I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

"I recognize an insanity bubble, and I recognize hubris."

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good.

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

Ten years ago nobody in their right mind gave a single crap where trans people went to the toilet and the only reason anyone does now is because they were radicalised by Facebook and a handful of insane newspaper columnists and that’s just embarrassing all round

"Genocide prevention has died in Gaza" – from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention

It just blows my mind that the situation playing out right now is just pure textbook Marxism (contradictions of capitalism cause social stress, liberalism cannot respond to those stresses, fascism steps in to fill the void) and liberals are reacting by getting mad at us about it

The internet right now

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.