That man really shit himself on camera. Incompetent and incontinent. Damn.

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Still one of my favourite episodes of all time... Utterly wild. Completely unhinged. Amazing work.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

DEEP HEAVY SIGH. As a neighbour of Venezuela... I have wondered if Americans understand how sanctions work from a practical standpoint. Cuz they keep screaming that a country/ leader is bad cuz the people are poor. But the US literally destroyed their ability to make money and buy goods... soo 🤷‍♀️

The neoconservative theory of change is that you can cripple a country's national economy via collective punishment and induce mass protests about the economy which you then in turn use as evidence of discontent with the regime for a casus belli to topple it.

The point is to collectively punish in the hope that it induces massive upheaval and if they don't do that you just punish them more. When it doesn't work it's taken as evidence that the people haven't been punished enough. Also if you ever think about doing this to the US or Israel you're a bigot.

To be blunt Americans are just used to hitting people with every stick imaginable and they aren't used to being hit back. It's very likely they won't be hit back for a while but I do think it's inevitable that it happens.

Someone on Twitter put the state of international political discourse really well when they said “the emperor has no clothes but the jesters are still dancing.”

A year later and yet...

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Me quietly announcing to my cat that it is I climbing into (my) bed for a nap so she doesn't jump awake. (Sometimes it is the less favoured human come to sneak attack kisses.) And so she stretches and rolls over to give me her belly. Nice Sunday afternoon. Now if only the migraine would go away

I'm not trying to be mean... but if I invite you over for lunch and you show up at my house at 10 am be prepared for me to fucking ignore your ass till noon cuz WHY? The coffee has not entered my fucking bloodstream. The cats are still eating breakfast. You know I'm not an early riser. WTF.

Yes. You do have to choose the lesser of two evils. It's called being a fucking adult. You have to make the best possible choice even when the choices aren't great. If certain people practiced some kind of common sense instead of tantrumming and virtue signalling we wouldn't be in this mess. 🤷‍♀️

Almost a month ago... and now they're not even pretending. Maybe it's only good and right that the mask is off. I couldn't take the gaslighting anymore.

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This is what the US does. This is what the US has always done. Anyone who claims otherwise is either intentionally lying or effectively misled. Please don’t be fooled.

Nice and pretty unicorn. 🤦‍♀️ Just finished reading this and...SIGH!!!! SO MUCH BIODIVERSITY.🥲

Yup to this article!

People will say 'it's inevitable' like that wasn't how they sold NFTs & Bitcoin, your avg criminal's favorite currency. It's shitty at everything it tries to do. It's causing societal & environmental damage at a speed & scale we've never seen before. But you want a 'conversation'. Well, I don't.

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Look at my Grammarly and my Chat GPT right here. $10. Shimps.

If I have to see one more person fighting with endless semantics so they can find an excuse to outsource their brain. 😭 JUST DO THE WORK. Let those neurons and synapses fire. *This tantrum brought to you via the SFWA's latest set of snafus and resultant discourse.

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I hate having to constantly post shit at my american followers despite not being american myself but everyone gets affected by this so there really is no choice but to swing it please do something about this guys, the rest of the world is literally at your mercy lmao

All I see is a man who is heavily leveraged on AI and doesn’t want to lose money when it proves to have no true value.

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Two beautiful human beings

We got here because society continues to promote the idea that success is wealth. Countries treat business as the only decider of what's good for a country, instead of whether people have necessities & opportunities to thrive. The wellbeing of citizens takes a back seat to the profit of 0.001%.

I actually do not want the press to use the words "regime change" wrt Venezuela. Please say what it is. America wants to install a puppet government so they can steal their resources. It's not altruism. America has spent decades undermining Venezuela's govt so they can orchestrate this theft.

My brain just broke realising laws against usury in the United States don't apply to student loans. Now I get why everyone is in debt. I cannot imagine not protecting college students. Like wtf yall?

AI is not here to stay. Not in its current form which adds no value and is essentially a pyramid scheme. There are viable AI technologies which can be developed but ChatGPT is not it. Generative AI is not it. We have to fight against this narrative that AI is inevitable/ permanent. It is not.

The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.

What I don't understand is like. How is it a meaningful standard anyway if it's meant to interface with machines that will just ingest any old garbage and output any old garbage on the other end? How is this anything at all, really.

This is literally an API? You're describing APIs. Are APIs revolutionary? I can curl the json endpoints of various services and read them too. Isn't the point of LLMs and agents supposed to be that they Just Work and can do things like humans can and you don't have to adapt your services to them?

Having polled a bunch of my sister's friends I recently realised how much Americans are insulated from international media...not just news but our art, our festivals, our entertainment. Most of the globe is very familiar with American everything but they know nothing about us.

For those of you who think the so-called settlement from Anthropic is good, you should know they stole millions of works, but are only paying for novels. No shorts, non-fiction etc. And if you're a non-US writer, like me, you get nothing even with a US copyright because non-US authors don't count.

Watching all the old vids of Kwame Ture popping off and simultaneously feeling sad cuz wtf is going on my country? Where did these great minds go? And also feeling like... wow you're welcome guess I know why yall be fucking with us now huh... www.instagram.com/reel/DPMt0qy...

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I honestly did not think when the average UK citizen voted for Labour that these were the policies they expected. This has been an insane aboutface to my mind but maybe I'm missing something.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

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This is such a truth.

And this conditional compassion requires mind-boggling levels of denial and dissonance. “x group had a bad thing happen thus they never do anything wrong ever” and “y group did a bad thing therefore nothing that ever happens to them is ever wrong” is a WILD pair of ideas to hold simultaneously.

“Jews can’t do genocide because the Holocaust,” “slavery wasn’t racist because Africans had also slaves,” “England starving 85 million Indians to death was okay because the caste system” what the fuck are we even talking about.