Bitch, you went from a wanting a souped up camper van to feeling you deserve a private plane. Show us your damn phone records, bitch. And your mandate letters. Also, you need more scrutiny. Much more. Clinical scrutiny. A catheter of scrutiny. A colonoscopy of scrutiny. An IV drip of scrutiny.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

This is a very important and disturbing story. So it seems the Carney gvt will allow new AI data centers to generate their own electricity by burning gas. If this is the future, our climate goals are f-cked.

there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. what that means is, i can do whatever i want and anyone who implicitly makes me feel bad by abstaining from consumption should in fact be the one who is ashamed

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

yes, renewable energy is woke and soy. it's gay and feminine to not have to pay the electric company every month. it's unmanly to drive a sedan that handles like a sports car. you're not an alpha if you don't owe your life and livelihood to the CEO of exxon

Andressen’s thinking here demonstrates the failure to resolve Erickson’s generativity vs stagnation phase. the profound loneliness and isolation on the other side of this failure is intense and per usual guys like this will make everybody else pay for it

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes

1. Phantom Thread 2. There Will Be Blood 3. One Battle After Another 4. Punch Drunk Love 5. Inherent Vice (still haven't seen Magnolia, actively disliked Licorice Pizza)

If you find yourself following someone who is called woke ginger or pissed off nurse or whatever, they’re not your ally. Your ally is someone with an obscure Pokémon avatar called like ant piss aficionado

one was a land surveyor and then a carpenter, employed by the city; the other drove very large trucks used to transport other very large machinery for logging

hey guys quick question. does anyone know what’s going on. with anything

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In their book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn argue society is over-fixated on disruptive innovation and needs to adopt an “upgrader’s mindset,” which should be applied whenever “disruptive changes would pose the greatest social risk.”

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

I was a double STEM major but I'm only one credit short of an unofficial english lit minor. I find myself thinking about things from the english classes way more often than I would've guessed at the time, they've brought tremendous value to my inner life.

these anniversary posts are starting to feel like personal attacks (i love this album)

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

nirvana the baaaaa-aaaand, hell yeah

Did low effort content pave the way for AI? While it's easy to blame big tech, the recent onslaught of slop caters to an audience that has proven time and time again that they prefer quantity to quality. I talked about what it looks like to reclaim your taste and, by extension, your self respect.

Men are not trash. Perpetuating that narrative helps normalize rape culture by making it seem like it's just inherent to their nature. It's not. Men are human beings. The social system of patriarchal masculinity is what's trash, and it hurts them too. We can change that.

the epstein files make it abundantly clear that individuals having this degree of wealth is directly the cause of every horrible thing in the world, and any coherent vision of a better future cannot involve billionaires existing. They have to go, be it taxed out of existence or otherwise removed.

we have got to start being meaner to people who are still fans of harry potter. i don't give a shit what you were going through when you read it. that is not your "comfort character" that is a wizard cop written by a mold-addled racist transphobe

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

what does it say about how depressingly pragmatic i was as a youth that i really wanted a toyota echo (i still think it's stinkin cute tho and i am a driver of small hatchbacks TO THIS DAY)

The latest ICE murder victim was, by all accounts, a good person. Caring and brave and kind. A profound loss. But the worst person in Minnesota doesn't deserve to be killed by his government either. You don't have to earn the right not to be murdered by the state. That's what makes it a right.

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

“the president has been very clear he sees greenland as an important thing to acquire” well tell him no. have any of you ever been an adult. he’s a fucking baby. tell him no. good lord

SAY IT LOUDER

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

one of the biggest things i learned from 2020 is that times of great upheaval present brief moments where anything appears possible. as soon as those moment appear, opportunist centrists will immediately begin to dilute the movement’s demands to pablum. this is that moment

“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” i asked the 30 something year old women who always keep me humble and remind me that there is more to life than what i am experiencing right now

Framing of thIs story is everything that I hate about the AI conversation. *Someone made the prompt* Real life men are asking Grok to make heinous photos. Grok is a machine that a real life man created. AI is not actually intelligent! People program it! Pretending otherwise is how we got here.

As governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney blocked Venezuela from accessing $1 billion of its own gold after coordinated pressure from Washington and the far-right Venezuelan opposition, directly aiding a US-led regime change effort and worsening a humanitarian crisis.

my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

I think we need a full accounting of which of the tech executives think Roko’s Basilisk is real I really think we deserve full transparency on which of them genuinely think they’re building a computer god who will punish them if it’s not built.

it's fucked up for breweries to add lactose to beers without being really clear about it on the packaging. very bad surprise. not delicious enough to be worth it either!!