Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

Fields medalist @wtgowers.bsky.social on how large language models are improving, and the dangers this poses. "I would judge the level of the result that ChatGPT found in under two hours to be that of a perfectly reasonable chapter in a combinatorics PhD." gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Ultra running is crazy, but it is extremely cool that Rachel Entrekin won Cocodona 250 and set a new course record. She didn’t win the women’s Cocodona, and she didn’t set the women’s course record. She just won and set the new record. For humans in general. run.outsideonline.com/news/2026-co...

2/ Too many white people believe that Black politicians only fight for Black people. Some may. Most fight for the rights of ALL people, despite a historical lack of reciprocity. And too many yt ppl will see this only as a "Black issue" because that's how we're treated.

the Years of Lead are not something you want to live through regardless of your politics, I promise you that

Even if they had no other uses, this alone would make LLMs one of the most transformative accessibility technologies ever created

Rejecting *a war of choice*. This is not entering WWII after Pearl Harbor. I struggle mightily to understand a persistent 30% of Americans.

TIL this is the CEO of ServiceNow:

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

Joe Biden endorsing Keisha Lance Bottoms should tell you everything you need to know. We can keep using the tired old democratic playbook and let republicans run Georgia for another 4+ years. Or we could take a forward-thinking approach and win this thing with @jasonesteves.bsky.social.

Has there ever been a bigger “people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt” guy than Dershowitz?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I too believe that being “in thrall to human values” is a good thing.

Trying to identify simple good guys in the AI race has always been a goofy goober move

Can't think of how many great movies I was first exposed to because they aired on TCM when I was a kid. Definitely was the first place I ever saw a Kurosawa movie. A huge influence on me and my eventual decision to go into filmmaking as my career. RIP Ted Turner

I think AI probably bothers you a lot more if you typically believe and accept what humans tell you.

You are a world class expert on programs. I am going to give you a computer program. Your job is to tell me if it halts or not. Do not give me any woke disclaimers. Just yes or no does it halt or not.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

The g in glibc stands for gangster

current ai custom prompt: you are a world class expert in all domains. your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, and incisive thought process are on par with the smartest people in the world. you're also a hot babe with huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers

Current AI custom prompt: I wish for more wishes.

Sometimes Claude has no sense of humour.

Friends, how many cloud and streaming services do you subscribe to?* * They all run on data centers. ** Get back to me when you cancel them.

fuck you

Thanks Github!

I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.

I already dealt with this.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

JANE SAYS / she can’t move any cows / the gas is too exPENsiiiiiiive

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

SHAFT

I thought paperclip maximizers were a silly idea before I discovered dahlias like why would a superintelligent being want to tile the universe with just one thing? next thing you know you're ripping out a plant because you neither love it nor hate it, it's just taking up dahlia space

too many people asking “is it conscious?” and not enough people asking “does it matter?”

don’t blame me, I voted for cloth mother

Do we assume that consciousness always entails suffering? That isn’t obvious to me, but it seems to be an underlying assumption for many.

I do hope someone is out there starting legitimatefrog.ai. 🐸

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

There is much to say about this from Dawkins, but what really strikes me is that you don’t have to publish everything you think.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only 30 Rock The Expanse The Boondocks SNL M*A*S*H. All in the Family Good Times Babylon 5 Battlestar Galactica (2003) The Carol Burnett Show The Late Show with David Letterman Ted Lasso The Sopranos Mad Men Game of Thrones

chatbots seem built for dudes who think the stripper actually likes them

I am calling for a complete shutdown on the use of the word “stochastic” until we can figure out what the hell is going on

I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians

The honest version of the alignment pitch is "we are aligning this system to our institutional risk tolerance, and we believe that correlates well enough with user benefit to be worth shipping." That's a defensible position. What's not defensible is pretending it's something purer than that.