Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Just play this on loop for like 5 fucking minutes so it gets ingrained in your head.

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

(solemnly) You've had mail.

As some of you know, for 4 years I've been working on a book about the last 80 years of popular culture as a flashpoint for the gay rights struggle. Sometimes I've wondered who it's for. Then yesterday a young gay man, maybe 23, asked me if Stonewall happened because everyone was in NYC for Pride. >

The reason they're so mad about Portland is just how hilariously disrespectful they are in non-compliance.

PSA: If you're going to a protest (or any event, tbh) & are considering wearing a flag as a cape, pleasepleasePLEASE don't tie it around your neck! Grab a couple of binder clips like these & clip it to your shirt/jacket, & make sure that it'll come off if someone grabs it. Stay safe, friends ❤️

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

A Canadian judge just halted the deportation of a non-binary American in a landmark ruling that could set a huge precedent for trans and non-binary U.S. citizens seeking refuge in Canada. Over on @xtramagazine.com, I broke down what you need to know: www.tiktok.com/@xtramagazin...

Why do some people think their actions and impacts come with a virtual "memo line" for their intent that somehow exonerates them? Whether you're voting for Trump and then saying you "didn't vote to deport moms", or defending anyone continuing to buy Harry Potter merchandise: there is no memo line!

$1.2 BILLION transphobia fund. www.them.us/story/jk-row...

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

Remember that "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercial? I think that's what alot of people think a protest looks/feels like. I have some footage from 2014 I'd like to show them.

This is so helpful thank you.

TIL that Spider-Man co-creator (and, visually, *sole* Spidey creator) Steve Ditko briefly drew pseudonymous trans fetish comics in the early 60s????? Oh my god????

telling my children this was peter parker

If you aren't already familiar with it you will be very surprised to learn what this game is a paid advertisement for.

Feels like it’s been one of those days for years

Palestine is undergoing a daily mass slaughter event. The Holocaust of Gaza is underway and the US Senate just approved another $8.8 billion in military aid to Israel. The shots out of Rafah that aren't of dead children are nothing short of apocalyptic

We have no law in America. Marching won’t change anything. If you don’t like what your society is doing, you must disrupt it. Disrupting society is illegal (one of the only things that is still illegal) and rude. You must become comfortable with being called a rude criminal. youtu.be/dw1T30Xhdgk?...

What happened to @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is not just about CTV caving to Conservative pressures. There’s a larger issue: #cdnmedia are pushing out any female voices, voices of colour and Indigenous voices that aren’t centre-right or right. Even then there is very little representation

Droplet dogmatists deny that COVID is an airborne contagion for similar reasons why miasmatists once denied cholera is waterborne. If spread by droplets, then mitigation can be decentralised and passed on to “individual responsibility”.

This is about where I thought things were with regards to Trump's place on the org chart these days, but I hadn't thought until now about what it means that the most powerful military in the world is operating without a verifiable chain of command...

Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website

Have you heard: “measles mortality was already declining before vaccines because of nutrition and hygiene, therefore vaccines aren’t effective?” It’s spread by RFK Jr., Children’s Health Defense, Physicians for Informed Consent, & others to undermine vaccines. A thread: 1/

In retrospect, I think we were cooked when they managed to rebrand being anti-fascist as something bad

Dear cis people. Please tell your friends to keep Vivian’s deadname out of their mouths because they aren’t listening to us.

Time to trot this out again: pervertjustice.substack.com/p/apparently...

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

It really is incredible how bad ChatGPT is. There is no Tyler Olsen who has written for the Daily Signal or the Western Standard. Those publications have had authors who are named Tyler. But ChatGPT seems unable to figure out that all Tylers are not the same Tyler

Karl Popper wrote more eloquently than I could on why the famous ‘tolerance the left’ can never ever be extended to Fascists. That was quite some time ago and it would have helped if we had learned the bloody lesson.

not usually a fan of the "single person sketch in a suburban home" genre but this one is p ok

The Trump administration is currently trying to convince Americans that when it deems people terrorists, it has the right to deport them without ever having to prove they committed, planned, or even contemplated any acts of terror. www.currentaffairs.org/news/trust-m...

the idea that oswald was a free agent — that despite all the machinations, JFK was killed as a result of random chance — is so intolerable to so many people they have to believe the conspiracies are true

I'm seeing the same thing on my MAGA in-laws FB comments. Elon & Trump rescue astronauts. The thing is, the return vehicle ("Freedom") was launched in September 2024, when Joe Biden was President & it has been attached to ISS for 169 days. They had just been waiting on the right return path.

This should, and I’m serious, be illegal and grounds for investigating your medical license

Wonder what Chuck Schumer is gonna say to justify being cool with this

The queer advocacy group ACT UP is gearing up for a major protest in New York this month, honing a broad, unified theme that is focused on protecting health care while reflecting its diversifying membership. Via @simonfournet.bsky.social and @assignedmedia.org

I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for

I am very curious how 2 of the biggest sporting events in the world are gonna go bsky.app/profile/maai...

If it was done in defiance of a judges order the technical term for that is "illegal" which means it's not an arrest and deportation - which require those conducting it to at least presume they are acting within the law - but a kidnapping and human trafficking

Deported for serving a two year sentence for pot. She’s stuck in Laos, never been there. The 37-year-old is also without insulin for her diabetes and is running out of her medication for high blood pressure. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The United States is not a safe country for refugees and Canada needs to wake up to that

there isn’t a big list of “likely criminals who are also here without proper visa/docs/whatever” with pics and addresses. there is however a big list of people who have tried to navigate our kafka-esque immigration system in good faith, and sometimes some of them have slipped up.

The first several million Jewish people were killed with guns and bullets. The murder factories were suggested to preserve German soldiers' morale, as they find there were psychological consequences when a person shot thousands of people in just a few days.

I’m a Jew who grew up with a fair bit of antisemitism, and who later worked for & with Jewish orgs, and I’m furious at the small number of Trump Jews—fascist Jews—who’ve managed to misrepresent themselves as the whole. & also at the goyim who exploit that or fall for it.

this is pretty much the worst case scenario a lot of people warned and were warned about