model for the Anderson TV series from THUNDERBIRDS onwards; a sort of global EU bloc with a few nations that refuse to join and that, entirely by coincidence, have terrible human rights records.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

I am simply going to suggest everyone read @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social excellent book, A City on Mars. bookshop.org/p/books/a-ci...

The Struggles Of Elon Musk 😔

Yes, pretty much. It’s their culture.

I've found god. It's my turn to hide now.

I feel like getting the dudes who demand government issued girlfriends out of the gene pool might be one of those problems that solves itself

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”

When you cave, they push harder. When you fight back, *they* cave. Do not obey in advance. Repeat after me: "Fuck you--make me."

In my head, several times a day, I wonder... Does the sake belong to one fuck, or is it communal, belonging to multiple fucks? Because the apostrophe just keeps moving. It's wild.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.

Bruce Springsteen pays his taxes, backs unions, reads books, tells the truth and still fills stadiums — all while Trump is out here hawking gold sneakers and crying about rigged everything. Truly unfair. youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

"Our study revealing university degrees are a net drain on the rest of society turns out to contain an error. PPEs from Oxford are an outlier and should not have been included."

AI is like Brexit. I'm still waiting for someone to enumerate the pros.

Outside The American embassy in Copenhagen. 1 flag for each Danish soldier who died along side American soldiers in Afghanistan. Flags have been removed by the embassy, on danish soil, danish property. Disgusting and shameful.

one of the more unfortunate developments of the internet age is the explosion of the notion of "okay here's what the experts say but here's an unqualified person saying the opposite and they have a large audience so let's hear them out"

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

america never learned through years and decades of occupations and wars that killing people in their own neighborhoods is the absolute best way to *create* an insurgency so now they're gonna do it at home too

Sometimes democracy survives just because a penguin had a shovel and boundaries.

Can't help but feel the quote marks are in the wrong place

You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.