Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think sociopaths should be running the government.

I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

Feel free to treat this the same as their purported renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

Thing is—they don't even have to be good faith members! They just have to believe not appearing that way will be punished! The real damage of the horde of shameless public liars—& their successful impunity—is annihilating that mutual expectation that conforming to fair rules isn't just for suckers

This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool. It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.

Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning

Idk if I'm right. Here's what I think I'm seeing: Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant. They stay!

guys who have no belief in or respect for human rights are becoming oddly invested in whether robots have rights

It's somewhat understandable that people are fooled into thinking that LLM chatbots are conscious, because the only other things we've seen engage in fluid grammatical conversations are conscious human beings. BUT...

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

can’t help but notice it’s ‘they’ when a single mother might manage to use SNAP benefits for food that actually tastes good but it’s ‘we’ when a handful of ketamine addicts wanna ruin the economy

Waymo privatized another public street: Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away. The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined. OP: .tiktok.renaspam18

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

A reminder that capitalist PR in this country has successfully conflated free markets and entrepreneurship with capitalism, which are not the same. And if we actually target and restrict capitalism, specifically, and keep it from crushing the other two, we could possibly have nice things.

fellas is photosynthesis capitalist

Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all

When immigrants read "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,' and feel that that moral sentiment is the father of all moral principle in them, they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood of the men who wrote that Declaration." —Lincoln

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

This is the main thing folks.

If you occupy Palestinian territory and then cry it's antisemitic to protest that then you're just laundering your anti Palestinian bigotry

Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It’s a grok of shit.

An executive order to ban state AI laws WOULD BE *FLAGRANTLY* UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Can we please please PLEASE lead w THAT! Stop just laundering patently illegal and unconstitutional moves as if they’re just normal policy moves. It’s not hard to frame this correctly!

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

A Chinese immigrant named Chaofeng Ge died in ICE custody. He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position. Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years. Abolish ICE

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Note for Democratic politicians: you don't have to start your condemnations of ICE raids with "We all want to catch violent criminals, but..." Just say "These raids have nothing to do with catching criminals and everything to do with terrorizing innocent minority groups."

who the fuck does Ezra Klein thinks actually writes the overly convoluted regulations he despises? It's not progressives or anybody even tangentially related to good faith reform movements, it's unchecked corporate power, you insufferable brunchlord

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

She simply lets slip explicitly what we liberal or left wing Jews have long understood about right-wing Jews' mentality towards the Holocaust, and reveals why we have been so infuriated with them. Like, how long did you think you could keep that up?

"The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title." 👍

Shame.

Musk set to make more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. (Wapo)

This part drives me most insane. Their plan is more major compromises! I'm not the biggest fan of the median voter but they do know how to receive an elite signal that the right wing is onto something, which is exactly what Bazelon types appear to be putting forward as an implicit message

every time a prominent man is revealed to be a horrible abusive freak they put out a statement being like "I hope, over time, I may rebuild the trust I have lost" and just once I would love for them to say "I'm sixty years old and a multimillionaire, you never have to hear about me again."

Having contempt for one's audience is ... not fascism, but certainly not not fascism.

Hoping this does to the Trumpists what Prop 187 did to the Republican party in California.

Step aside from even the content. Why are you advising on messaging- just deliver the message. Reminds me of Newsom saying he doesn't know what the Dem party stands for on his podcast. Motherfucker you are the dem party!

I made you a flowchart: www.todayintabs.com/p/no-one-tru...

JD Vance claims to appreciate scientific debate, but has he disproven that he fucked a couch? No, he has not. QED.

Bakunin wrote about this very thing! "Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer.

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.