like, this isn’t a person who you can tell “ummmm as the proprietor of a right wing opinion substack i think i know when a TV news story months in the making about foreign prisons is ready”

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

the real christmas miracle would be learning the true heroes of this story are a handful of coy interns and disgruntled staffers that knew the censoring of the epstein files couldn’t be stopped and deliberately sabotaged to censorship the make it look at as bad as possible

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

the category error most generative AI defenders make is that it doesn't make them better artists, it makes them worse patrons of the arts

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

bari weiss needs to do better drugs

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

are their betting markets yet for how long it’ll take to work their way down to cis women wearing pants and flat shoes?

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses

They call gender-affirming care "sex-rejecting procedures."

AOC on a 2028 presidential race against JD Vance: “I would stomp him.”

Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

this would be a really great youtube channel actually

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

1. Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride railed agianst GOP attacks on transgender people and incoming bills today, joined by Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Johnson. "They are obsessed with transgender people." Read my latest, watch the video here, and subscribe to support our journalism.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

the ram shortage is blackpilling me more than any ai news before it. they really want total dependence on the cloud so they can rent seek the entire world

“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

until generations grow up with full trans rights, with full cultural transmission from older transsexuals (kikigender) to younger, our social groups will be fraught with conflict arising from the eternel september of adults who have to go through puberty again while making rent. namo guanshiyin pusa

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Roomba was the first, and for a long time the only, somewhat viable consumer robotics company. Before them the robot business was all defense contracts and stuff like sheep shearing. Making money on robots is waaaaay harder than science fiction (and current robotics hype) let on.

flood the zone

The AI boom is now sucking the oxygen out of multiple sectors. Another recent side effect of the AI boom is that municipal construction projects are now getting delayed as building AI data centers has taken up most of the capacity of construction companies.

This is awesome. @yvonnezlam.bsky.social @hypervisible.blacksky.app “[LLMs] did not arrive as disruptors. They arrived as intensifiers. LLMs function as an accelerant for the existing optimization machine, making the logic run faster rather than challenging its foundations.”

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Seeing Like a Nate.

Trump is causing mass confusion right now amid an active shooter situation at Brown University. Trump posted that the suspect was in custody, but Brown University and media reports say that is not true and that the situation remains active.

Emergency scanner says 2 dead inside a Brown University building, and shooter has now been taken into custody, scene now secure.

‘Multiple’ people shot by gunman on campus of Brown University

online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point

speaking of “you should never trust Meta and no one should have ever trusted them but there’s no time like the present to start”

[bowling pins sound effect]

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

michel foucault rolling* in his grave

what in the fuck