Lmao calm down Sephiroth

Oh wow, well, that is certainly very fortunate timing, isn’t it. And oh look, who does that nice lady Laura work for? I’m sure nothing has been storyboarded and choreographed, and the stars have simply aligned this week by natural means, like an eclipse or a meteor shower.

As ever we have A) the null hypothesis means that BBC journalists are on the whole a bit crap and just may not have found out this fact B) it's funny that their mistakes seem to run 90% in one direction

It must be so emotionally difficult if your entire thing is "Tony Blair was the best PM we ever had, you should listen to me," when the real Tony Blair keeps popping up to remind everyone he's a weird, racist freak whose only lesson for governance is "get elected before the 2008 crash."

The hoopla about social media is an excellent example. No one is even asking whether older people are radicalised, or damaged more, or in greater number, than digital natives. We just kneejerk demand the removal of the autonomy of younger people.

I think voters across the western world increasingly see this clearly, even if some of their governments are still tying themselves in knots trying to explain why it’s appalling when Russia does it but not when Israel does it.

Oh no, how unfortunate to see these definitely not planned and closely choreographed events

god what are the odds that every axis of corruption ran through this one guy we got rid of and only him and now everyone else is absolved forever? lucky escape really www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wild here: China has been growing steadily for years and is laying a zillion miles of railways, with a huge green energy infrastructure that will support them for decades and here’s this guy talking to us like we’re idiots because he thinks the world’s nastiest Nazi zillionaires are, what, wizards?

I think the funny thing about importing American Christian nationalism is that we already have an established national church but these guys don’t like it

Between Burnham pre-emptively promising to be no more than accent Starmer, Harman being brought out of cryogenesis to remind you there is no alternative, and now Blair popping up to insist the only way is his one, I don’t how much clearer it could be made that we are hostage to a dead consensus.

I really think Trump II is going to rock up 20th century dictator bodycount when all is said and done and all accounted for, Leopold in the Congo kinda stuff here. Just wildly evil.

Not the Tony Blair diagnosis we were hoping for I'm afraid.

The Thing but lesbian would go INSANELY hard

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

Handy to have it publicly demonstrated that - if there’s even a mild chance we might drive the car half a mile away from Tony’s tech-fash zillionaire friends - then he and his horrible acolytes will instantly start pouring sugar into the engine, bursting tyres and shoving bananas up the exhaust pipe

the pope: hey just checking in on the AI encyclical designs- the pope's digital comms intern (looking up from Figma, the ancient spirit of Michalangelo speaking through him): WHEN I AM FINISHED!!!

this website is not beating the allegations

Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

dear Vietnam: can you please just divide all your prices by a thousand or something. I can’t keep having to remember how much one million dong is

i genuinely thought this was a photoshop, scrolled past this several times and just didn’t think it was real at all its so insane lmfao

TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

The US started this war by assassinating Iran’s leadership and killing 150 school girls during a period of peaceful negotiation. Now it is attacking Iran again during another negotiation period. The US says it wants a peace deal, but clearly without a deal or peace.

I’m on the Metro-North and there are two people with long-haired dachshunds in bags 10 feet away from each other and the two dogs are clearly aware of each others presence but the owners are not

Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit = revenue - costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school

If I was Leopold Bloom it wouldn’t have gone down like that

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

This is the official Democrat Position btw

the USA should not be allowed to host a major sporting tournament again in our lifetimes, man

that total sum is… unfortunate

they targeted him because he was a gamer

Nothing at all fishy going on here over the weekend, I assume

love that it doesn't trust people to figure this out for themselves, but DOES trust them to use their imagination to imagine the consequences of doing so once prompted. beautiful economy of language

Dog that caught the car, isn’t it

few tweets have so perfectly encapsulated up the attitude of british politico/journalist contempt towards normal people as this

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

This is evil collective punishment.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”