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in a few years, all the same political reporters who are sanewashing and steelmanning every trump statement will laugh and tell you "everyone knew" how senile trump was. "an open secret" they'll say. Not open enough to tell their audience but all the "right people" already know now and are hiding it

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every one of these guys would be the hugest loser you've ever met if there wasn't a massive makework program for men willing to act on their most sadistic impulses in this country

this is why dune has the most realistic space piloting in science fiction “how do you navigate the mysteries of deep space” “just a metric shitload of drugs”

The clear fantasy is that you can one day simply manifest your ideas through tech magic without any labor — your, or anyone you have to employ. And I think we're getting a preview of what that would actually do to people (if it were possible) in the form of AI chatbot psychosis...

We should remember part of humanity is also generating complete nonsense. I'd like to see AI wake up at 1am with a vision of a sitcom about Dracula who has two pomeranians, one liberal and one conservative, with a theme song that includes the lyric "it's a two cup teacup politics dust up."

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

i like big butts and i cannot die

If an outcome of this war is a loss of meaningful freedom of navigation in one of the world’s key energy chokepoints, that’s a world historical scale defeat for the United States (i.e., *the* “freedom of navigation” power).

This afternoon, I used Claude to circumvent ChatGPT's safety protocols so I could hack into Gemini to learn how to take over Grok, which I then used to destroy Twitter. It's over. Twitter is gone.

Tangential comment, but I wonder about the impact of long standing secular propaganda about the harms of drugs and alcohol. DARE had SOME impact, even if it was making cocaine users cautious while still partying. No such decades long campaign about potential harms of sports betting...

This is my theory Current Moment. Huge swathes of the MSM really really wanted a 10-15% shift to the right relative to Peak Woke, in large part because they were very extremely afraid of the consequences of gender equality as seen in MeToo. They thought Trump II would be the vehicle for that....

You also have to hand it to Apple for their somehow convincing people to buy a laptop screen and a laptop keyboard separately when they used to come as one unit.

"For the love of God, Montresor!"

I really think "give AI total control of my computer and therefore my entire life" is going to look so foolish in retrospect that everyone who went for this is going to look as dumb as Jimmy Fallon holding up a picture of his Bored Ape

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

“The wealthy cultural elite who run the media really, really wanted Trump to win” was a much better way to explain what happened in 2024. And the things we’re learning from the Epstein Files give some pretty solid evidence as to both how and why. The anti MeToo backlash was EXTREMELY important.

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Wow man, I love this. "Imagine hell. Now imagine hell, but infinitely worse, an infinitely recursive spiral of suffering and cringe."

When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I think this is perhaps a likely result but also one that will likely require either a continued military operation at enormous expense or a pretty humiliating public capitulation to letting the Iranian regime survive and either way the public will be *furious* with $90 a barrel oil.

I think Bentham remains a good guide to this: The question is not, can they reason? nor can they talk? but can they suffer?

I remember as an OG Harry Potter hater and certified MFA Guy Shithead in the early 2000s hearing "as long as people are reading something it's a good thing" and thinking "hm not sure that's true." Anyway the phone made us all illiterate anyway. Didn't see that coming.

he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something

bluesky is an echo chamber where you learn about alf's dick. twitter is an echo chamber where you learn to say stuff like "actually it's called ephebophilia"

I can't speak to the software world, but from my POV (writer/journo/academic admin), any productivity gains from AI are completely swamped by lost productivity from Google's destroying their core product.

Same phenom is at work with extreme horseshoe tankies. US = imperialist = bad Anyone opposing the US = anti-imperialist = good

If you’re wondering why “peptides yes but vaccines no,” it’s partly because a hallmark of conspiracy ideation is rejecting the mainstream and embracing whatever the alternative is. Vaxx = mainstream = corrupt & bad Peptides = fringe = secret & good.

I would admittedly take a certain perverse delight in the admin committing so hard to the bit they exhume Reagan & make him stand trial for treason...

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I agree with this. I've seen enough of my coding friends' eyes pop out of their heads when they realize what Claude can do to believe that programmers have an exciting new tool. (con't)

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Typical Trumpian refusal to claim agency, or a telling slip that he's not really calling the big shots here? Pretty problematic that there's any lack of clarity in answers to that question!

Those years of nascent fash IDW podcasters decrying the moral rot of post modernism were really jealous and now exhilarating in their chance to be fully horny on main, in the utterly morally nihilist and literal senses.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape. 50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

Let them check my drapes...

I think if your mood is only "intense and paranoid" AFTER starting a war of choice, you should not be making choices of war.

Re adding a million more satellites: it's a good time to read about Kessler Syndrome. Huge numbers of satellites could trigger a kind of cascade or collapse which creates v expensive problems in the long run. A good exploration by @jonkelvey.bsky.social - aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/und...

This is a great point. Even on Instagram (and I hear from users, on tiktok as well), there are right wing accounts clearly sharing softened opinions on, say, Palestine and Israel, in attempt to shoehorn some horseshoe messaging into people's algos. It must be SO much worse on vichy twitter.

Fair point about the Platner thing. Whether he knew who Peters was or not, just being on Twitter makes this kind of thing a lot more likely. You're constantly being exposed to white nationalists there and you might not even realize it. Get out now and avoid the collateral damage.

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