it's so cool that the us government has made a better case for completely dissolving the legislative, executive, and judicial branches than any polisci theorist or philosopher in history

everyone who profits from this should be forced to suffer instead

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

hawkeye has died of a peanut allergy and will not be returning in Avengers 7: Dr Doom Does The Ultimate Sit Up

the elite press talks about Zohran like he's Nick Fuentes and Nick Fuentes like he's Zohran

Source: It Was Revealed To Me In A Dream Of Such Fractal Complexity That The Hand Of God Was Surely Present

My take is that they largely mean "end scarcity" in much the way the Black Death reduced scarcity in economic terms. Making the entire difference between that and human extinction the marginal matter of the ultra-wealthy.

how, how, how is the AI gonna end scarcity it's been two years and we've seen zero evidence of the computer being able to do the kind of things that "end scarcity" — revolutions in science, governance, resource utilization, long-term planning, or (you also need this one) moral thought

I wonder how much discussion was involved on the decision to make the end of scaricity instantanious but apply a time lag to human extinction.

Nothing tells me investors are dumber than dog dicks than a headline like this

Economist is the funniest fake profession.

I think we all understand what it means when "minority has any sort of facial expression" becomes evidence of guilt right?

Also peep "no DEI" in point 5 🥴

So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.” No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Sam Altman has killed more people than Luigi Mangione.

cone of shame vs cone of delight

all of human history---every kindness, every war, every old mourner and young couple in love---has been in pursuit of a single goat: the invention of the panini press it was worth it

don't think I've ever seen ±∞ error bars before

New, on Heat Death! Come for a bit of deep-cut Asher Lore! Stay for nature writer Marin Scotten's excellent dive into suburbia, the history of forest conservation, and the long — and increasingly futile — war against fire!

The new attacks on New College are just...old GOP attacks on New College. DeSantis, Corky & Co.'s counterarguments are the college's old ones, except with the books cooked to make them work. DeSantis paid double to get half, and the only thing keeping his failure afloat is lying and being governor.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

We’ve finally discovered what’s wrong with Mamdani

Apparently russia has its own moderation services that are "required", but they "may be inactive"? Unsure if I misunderstood something На русском: настройки → модерация → пролистать в самый низ, внизу нажать то что на первом скрине. Не уверен, что делают чисто русские услуги и как их выключить

data centers are *mostly* bad

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

when your goal from the outset is to make everything much worse It's very hard to fail

The fact that the global trans panic is helmed by conservatives who believe in the subjugation of women being a natural consequence of biology should have maybe been a clue

We asked bus operators from the Chicago Avenue garage which route takes the most skill to drive, and which route is their favorite. Here’s what they had to say 💬

“Fascism is imperialism turned in on itself” becomes a little on the nose when Abu Ghraib comes to your shores

your love? your jokes? your voice in this space? that shit floats. forever.

that shit floats brother. you rode the lightning man. blazed your name across the sky in crimson fury. i see you man. you're inside of me. you're inside everyone you ever met. the wolf howls for you baby bear

this is how a guy you know only from playing 600 hours of battlefield 6 online would talk to you on discord. it's fucking bizarre

John Fetterman looks like something the Flintstones would use to cut grass.

There’ll need to be a word for “this machine has captured something essentially human that I am deeply repulsed by seeing mirrored back at me”

I think there’s a new type uncanny valley thing going on with ai generated images and videos where the more clearly fake ones are less off putting than the ones where it’s genuinely hard to tell whether they were created by a model or just an extremely boring human being.

I took an entire computational linguistics 500 level about how useless Twitter and Reddit are as a corpus for genuine human language

we need to spend 60 quintillion dollars building a version of smarterchild that posts like the most mathematically-insufferable median quora user but which also has a servile tone and agrees with literally anything you tell it. we have to build the most committed yes man in history

and the funny thing is they ran out of reddit for it to read so if i understand correctly now they're having it create more reddit posts for it to read so it's really like "show me how a chat bot imitating a random dunning kruger internet guy might respond to this question" - cool!!

Google's Gemini summaries for niche topics can typically be found almost verbatim in the highest ranked Reddit thread in the search

when you ask these things to tell you anything what you're really asking is "show me how a random dunning kruger internet guy might respond to this question" - it's so fucking dumb!

not the most important part of this story but can we talk about how they made a robot that talks like reddit? the entire model of "intelligence" and human interaction this approximates is "forum douche." they built a thing that simulates posting online

forgot to post this in honor of dick cheney the other day oh, well, better late than never www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQuz...

A sequel to Hotel California called Hotel Ohio. You can check out anytime you like, you can leave, they have wine, there's Michelob Ultra in the cooler, it's whatever. No one gives a shit

So yeah they're torturing people and need to be brought to justice one way or another.

Sephiroth posting until my wife agrees to supervised weekend visits.

You are making up a guy online to get mad at. I am crafting entire civilisations in my mind to fill me with rage. Empires have risen and fallen in my imagination breathing hatred into my heart and giving succour to my many grievances. We are simply not fashioned in the same way, you and I

As a POC (Person Of Commercial zoning)...