The RPG of THE LORD

Each of these is more ridiculous than the last. (To avoid context collapse: These are the results of adversarial testing of AI safety filters)

The TACO Paradox: the more the markets price in TACO, the less likely Trump is to actually chicken out And the inverse is valid as well: the less the markets price in TACO, the more likely Trump is to chicken out

this is a class of problems I call SPUDs -- Senselessly Prompting for Utterly Deterministic tasks. sometimes you just need a potato peeler, not the combined energy output of a nuclear reactor.

as the saying goes, making jeff bezos sell the washington post lifts all boats

CR450A and CR450B series trains spotted testing around Chongqing East railway station last week. These trains are the fastest conventional high speed trains in the world with a service speed of 400kph. Pictures by soliteor.

Breaking news: Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who brought his sharp intellect and irrepressible wit to the U.S. House of Representatives and was one of the first openly gay congressmen in history, died on May 19. He was 86.

For all the techno dystopias about AI robots taking over the world, Robocop & Dr. Who had it right the whole time: we will defeat them with stairs.

Something people don't really remember but is true is that one of the *top* political issues the media covered in the runup to the 2014 midterms was the idea that Barack Obama had badly mismanaged an Ebola outbreak because 10 total Americans had gotten it

What may just save the US from LLM takeover is that, while we do have some conservatives who love to felate those in power, we have a storied history of saying "Fuck you" to the guy in charge, and we pride ourselves on it. We are not a polite or deferential society, for better or worse.

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Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

YO PLEASE WATCH THIS IM FUCKING SCREAMING

I’m concerned that people are increasingly framing the rejection of nuance as a hallmark of intelligence and I’m pretty sure it’s the opposite

in middle school, my friends and i had a pact to lose our virginities to raffi and now that’s what i think about when i hear him

i figure their reticence boils down to one (or both) of two things: 1. they feel like they're too good to get into the mudslinging due to some misguided political principle and/or adherence to nicety 2. they don't want the heat for their own corruption later

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"Skepticism about government action and power does not demand that classical liberals abandon liberalism’s other commitments. Classical liberalism can remain liberal, seeking to break down limited-access power structures and hierarchies to replace them with open societies"

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since so many dem electeds are lawyers i dont think its asking them too much to act during hostile hearings like they are lawyers seeking to send a murderer to prison for life. thats how you should approach this. accusation, accusation, accusation, make the bastards squirm and weave and dodge

sort of doubt this was ever on the table anyway, but good on bennet for making a thing out of it

I'm just glad that so many planets keple

that's the American way, baby! you know what a revolution led from the countryside is? Maoism

Carvana doesn't give a fuck whether the local school hires a trans music teacher. Fuckin' Jim "Big Boy" Phelps down at the local Kia dealership, who's been an asshole since junior high, made that his whole thing this summer.

The fixation Democratic politicians have with the idea that ambiently improving the economy is the key to their political success is odd when the strongest Dem voters are high-educated+low-income and the strongest GOP voters are low-education+high-income.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

overly cautious and legalistic? sure. trapped by norms? absolutely. disconnected from reality? you bet. terrible at both strategy and tactics? of course. a world historic failure? no doubt. the reason joe biden's legacy is trash? undeniable. i forgot where i was going

a lot of people on here refuse to take the corruption of the Biden DOJ seriously just because it's fictional

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Cleaning out the fridge for groceries this morning, accidentally dropped a slice of pizza on the floor. Both Dan and I look directly down to see this happen

my natural schadenfreude at elon musk eating shit is being tempered by the fact that the beneficiary is sam altman

Just thought of a good use for LLM search: In Steam, when I can't remember the name of a game I want to play, but I can vaguely describe it. If that were available to run locally I'd probably leave that enabled instead of killing it like I do for most LLM integrations.

Consultancy right now is pretty depressing but one of my favorite "genres" of consultancy calls is "developer doesn't know how to set up SteamPipe" so I set it up for them and then let them press "Play" in Steam for the first time. It's always great.

TFW you arrive at the station without looking at the schedule first and within two minutes of reaching the platform there are trains in both directions! It's like we live in a real country!

Donald Trump has intertwined his wealth so fully with our government that the only solution is to nationalize his companies and assets, along with those of his entire family. In the interests of fairness, we can provide them a one bedroom apartment in public housing and minimum wage jobs.

trying to overturn a free and fair election is, in a real democracy, one of the most serious crimes there is nine years is a light sentence for what she did

this will just make guys spin up more accounts to run their bots on. which might be the intent. drive up new account metrics

I went in thinking I was a social democrat and got that result. I wonder how much the initial selection influences the outcome? findmypolitics.com?e=-90&so=-95...

A great and insightful profile of my favourite podcastress! There's nothing better than an erudite shitposter imho.

exciting news: there’s a profile of me out in The Needle by @marleywrites.bsky.social if you want to find out why I’m like this theneedlenews.com/2026/05/nove...

Getting four good chutes out of this kind of tangled up mess is a testament to the wild engineering involved in keeping fighter pilots alive.

the speed of light would better be described as the speed of causality. how fast light moves in a vacuum, yes, but more it's just the pace of how information updates throughout the universe, and I think that's pretty cool. the C in MC^2 comes from the Latin celeritas but I think of it as Causality

she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol

Good news: America's over

When I realize my AI is transcribing the conversation with Jared Kushner and making bullet points to follow-up with MBS on

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark