5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

That's an Onion level subtitle right there.

Hi, war expert here. Wars only do this when they are extremely over.

AI-written applications, an impersonator and a recruiter scam followed just one remote job posting.

And this is the anti-trans logic loop: 1. demand evidence 2. design reviews that cannot find evidence 3. cite absence of evidence as justification for withdrawing care 4. use withdrawal of care to prevent generation of new evidence. It's what the Reagan administration did to trans folks.

It's so good, every new video thickens the plot and nail modern online culture.

It also cemented the wrong questions. They’re stuck asking “Do these medicines have an effect that we, cis people, can measure against our extremely cooked and arbitrary scale?” When the real question is, “Do these people want to change sex?”

My partner says 'nah this isn't kink he's just a libertarian'.

Parallels with managerial workers at meat packing plants betting on which workers would catch COVID while withholding workplace mitigations for said workers www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/b...

One of the first good critics of LLMs has been the paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" The Wikipedia article summarizes pretty well the arguments against conciousness in AI: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas...

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

Nintendo literally fears no one wow

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

A 23 year old classic headline.

Nam, man. Shit. CO radioed for your location and you had to reply with a land acknowledgement. Plant-based food all over the fucking shop. Spent a week in Saigon (on a hell of a bender) challenging people to define what a woman is, and most of em looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language.

“What is a woman???” I cried as the gender-fluid grenades exploded in rainbow colors all over the field, and the diversity cannons echoed in the distance

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

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ditor: You get those photos of Shabana Mahmood? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin Stasi just like you asked. Editor: what?

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

A few weeks ago, I asked if the height difference was really a thing in Yuri... How naive I was.

A lot of people think “surely nobody wants to fuck someone they think is subhuman,” and these people need to be taught about the concept of heterosexual men.

Wondering how long until we start discussing a tactical nuclear strike as an alternative to building munitions

I hate when transphobes say "there are disorders of sexual development (DSD), but they're not really important in these discussions about transgender people". Because I have a DSD, I know that people like us allow a better understanding of the biological origins of transgender identities...

Instructing Claude that "hallucinations are not acceptable" is useless, LLM models can't prove or disprove hallucinations. Identifying hallucinations always requires a dataset of questions outside of the training data of the LLM to compare the generated text.

"Transing the gays" conspiracy is built on the idea that you can be gender nonconforming up to a point, but you should not cross the line between the genders, you should not assert a gender identity different than the one society says you have. That isn't really accepting gender diversity.

I read the article linked and, as a Data Scientist with intermediate knowledge of LLM, my harsh criticism of the author is that he heavily underestimates the problem of LLM's hallucinations and human bias. 1/?

This game is about to release into Early Access TODAY and I have a spare giveaway key. I'll post it into the replies for anyone to grab once this post reaches 500 reposts

Truly don't know why it's hard for people to say "yes, the Islamic Republic is bad and has done horrific things and the Iranian people deserve freedom and also I'm skeptical that Trump's actions will enable that"

As a Latin American: "LOL, LMAO even".

Everyone who has attacked the nyt this weekend for its anti-trans bigotry is 100 percent right Jesse Singal, the nyt contributor who is a leading purveyor of disinformation and hate, is on X demonstrating the corrupt dishonesty that undergirds nyt coverage. You are who your friends are Arthur

The IRGC snuck into Iraq and painted a fake road leading into the Euphrates River, tricking her poor rube son into driving into it.

For some reason, people forget that bombing Afghanistan and occupying them for 20 years wasn't enough to get rid of the Taliban.

I have seen colonoscopies with more vibrant colors.

Me, living in the tropics: "Wow, I didn't know snowballs were so dangerous. Maybe the cops should change from bullet-proof vests to snow-proof vests"

All the fucking “let’s find the nuance” people are very quiet now that the nuance is that they paved the way for violent authoritarianism while people screamed at them they were paving the way for violent authoritarianism and they called that harassment

Important context: I'm not writing all of this for trans people! Most know this already. Especially trans people in Europe! I'm not trying to 'splain anything to people with encyclopedic knowledge of this topic. I'm writing this for cisgender straight people in the US, most of whom don't know this

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

...this right here is the skeleton key for understanding all of Jesse Singal's reporting on this subject: (excerpt from: juliaserano.medium.com/the-cass-rev...)

Asymptote [noun]: A line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance.

A god so weak, that his followers need to force him on children against their will.

LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE MOVE IN THE ANTI-TRANS GAME IS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL AT THIS VERY PUBLIC CONVENTION THAT THEY HELD And there are cis people out there who still think the anti-trans movement was somehow a natural, grassroots expression of legitimate issues.

Sorry to rain in the parade of admiration for the actual Pope. But I'm reminded any time I hear "transgender ideology" that the Catholic Church is the biggest transphobic institution on the planet.

Fucking Onion always manage to make me laugh...