I don't have any particular animosity toward AI, but I consider myself a skeptic. Yesterday I was showing my 15 month old some cute otter videos and she was positively entranced by an AI video of an otter doing cute stuff. Her reaction was disturbingly strong. I didn't like it at all.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a guy I had not heard about until I got on Bsky and who seems to offer timely analyses of immigration policy from a left-of-center perspective with occasional lawyerly "technically" type asides and people are treating him like he's Hitler on here lol

Gwynne Dyer on March 9: "Indeed, I suspect that there is already a clandestine race going on in which Israel is trying to identify and kill potential collaborators inside the regime before Trump’s people can make deals with them."

im the puppeteer for elmo and im making tough guy posts about how brunch libs need to be bullied more. im the 36-year-old barista at "softboyzz cat cafe" about to get fired for twinkdeath and im screaming about how clinton needs to get dronestriked. im a video game blogger ranting about turbolibs.

it’s very funny to be doing the ‘these dorks need some bullying 😈’ shtick when your profession is ‘video game blogger’, like buddy I have some bad news

been really awkward seeing all the great work Scoiattolo is doing mapping the structure of this pervasive fraud (going back a while) while also reading people saying these accounts couldn’t possibly be fake

just because we didn't go to war for any other reason doesn't mean that we did it for israel

Basically, he’s dying and views himself as a god king entitled to be buried with his slaves which is to say, us.

"Israel is an apartheid state" and "antisemitism is an evil we should oppose as a species" are two compatible statements

Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.

This narrative is really the only convenient way to absolve Trump and the hardcore MAGAs will always find some way to absolve Trump. There aren’t enough of them to rule the country but there are enough to wreck right-wing support for Israel permanently.

Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have a very simple and self-serving narrative for Republicans dismayed by the rolling catastrophe this war is creating: blame the Jews. And a lot of really fucking stupid people are going to believe them. And other ppl will cynically pretend to believe them.

The US-Israel special relationship is dead, it just doesn’t know it yet. Bibi fucked it all up, and then took Trump arm in arm to fuck it up yet further to a degree only the MAGA regime could accomplish.

LMAO the Israelis still don’t know they’re going to be the political fall guys for this war and American Jews can do absolutely bupkis about it.

but i don't want to use SPSA. i want to use some bullshit i half-remembered seeing on arxiv

update: i was dividing by 1e-15

update: the thing which it does is apparently heat your office to the temperature of the surface of venus, make a sound like the space shuttle taking off, and then OOM and kill your whole workstation

[banging on the bottom of a pot with a spoon and marching around my house] i found a use for this absolutely wild paper arxiv.org/abs/2503.24322

lmao

I have no particular feelings one way or another about LaFlamme or any of the other non-Mills/Platner candidates, but I am not sure why Platner immediately got treated like a serious major candidate while a bunch of other people who were certainly not *less* qualified than him got treated as jokes.

the model cannot think outside the residual stream. if the model needs to deprecate some previous chain of words in favor of a new one, it has to say the pivot.

this is nonsense, because what the question tries to snuggle in is that a Jewish electoral majority is constitutive of Israel's existence

I'll say it again: this isn't their usual BA; this is telling. The only Americans who matter to them are their supporters. Their few remaining supporters. Everyone else can get stuffed.

Pundits forgetting that thermostatic public opinion swings exist was the most bizarre throughline of 2025. Even though we saw a “woke backlash” to Trump 1 and an “anti-woke backlash” go Biden, the commentariat assumed we entered a new, stable reactionary public opinion environment.

the decadence of being served by the most dangerous machine ever invented and deciding that you could make yourself innocent of its actions by refusing to direct them

everything is more inconvenient and expensive, nothing works anymore, goons might invade your city and kidnap you or your neighbors, and there’s a loud asshole forcing you to pay attention to him at all times

it’s just remarkable how dedicated this administration is to making people’s day to day lives worse in every way

there is a serious critique of liberalism and it is not 2016 trump-russia collusion denialism, it is that liberals put their faith in a bunch of ostensibly nonpartisan but actually (light) republican civil servants who preferred to close the case on this than actually do their jobs

my favorite article on this subject is the magazine named Jacobin arguing that it would be undemocratic for the French left to take coercive action against the French far-right

I think he straight out said that. That he basically fears for his life and his family if we can’t all make Kirk a martyr.

They were preparing a narrative for him to step into which was basically that all Americans were now in perfect agreement that Biden’s presidency had been an unqualified disaster and they had learned their lesson that Trump was actually a GOOD president and that’s why they wanted him back.

I remember the period roughly from November 2024 through the start of DOGE was characterized by a pretty all-encompassing media narrative that Trump 2.0 was going to be chill and have a good economy, he was genuinely popular this time, the pussyhat types had given up completely

One of the fascinating aspects of Trump 2.0 has been the way the media elites who engineered his 2024 victory by, basically, **lying** about his plans and fitness for office, seemed to expect that the **reality** of Trump 2.0 would be broadly popular.

Empathy is a sin and therefore we should only commit it in service to Donald Trump, the Lord of Sin.

On the one hand: POTUS engages in a lot of absurd bluster. On the other hand: DoD continues to carry out the utterly lawless boat strikes.

do you fucking know what the green revolution is

he's going to name himself "Tom Cruise" and try to get a SAG card

the number of people who think that secret knowledge about the USSR can be found at the CIA but not in the USSR's own archives is very large

MN really exposes the extent to which Schumer's DSCC is devoted to imposing centrist politics on the electorate: Craig was never a good pick to replace Smith, who's way more progressive, but she was a hell of a lot more defensible before December. Now she's toxic and yet they're staying the course

i once told him that i don't have problems with him defending Nazis because he's an incompetent enough lawyer that the last one he defended died in prison

I am quite literally speechless.

This was the first time that people of goodwill in this country hung all their hopes to stop Trump on an old, done man in the belief that he could summon the competence and seriousness of a bygone era into the present. I wish we'd emphasized this element more at the time, for reasons...

i think the problem is that a neutral description of essentially every lobbying group in america is "a conspiracy to change politics in a manner opposed to the general will of the public," but that this takes on Overtones in this case

honestly why not this lady instead of platner

weird, so a facially inoffensive statement can constitute a serious racial insult?

right Maine is just baffling because Mills is a *bad* recruit, a very bad one, in a state where Democrats have plenty of options!

the failure of the Mueller Report, ultimately, was the successful result of the conservative project to make sure that what happened to Richard Nixon would never again happen to a Republican president

This is the funniest false positive for my labeller @facelabels.bsky.social so far

a fun fact that I will never tire of is that the brits cooked up the idea of a “vote of no confidence“ specifically to ditch the govt that lost the war against the US colonies, which is why our constitutional tradition doesn’t benefit from their innovation