"Superintelligence" 🙄 claims aside, I think he's right. LLM boosters always start dissembling when you point out that the tech has two critical problems—it scales poorly and routinely generates errors—and nobody has a clue how to fix either. Both problems appear inherent to the tech itself.

Very on brand for the administration that plans to host a cage fight on the White House lawn.

The compression socks can’t support a collapsing narrative.

It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

Feel like in more functional countries if a bunch of random dudes turned up to a daycare and demanded to see the children they would be immediately escorted to prison

Both Satanic Panic and QAnon are just remixes of anti-semitic blood libel. It's sort of shocking to realize how mainstream this stuff has always been in right wing Christianity, especially among evangelicals

You don’t really need to know more than Trump hiring 18 yo masseuses and cosmetology practitioners. Why would a swanky club hire such inexperienced service providers? How could they be licensed SO young? And to send them OUT? A fool can see why.

you got that right

WSJ: “.. Maples told Trump that she was uneasy about Epstein’s presence and that she didn’t want to spend time with him—and didn’t want Trump to either .. But Epstein continued to attend parties and events at Mar-a-Lago.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

*subscribes to her Substack*

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"

“The United States, the world’s most powerful nation, is chasing Kyiv for territorial sacrifices while meekly pleading with the predator state to accept them,” writes @andrewchak.bsky.social This is the “this-is-fine” meme but absolutely no laughing matter.

“I believe — and I’m gonna make a prediction — this will be the highest-rated show that they’ve ever done, and they’ve gotten some pretty good ratings, but there’s nothing like what’s gonna happen tomorrow night,” Trump said. Or….

AfD aren't just your usual "far right" they are what you might call the OG "champagne Nazis" - as in, the German variety, a party that just re-booted its fascist youth program and is now as high up in the polls as the largest centrist party in the country - it's impossible to exaggerate this threat

People are invested in saying these aren’t concentration camps because they do not want to believe we could be so ugly. But we can. And we have.

It's not about immigration, never has been. Immigration is just the acceptable way into a debate about far darker policies. Just look at how remigration is seeping into acceptable discourse. Labour needs to stop chasing these voters, they're gone, no way to satisfy them that isn't monstrous

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To celebrate Jeff Lynne's birthday, here's my brother's dog doing his best impression of the brilliant ELO frontman

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Whose inauguration in that building?

Can we agree if Zootopia and Avatar are your big success stories globally, America is really in decline… “…with movie franchises like “Avatar” and “Zootopia,” a welcome box-office blip on a fading EKG, with implications not just for the coming year but beyond.” www.status.news/p/hollywood-...

it’s crazy how obvious it is that donald trump has been actively part of the epstein coverup for half a decade now and he’s just still the president

Most underrated Biden admin mistake was bailing out Silicon Valley Bank. SVB bet big on low interest rates and lost. Rich tech VCs who put too many eggs in that basket generated a bank run, then called for govt money. Got their bailout, helped elect Trump, and now reaping rewards from corruption.

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.

Back to Putin’s economic blackmail of 1999-2022

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

This is pretty much everyone in the conservative media ecosystem. Shit talents who can’t make it as entertainers for a wide audience getting famous and rich telling conservatives what they want to hear. 1/

Destroying rural healthcare and wrecking the nursing home industry I guess is one way to nudge Social Security toward solvency.

I’m sorry, the Neo-Nazi politician is named Putsch? As in Beer Hall Putsch? I mean, people don’t choose the last name they get at birth, and nothing against others named Putsch. But if this were fiction it’d be rejected as too hackish.

They’re over a week overdue and they’re illegally redacting perpetrators. Impeach Bondi.

Its going to be a full season of Lara Trump singing public domain greats

This is going to work wonders for hiring talent in the future

lol, ok, Roma. <sure-jan.gif>

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

Ah, yes, the classic comfort of marble

Busy Presidentin'

“why does everything happen to me”

At the end of a "frankly awful year," how do we fend off the temptation to despair? Some reflections I hope will comfort and inspire...

Like Spindletop but the end, not the beginning, of the oil and gas boom in Texas. The industry is so deeply entrenched in the state’s economy, culture, and history, hard to see state leaders making the tough decisions to fix this before it literally and figuratively explodes.

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome