Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

it's true that AI is wrong and looks like shit, but personally the most repellent part of it is that the people who use it of their own accord are doing it because they believe what rich people say and do what rich people tell them to do

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

toni morrison.

They’ll look everywhere… except at the people who are writing original stuff.

Brilliant list of books for understanding Iran. I would add Naghmeh's own work to the list, and I would also say that tehre are a few novels as well that are amazing for understanding Iran: truethings.naghmehs.com/p/my-recomme...

Why can't they make national anthems sound like music when they're on TV?

RFK Jr: An Autistic person will never write a poem. JRRR Tolkien: I gotta put at least one poem on every other page of this fanfic I'm writing about the fictional language I came up with for fun.

Throwback to this classic tweet:

Kansas City is like this now youtu.be/MusyO7J2inM?...

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

What you wish you could be doing in New York right now is what you could be doing when It happens. HAVE A PLAN.

$20k a year in daycare has nothing to do with it huh you dipshits

The few. The proud. The dirt bike jump ramp security guys.

i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--

guy who's really into scaffolding logging on to bluesky for the first time tonight: holy shit

10/10, no notes.

not if we keep electing the worst people on earth

everyone knows number one lifting rule is to keep those wrists bent, reeeaaal floppy style

So this new deal with Iran is just something the president made up, right? We'll hear from Iran in a few hours they haven't agreed to anything? Does this happen every week, or every other week? I can't keep track anymore.

Check out Gussie Fink-Nottle over here

Might as well bow down to the CEO of Sears.

Eating cold cheddar cheese on tortilla chips

I'm going to travel back in time and tell myself how in 2026 there's a website run by a white nationalist supervillain, a website he uses to meddle in domestic affairs and foment racial violence, but all the governments of the world still use it for official posts like it's no big deal.

Transgressive art is important to make for posterity because fascists love to try to tell you people didn't used to be weird

For every 100 salads I eat for lunch I get to have 1 dose of heroin.

Feels like the AI companies showed world leaders some super-demo to make them think AGI is imminent and it was probably just the giant head from Tron saying "fear not, I vow to protect and honor my father - mankind" or something equally stupid

really striking to see so vividly what the antidote to all our horrible oorah tacticool masculinity politics looks like

LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.

suddenly remembered this amazing screencap by @pftompkins.bsky.social

"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be." - @erinbartram.bsky.social

The Scylla and Charybdis we find ourselves in is that a financial crisis which happens right now, before the election, will facilitate the most grotesque billionaire bailout combined with a catastrophic lack of social stimulus, but a financial crisis which happens after the IPOs may be worse.

It's bigger than the heart from Contra

It has happened. The excellent Derek McCurdy interviewed me about my latest chapbook, Heavens to Betsy. The interview is now live at Copper Nickel. copper-nickel.org/an-interview...

Truly one of the stupidest and also best jokes in sitcom history

One thing I'm passionate about is news analysis.

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

It is worth noting that the takeover of 60 Minutes, and CBS News, is the culmination of the strategy that was baked into the launch of Substack. This is the thing we were trying to explain was bigger than just "there are nazis on there". www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

AI in the arts is in a lot of ways about STEM people not getting the humanities. They think it's about input, output, according to math, & there's only one answer. That's not what critical or creative writing is. It's a very human process of letting something move through you to come out of you.

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

This is so nice and good. thank you for everybody who read it and reposted it and said nice things to me about it

And he had a mouthful of starburst

Be nice. Everyone you meet is fighting a battle with me.

ME: no one ever listens to me THERAPIST: you too