I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Am I talking about Warhammer 40k? Or current events? Who can say?

I have thought the AI bubble* was covering underlying weakness in the economy and said so, Pearkes has a bunch of numbers here they suggests I was wrong. And he is that kind of analyst so you should listen to him. * I believe AI and adjacent services are oversold not useless.

Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.

I feel duty bound to campaign for this one

The one note of caution I’d have is he had similarly dismal numbers in 2017. But hopefully this go-round Dems won’t decide to pivot to kitchen-table issues. The entire MAGA movement must be crushed into dust and the earth where it grew salted. No hesitation this time.

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

mods are asleep post regime censored content

Jesus Christ, this guy did everything so by the book he didn't even cross the border until he had his day in court and they still just black bagged him off to torture prison.

When the couple upstairs stop shouting but you want to hear the end of the argument

What the Trump Era has largely revealed is that most of the people saying this, or insisting they'd happily pay higher prices for burrito taxis, were lying - perhaps not consciously, in all likelihood - because they expected no one would ever expect them to do so.

the map after The Event

New Things That Matter town hall: Did the Rebellion Fail Alderaan? Why Alderaan might still be around if not for the revolution. Featuring Grand Moff Tarkin and Admiral Motti.

delaying the story on Narkina Five until we get comment from Grand Moff Tarkin. his office says he'll be getting back to us soon, but he's currently busy dealing with an incursion at Scarif. we're not going to press until we hear back

I think there's a real opportunity for innovators to disrupt, for example, hobbies like "going for a walk" and make it a culture war fight as well. Perhaps by introducing more Gender?

Since there's no bottom to the depravity, the report was about a federal concentration camp where the government sends inconvenient people to torture them. Everything is horror layered under farce.

I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate. It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.

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leave me alone!! enough!!!!!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

Even as crazy hostile things have been this year towards queer people, I cannot stress to you how much shift there was on this issue in just my lifetime. From gay being a thing we said as an insult to hearing my coworker in rural Michigan say one of her kids classmates was openly trans. That's huge.

I really hate the attitude that there is nothing to learn from reinforcement learning and everything else that got hoovered up under AI marketing. Negative polarization is such a bitch, and I hate so much that the first, loudest AI voices so many ppl heard were dominionist fascists

There needs to be a word for the feeling you get when you recognize the intent of something as bigoted, but it‘s both trying too hard and not hard enough so you end up feeling nonplussed rather than offended.

Reposting this so the FBI agent monitoring my feed sees it

people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

Oh right, I deleted my old posts but comics should live forever. Here's one about having a cat

Historians say "murdered by zoomer with incomprehensible politics" was one of the leading causes of death in the mid 21st century- to be exceeded only by "Climate, Miscellaneous"

"oh it's linear algebra" don't lie to me bro none of these things are lines

This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release. AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.

sean casten dragging yglesias for 35 posts and counting is a great sign for dems, honestly we need these sorts of dipshit arguments not to be taken seriously by the party and if there’s one thing the thread makes very clear it is that he does not consider yglesias a serious person

i don't think "why is the left against ___" is as much of a fruitful question as "why are so many seemingly irrational left wing positions explained by online bullying?"

Sorry if this is a bit personal but does this shit make anyone else feel completely fucking insane

If you ever found yourself wondering "what sort of evil fucker would have turned in Anne Frank?" it's the people who did this.

The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools

Contempt of Congress, contempt for the law, contempt for Epstein's victims, contempt for basic human morality, contempt for their own supporters, contempt for the American people. Not merely covering up Trump and associates' awful actions, but being really obvious, throwing it in everyone's faces.

once again i think that this is all useful and good and also these fucking people are going to kill me

Pandora opened the LLM box years ago, fam. It is not going back in the box. All you can do is put guardrails on it.

Bill Kristol might have to be President

Essential dungeon crawl monsters: 1. Big and dumb 2. Small but there's lots 3. Tentacles don't go there 4. Evil horse 5. Fun facts about mushrooms 6. Eye 7. Punchable child 8. Dude that looks like another dude 9. Hostile architecture 10. Capitalism allegory 11. Uncomfortable implications 12. Steve

The Federal government is doing a lot of damage but also floundering and vulnerable, whereas other fascists continue to consolidate media on all fronts, from Twitter/TikTok on down to broadcast news and newspapers.

An increasingly closed-off, gated Internet, where increasingly the cost of being in a given online ecosystem is being forced off others.

Super-cool, and demonstrates just how weirdly interlinked the "manifold of knowledge" is. You pick at one teeny-tiny statistically non-existent dimension (bird names) and move it in one teeny-tiny way (from 21C to 19C). The entre system moves most weirdly, with values, facts, assumptions changing!

I yearn to escape the cycle of Samsara (UX retooling).

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.