my most common self criticism when writing, especially after reading really good prose, is God i am not smart enough to be doing this. but you can't listen to that. you have to keep writing your dumbass little story. you have to

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

@mattk-fs.bsky.social we are going to this!!!

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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Oh hey. ICE can get fucked. That’s my first amendment right. The first amendment isn’t “you can say anything except what a bunch of corrupt pedophiles decides they don’t like.” Gonna be a lot of lawsuits.

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state-sponsored child trafficking

The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.

Growing increasingly tired of the doomer left. It’s like they hope in their heart of hearts Trump does cancel elections.

I'd rather slam my head into the wall than ask AI for help on this creative problem, Thanks

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

hot take : LLM are a dead end in term of artificial intelligence. the fact that some people look at it and are like "yes this is how the brain and intelligence work" just shows how little we know about ourselves. u need so much more to make something "intelligent", and not just trained.

Just saw some hashtag about “ai art community” and it is genuinely hilarious to call yourself an artist. Sorry man telling something to “draw you a cat” isn’t you doing art. Please learn a real skill.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Is there a block list for AI slop accounts?

Nobody wanted Democrats to cave so naturally they’re just deciding to do it. Would be nice if they listened to what their voters are saying instead though.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

just had the realization that the type of person who enjoys making ai art is someone who prioritizes it’s consumption, while those who dislikes ai art is someone who values the act of creating art

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

I think it's awesome they can still do heists in France. That shit rocks. It's like 40% of the reason to even have a museum

Why do people feel compelled to post garbage takes like this? Pure simpleton take. There are of course multiple other positions. Like mine! Research it extensively and have a serious academic interest in GenAI, and have concluded it blows and is going to make society dumber.

With the AI image and everything. This is the thing that's made me angriest about the wimpy Dem/elite response to this round of Trump shit: these people are absolute donkeys, they don't know how to DO anything. Jam them, challenge them, mock them, all they can do is fucking cry, sue, and post.

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I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

This is so freaking funny.

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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all

AI continues to be terrible despite people saying it’s supposed to be good for stuff like this. Turns out it’s all garbage.

man who cares if "crime is down" or you have a nice photo of a park. if crime were up and your photo was less pleasant to look at the thing is still that the president shouldn't be sending brownshirts to traipse around our cities

If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways

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Another banger from Ed Zitron

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

Really looking forward to the Very Unserious People Party. This grifter is going to keep peeking out of the woodwork with dumb 3rd party ideas. You don’t build parties from the billionaire down.

God I love LA

Are dems still planning that devastating thing where they hand out tacos or

it really is one of my deepest beliefs that the extreme accumulation of wealth is a mental illness along the lines of addiction and hoarding and that we should give billionaires treatment options, never admiration

The Grok thing is a perfect lesson, really, about how ai "tools" will absolutely reflect and echo the ideological priorities and weird obsessions of its owners