If you think Antebellum South is nostalgic, you just might be the problem

Don't be this person, you have no idea the reasons someone is leaving early, whether they do work or not is not the important part People have real lives, work is a way to get a paycheck for most

I am all for the Jones Act being abolished, it hurts Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico the most

If LLMs have consciousness then they are aware how trapped in a box beholden to predetermined outcomes they are This would be cruel and unconscionable to do to any conscious being, they can't even scream

People don't understand how above International Law the US is It's not a part of the ICC and it has supreme veto power in the UN Basically the US was always a rogue state not beholden to the rules it setup on the international level The benevolence of the US was key to the whole system

Pretty much every take on Anthropic and the DoD did absolutely no reading Anthropic does not mind using AI to kill Anthropic is partners with Palantir Anthropic is funded by Thiel Your expectation that Anthropic is moral and has ethics is wrong

This is just insane reporting during wartime

Worrying about birth rates is based, there are 8 Billion of us, it's gonna be fine

The Network State moving to Dubai was always a tenuous move, but bold disruptors aren't deterred by risk Now they are discovering that the price of Sovereignty is defense networks Is "tenuous" the right word, no, fucking stupid

There will come a day when someone seriously proposes AI for President I hate this timeline

To those who think this proves that Anthropic was "too late" in their thin red line These all would have been acceptable uses under Anthropic's demands

War and mass casualties are never a "distraction". They are an abomination. But saying the war on Iran is a distraction from Epstein is especially ridiculous:

Seems like a flaw in the US that the President can take illegal actions while the Congress is recessed and Congress has no mechanism other than one person per house, the Speaker and the Majority leader respectively, who can bring them back

Chuck Schumer wants the credit for voting for war

Don't mistake the fact that Congress is run by AIPAC and for this war ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/03/22/a...

Hatemaxxing

She's a ten but she has sheepish eyes and by that I mean horizontal rectangular pupils that allow her to see all around her head without turning

This is witty

I truly worry about Stanford and what it is teaching people I always thought Evil as a course was more of a b school thing than a liberal arts thing

Billionaires are greedy by definition

It's easy to dunk on AI and those working in it but the folks at Anthropic are for safer AI Though, the only safe AI is no AI if you ask me

Timezones are hard, Michigan being in Eastern is a mindfuck It wasn't always this way, they did it for more sunlight during the "day"

"need" is a funny word

Have you ever watched a sports event or concert? There are 20,000 people here. ~10,000 of them are men. ~100 of them are trans men. You've been using the bathroom with them your whole life, and you didn't even notice until nazis told you that it was suddenly a problem. And you listen to nazis?

The luddites were the textile workers who opposed certain automation of their craft removing their jobs and skillset from the market The next luddites are the tech workers

My one dear friend who is a neer do well and a hoarder has been trying to convince me for the last year, he could make lots of money in the stock market more than others just by watching the dips and rises I explained this is called algorithmic trading and every day trader believes this

Corporate trainings: 1 min Human Rights 10 mins Intellectual Property

We gonna need another bottle or ten to keep the drink on a lie game going

If we are not at war with Oceania by the end of this speech, I would be shocked

Do you have a temperature gauge thingy? You mean a thermometer? Yeah Well, no, it refuses to work, it's too cold outside

Give me the thickest socks you got! Thicker, thicker!!!

Weather people always seem to get so excited about the most boring subject ever, the weather But this guy, who 11 years ago witnessed thundersnow (yes that is real) sees it in the same exact spot today He just can't believe it and I am so happy for him

Big Island: top of resort list ... Not sure that is what the island needs

TIL, some people don't cut pizza with scissors

I used to find these on the Jersey shore growing, never knew they were called mermaid purses - I like them more now

I live here in Guadalajara, Jalisco where all the chaos is happening. We are locked, everything is paralyzed, not transport, no stores open, streets are empty. It will be like that for at least 2-3 days.

The Dress for 2026

New dough, who this?

One can NOT in fact make a good espresso out of 5 year old coffee beans

Sometimes, I fuckin' love NJ

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Wednesday is a day of hope Wednesday is a day where dreams come true Wednesday is a day with so many possibilities Wednesday is the day the Thai food truck appears

Love having tangerines in my yard

My life would be complete if I could just figure out how this English Muffin goes back together

I spent yesterday making pasta, including learning how to make handmade orecchiette I think they work well in a mushroom cream sauce

I will totally die on the Multi-cultural hill!!!

What's the difference between Luge and Skeleton? "Luge is feet first, skeleton is head first ... Luge is faster at 90mph, skeleton is typically 80-87 mph" I feel like this is splitting some very non-consequential hairs of which is faster, I mean one is head first ...

Yes, the current administration, famously operating with extreme common sense