But wait! There’s more! The blood of the poor is literally one of Americas largest exports.

Digital lobotomy

Idk how many times I’ve told people “LLMs can’t do numbers, they just fit random numbers into text like madlibs” but somehow I’m not loud enough.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

Musk's main achievements: taking credit for inventing car tech that is now being surpassed; adding annoying design elements and juvenile easter eggs to said cars; gaming the stock market with lies and nonsense; filling Earth's orbit with an impenetrable field of debris that may end space exploration

One of the ways every bubble ends is enough people give up thinking it’s a bubble. The social forces constraining it previously are gone, and it rapidly consumes whatever capital is left to fuel it before it collapses.

people used to make products because they could sell a lot of them at volume at a profit. It seems like now, the goal is to ram some kind of surveillance into your life. They’re making products that appeal to shareholders instead of the mass market, I suspect because people are poorer now.

This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

People who see “voting isn’t how you get real change, just choosing the conditions you organize under” as arguing for voter apathy are telling on themselves that they only see politics as something to do occasionally on a ballot, not built every day through community, solidarity & collective action.

I just got even angrier because my coworker just told me about these

People who work in tech and have been interviewing candidates; how explicitly are you looking into AI coding assistant usage/knowledge *at interview time* (i.e. do you expect it during your coding interview? do you ignore it entirely?)

Hi #NLP Bluesky, the Multilinguality track at #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social needs emergency reviewers. If you can complete one or two reviews before February 15, please reach out. Thank you!

So basically the song 99 Luftballoons, minus the nuclear war part

Satoshi: fuck banks. I will create a better currency The Better Currency:

dude looks miserable. can barely fake a smile.

“I brought my children to the pedophile island” makes “I’m not a crook” look pretty quaint.

Listen, the El Paso situation isn’t as enigmatic or confusing as people think. Time for some game theory 1/ 🧵

🚨 Emergency reviewer needed for ARR Resources and Evaluation track! Please ping me if you could review one paper by Friday. Topic is AI hallucinations, broadly speaking.

Listen, the El Paso situation isn’t as enigmatic or confusing as people think. Time for some game theory 1/ 🧵

It cannot be overstated that nothing on the ground here in Minneapolis has changed it has gotten worse and continues to get worse and our leadership is lying about it all. It’s absolutely destabilizing watching the elite class moves back to business as usual as the citizens attempt to maintain

I enjoy the little stories peoples' groceries make on the conveyor belt as I wait. The guy with cases of beer, soda, 8 sparkling water? Hosting a party. The guy with 4 bags of chips? GOING to a party. Guy buying exactly 3 bananas at 8pm? 100% spouse forgot them and the kids need them for tomorrow

i want big things: global peace ecological restoration everybody eats a bike helmet engineered for afros

“peace in our time” vibes really stinking from this one

Wait why am I suddenly having flashbacks to how many tragic young men out there were identifying as DJs shortly before Lehman Brothers collapsed??

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

There's actually a rational history to people saying "we don't actually know how & why AI works". But it's been getting twisted into suggesting we don't know how neural networks work, which is nonsense. What we don't understand are things about *language*. 1/n

All these guys who think they’re tougher than Minnesota wine moms are the same guys who think they could beat a grizzly bear in unarmed single combat.

JD Vance: “look, I was watching. They were clearly chanting ‘fun guys’ because they were so excited to see these guys wrestle and have fun. If it weren’t for the ridiculous fake news media, no one would have misinterpr

I feel like if God were real, he'd be insulted by the idea of a church. like, have you seen the night sky in the truly dark? what the fuck do you need a church for when you have that? "but tbt the weather's not always good" yea I think that's a sign from God that it's a bad time for church

El Zangarrón de Montamarta, Zamora, one of the extraordinary range of masked celebrations across the Iberian Peninsula, esp NW, most pre-Roman+pagan in origin, to have survived the ravages of the Inquisition and more recent Francoist repression. Image wiki

Freedom and democracy are the same. You are not free without power and self-determination. Thiel's statement is, on the surface, contradictory but revealing. What he means by "freedom" isn't freedom to be, to do, and to associate, but rather to claim things as property and to use and abuse them

idk if anyone wants to stand behidn him since he poops his pants

Well, what does it mean for AI to be "fake?" Language evokes intelligence - in the reader. It's a powerful illusion. A reasonable critic sees that computation at scale can fuse language w/math in ways that do things. That is not "intelligence," and the problems that come that error are bountiful.

Another gloss on this: LLMs and AI have made it trivially easy to produce the “slick vaporware product demo” with asymptotically high production values for completely substance-less drek, and this is absolutely blowing people’s minds who still haven’t caught up with this being the new reality.

It hasn’t been above 20F here for like a month, maybe the easiest weather call of all time

there are two types of conspiracy theory: 1) racism 2) stuff the cia has literally admitted to doing

Also saw the greatest plate I’ve ever seen in a thrift store, I think this should be our new national motto

ancient Romans instead but i recently read this series by @bretdevereaux.bsky.social and i highly recommend it

some good news buried among the horrible behavior listed: “The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Trump in here just describing himself

For Liam.

Joker Expands Power of His Crew to Kill People During Robberies.