The next sane (so presumably non-GOP) president should follow the wannabe dictator’s lead on Antifa, and designate MAGA as a terrorist organization. Plenty more evidence to support it.

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

“This action reflects the State’s assessment that the federal government is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner…” In other words, even if California won, it would never see a dime from this administration.

“No, you’re not a ‘prompt engineer’, you’re a sloperator.” —Colin M ([email protected])

Hey, wait, I thought he already “completely destroyed” ISIS.

Shocked, shocked I tell you. (Hat-tip to @ruefrex.bsky.social)

Had to verify that this wasn't AI or something. It's not. The crucified Christ appears in the original, the central panel of the Saint Columba Altarpiece (a.k.a. "Adoration of the Kings"), Rogier van der Weyden's 15th century triptych. www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/j...

TIL Sartre was the first to say “Don’t Feed the Troll.” (Hat-tip to @danhon.com)

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, became known as Timothy the Infinitely Prolonged and, in order to cope with the endless periods of total boredom, resolved to insult the Universe. Individually, personally, one by one, and in alphabetical order.

Tornado Warning inside a Severe Thunderstorm Warning inside a Flash Flood Warning in LA County at the moment, if you're wondering how things are going... #CAwx #LArain

Any movie can be a Christmas movie with the right attitude.

Hat-tip to @theerinmaher.bsky.social

California officials are urging holiday travelers to avoid the roads on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

My cousin Amy is married! 🎉

“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.” —U.S. Department of Justice

You will be shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that her last name is Morales. (Hey, the convicted felon practically got his political start by falsely claiming that a non-white person’s birth certificate was fake…)

In May and June, “federal district courts have ruled against the administration 94.3% of the time. The Supreme Court, however, has flipped that outcome, siding with the administration in 93.7% of its cases (15 out of 16).” data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Dear “news” organizations: Respectfully suggesting that you replace the obviously false statement “Mr. Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing related to Epstein” with “Mr. Trump’s Department of Justice has not formally accused him of wrongdoing related to Epstein.”

Hat-tip to @mcvalada.bsky.social

STOP. IT.

Hat-tip to @theerinmaher.bsky.social

One major problem with this “solution” is that LLMs *never* know the answer. They literally do not understand a single word of your prompts or their responses. They’re just pattern-matching to guess what you might want the output to be. (Hat-tip to @ruefrex.bsky.social)

It took less than a year for Trump and the Republicans to destroy the economy and strip citizens of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

“How dare you plagiarize my instructions to the plagiarism machine!” (Hat-tip to @stephenblackmoore.com)

Hurray for isolation due to exposure to COVID-19!

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Hat-tip to @jackiekashian.bsky.social

The second major problem with (what they’re passing off as) Artificial Intelligence: biased training causes biased output.

I am not a conspiracy theorist. Nevertheless, upon learning that the federal government had announced: 1. It had found the person guilty of not only the Brown mass shooting but also the MIT professor’s murder; 2.The killer had supposedly committed suicide; and

UPDATE on Nebula Awards and LLMs: SFWA just announced: "SFWA does not support the use of LLM generative models in the production of creative work. … Works that are written, either wholly or partially, by generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible [in the Nebulas]."

Welp, this explains why I’ll be asking the same question 43 times pretty soon

The Goblin’s Glossary national security, n. - A really important, totally secret thing that justifies me doing whatever I want because it’s so important but nobody but me can know what it is and you just have to trust me that everything I do is for this really important super-secret thing

He couldn’t get his “Trump Wall,” so he looked around for something else named after a president that he could co-opt. sarcasticcynic.tumblr.com/post/1818496...

His endless lies aren’t news. Re-skeeting purely for the glorious phrase “Former President Donald Trump.”

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

The same thing everyone learns at every good law school: “the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.”

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Minas Tirith for Firith.

Imagine a Democrat president filling the White House with “official” self-aggrandizing propaganda insulting Republican presidents, falsely crediting Democrats for good things occurring under Republicans, and otherwise full of outright lies. For this utter piece of 💩, though, it’s barely even news.

A recent X post from conservative influencer Laura Loomer shared an image of a purported post about President Donald Trump from the late Rob Reiner, but it was fabricated.

David needs folks to lend a hand. https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-gerrolds-health-and-leukemia-fundraiser?lang=en_GB&ts=1765731124&fbclid=IwdGRjcAOs_FtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR6KKiZ2rx4-CeehknGhy0m7jAsLfQXTijNNB--x4dSYOZovtFMCTh0YuSl10w_aem_bDanHCEMaHX8JsZvYYD7Jg

Hat-tip to @mattfnwallace.bsky.social (who, like me, is not transgender but still gives a $#!+)

The Goblin’s Glossary: Ethics, n. - Entirely fictitious creatures, the supposed existence of which has been manufactured by people suffering from TDS (q.v.); never seen in the real world See also: Conflict of Interest

SIGH

We are failing our kids

“People who are psychopathic prey ruthlessly on others using charm, deceit, violence or other methods that allow them to get with they want.” www.minddisorders.com/Flu-Inv/Hare... 1/2

I believe the established precedent for someone who says anything remotely negative about a recently murdered famous person due to political differences is immediate loss of job.

grief