Mullin’s the consensus second-stupidest person in the Senate, right? (There are *extremely few* humans on earth stupider than Tommy Tuberville)

I suspect we’ll see a lot of people angry over this who can’t differentiate the substance of various “x is a distraction from y” claims. This just seems straightforwardly true. Doesn’t mean we can’t deal with multiple things at once, but they’re very transparently trying to wag the dog

This is about AI in coding, but it’s also true of translation. Lately I’ve been assigned to QA a few subtitle files that I’m *pretty sure* were generated by AI, and the QA on them takes about 10x longer than human translations (but guess who doesn’t get paid 10x as much to do the QA!)

I think something gentiles don’t realize - especially ones identifying as antizionist - is that AIPAC doesn’t represent the normative Jewish position on Israel. The org that comes closest is JStreet. But hey, why bother with accuracy when you’ve got a boogeyman with name recognition.

Holy shit. Does this mean they did kill Mousavi??? It feels insane to say it but did they tell an AI to target Iranian leadership & it included all the dissident leaders too? That’s gotta be what happened, right?

Please do not repost Caitlin Johnstone into the timeline. Thank you.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

HUGE endorsement for Stratton

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

Kind of despairing at the replies to this post. Do none of these people have Iranian friends? Have none of them noticed the horrors that have been going on in Iran since late December?

Current little pet conspiracy theory: Israeli intelligence learned that Khamenei was either dead or near death and launched the strikes today so they could claim responsibility for his death

I’d be careful about saying stuff like this. If you’re going to shame people for “not seeing Iranians as people” you’re going to have to engage with how actual Iranians are viewing today’s events.

I did not think Harris’s reluctance to distance herself from Biden’s FP was the right move, but I have nothing but contempt for people like TAH who pretended that this meant her FP (especially on Gaza) would be a identical to Biden’s

My entire education was “elite private schools” (what this poster is referring to) and the view described here was not even really close to the majority view among the people I encountered in those spacss

well no, we’re not “doing regime change” we’re doing “YOU do regime change… somehow I guess (???)”

I think it *is* important to specify that the Iranian regime is extremely evil and needs to be toppled, precisely because there’s no credible theory of how bombing the shit of the country makes that goal more attainable at all

These were the same people who lost their fucking minds when Obama suggested you could save on gas by making sure your tires were properly inflated

“Let them eat many proteins to choose from”

It will be important for the next administration to break this apart.

Dear Recruiter, If you hire me for one of the many jobs at your company that I’m obviously qualified for, you’ll never get another of these annoying emails from me ever again. Thank you for your consideration, R.M. Oreos

2yo is in the famous “will not eat nuggies unless John Cale’s Paris 1919 is playing” phase

Yesterday was six months since my dad died, so I will just say that his favorite Simpsons line was “I’ve been calling her Crandall!”

I had never eaten a grape until I was 37 years old. I have nothing against them and they aren’t the worst fruit. I am unable to articulate why this is the case, but I just do not eat grapes.

No one wants to hear this, but people have gotta stop waving flags to express their Israel/Palestine opinion at non-I/P demonstrations.

I’ve mentioned this before but it’s nuts that a 30-year-old New York sports fan whose allegiances are Mets/Jets rather than Yankees/Giants has never seen a big 4 championship

I HAVE BEEN ASKING THIS QUESTION FOR YEARS WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT???

The pope is better on this issue than a lot of university administrators right now. www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...

7-11 taquitos

look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

It is extremely important that Elon Musk be (at least) locked up for the rest of his life.

ok nobody told me that she skated her gold medal-winning routine to “MacArthur Park” that rules

these two clowns were both wrong; everyone knows it’s Earl Grey

This is my son Og, King of Bashan

ok, I read this as “these couples have stayed together because they share a horrible secret” (exciting!) rather than “here’s the secret to a lasting relationship” (borrrrrring!)

The problem is that no one seems able to articulate what the “cars & planes” are in this analogy

My increasingly strong suspicion is that there’s a massive, massive competitive advantage to be had by countries (and companies) that do not sink money into AI boondoggles

Broccoli lowkey one of the best tempuras

“We ultimately have to make sure that these criminals, and especially this administration, are brought to justice,” said @ramirez.house.gov. “And that means I want to see them behind bars. They have to be, for the sake of who we are as a nation.” THIS IS THE ENERGY I WANT

These monsters need to be punished, severely.

what… what does Pam Bondi think Culver City is ???

I'm increasingly of the opinion that tech in general needs an increased liability surface. expanded liability for what your algorithm pushes, expanded liability for what your model outputs. if you make the danger real the incentives align.

AI transcription and translation tools are much worse (and more dangerous!) than already-existing non-AI computer tools!

I think it woulda been funny if they just didn’t tackle that guy and the Seahawks won the Super Bowl on a Pats TD

I am BEGGING people to stop referring to ICE as “law enforcement” or “police”

Always Sunny: Charlie Kelly, King of the Rats

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Who is “pushing Newsom super hard” besides Newsom himself? “THERE’S EASILY TIME” yeah exactly, that’s why this is a weird thing to be getting worked up about right now

did they find my old tweets about marsha blackburn