It's darkly funny that everything is falling apart and no one in charge seems to be doing anything for reasons, and people are out there posting "Here's why I'm excited about AI!" without pointing to a single positive outcome, just "I fucked around with my computer in these ways".

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

100 million deportations. Do the math. The goal of this vile racists was — still *is* — to ethnically cleanse all non-white people from the US.

Can we stop it with the "white man talks some shit" economy and get back to exchanging goods and services for money?

I realize this is not a universally held preference, but I just want to point out that For $10 billion we could have orbiters and probes to both Uranus and Neptune, and they would likely succeed at that price tag, unlike this venture

I just bought airline tickets for my family yesterday. I may not be exaggerating that I looked at more screens, opened more tabs, and considered more options & scenarios than the US did when we went to war with Iran.

which, incidentally, is exactly what was going on when those statues went up in the 1920s, 60 years after the war. the lost cause keeps losing but there's always a loud contingent of racists who won't give up the ghost.

This is a plague on society. We had special places that were the only places you could gamble for a reason.

same, postgres, same

President who thinks every problem can be solved by bullying harder somehow has caused significantly more, much worse problems in every possible facet of life.

Imagine if "big tent" meant accepting trans people instead of transphobes.

This is an absolutely horrible idea and Google should be bloody ashamed for even testing it. Turn the experiment off and destroy the source code. www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services

I’m begging these people to fund scientific space missions instead

He looks like a spoiled toddler in this image, so that’s appropriate at least.

Everybody should do this. I got shingles at age 47, 3 years before insurance would cover the vaccine. It sucked. I’ve since heard from several other women who got it in their 40s. You do not want shingles. Get vaccinated for that alone, nevermind the protection against dementia and cardiac disease.

Significantly helps people with heart disease *and* makes people 16% less likely to develop dementia? There should be lines at the pharmacy for this miracle drug.

perhaps, justice roberts, the president wouldn't feel such license to denounce the courts if you didn't give him a grant of nearly unlimited impunity

When people use language, we are not engaged in the activity of simply "creating output" in the form of text. We are using it to communicate ideas, to other people. >>

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Bezos’ ostensibly data-driven strategy for the Post is like he bought an orchard, discovered all of the money is in selling fruit, and ordered that the dead weight of the roots be dug up and burned.

The thing that's unusual--even in tech--about Palantir is that it was born evil. Like it was founded by evil people to do evil things, very explicitly. Gave it a special "we do evil things" name, put together a founding team that was on board with the "do evil" program. They didn't back into it.

ALL the gambling is bad cus it’s rotting brains. Stop it.

As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.

It's not just anti-American, it's pathetic, and reads from a position of absolute weakness. A real authoritarian doesn't make begging, nagging threats like this.

Language models based on the transformer architecture can be used in ways that are beneficial, but such beneficial use requires transparency into training data (as I have been arguing since 2018) and that doesn't even touch the unethical production of these systems. >>

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

“caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right” Wait, are we talking about DOGE or LLMs?

the fact that Tesla is able to deploy driving automation of any kind after more than 50 deaths and a decade of fraud and coverups is the regulatory failure... it's already happened, the failure mode is here, this isn't something we have to look forward to

What a horrible fucking life philosophy. What an empty, soulless approach to existence.

These pathetic, evil people.

I’m my head canon Grammarly’s lawyer just got back from leave for hernia surgery and checked their email.

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

And I’m sure they definitely had plans for all sorts of scenarios. One thing they didn’t plan for was having a President and Defense Secretary who actively antagonize every ally and care nothing about effectiveness or results, but only about putting on a show of mindless belligerence.

If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible

Grammarly should be immediately shut down and disbanded for this.

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

This is laughably pathetic. We have a confused, weak, and helpless person as the President, lashing out at a world he doesn’t understand, tearing down systems he can’t comprehend, and creating new, generational problems he doesn’t have a clue how to solve.

And the purpose of AI is revealed - you can bomb schools and nobody is responsible. The buck can be passed to an inhuman machine which it is impossible to punish.

“There is no evidence … that the U.S. military intentionally targeted the school.” Is there a meaningful difference between “intentionally targeting a school” and “not caring if you target a school”? Humans chose these targets, whatever tool they used. Those humans must be held accountable.

Do you know how easy it is to explain queerness to kids? IT IS VERY SIMPLE ACTUALLY. People love who they love. Other people's privates aren't our business. The end. Now explain global warming and how it started and why we haven't stopped it.

I firmly believe that many people like LLMs because they don't do that. And some people need that -- although it breaks my heart a little every time neurodivergent people talk about getting from LLMs what they don't get from the people around them -- and some people need to be told "JFC, NO".

Fooling people into thinking things prefaced with "BREAKING" are news feels like the equivalent of chatbots fooling people into thinking they're sentient just by using the pronoun "I".

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

It is true that if your goal is to maximize the number of clicks on a given piece of content, you don't want to produce a 3,000-word piece. But maybe not everyone should be trying to maximize clicks! Maybe it's okay to target a smaller, more devoted audience. Indeed I've bet my entire career on it.

A ton of it is heavily incentivized wishful thinking, because we don't want to admit how much work, especially infrastructural and maintenance work, is involved in building even new things.

Massively scaled organized gambling on real-world events, as Kalshi and Polymarket provide, should be straight up illegal. But they most *definitely* should not be allowed to market with and to minors.