So, this is how I’m finding out the Ghostface Killah is a homophobic deadbeat! This is his son, Infinite Coles and the diss track eats!!!

Oooh! I've always wanted a supernatural assistant who would interpret my vaguely expressed wishes as commands and proceed to execute them while I sleep

Comedy always leads, but when Jimmy Kimmel said, Donald Trump can't take a joke, I thought he offered a seminal insight into how the country got here. We're here because a petty but (inexplicably to me) charismatic man seized control of government to exercise his personal need for revenge.

I think that “intelligence” that is based solely on stringing together somewhat plausible words together in ways that resonate with some of humanity’s worst impulses may be the greatest threat to our survival. This is about both LLMs and the current regime.

Can confirm. Fellow former Catholic, and I saw Steve on the way up. On reflection, God’s love of irony explains a lot.

If you’re reading this, you were left behind like me. On the upside, this means we get to watch Slow Horses season 5.

Resistlib yard signs are gonna be surreal after four whole years of mad king shit. In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter Love is love We shouldn’t go to war with Denmark We shouldn’t go to war with Illinois either You shouldn’t rape kids Tylenol shouldn’t be illegal

I think I’m experiencing semantic satiation on the term “agentic”.

Something teenage me would definitely be shocked by is how often I have to search for my computer.

Anyone else think about how early exposure to Magic 8 Ball prepared them for this AI era?

i dont care how purple your district is. hell i dont care if youre a democrat in a blood red district. there's no reason to "honor" someone who said THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WAS AN UNQUALIFIED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRE. period.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. White guys on Bluesky admonishing Black women for being too timid in their opposition to fascism.

Who are the designers of the new iPhone UI? Would love to hire them in order to create the hardest escape room in the world.

This partnership does not bolster my trust in 1Password. 1password.com/partners/per...

“.. There has to be a line between crime and war,” said John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

in the exotic and mysterious oriental cultures prison camps with horrifying conditions are considered very offensive. unlike for central americans, who are used to it and it’s not even worth mentioning when it comes to them.

Related: when people cry about how mean Bluesky is, what they mean is that there's a genre of garbage pseudomoderate take we simply do not tolerate here

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

in the brilliant standup special “dress to kill,” eddie izzard said communication is “70% how you look, 20% how you sound, and only 10% what you say.” seems relevant right now.

Debate is a hobby. It’s not a thing you do to understand another person. Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.

now that they have a guy in custody that isn't the evil gay abortion loving democrat they were initially blaming, it is important that you not forgot who your friends, family and colleagues showed themselves to be this week

All I can say is that I don’t say many things extremely confidently.

Usually when I arrive at Hartsfield-Jackson, “Welcome to Atlanta” plays in my head, but if I arrive at Concourse D, a very different song takes its place:

I just read someone wishing for an AI bubble collapse and resulting recession so that the U.S. regime will be unable to fund repressive policies, e.g. mass deportation, etc. I’m not sure how someone can be so sure that economic pressure will lead to political liberalization. Many counter examples.

Kirk's Turning Point USA created the Professor Watchlist -- a list created to harass, intimidate, dox, mock, threaten and ruin professors who do race and gender work. I'm on that list. Is THAT the "right way" ???

Change in Headline

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a CEO to understand the value of human interaction when their valuation depends on their not understanding it.”

Sometimes I’m definitely too oblique in my posting. I think I expect everyone to view posts as fun puzzles of meaning and intent to decipher. I’m not sure that is generally the case.

whomst among us has not looked at their drafts folder and thought "these ought to be sodden"

iPhone Air has an A19 Pro chip, which is has native matmul full NVIDIA inference speed in laptops, maybe even phones too? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4518...

In other news, I just shook a Magic 8 Ball to find out if the letter was from Trump, and it said, “Signs point to yes”.

At Texas A&M, they want a University that the Football Team can be proud of.

happy saturday everyone

Nearly 30 years in, and this is still an unrivaled banger. open.spotify.com/track/6YtkOh...

this is the sort of thing the safety community should have been trying to design policy recommendations around instead of concern trolling x-risk nonsense.

I will take these articles more seriously if they ever get around to addressing the *many* beings that we already know to be conscious and worthy of moral concern.

I would allow something like this for our octopus or raccoon successors.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

This is strictly about C**E**Os, right? open.spotify.com/track/2zO4tO...

Is this Moravec's paradox?

I’m not sure what we can do for humanity at this point, but I think we should consider inoculating octopuses, raccoons, and other potential successors with a deep seated aversion to social media. I don’t think it is sufficient for getting past the Great Filter, but it seems increasingly necessary.

Double vaxxed up on a Sunday afternoon—in Georgia. Thank you, CVS.

Now that it’s here, it’s only right that we should get the lyrics.

I can

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

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