It is holiday season got to put up some new decorations

People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”

MADtv — iRack Skit (2007)

Hours before U.S. strikes in Iran, new accounts made predictions on Polymarket, which Trump Jr. is on the advisory board for, raking in massive profits. This is beyond suspicious. No one should profit from a war that has already cost American lives — these bets need to be investigated and banned.

Well played BBC News. #kwaliteejurnlism

Holy shit! This is definitely a warning. Iran’s Fars News Agency released a new propaganda video showing a massive underground drone arsenal.

And he’s doing it from a gilded golf club, letting war be whispered behind black banquet curtains by an Adderall addict, a day drunk, and a coke-fiend court jester while nouveau riche pay for proximity to power and the rest of us get handed folded flags.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Extra-judicial assassination has a long history of making things worse. Countries that use it as a policy externally are Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, the US and Israel.

US-Israeli-led bombing hit a girls school… Death toll now at 150 A war launched illegally by two depraved men desperate to cling to power and stay out of jail …and they call others terrorists.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

It’s cute when the US and Israel wage ceasefire together.

An excerpt from an Oct 2024 Q & A with many topics that are sadly relevant now: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/just-answe...

When I was a teenager, my best friend was sent to die in a war based on a lie. He didn't even want to go but his family told him he had to go to pay for college, so he did. And now I'm thinking about how we have advanced exactly zero steps in TWENTY-ONE FUCKING YEARS.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

The US is defending the American people by bombing a primary school & killing 85 girls and their teachers? @albomp.bsky.social - you're a fucking disgrace @australianlabor.bsky.social #WarCrime #auspol www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

Americans gonna be real mad when they learn the hard way what legitimate targets of the war they just started are.

Its weird trust Iran to commit less warcrimes than Israel or the US.

I'm calling on Chris Bishop to protect lakes, rivers, and drinking water from pollution, by keeping the cap on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. Join me and send him an email now! greenpeace.nz/scsce3

#israHELL #FreePalestine #genocide #WarCrime Ghouls

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @lynseyaddario.bsky.social traveled to Sudan last year to report from the front lines of a brutal civil war. Addario’s photographs have been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Revisit the cover story:

Hillary Clinton: "It then got quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and Pizzagate"

My bet is that this war will end not like WW2 but like WW1 — when Putin runs out of resources. He’s already spent his national reserve fund. His last big pile of resources is the gold reserve. He started with 2,200 tons. I hear it’s down to 1,700. This is how he’s funding his war.

Trouble Round The Bend Double entendre warning of UK privatised water may have some resonance in Wellington #nzpol

The Fate of Melania (Randy’s Version) 🧡🎻

#USAfailedState Coming soon The biggest WE TOLD YOU SO in the history of we told you soes

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

US has issued new sanctions against Iran's oil ships Treasury Sec Bessent-“Iran exploits financial systems to sell illicit oil, launder the proceeds, procure components for its nuclear and conventional weapons programs, and support its terrorist proxies.” As US supports its terrorist proxy-Israel

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

“Over the last two months, the army has started to lose more men than it can recruit, according to Western officials. The gap now stands around 10,000.  Moscow pours around half the state budget into the armed forces and servicing the debt taken on to fund the war” apple.news/AnVAMLQy9SL-...

“ winning “

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

Within a few words of starting their lawsuit against New Jersey, Justice Department lawyers took immediate action to misspell "fulfill."

Hey so who wants some adventure stories and nature photos while I continue to ignore what might have gone on in the world since I went offline on Saturday

Light a candle for them all no actually that's a bad call

Francesca Albanese says she speaks out because doing the right thing makes life worth living. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories says her views are influenced by her identity as a European.

The term "holy war" was used for the "Great Patriotic War", after the Nazis attacked USSR. Now, Russia is trying to present its war of aggression as a "holy war" for its population. Russia doesn't want peace.

For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize: The liar lied again.

During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab. 🧪🔭 news.agu.org/press-releas...

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

Make a stupid comment, get a couple of smart answers.