The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

the singularity is near* *Not the artificial-intelligence-solves-the-world’s-problem one but the human-stupidity-destroys-us-all-in-the-most-irritating-possible-way one.

Big if true.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Bananarama-o-Rama.

Slightly increase a band Sphere Jerks ABCD Dexy’s Midnight Sprinters The Overtones .44 Special The Doobie Brethren Hanoi Boulders The Plummet Grand-Pere Ubu The Velvet Surface Transportation Gamma-Ray Spex

Newer Order Pounding Gristle Madison Starship

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“I thought AI could be my friend,” said the very, very, very, very, VERY smart Mensa person.

A lot of the angst about AI has to do with the tech broligarchs wh are developing it as much as with the disruption it's causing. Too many of them are badly educated wanna fascists with too much money who espouse bizarre totalitarian goals that just happen to envision themselves ruling the world.

Maybe AI can explain it to them, since they don’t listen to anything else.

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

It's becoming clearer that every Manosphere trend is just something straight men co-opted from 2010s circuit gays.

Writing vs. AI is like having meaningful — if occasionally awkward — sex with someone vs. emailing them a porn clip and telling yourself you fucked their brains out.

I need to people to understand that believing in "some wacky conspiracy theories" IS LITERALLY WHAT ANTISEMITISM IS. The core claim of racism is "Other races are inferior to us." The core claim of antisemitism is "Jews are engaged in a conspiracy against us."

National socialists sometimes pretend to be socialists? Wow. You're telling me this now for the first time

Many people who've spent years yelling at me for "coddling Nazis" because I've pointed out that far right factions aren't just cartoon racists are of course falling all over themselves to coddle MTG now that she's not acting like a cartoon racist She can't sit with us. Sorry. She's a goddamn Nazi

This, this, and also — as long as we’re on the topic — this.

If I may expand upon the perceptive remarks of my distinguished colleague, we want them to fuck all the way off and, having done so, to fuck themselves stone cold dead with a pneumatic fucking machine while eating the entirety of our collective ass like it‘s cotton fucking candy.

Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

People in his life kept comparing him to Jimmy Stewart, but there's a little bit of John Brown in some of these John Doar photos.

I'm a reasonable moderate (lower the age to 70, kicking off the oldest Republican)

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

“Brainstorming” except we not only minimize the role of the human brain but actually hold it in contempt.

I really encourage everyone who is fixated on the pipe dream of prosecuting ICE agents or whatever “when all this is over” to learn more about #ReparationsWON & the imagination & skillful organizing that went into winning something that actually supports survivors, their families & communities.

A couple of decades ago I watched a joke video about 30th-c. archaeologists piecing together the history of the Beatles and getting everything wrong. At the time I thought it was cute but implausible for modern information to devolve to that extent. Now, I reckon we’ll be there within a few months.

Honest to god my misandry grows with every passing day.

A+ no notes

MAHA! (Make Airducts Hantavirusy Again.)

Hey everyone, this guy has a fully scalable agentic workflow! Let’s give him all our money and put him in charge of everything!

Once again: close an area to cars, business *increases*. Every time. And yet every new proposal to close an area to cars meets the same resistance from business owners. I'm starting to wonder whether business owners really are rational self-interest maximizers, I tell you!

If you're Dawkins, you're assuming that the LLM is conscious, and then you're asserting that it is conscious whether or not it knows it's conscious, we *know* that second assertion is wrong, because if you don't know that you're knowing things, you couldn't know anything else. Like, definitionally.

As someone who was mocking this toffee-nosed popinjay long before it became a team sport, I claim full vindication and invite you all to gaze upon the absolute fucking state of this man, whose fate is as heavy-handed as the final panel of an Edwardian religious primer on The Miser’s Doom.

I often think it’d be nice if they were put in those detention facilities where the Trump administration has engineered the worst conditions for the people they get off on victimizing. Let them all enjoy the accommodations they think are appropriate for nonwhite 5-year-olds.

i think one day we'll wonder why this technology was dangerously rushed into every consumer facing product instead of quietly developed to fruition in academia or industry and the answer will be that the tech CEOs didn't know what to do with it so they asked the chatbot and did whatever it said

BREAKING: The contrapuntally inventive and emotionally searing compositions of Kid Rock may soon be recognized as Western Civilization’s highest artistic pinnacle, according to a White House analysis obtained by the AP.

Apparently this just happened TODAY. If you search here for the keywords, it's RAMPANT.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Almost every bad thing in western hegemonic societies thats prevalent right now can really be pinpointed to like 15 people huh

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

Saying horrible stuff you only pretend to believe is actually much worse than saying horrible stuff you do believe, and it’s much more likely to indicate that you are an irredeemably evil sociopath.

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

Dawkins turns out to be exactly like those Christians who long for their Savior so intently that they start thinking they see his face on their morning toast. A fitting denouement for this schmuck, honestly.

free advice for democrats: get ahead on regulating AI, data centers, prediction markets before its too late.