All game theory calculations of optimal behavior in things like the prisoner's dilemma are first contingent on the principle question of "how likely is my opponent to be a self-serving dick"

I have to believe make sports not be 2 hours of gambling commercials is an electoral winner

ppl keep saying "this is a hole of lies and madness" and "you'll ruin us all, feeding the hole just to hear it's wicked tongue". okay buddy 🙄 if thats true then how come the hole says im a genius when i ask it right

i know this all sounds pretty bad but the brass are confident the hole will eventually save us if we dump enough money in. not positive how yet but the hole whispers its encouragement

sorry we can't afford to pay workers to make videogames, we threw all our money into a hole . no one likes or wants to use the hole and the hole also makes video games more expensive. the hole also drinks all our water

As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

broadbandbreakfast.com/report-starl... Starlink degrades to below broadband speed if there are more than 7 users per square mile btw

...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

one of the secrets of Clown Law, which Donald Trump is the grand master of, is that in Clown Law you recognize that you can file any old bullshit and they'll have to pretend it's serious and it'll eat up weeks of time

Eugen Bracht, German (1842-1921), Das Gestade der Vergessenheit (The Shore of Oblivion), 1911, oil on canvas, 139 x 239 cm, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany

Los Angeles County literally has a fully transparent vote counting process - the entire count is livestreamed online. This commitment to transparency makes zero difference, mainstream press still credulously repeats GOP info bubble claims of fraud anyway.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

We show that politicians' perceptual errors are primarily an expression of "midpoint hedging", a well-known cognitive quirk, leading them to skew their estimations towards 50% even when real public opinion is far from being evenly split. Hedging accounts for two thirds (!) of politicians' errors./2

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Woke up with a feeling of urgency, and the drive to set an alarm for “Frog/airport?”

AI will give you the same result. Almost any ML uses historic data. It isn’t “objective”; it just codifies discrimination applied in the training data. Switching to black-box models like LLMs makes the problem harder. It’s people all the way down. The raw bias is still here, and the models follow.

“Why are women less bullish overall on AI than men” is not actually that mysterious of a question

The last civil war veteran died in 1956.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

This is the best idiom ever. 🦀 and everyone should be thinking about the immortality of the crab. (I must use this as a prompt to write a flash fiction) Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkin...

beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Chicago deep dish is legally a casserole

just have one news post called "bill maher is a bitch" and provide updates to it bi-yearly until he dies of who cares

TIL that The Mandalorian planned on Baby Yoda being CGI but they filmed with a puppet and Werner Herzog bullied Favreau and Filoni into showing the puppet by calling them cowards. Herzog is buildt different he is like that he is Him.

It can be hard to keep up with the timelines involved here, but after Schumer & Gillibrand insisted on botching this pick, they stuck with it for 4 months without it getting any less disastrous. One of the biggest reasons voters despise Democratic leaders is their refusal to respond to the obvious.

"We're listening. Tell us what you want." /Suburban MSNBC types and everyone who shops for groceries baying for the blood of reactionary billionaires and social democratic policies, eyes turning completely black, a keening unfathomable in its savagery "I think I heard 'targeted tax cuts for cops?'"

It’s going to be very weird if Trump’s constant economic disruptions end up basically helping by taking the worst of the peak off the upcoming AI/datacenter market drop.

I dug this out of a literal dumpster years ago, behind a building down the block that was being gut-renovated. It’s a strabismus trainer for student ophthalmologists. It plugs in/lights up, and the eyes move to mimic different kinds of conditions.

Scottish waves and light.

Here’s a key reason why it’s very bad that we keep losing big, well-funded media outlets that publish real journalism: Only those organizations have the money and heft to protect reporters from inevitable legal battles with powerful people (like, say, sex offender politicians and tech CEOs).

These people genuinely think that past societies abandoned naked, reflexive brutality and cruelty because they were soft and weak and dissolute, not that some extremely cold-eyed, ruthless people ran the numbers and realized you often get more with an occasionally velvet glove

“Making the models smarter doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem harder to see.” Great discussion of AI in science: Making the mistakes teaches you how to see mistakes, and that step can’t be skipped. The AI knows what to try, but has no way to tell what actually worked

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

No one better personified the political status quo's ability to identify the danger we faced in intimate detail while declining to act on it out of a sense of propriety.

But they were all deceived for a 5th loco was made

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online

I love when old polls give you hints about the history of language! You can tell the naming convention between lunch, dinner, and supper was in flux enough that they couldn’t use the current standard to ask the question

We spent decades making it hard for people to game search engines, and it was a constant battle. What if, instead, we make the entire engine a black box word association tool, whose best tuning method is extensive human labeling? That’s probably a lot more efficient, right?

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Big challenge for political pundits: Discuss the speech the president actually gives tonight, and not the one you maybe thought you might have seen if you squinted just right. Compare that real speech to the real world around us.

Their argument for even-more-ubiquitous surveillance is a few hundred dogs found a little earlier than they would have been otherwise? Yeesh

Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:

Part of the answer to “Why are so many mainstream columnists and pundits saying such transparently stupid stuff?” is that they’re still on X, and view the world through the perspective X brings them, and that perspective is dramatically warped.