"It's like working with a very junior programmer that never learns and never gets better" is the best analogy I've heard from a senior programmer when trying to use LLMs for game development. There isn't any intent or learning from experience.

every day I am more secure in my decision not to argue with people on the internet anymore

The first reply here is only the start of some truly massive hole-digging.

A boring substack in which I demonstrate how crypto treasury companies are machines for automatically funneling money to the people who set them up, almost regardless of what the stock or cryptocurrency does open.substack.com/pub/gileswil...

Okay, I have to talk about it, Kemi Badenoch responding to her candidate LOSING HER DEPOSIT by insisting she was the only normal candidate in the race and is a sign of a new party is a spectacular insight into the Conservative's woes and I keep thinking about it.

Donald, you're not denying it.

I hate this man but we need to show this to every university administrator who is trying to cut humanities programs Peter Thiel on job losses and AI: “it seems much worse for the math people than the word people”

More good news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Neo Nazi organisation patriotic alternative have immediately taken up this new buzzword "sectarian" used by Keir Starmer to describe the clearly interfaith-secular coalition on the left that won yesterday's by-election.

BREAKING: it appears that the MHRA, in control of the UK puberty blocker trial, appointed a senior officer who had previously mocked supporters of trans rights online. Recusal is not enough here. He and those responsible for appointing him should resign. How can trans people trust them now?

“Debate”. “We should pretend harder not to be Islamophobic racists, maybe?” “NOOOOOOOOO…”

Wouldn't it be funny if we ended up getting drugs policy reform simply because everyone negatively polarized themselves against this stupid attack line which Labour thinks might land

Lauren Boebert is asked to define “inflation.” It does not go well.

And I reviewed that book. It was good.

really good piece and I want to highlight this theme here, something I’ve become obsessed with: LLMs simply cannot evaluate the objective truth of any claim or the relative value of any information

Thinking about this earlier today. It's great Americans are finally paying attention to what has been happening to Palestinians, but bad that people from across the political spectrum are using this to go mask off about what they really think of the Jews.

GELL-MANN AMNESIA IS REAL, PEOPLE!

in less than 6 months Condé Nast got rid of every trans woman on editorial. there is no liberal media. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end

Ils sont foutus.

This video made me sad and mad.

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Way to say “No holiday homes!” while sounding maximally awful. Also, the “estate” is 15 houses…

Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Labour MP Clive Lewis, "Keir Starmer is an interim PM" "We need a radical reset, fundamental change" "The tone of Starmer's Labour which I heard on the doorstep: you're not a Labour party I recognise, what happened to you" "Labour under Keir Starmer is like a pound shop Reform UK"

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It really is incredible how they're just Marie Antoinetteing themselves and don't seem to understand where that leads

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

Incidentally, between the Greens and Labour there’s only one of those parties for which George Galloway was an MP of many years’ standing, so maybe they should calm down a bit on that score.

The global wellness industry, at $6.2 trillion a year, is 4 times larger than the global pharmaceutical industry.

Private Eye very good this week on Fleet St hindsight

One of the things I struggle the most with as a college professor right now is that my students oscillate between apathy and extremely anxiety about their coursework. They don't complete half their assignments, but then one zero sends them into a spiral of terror that I have to ease them out of.

Remember, “sectarian” is the dog-whistle for “brown people” that REFUK landed on immediately yesterday. And here’s the PM, like a performing seal, honking it out for them…

This isn't good, but as a USian, it's nice to see the center worried about alienating the left for once.

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

*sobs in entire history of the relationship between worker-led trade-union socialism and activist-led idealistic socialism in the West since before the word "socialism" was invented*

👇👇👇 This is 100% it, whether it's in Michigan, Marseille or Manchester.

This is a shockingly credulous piece by someone who has reported well on Musk in the past. It makes no note of the fact that abundance slop has been balanced about by usual drumbeat of violent nativism. Printing press releases for Elon is not a good use of column inches.

This is just like the fantastically successful Media Matters for America sociological experiment where it was proven that paying young progressives to watch conservative media for 8 hours a day makes them hate Democrats with 95% confidence.

😂 The Tory party has existed for 337 years and it took a "gender-critical" candidate to achieve their worst ever by-election result. So... Q: Why do people take an instant dislike to "gender-criticals"? A: It saves time.

"He propagates what we call cyborg conservatism." I spoke with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com for this week’s @verfassungsblog.de editorial about their new book "Muskism" and the fusion of political authority and machine power. 📖 Read the full interview here: verfassungsblog.de/muskism/

A "small, victorious war" - just what's needed for an unpopular president mired in corruption claims and questions about his capacity, facing a tricky election. But enough about 1990s Russian history; I wonder what the Trump administration is up to this week?

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

LET THEM. About time they read some scripture for a change. A

This is unhinged (in words and tone) and makes a mockery of the idea that Labour are the best progressive anti-Reform vote, which was apparently the latest strategy to save his leadership.

The first principles of American conservatism today are anti-knowledge, anti-evidence. So yeah, they don't produce good scholars.

One ring in the darkness bind them

re-upping this one here

They're confident that we're led by mugs.

Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country. It's got to hurt