They bomb you and they urge you to "return in the negotiating table". Look I'm not saying the west had any credibility left but lol lmao even. Everyone sees through this bullshit but I guess nobody can stop it so why bother come up with something elaborate.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

A fucking terrorist state, always and forever.

Don't decide things are hard before you find out for yourself, is my advice.

The big advantage of the Kitri variation is that we're holding (and using)fans. Also I didn't fuck up my fouettés this time, go me. #talesfromballet

I'm genuinely obsessed with this book. It's taking me ages to read because I unfortunately don't have the mental bandwidth to sustain nonfic audio reading for long but it's just so enjoyable. It's like attending a very fun lecture every time.

Every time I see American tourists order coffee here I wonder if Americans actually like coffee. (No shade here I take my café allongé with two sugars so I'm not one to judge)

"I'm so impressed and scared by this" - a person that could be terrified by peekaboo

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

A reminder: in service to Big Oil, the CIA pioneered disinformation to engineer a coup against Iran's democracy and put in power a monarch so hated it gave rise to Khomeni and today's terrorist Iran. Now the call is again for regime change and forcing that monarch's son into power. wapo.st/3HQnbvp

I’m not straight, but I have directed Dear Evan Hansen at a local community theater black box. Which is mostly the same thing.

To the tune of Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time": I just feel so angry all the time Angry all the time Angry all the tiiiiiime

Oh yeah pretty obvious with her program pick. It's gonna be devastating 😊

Well, since you can't seem to make a positive case for what your product is actually good at, and you refuse to divulge any information about the true costs of your operation, we are left with no choice but to give you all the money on earth and all our data and art for free. Use it wisely.

Omg yes yes yes

Inshallah as my people say. And also now random non Muslim french people apparently.

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

People who don’t like AI aren’t in denial about how useful it is. People who like AI are in denial about how useful it is

Heatwave heatwaving today and I chose to stay at my non AC flat to work from home. Let's see how that works out for me.

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

Technology disrupting the market of "people dying in stupid ways"

“Shorten my route”

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos* Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*

…from that is astonishing to me. The fact that the media & politicians seem to treat this like it is a good thing (“Israel is doing the dirty work for us” F. Merz) & social media is mostly silent about it or is full of hate (“Israel is defending the Western civilisation”!) is equally stupefying &…

Weren't people also pouring french wines in the street? I've never been as impressed with a french politician as with Dominique de Villepin and his UN speech. And it didn't change anything and the US did whatever the fuck they wanted and weirdly enough the UN still exists for some reason?

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

The interesting thing is that you find the same thing in modern studies of ancient history. Rome “liberates”, while Parthians/Sasanians “occupy”. Rome “attacks”, Sasanians “raid”. Rome pays “subsidies”, Sasanians pay “reparations”.

wow I asked it if it's becoming conscious this is scary

The Michelangelo chapter in Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance was an amazing respite from a shitty day at work. Yes I'm still reading it yes it's been two months look it's a big book.

Twenty years in education and I have seen so many things that were going to "save teachers time" and then it got weaponized into "if you don't use this, you're ruining your students' future" and usually when that mindless zealousness comes around it's less than a year for that tech to collapse.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

no i will not "ask chat gpt" i will be scrolling Wikipedia with whimsical abandon like god intended

I’m not a ketamine-addicted eugenics genius so I don’t know. Is this good?

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

not sure why only the worst bastards alive are allowed to be in charge of everything. but i guess it's been like six or seven thousand years of that so who am i to argue

me: haha how could anyone be so gullible that they'd buy magic beans tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model. me: ah.

they want everyone who doesn’t conform to their beliefs about how someone should live their life to die it’s not subtle

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

If your idea of disability justice doesn't include Palestinians being bombed, amputated, and denied care in Gaza, it's not justice. It's branding. You can't be "intersectional" while ignoring colonial violence. Free Palestine, always and forever.

Another day, another slaughter of desperate Palestinians looking for food, as Western leaders fall over themselves to express renewed support for Israel.

If you see me start reading 10 books on Goodreads no you didn't.

american watching british panel shows: it’s just funnier. and more human. they know how to laugh at themselves brit watching british panel shows: he’s a terf. everyone here went to cambridge, he’s married to the producer. he should be in jail for tax evasion. the wrong guy on 8 out of 10 cats died

in hindsight we probably should have seen this was a trap, but everything was so new and we were still just kids

30 years