the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

It is wild that Charlie Kirk of all things is becoming *the* litmus test. Even just talking about the event publicly without a sufficient supply of sackcloth and ashes is cast as "promoting political violence." I haven't seen this kind of mandatory performance of allegiance and piety since 9/11.

The competitive authoritarianism will be getting competitive any day now.

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

Everyone clear your schedules for October 18 and find the nearest No Kings protest.

One thing Charlie Kirk's assassination has revealed is the extent to which the elite liberal media class has abandoned reality for a post-truth politics previously embraced by the right.

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

Absolutely no proof of anything out there right now, no actual suspect, no motives, a history of the Right attacking and trying to kill one another, and I'm just swimming in accounts and conversations and threads calling for mass violence and state attacks on the Left.

giving him the exact headline he wanted from this stunt even though the actual thing that occurred in reality was he got shouted down by protesters. don't print lies in the newspaper

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Don't shoot people. It's wrong and can also lead to a lot of bad things happening.

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

Can you please help us construct a concise list of what bothers _you_ about Meta as a company and as a service. We have our own list, but we are biased. We're looking for a broader perspective. If you are fine using Meta, please stay quiet. We're not interested. We get that already.

Pennsylvania friends, please vote to retain these judges and spread the word about the importance of this judicial election. These judges have fought gerrymandering and election conspiracies.

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

A significant portion of the American public believes we are currently giving immigrants free jobs, housing, and money, all while paying no income tax. “Tax them at a higher rate” won’t even dent the illusion.

Trans rights are human rights

I went to see my PCP this morning (he’s from Texas, the only non-MAGA guy in his family). Said that by far his biggest/immediate worry from a professional standpoint is the damage RFK Jr. will cause

Bringing in the national guard to stop crime but putting them in places where there isn’t crime so instead getting them to do the custodial work normally done by park service employees because they’re all fired now. Efficiency.

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

Many centrist pundits have never experienced the business end of conservative policy but have experienced the left being mean to them for the stupid things they say and so they assume from their "elevated rational" position that they're each just as bad.

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

it's funny because you have dotcom era rhetoric turned up to 11 combined with the uber/lyft, bird/lime etc funding model of burning infinite capital surely being worth it when you outlasted the competitor (or in this case achieved AGI) and can secure infinite rents as a monopolist

ISTM more people in computer science and AI research just need to more directly and force fully state that Alan Turing was just wrong that a computer that can imitate a human being in conversation is intelligent

Investors are crazy about AI because if you interact with chatgpt and you do not really understand how llms work, it feels like they've made a thinking computer. But they haven't. They have made a computer that can output extremely plausible speech, which is not the same thing.

Just found @cjdenial.bsky.social's wonderful blog post curating lots of links about why AI is dangerous/bad for your brain &&, and will share with students. Thanks, Cate! 🔥💙

Genuinely think this is the best daily game out there atm catfishing.net #421 - 5/10 🐈🐟🐟🐈🐟 🐟🐟🐈🐈🐈

Once again I would like to propose my Olympics idea: No more going from place to place. Everyone travels to where they always are. Permanent home in Greece for summer events & indoor winter events. Permanent home for outdoor winter events in some miserable place where you can count on snow.

Replying to a question this morning about why the public “had to learn” about Dojo’s demise from Bloomberg and not him directly, Musk tweeted “We do need better news aggregation on X.” Part of the nativist-tech coalition’s information capture project is disintermediation in news and info.

Every biography on @catfishing.net Born in 1872 | Deaths in 2019 | Awarded Purple Heart | Actors | Scuba divers | Alleged IRA members | Impressionist painters | World champions in checkers | Alleged ETA members | Mistresses of US presidents | Top 40 artists of 1975 | Notorious fugitives | Authors

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Abolish Everything is a delight and a sufficient reason to subscribe to Nebula.

we should build tools that make it easier to write better code, not more

The big problem with the politics of "just do what polls say is already popular" is that most people don't have strongly-held opinions about most issues. When pollsters ask, they answer. But they're often taking elite cues, not expressing deep passions. Leaders can lead people to different stances.

This is the other Trump effect; during his first presidency, support for immigration hit record highs. And now we’re seeing the exact same thing, only more.

This is the kind of discussion that we need to be having here to fill Blue Sky out as a community.

Siembra @siembranc.bsky.social is doing exemplary work on immigrant defense.

Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

I was a beta reviewer for this zine and it’s a banger. I’ve used the terminal for most of my life and I still learned a lot of secrets, from big concepts to little tricks.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event