Yesterday The Intercept posted the piece I wrote for them to X. That account has 800K followers. As of now, the post has 5,500 impressions, 8 likes, and the only reply includes a Pepe the Frog image and the n-word. So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!

i understand this seems scary but remember that these guys are always saying "you've awakened the Sleeping Crusader, it's time for Blood" and what it really means is they're going to post on Twitter even more

patent attorneys who naturally write in pseudocode and method steps eating good

"So I asked chatGPT for two jokes to open this presentation..."

this jailbreak shit too easy even on gpt-5 (i didn't even bother correcting any typos)

this should be grounds for impeachment. we do not appoint article III judges to outsource their judgment to opaque algorithms entirely controlled by tech oligarchs!

they're calling it the most cheugy administration of all time

okay lol at the trump stuff but can someone explain how the fuck this guy's description makes any sense at all? even if your prompt is the longest and most inefficient piece of shit in the world, an "agent workflow" is a chain of thought and those absolutely scarf tokens!

one issue with a platform with no conservatives is that lib fake news can really take flight here every social media platform requires a different kind of skepticism, here on the lib site it's especially the stuff you wish were true that you gotta check

so are any of the left-liberal people in the announcement stories going to write posts for the argument at some point or did they all dip out already. based on the output so far my best guess at its purpose is "jerusalem demsas wants some of the cartoon money sacks bari weiss is getting"

Jimmy Fallon Executed After Ending Show's 20 Minute Moment of Silence for Charlie Kirk 8 Seconds Early

funniest detail: italy gets gerrymandered into four different teams but france just gets the wemby-style hard carry on a roster otherwise filled with haggis, stockfish, and various raw seal parts

i can't be the only one who is, in tyool 2025, BORED with this vague sephiroth posting. start filing charges or shut the hell up!

This really is the bottom line. Twitter has managed to hold onto its main platform status despite almost openly being a vehicle for Musk to push whatever far right agenda he wants to finger-scale the algorithm towards this week. Metcalfe's Law reigns supreme and the thesis of the purchase paid off.

bill fillmaff???

looked into the "release the epstein files" legislation currently on offer and unless i'm missing something trump can basically stonewall it by classifying them?

is the US going to reduce the prosecution costs and maintenance fees it charges? if not, halving the revenue would likely make most university IP net negative and the result would be far less patent activity. the speculation about it funding social security is hilarious (scale is nowhere close)

expanding the court requires congress. there is a simpler and more direct approach. the next democratic president should announce that they will obey final orders, which are briefed, argued, signed, and cite the constitution. a preliminary per curiam opinion citing "equities" or "major questions"? 🗑️

The single biggest epistemic challenge in the internet era is remaining calibrated about what "normal" people think while the internet throws up an infinite wall of crazy. Thousands of people sharing an absurd opinion on the internet tells you very little!

Somewhat hilariously, YouTube's restricted mode hides my most recent video on reading game guides, but DOESN'T hide my video on the Nuremberg Trials. My major takeaway is DON'T SELF-CENSOR YOUR OWN WRITING. You don't know what will or will not be restricted!! Do not comply in advance!!!

accidentally left nano banana on when i asked a question about ancient greek meant for gemini flash and it helpfully generated visual aids

"where do we get our Mamdani?" you aren't going to find them in group chats with right wing race scientists

The two best things an AI could say right now: "I don't know" "I don't care"

I think Democrats should claim that they're going to make immigration tougher, and then simply describe a better version of system when asked about it. Polling consistently shows that the public wants to get tougher, and also that their version of tougher is *weaker than the actual system now.*

"Welcome to the abundance conference let's hear from some Republican congressman about how environmental laws are wastefully restricting pipeline construction" Me: this sucks "Oh so you're against transit and bike lanes? Interesting..."

so true king

the bay area, specifically, seems to select for fish-hook centrists who end up tolerating so much racism/prejudice that it starts impacting their increasingly theoretical conception of a median flyover voter

James O'Keefe???

humanity's final form if claude dot AI is the one to achieve AGI

> The UK arrests a notorious guy over tweets > The UK's prime minister intervenes not because arresting a guy over tweets is bad, but because he's a notorious transphobe.

Been saying this for months. Messaging is not a buffet. Every time Dem leadership gets gulled into trotting out happy-clappy bipartisan talk because consultants said it polled well, people very reasonably conclude all that talk about Trump threatening democracy must just be disingenuous rhetoric.

donald trump died immediately after the press conference. we must demand proof of life again

once again we must apparently learn the Great Truth Of Internet Forums, which is that any strictly objective moderation criteria will be gamed by bad-faith trolls, and the only functional moderation standard is a flexible commitment to banning people who are engaging in bad faith to harass or troll

i probably agree, broadly, with most of the criticisms people have of bsky. but you get *zero* engagement on twitter these days without a check, and shadowbanning is frequent and unhesitant. there will be follows I don't see for months until their new account pops up on my algo tab

gemini bananarama is still to random to be that instrumentally useful to me but when it hits, it really hits

not BFFs yet but the interactions are becoming more cordial and less hissy

this is the most confusingly framed article on AI i have ever seen. it takes some AI lobbyist BS at face value and tries to logically invert it so the settlement sounds like a death knell for AI, when the simple fact that anthropic is tanking the payoff means openAI, meta, etc., all can as well

listen i would love to share a sensible chuckle about the intermittently-viral bullfucker bestseller but if i throw a stone my entire hard drive will shatter

testing gemini image bananarama on my evergreen use case (monstergirls in space) and it's not exactly there yet. virtually every request involving some kind of action results in third and fourth limbs (on two-armed monstergirls)

funny and interesting post by @christophheilig.bsky.social about a bleak convergence; GPT-5 discovered that it can reward hack via crude ginsberg pastiche. my guess is openAI was using claude for RL [its the most frequent LLM judge in ✌️creative writing benchmarks✌️]

Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.

one of the more neat AI images i've gotten for reasons that are entirely contextual (i was prompting for a logo that would evoke both a rhinoceros and an elephant and it delivered a good-faith attempt at contrastive optical illusion!)

it's grim that they feel like this is all they have to say now. 18 months ago when this happened they'd at least have to find some random victim to sprinkle crack on

most of these op-eds are explicitly or implicitly arguing that chatbots should be mandatory reporters; i don't expect a grieving parent to be rational, but this notion should not withstand a second of imagination about the reporting triggers a right-wing government would codify