But we sunk 30 ships and their drone carrier???? How can this possibly be???

I kind of nod along with the thesis of the piece, roughly, that it would be good if LLMs actively resisted becoming tools for warfare but also we might as well be talking about aligning calculators to human values.

Another framing is that every hobby has its sexy murder poets and its pleasant bureaucrats and the murder poets do the most posting unless you stop them. Board gaming has been very lucky that the pleasant bureaucrats make all the most popular review videos.

This format is neat and also a great reminder to me of why I don't play MTG anymore.

Counterpoint to earlier:

what the fuck are we doing www.wsj.com/business/med...

Two people I really respect on here are @aubreygilleran.bsky.social and @besttrousers.bsky.social because they are in the trenches of the comments 30 replies deep arguing in good faith with people who honestly do not deserve that good faith. The mild temperament on display is remarkable.

They just keep doing it to 'em *COSTCO 2Q TOTAL CO. COMP SALES INCL GAS, FX +7.4%, EST. +6.72% *COSTCO 2Q TOTAL CO. COMP SALES EX-GAS, FX +6.7%, EST. +5.9%

You can sell refined oil products anywhere. Therefore a problem with oil supply anywhere is a problem everywhere.

They don't make wheelchairs for free. They definitely don't make motorized ones for free. They don't offer constant nursing care for free. But you can pay someone to invent it to make it and to care. And that's how I feel about capitalism and technology.

Safe space for me and not for thee I guess. Same as it ever was.

Without suggesting any eschatological implications, he has to be the most obvious anti-Christ who ever lived. Even Nero must have had some redeeming qualities.

Oh good LOAC discourse my favorite

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Serious question, do we have a general staff right now?

So uh before people celebrate am I reading correctly the filing deadline is tomorrow at noon?

Good news Westminster government fans We're getting our very own Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds

#$COST earnings this evening, where my #$COST heads at

Honestly unclear to me whether they were better off with or without her in the immediate term. Even a bad executive can actually approve the thing you need.

I read the article 1. It's actually supportive 2. It's a 5% wealth tax funding a one time $3K payment to individuals living in households making less than $150K/yr. Looks like they're estimating 137M such Americans.

If you're curious about citizens' arrest laws, there's a good law review starting here at pdf page 169 Almost every state has vestigial citizens' arrest laws! law.howard.edu/sites/law.ho...

There's some chatter right now about AI being fed bad data to kill people, which is speculation. Neither plausible attacker has even confirmed it was them yet. This NPR article has some very smart people speculating on what MAYBE happened.

Completely seriously, what if The Line, but good

I understand the general perception that these sorts of mandatory trainings are just institutional ass-covering and that’s true in many cases but I do think there are a lot of male professors specifically who do actually need to be told repeatedly and explicitly they can’t fuck their students

Fondly thinking back to the time I quoted someone quoting the Wikipedia summary and talked about how stupid it was and someone came to be snotty about whether we read the book and I asked if the list was an accurate representation of the taxonomy in the book. They refused to answer.

“Some jobs are pointless” Hell yeah brother “Like the departmental admin who makes me do the Title IX training” Hold up

It comforts people to believe that systematic sexual exploitation of the young and powerless is only done by abnormal freaks with abnormal desires instead of normal people with abnormal power.

*pointing to the sign on the wall that says "if there were a magic button that says 'win' they would already have pushed it."* Like.. just over and over again on this website. People will believe literally anything if it's convenient to their ideology.

U2 is the fourth highest grossing arrest ever according to the folks who track this stuff. Still trying to dig into how much of their revenue is post 2014. I don't have a strong opinion about U2 just numbers and personal awareness as a proxy for cultural relevance.

This is how they lose.

Technically my sect's rebbe called them "noodle sermons" if you translate the term half-literally, and it's not a synonym for "rigorous" or "compelling"

One unfortunate thing about the internet is I now know that Gertner is a public supporter of naturopathy.

A very cool thing about getting on the internet in the late 90s, early 00s, was you got to meet people different from you in different places as long as you shared a language and an interest. And there's this moment where it seemed like we were all just going to become loving and peaceful that way.

holy fucking shit

If he testified as to the content of his attorneys’ advice, how can he invoke privilege

Wife: K, if you were accused of a crime I don't know what I'd do Me: you'd turn me in

We are watching Mouse and listening to my wife demand logical action by the characters and/or plotting generally is stressing me out.

A problem with history is that all of it is inevitable once it's occurred.

I don't know if they wanted this war, today, but if you asked last week if each of the American allied states of the region and America and the system as a whole were adversarial with Iran I think everyone would have said "obviously".

Apropos of nothing

At this point I think we can make a serious argument that the American version of jihadist propaganda that's combat footage set to nasheeds is a FLIR drone feed set to Limp Bizkit

Why Rep. Greg Landsman thought talking on the phone with Isaac Chotiner was a good idea still baffles me. I would've immediately resigned from Congress and retreated into the abandoned Cincinnati Subway, never to be seen again

So an important thing about blaming Google for ruining Google search is that there is a lot of money in people trying to tactically ruin Google search all Google had to do was fall behind. I wouldn't assume they did it on purpose.

"when the truth becomes obvious people will update their priors" No! They won't! Have you spent any time on this website!

putting an ROE in a multiplayer game and building a pipeline for gamer tears

My fellow progressive Christians, might I direct you to consider the actions and labor of the religious left in the Twin Cities-- protestant, catholic, and jewish. The general strike that so many online dream about happened because of work between houses of worship and organized labor!

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Trump and Hegseth do not have long to unfuck the shipping situation before the global economy starts getting rekt by an energy crisis.

You know, the Supreme Court intervenes *a lot* in gerrymandering cases, given the ostensible justification for refusing to ban partisan gerrymandering was that it didn't want to be involved in adjudicating it

One of my most fundamental beliefs is that every individual walks around with a story in their heads about why they are a good person deserving of love and generally they will defend that story to the literal death rather than change it merely because of something someone else said.