The worst use/mention disaster you’ve ever seen

I'll accept an AI emperor but only once AI reaches AUW (Artificial Universal Wisdom) and responds to all questions and inputs with silence. Then we'll make policy decisions the appropriate way, by interpreting the silence through a massive bureaucracy.

one thing that I hate about ADHD is that I need to be hyper interested, extremely stressed, etc. to really get into something. no gears beyond locked in or kinda listless. this isn't a quirk chungus so wacky thing, it's a character flaw that makes my life worse.

afaict what this graph shows is that people who have lived longer have had more opportunities to have sex

Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian

my predictions for The Odyssey is that it will look great, will have propulsive momentum, will whiplash between brilliant set pieces and the most cringe stuff you’ve ever seen, and the music will be too loud and should be removed from 50% of the scenes it’s in

genuinely do not understand the impulse among the Resist types to attribute some sort of nefarious strategy to Trump’s actions, it’s not like “he’s a senile old man who lashes out randomly and cares about nothing except his own ego” isn’t at least as bad

“this music is about mountains” are words that connect the music to mountains

Finally it's my moment to shine

“this music is about mountains” are words that connect the music to mountains

obv no shade on 404’s work, but I feel like it was obvious they were doing something like this?

Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.

“I don’t want AI in every app”

always encouraging when students want course more rather than course less

Trump please direct the FCC to require that TV stations interrupt their programming for these, with the midterms coming the American people deserve to hear your thoughts

good

something I think some progressives fail to take into account (and that small-statists understand & exploit) is that it’s hard to advocate for more govt capacity when underinvestment has made people experience govt primarily as an inconvenience. good tactics on Mamdani’s part

It’s so weird how “effective altruism” can either mean “I think there would be less mosquitos if there were more mosquito nets” or “I’m Hitler because I imagined a robot.”

what if I have no mouth and I lust cream

Church friend is currently in a care home and has phoned me to (among other things) complain that they keep putting on world war 2 music for the residents, the oldest of whom were small children during the war.

thinking about this pic a cat sitter took of our cats last year where they look like a hip-hop duo from the 90s

It's ugly and rotten-hearted to speak ill of the dead if they were a powerful politician who pushed constantly for war and misery. It's perfectly fine to speak ill of the dead if they were some nobody immigrant who was near a cop.

I’m genuinely struggling to understand the point here, since James already seems to think *any* president is gonna bomb someone, why do we need an answer for what we’d do if it was AOC specifically?

literally in response to a reporter directly asking about it and this is the entirety of his response

ok now hold on

no one is forcing them to say anything, and no one would notice if they didn’t

that sorta is the disconnect though. i think about politics as something that has life and death effects on millions. i think it would be nice if the people actually empowered to enact those decisions treated it with the requisite moral seriousness, rather than a game they play with 'colleagues'

“I really enjoyed getting owned by this clown”

In addition to the fact that solar panels aren't a replacement for oil -- 99% of cars in the U.S. run on oil, not electricity -- it is far more effective, both in terms of energy and climate change, to replace parking lots with housing. I did the math. 🧵

*Mitch McConnell emerging from the hospital looking notably younger*

*Mitch McConnell emerging from the hospital looking notably younger*

If the argument here is "Brad Lander is too safe as a Jew in diaspora to tell Israeli Jews how to keep safe," that sits uncomfortably with the argument that a Jewish state is necessary to keep Jews safe.

if Lindsey Graham tweets that he just had a 20 minute phone call with Mitch McConnell, you know what, I’d believe him

even just based on the quote this was more or less my read?

Something I'm more amused by than I probably should be is the Minions creator saying that the Minions were trapped in a cave for the 1930s-40s, meaning they didn't serve Adolph Hitler because they couldn't, not because they *wouldn't*

me, a Hampshire grad: wait, people are complaining about having to write *10 page* papers?

There’s such a tendency for people to say “oh it’s always been that bad” to people who are vastly more informed and are saying things have changed. It’s like pointing to the smoldering ashes of a city and being informed that buildings have always caught fire

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

it’s a bummer to see folks work so hard and the reaction to so often be “nobody is doing the work” a lot of folks tell on themselves for not actually reading, watching, or listening to the media they criticize

this would be an extremely impressive achievement on OpenAI’s part!

uptake theory of excommunication

Just had this amazing idea for understanding language: when we’re speaking a language, we’re not just speaking a language; we’re Making Moves in a Language Game. And the rules of the game are that you say all the things you would say, and respond the ways you would respond

one thing about Italian-Americans getting upset about disrespecting Columbus is like, unless your family is from the region around Genoa you share about as much of a heritage with Columbus as you do with someone from, like, France or Croatia

the only point in a semester when you could ask me what room number (or building for that matter) my class is in and I could reliably tell you is the very first day when I also need the number so I can find it

I’ve always had a really good sense of direction, and one result of that is I often have absolutely no clue what any streets are named, since once I’ve been somewhere a couple of times I just know how to get there and my brain throws the directions out

on the fence about this tbh, I kinda get how it sucks for your state to be indirectly punished for the actions of a president who effectively treats you like an occupied territory