High-functioning psychopaths are frequently capable of maintaining a normal baseline of behavior because starting random wars and crashing the economy is bad for them. What we're seeing here isn't psychopathy (although that may be one element) but dementia on top of the entire dark triad.

This is the question I constantly ask of pro-AI people, like I know someone who constantly talks about how integrated it is into his work now, and I ask them, "what are you going to do when the tools are no longer available because Anthropic goes bankrupt?"

It's been interesting that the more I tall with programmers who know what they're doing, the more I think of it as an expressive art, which is the opposite of what tech wants you to think programming is

I welcome our modern Luddite uprising.

“Western civilisation” the distinct calling card of the white supremacist Christo fascist

I don’t usually share Twitter posts but that would be the president of Iran and yes he’s being completely serious, Islam recognises Jesus as a prophet and the Pope as a successor figure

100% agree with everything but the last sentence. This damn well is who we are now. We prove it every goddamn day.

Bro misunderstands. This is not the degredation of society. These are the *results.* When the rich and powerful refuse to be restrained by our laws, they violate the social contract and leave people desperate and with no legal recourse. They have fucked around, and are finding out.

If you’re “suspicious” that Republican operatives paid women to make false accusations, you’re really saying these women who put themselves at enormous risk and exposed their pain to the world are faking it for cash. Is it that hard to believe that a man would do this?

Don't be surprised if they are hesitant to let us rejoin.

The real lesson of the Hungarian people's victory over authoritarianism is that people power can defeat dictators. The massive opposition movement led to a massive electoral victory. We can do it too!

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air: 1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span, 2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black, 3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic. 4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

I would swear on God’s good earth that at least 1250 of these 1377 posts happened to me. (It was probably more like a dozen, but.) fuck me but that was annoying.

The Southern Baptist tradition is simplistic, nearly without structure and only abides by "Look if you just say you're sorry you're not going to Hell no matter what." It's also incredibly widespread in the US. Stands to reason so many Americans don't know a fucking thing about a fucking thing.

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And Trump always keeps his promises so all of this should be totally fine. I love the idea of a bunch of people who watch Trump every day show literally no empathy, consideration, humanity, or - and this is the key one - any signs of being trustworthy, will choose to believe him on this.

Yep yep yep yep yep. They do this every time salaries start to rise. Plus nothing gooses stock prices like layoffs.

Why'd the Confederates fight? They told us

this may have been written about already but in the last 15 years thanks to cell cams and body cams, the public has seen with its own two eyes the way police have treated black people. for a long time, we were told that we were exaggerating, seeing racism that wasnt there. now you watch it.

Right now, we are witnessing a preview of what could happen in the USA this November. Hungary's opposition party, Tisza, is so far ahead in the polls that they are on track to win a supermajority in the parliament, spelling the end of Orban. The only way Orban can remain is to subvert the election.

The Iranians are absolutely right not to believe anything that Trump says and to never trust him. Any agreement with him whether verbal or written is absolutely worthless.

Reminder: Margaret Thatcher died 13 years ago on this date! I propose to raise a toast on her behalf—a G&T, obviously. (And good riddance to bad rubbish.)

The amazing thing about writing is it's basically time travel and whenever I think about that it blows my mind. It's a genuine miracle. I mean, just think about it: a Chinese general from 2,500 years ago can point out the President of the USA is a fucking idiot. It's incredible.

Sun Tzu: "You may be wondering why The Art of War includes such basic advice as 'don't place your balls where the enemy can easily squeeze them'. And you're not going to believe this, but..."

If you know you posted AI you get blocked If you know you posted AI you get blocked If you know the post is fake But you won't delete your take If you know you posted AI you get blocked

The thing about Trump openly confessing to committing a war crime today is that a quarter century ago, Schumer Biden Kerry Hillary and Feinstein voted, in an *overwhelmingly* bipartisan way, to militarily invade the Hague were the US to ever be prosecuted by ICC.

Just going to leave this here.

It is apparently just a law of the internet that there will always be some small number of people who read a post that says “I really hate it when people do this thing” and are surprised at being blocked when they immediately respond by doing this thing (“ironically”)

No. No No No NO No No No. Trump is not an unwitting victim of bad advice. He is the president. He is responsible for everything and everyone under his command. He CHOSE his peers.

Ok I'm there now.

*peeks head out of hole* Converts, especially Catholic converts are the worst. All on fire, without any of the tempering of generational faith. He's tried on more names, faiths, ideologies than the Church has Holy days. *scurries back down*

My read is he stormed out of the birthright citizenship SC hearing, blamed her for not getting what he wanted, and replaced her with the next yes man

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

it is very funny that he just like a week ago said some stuff about how he was Very Cross With JKR About Her Comments and clearly somebody just got yelled at

"I broke it, you fix it" --Trump on everything to everyone

Yes

In David’s defense, the only reason he said that transphobes like JK Rowling are little whinging fuckers is because they are, in fact, little whinging fuckers.

OK, my immediate gut reaction to this post was "oh no what are you doing." But the release is clearly careful, and carefully calculated. Also: want an example of what "reckless disregard" looks like in the context of absolute malice? That unicorn is there; they got it in discovery.

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A thought of "separating the art from the artist": It's a way to approach the work as an audience member, taking it entirely on its own terms. Just the art, regardless of what the artist might be like. It's not about money. If you buy it and the artist gets paid, you haven't separated shit.

Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread:

Cat scratch school

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Yes, we’ve been known this for over 30 years. Ppl who don't want to know this either never heard that truth or are in denial. Yes, ppl that aren't white, or aren't American have feelings like deep loss, pain, depression, hatred which can or will manifest as revenge, and or violence.

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Here's a lesson in right-wing propaganda (which is what Western Journal is) when it comes to movies: • if a movie is unsuccessful, they will try to find a way to make it seem like it's "woke." • if a movie is successful they will try to find a way to make it seem like it's "anti-woke."

It’s not shocking yet simultaneously remains shocking what racist pigs they are.

Over half the respondents in the TTGDA survey indicated they used AI in some way. You losers. You're creatives. Create.