Y’know, it occurs to me that chatbots are like an advanced mirror test for humans. For those unfamiliar, a mirror test is when they put a sticker on an animal and put them in front of a mirror. If the animal removes the sticker, that means they have the awareness that the mirror is a reflection.

At Dark Home Depot buying Bar Keepers Enemy

I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.

hey they just invented the jcpoa

The River Hills Theatre, where it was shown in 70 MILLIMETER and FULL DOLBY SURROUND SOUND. Eventually it was moved to the Riviera next door where it would be HELD OVER AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN.

your software is not conscious, you absolute weirdo

Fuck yes!!! Disabled people on the Met carpet this is representation!! bsky.app/profile/vand...

I have seen the Madame X looks and as a foremost Madame X scholar* my response is 😑 *I want to make a movie about the woman Sargent painted, Amelie Gautreau

George Lucas explicitly linked development of STAR WARS to this bit — he wanted the future technology to feel like the car enthusiasts he portrayed in AMERICAN GRAFFITI. It was a briliant insight to how to make a fantastical future full of fake sets and wacky props feel lived-in and thus real.

Who is aware of the vessel?

This year, The Puma got scratched from the race at the last minute. Seems like they’ll do anything to clear the field for the horses.

First of all, the most recent of these elections was SIXTEEN years ago. 2008 and 2012 were: * When Obama was on the ballot * Before Shelby County

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

The raylan givens rule: If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

Some say space oceans will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted from the fish fryer, I hold with those that prefer fire. But if they were not battered twice I think I know enough of space To say for sublimation ice Is also great And would suffice.

I had not realized that Werner Herzog was a WWE fan www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

So two things. Didn’t he announce a cease-fire? And didn’t he just abruptly fire his Navy secretary for unspecified reasons?

It’s giving

Walk through the fucking store and look at what's locked up and tell me poor people are stealing that to survive the cold tonight

They changed the headline from "There is a Contest Trump is Winning" to "‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’".

It’s pretty cool to live in a place where things happen, where important people visit, that’s historical and modern and also surprisingly affordable and, oh yeah, is the most important city in any swing state so it’s guaranteed to close out election night for Dems. Philly is cool, y’all.

I don't have a podcast

And once again, I'm in the category of people who do think LLMs have a lot of genuine potential - but I also think that from a cost-benefit perspective, slowing our roll and thinking through how we integrate them into society costs us little, while the current YOLO approach is far more dangerous.

If this is the post that gets me cancelled IDC I said what I said.

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one of my fav educational activities is to go to the Natural History museum and visit the dinosaur exhibit and remind them that we beat them

He’ll cheer himself up by tearing down the West Wing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is only reference to ANY women in entire piece: "Representatives Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already had. Senators Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego and Elissa Slotkin said they wouldn’t." 2200 words, even the sentences MENTIONING 2 women make up 20 words.

wait why are they climbing back into the capsule come back

That’s ridiculous. It’s clearly a threat to confiscate church property and install Sam Alito as the new antipope.

Colby gives off big "women cover their drinks near him" energy

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

It's been wild watching fancy political soothsayers insist "The next war will be fought over water, not oil!" for the last 20 years because they thought it was obvious that renewable energy would become cheaper than fossil fuels. They really underestimated how stupid world leaders are.

Wind & solar have been the cheapest energy for over a decade, we have ways to store it for nighttime & calm conditions, & we're still fighting wars over oil. It is what it is folks

the funniest outcome here is that Iran insists on tolls and we have to figure out a way to backchannel payment to them to let ships through for the next two weeks to pretend they agreed to the ceasefire

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

“If Trump were a Democrat would you still hate him?” Trump WAS a Democrat, and I hated him then, too. I don’t GAF what party someone claims to be. Nobody hates Trump because he’s a Republican. We hate him because he's a shitty President and possibly the shittiest human being who has ever lived.

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Bears repeating that he is threatening Iran over something that wasn’t a problem until he bombed Iran. In this sense it’s very much like many other problems he’s promised to “fix” bsky.app/profile/pale...

Seems to me if you think you have divine sanction for your warmongering when it goes badly you have to consider the opposite proposition but they never seem to!

Good morning team! Happy birthday to NATO!

how the fuck do you work with a guy who changes trade and foreign policy based on current mood?

We struggled to hold presidents accountable even before this. And then SCOTUS smashed the one lever we found, and the voters fucking completely failed their end of the bargain. And now we're just stuck watching as he goes on the world's greatest crime spree and livestreams it while bragging.

Reminder that the moon that orbits the Earth has a name in English and that name is the Moon. There are lots of nicknames and names in other languages (Luna, for instance) but technically in English it is just the Moon. The concept of a moon is uncapitalized; our moon is the Moon.