This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

When the Speaker of the House claims he can’t live off his $174K salary, what are minimum wage American workers and fixed income Americans supposed to do?

Paying the traitors who stormed the Capitol on January 6th makes as much sense as paying a Russian asset child rapist to be President of the United States. #RemoveTrump

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

Wikipedia is what the internet could have been, now it's a lone beacon in the wasteland.

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“That does not, to me, sound like a charitable purpose...” www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

The good news is Elon Musk lost. The bad news is Sam Altman won.

Trump does not want you to vote if he thinks you're a Dem. This is already way out of hand. He needs to be stopped.

Oh this fucking sucks. And I bet this is just the start of it.

I like my president to look like he's alive.

Whether it’s Donald Trump stealing $1.7 billion from the treasury to share with his friends or Hillary Clinton using a private email server to share risotto recipes with her friends, there’s plenty of inappropriate sharing on both sides.

Suuuure it was. The dipshit lies like he breathes.

Well, looks like @lollardfish.bsky.social and I had similar thoughts at the same minute.

Google and Amazon have the power and responsibility to address the harms linked to their technologies. Failing to act is an active decision, one with serious consequences for communities already facing danger and displacement. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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this is what it’s about man, this is the love of the game

Musk’s ability to waste everyone’s time at scale is maybe his only true talent

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

It's probably bad that every hundred years or so in this country, the government decides to pay reparations to white supremacists, but reparations to Black and Indigenous people are consistently deemed a nonstarter or too hard.

I miss reading the news and thinking good stuff was happening

"we, the jury, find that everyone is dumber for having sat through this" wow

I need a govt slush fund to compensate me for reading the news the last 10 years

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." ― James Madison [Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]

Millionaires don’t need a raise―people on Social Security do. It’s time for the wealthiest among us pay into Social Security at the same rate as the rest of us!

Republicans in Congress can join Democrats to impeach and remove the Trump junta today, and they refuse, every day, to do this, because they are part of it

wait what

Look, I’m not a theological expert by any means, but as a 3-decade pastor and student of the Bible, I feel fairly confident in saying that if the Hell Conservative Evangelicals promise does exist, Franklin Graham is a slam dunk. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/franklin-g...

Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde #Trump

This J6 insurrectionist was sentenced to life in prison for child molestation. He tried to keep his victims quiet by promising them a share of the millions he was going to get from Trump. Maybe he knew something we didn't.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

I wrote this one angry: About the tireless efforts to sanitize the discourse, about the fact that we are constantly asked to come up with exculpatory tales, to please not call those pursuing a political project of re-segregation racists - so mean! so “divisive”! - or segregationists.

this sounds bad

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the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Congress can and should prevent this (This statement is different than saying they will.)

taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...."

look on the bright side maybe the dipshit is having another stroke I mean how could we tell

"the right people"

Yep. It was already the case, but w/the helipad (for which, to be clear, there's better rationale than most of the Bunker-Ballroom), we would do well to talk about the fortification of the White House.

The glamorous job of a DOJ attorney; trying to bankrupt undocumented immigrants with no savings, just to make their life even more of a hell. Congrats to every lawyer involved, now quit your job.

“No listen it’s ok. You won’t have a job, but also we’re going to use vast amounts of water and power, so you also won’t have a planet and then you won’t need a job. You’re welcome. Follow up: why are you all picking up rocks?”

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I wish people writing about how the next administration should "prosecute everyone" would talk to at least one public defender to learn how the so-called "justice system" works.

What's especially wild is that the war part of the war hasn't even started. Let's hope it never does.

The fact that the same people doing this also oppose minimum wage increases reveals their preference for maintaining a permanent underclass.

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The parliamentarian should probably stay away from open windows and look into a food taster