transcription is, it turns out, hard

jesus christ this is brutal starts at like 1:38 and i think i will make a transcript

we're losing a lot of nuance here he jokes about murdering the Republican Speaker of the Virginia House of Representatives he said he hoped his children died in front of him, but he did not actually talk about murdering them they are different things

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

i am actually not sure, he's extremely valuable to the movement with the half-mask on and perhaps someone will browbeat him into continuing to act respectable

Ross Douthat right now:

the problem is that evopsych is the most detailed and compelling body of work for a popular audience that incorporates evolution into an understanding of humanity this makes it kind of hard to kill as an idea, actually it gets to smuggle in its social agenda

your country should be massively overprovisioned for food and electricity or you have done it wrong

the new york times is just an out and out nazi apologist platform at this point. somehow with every act, it still manages to normalize, rather than actually condemn, the structural tendencies and cultural norms that have led to this moment.

promising

amusingly they are in this pickle because the establishment, aipac, etc backed the absurdly corrupt italian instead of the extremely good jewish comptroller

this teaches you to communicate less

we will let bill kristol have one regime change. he gets el Salvador

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

if you bitch about america not being masculine enough you don't get to bitch about your dudes being shot, or people talking about shooting them. we're giving you what you asked for.

gentlevances

on the one hand, he talked about putting two bullets in the head of his political enemies on the other hand he is only being elected to be the attorney general for prosecuting crimes in virginia, where half of all high-level feds live so who can say if that matters

i know he won and i would like to see if he breaks 55% just to make sure it's humiliating

ahh yeah here he comes, big dersh, alan dershowitz himself, looks like he brought a bag lunch, smart

the voters have spoken and they love being trans and threatening to shoot republicans in the head.

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Many who in Europe obsessively hold up the US as the example Europeans must emulate will have a heck of a shock over the next few weeks

i had a bet which i lost about mass casualty aircraft disasters that closed at the end of august

if we had real political parties we could eject chuck schumer

riv www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asys...

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revealed preference for the void

broke: emergent phenomena that differ at scale are only important to physics nerds woke: emergent phenomena that differ at scale are important to every science bespoke: emergent phenomena that differ at scale are the main force in society for at least the last thirty years

one of like three or four journalists in the country i think was capable of covering AI news correctly

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble. You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

> song in language i don't speak > rather fond, great vibes > i wonder what the lyrics mean > it's suicide

The Dick is licked everyone

Live laugh love by the sword

Okay since things are legit funny.

i am reading a paper where the big title result is less impressive than a result in an appendix, which the appendix also tells you not to use, referring to the main text, which never justifies not using it i am assuming a junior coauthor wrote the more impressive appendix result

set.seed(42) amirite?!

dear god what have i done blacksky.community/profile/did:...

while we're sending jeet's other post around everyone should click on this link from him. this is because it will show up in The Nation's incoming traffic, and jeet is probably worth trying to snag to full-timing the platform

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

wonder if Kavanaugh is a DraftKings or FanDuel man

Conjure up all the esoteric philosophical arguments you want as an educator, but you're not doing kids any favors by sending them out into this world ignorant of AI tools. Abstinence-only AI education isn't any better than the sex variety.

it's abstinence-only AI education

first person to figure this out gets bragging rights for probably figuring it out faster than i did you're looking for what rule goes from input to output

there is something wrong with the sun

Pinnacle of "there's something wrong with the sun"

well well well if it isn't my good friend NaN

bluesky doesn't want margaret mitchell, who knows how neural networks work bluesky wants people who yell about things

"They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars." -William Gibson