The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

Lina Khan must be sent on a quest to ensure that they never acquire Ring.

states can’t borrow like the federal government can, and many state constitutions require the budget be balanced every year. now, add all the financial pressures from ACA, the BBB’s SNAP/medicaid cuts, withheld disaster funds, lower tax revenue from a sputtering economy… yeah, it’s bad

Trump has clearly shown that... you can just do stuff! And that the all-smothering neoliberal consensus is a dead letter. Will other leaders on the Left emerge who are prepared to act on that information? The current national Dems certainly aren't.

What if the *community* buys food for the community, and the campaign grows out of the community doing the necessary work of caring for and advocating for itself? As long as Dems see campaigns as temporary efforts that use money to reach people as atomized consumers, we're never gonna get anywhere.

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The implicit message of AI boosters is AI is increasing power and is inevitable and they are going to assault you with that power so you better also develop your own AI power to stop them first (but if you call it assault or are seen defending yourself you are an ungrateful idiot)

One of the cursed elements of the AI discourse is how pro-AI ppl tend to crow about how great it is that it increases the powers available to LLM-users, and then go about demonstrating this by low-key threatening strangers with the fruits of those powers and calling their victims ungrateful.

AI is a technology for Looking Busy

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

As AI training data has been largely limited to digital materials, this piece also reinforces the notion that claims about large language models encompassing anything like the entirety of human knowledge are vastly overblown

it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got

"The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race."

Remember when earnest liberals were reading this guy’s phony book to understand the soul of the forgotten working class or whatever 🙄

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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

But that doesn't mean we should stop trying to educate people on why the chatbot isn't an effective, safe, or reliable way to meet that need. Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance. >>

There are many, many systems that need shoring up: in many cases when people turn to the chatbot it is because of a legitimate need.

Sure, the Veteran’s Administration is being gutted, but how about this tiny one time cash bonus to show I love the troops? Again, we are trapped in Shitty Father World. Yeah yeah, I cheated on Mom and verbally abuse you and deprive you of love and support, but I bought you a bike!

I don’t think many folks outside academia are fully registering what is going on right now. 1) Neoliberal university-as-business model 2) Mass de-skilling of the intellectual class 3) Unprecedented cuts to programs across the board 4) Dismantling public education 5) AI as partner to de-skilling

This is so wild and out of pocket. Some significant percentage of people working on and around AI in Silicon Valley are clearly in a Machine God Cult, and they running around proselytizing for it.

Post-information society/ascendent fantasy society

This is both correct, and a big part of why we are so cooked, because argument and evidence are hopeless in the face of photogenic charisma and vibes in these mediums. Which has already happened ofc, that's why MAHA is running HHS right now.

The only practical argument for engaging on Twitter is to avoid completely losing all of the journalists and intellectuals who can't give up their habit to the Far Right brainworms. But the journalists who can't quit are the main people making that argument. They have agency here. 🤔 🙄

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

That XKCD comic about free speech vs. community behavioral rules where he's like "it's not illegal, they just think you're an asshole and they're showing you the door", except every website and social space is owned by deranged white supremacist tech demons with porcelain egos and unlimited power.

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William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown looking at the polling numbers for abolitionism in antebellum America: Welp, might as well advocate for some Internal Improvements and cooperate with the Fugitive Slave Act and call it a day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How, I really do wonder, do you "do science" without actually reading the existing scholarship? What has really struck me since the gAI boom is how many people have such a profound contempt for the act of reading--or at the least seem not to understand that reading is thinking.

they're coming to him with tears in their eyes saying sir, you have no juice, you have the least juice we've ever seen

This is so fucking funny dude.

"The life of a repo man is always intense."

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

Also when many of the biggest names and companies in the field right now routinely express their technofascist leanings and desires to destroy democracy, social services and higher education etc, ‘AI’ will and should be associated with those contexts.

I feel like having and being well-trained in these capacities is either gonna be something we value as a society and in workers and citizens, or it's not (increasingly afraid that it's the latter). All this complicated bank-shot stuff to try to chase trends or placate billionaires is just noise.

we should be thundering towards The Electrification of Everything with solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, whatever—the works and not desperately trying to find enough turbines to power over investment in compute

“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.

Schmitt’s argument is unintentionally revealing. The “color revolutions” were non-violent, pro-democracy political movements aimed at ending autocratic regimes in former Soviet bloc nations. If the Democrats are leading a “color revolution,” then Trump is an autocrat & Schmitt is pro-autocrat.

When people insist we have to learn to live with people saying things we disagree with, this is what they’re referring to euphemistically. They’re telling you we have to accept the idea of bigotry as a valid political position.

This is the niche political and text-posting dimension of the much larger "slop for the Algorithm" story that 404 have been all over for the past few years. I'm sure there's *some* organized Far Right skullduggery going on, but most of it is just incredibly grim and corrosive platform incentives.

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao