So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

I'm gonna repeat my comment. Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.

keep calling him prince andrew imo, i don't think the institution which shielded and funded him should get to cut ties so easily

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

love to see j-hope's chicken noodle soup featured in jeopardy!

this type of thinking is hard to fathom but the thing you have to remember is that these people want to be martyrs more than they want to have alive children

"The billionaire nazi pedophiles are making everything more expensive as a cartel. They are giving your jobs to robots that don't work right. Every system seems to be under their control. We will bring the force of the state on them and will give you clearance to undermine them." -could be a winner?

The entire world being under the thumb of billionaire nazi pedophiles is so evil that it short circuits the average human brain but nevertheless we have to call it what it is if only so we can have a referendum on whether we want to keep living this way

This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.

So I'm an abolitionist & think we should work for a world without jails. When we point out elite impunity, the question is why ARE there jails if you don't have to go to them if you're rich & powerful, & they're just filled with people without resources.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

"People will cut off family over politics, it's so silly" Is it? Is not wanting to associate with people who will do Olympic-tier mental gymnastics to justify/dismiss exhaustively documented child rape silly, now? I say cut 'em off, and let 'em know why. That's some shit they deserve to sit with.

At this point everyone in the media with access to officials not directly asking representatives of this govt why they protect pedophiles more stringently than any other country in the world should simply be considered a collaborator

what I want people to feel, when they look at South Korea and the UK and Brazil holding elites accountable, is that it's possible here too. Elect true leaders this year and in 28, empowered - but also driven by us, the people - to hold the criminals accountable for their crimes. It's possible.

“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Seeing guys claim that AI is *already* intelligent and capable of original thought really gives the game away. It’s not about waiting for the technology to miraculously become better, it’s about convincing you it’s something that it’s not

The fact that so many billionaire Californians are each dedicating tens of millions of dollars to fighting a proposed wealth tax — rather than using those funds to pay the tax — demonstrates just how much play money they have and evidences the extent of their delusional entitlement

of COURSE there's a technology the left is excited about

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

Hillary Clinton saying she met Ghislaine Maxwell only once or twice means I guess: 1) she’s lying 2) she invited someone she barely knew to her daughter’s wedding in an aisle seat out of the kindness of her heart 3) seats at Chelsea’s wedding were purchasable

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist

this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals

they are fucking cowards. i have had conservative students ask in their in class writing "is it ok for me to state my opinion in this class?" and my response is always like, "yes of course you can, what's stopping you?" (i know what's stopping them, they are wrong and also weak)

For months I've banged the drum that "not sure" has become the safe harbor answer for "Republicans who know Trump's probably wrong, but don't want to admit it." Today's Economist/YouGov Poll: Is Donald Trump racist? 41% of Republicans have No Opinion. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

We’ve come full circle

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

im not falling for ‘you can’t just scold gen AI hobbyists’ like ive fallen for so many ‘be diplomatic and patient with idiots’es before. no. if they can’t live without this machine that’s trying to put me out of a job theyre dumb as a box of hair. like they’re clearly not worried about offending ME!

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

The closest thing to AI I can think of is the Juicero. A piece of tech that doesn't really do what you'd want it to do and what it does do, it's hyper inefficient at.

yeah i can miss out on a machine that lies to me then tries to flatter me, because as a normal human, i have a little thing called "fight or flight reflexes" that kicks in when i am lied to and flattered at the same time

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

this is why he will lose in the general if democrats nominate him... they will literally be giving up their biggest advantage against republicans (the fact that everyone hates billionaires)

this is the real purpose of ai i am increasingly convinced. they want total control over the populace and that will be easy once people willingly give up their thinking ability to the machine

"the radical left is pushing people to the right" i started off just wanting healthcare as a teenager and after seeing the system fail over and over i now believe it should be entirely torn down but sure it's the pronouns that are making people into psychopathic racists

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Thinking about that tweet from Foz Meadows that said the most dangerously emotional people in the world are men who are so obsessed with being rational they confuse their feelings for logic repeatedly.

now we're being asked to sacrifice our PCs, laptops, and smart phones for the fringe use-cases for AI. fuck this.

saw somebody yesterday refer to "soft republicans" that could hypothetically be turned to our side if we just reach out to them hard enough and i'm not sure how to tell you this but those do not exist

why is technology people are using to make videos of a smurf having rough sex with chris griffin a better investment than solar energy? explain that to me before accusing me of rejecting “tech”

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill