I think it would be funny if Singapore and the United States each had to take one law from the other. Singapore gets almost unregulated legal firearm sales, and the U.S. bans gum. Give both laws a year and see what happens.

The next democratic president needs to pack the Supreme Court. Roberts is clearly aiding the fascist project, and the American people have no legitimate recourse to prevent that since they are not accountable to anyone.

You cannot rewoke once you've unwoked. Do not make the fatal first mistake.

the main reason this part of the "AI" project exists is advertising. lighting money on fire is worth it if it brings the kind of ubiquity that makes people scared to imagine a world where they lose access to these tools. Events like this mass shooting are known and accepted costs of the project

i know there are all sorts of useful implementations of the technology these chatbot companies make. but nothing i have seen has convinced me the mass availability of subsidized chatbots themselves isn't a fucking calamity of the highest order.

Regular reminder: John Roberts is a racist, fascist, and evil human being.

“we have to fight back by voting” when we just VOTED and had that taken from us is INSANE

Just to be clear: John Roberts is a gaslighting fascist.

i was not prepared tbh

I really don’t understand if tech companies understand how much most people fucking hate AI. Because every time a company gives me some kind of AI I want to fucking scream.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

you have almost nothing to gain from spending money on self-help or body optimization books and courses. most supplements and health topics are bogus. but universal healthcare would meaningfully extend your probable lifespan.

one of the most dangerous truths of the modern era is this: all evidence-backed "wellness" and "life-extension" tactics are just basic diet and exercise. most people have very little they can do to impact their longevity besides regularly go to the doctor and get vaccinated, etc

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Omg no wai

Ezra Klein really shouldn’t be allowed to live this one down until he apologizes. Because what he wrote was downright offensive and he doubled down repeatedly. He doesn’t offer the same grace to people on the actual left.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

It's enough to make you crazy to watch our entire media-political apparatus ridicule all left of center opinion in the leadup to every major crisis in the last 30 years only to then shrug about how no one could've seen it coming

I don’t care if it’s technically abuse, if you put generative AI in software when I don’t want it, I should be able to curse your bloodline when leaving feedback.

For Star Wars day, my favorite scene is in Revenge of the Sith when Palpatine is attacked and reveals his true form as a goth.

Top Democratic donor, Robert Wolf, says he hasn’t “given a cent for the first time in 25 years” to the DNC after the 2024 shellacking — blasting the party for blowing millions and hiding its autopsy report. No wonder the RNC is outraising them 7 to 1.

Lord I’ve seen what you’ve done for others and I want that for me

Around minute 94 of THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979), during the closing credits, we see Miss Piggy speaking briefly to Janice in the screening room, and the film finally passes the Bechdel Test.

These are absolutely hideous numbers for Trump in the latest ABC/WaPo/Ipsos polling. His approval is miles underwater on inflation, the cost of living, Iran, the economy, taxes, even immigration.

was tthere ever an x files episode where they had to work a normal case and they sucked at it i think that would be a good x files episode all the normal agents like what are you doing what are you tallking about

bias.’” He also said this court “seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.”

Former President Barack Obama did not hold back, posting how this ruling frees state legislatures “to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities…under the guise of ‘partisanship’ rather than explicit ‘racial

I haven’t given any $ to a Democratic campaign in years. Haven’t felt they’d know what to do with it. I could however see giving to candidates who explicitly map out how they’d destroy the Supreme Court.

“Regretful“ Trump voters always remind me of the James Baldwin quote: “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

people are so fucking stupid i could just scream

The big takeaway of the AI discourse is that we have to stop trying to replace each other.

As a mentalist who studies the history of confidence schemes and worked in InfoSec, I enjoy when scammers try to scam me. But idk why they always make assumptions. Like don’t guess I’m a good parent - I don’t have kids. It’s quite amusing to watch.

the party of "a whole civilization will die tonight" fake-rending their garments over violent rhetoric is funnier than the entire history of saturday night live

The gap between how AI companies talk about themselves and how the general public has experienced the technology (and its side effects) has grown into a chasm. And now the results of these divisions are starting to show. trib.al/ipz6T3Z

oh my god shut the fuck up van jones, you pathetic worm

this is a very important point

My only contribution to the discourse today is to say that I meet my sources in the jungle, the desert, and in the mountains they fought to liberate. I do not meet them in hotels in DC. This has, thus far, helped me avoid the fairly obvious class solidarity that is the backbone of access journalism.

Wild, simply wild, to watch the Sunday news shows with journalists who were at the dinner saying "It was real! It wasn't a false flag! Why do people assume nothing is real anymore?!" with all the self-reflection of a soggy slice of bread.

is there anything more embarrassing than the preening of a hifalutin access journalist. doin all that not as an A-list actor or a rock star but as a member of the swirlie-receiving class

I personally am sick of hearing about Erica Kirk. But I’ve seen some people making fun of her crying leaving the ballroom. Just stop that shit, it’s cruel. Anyone who is a victim or close to a victim of gun violence deserves respect and care.

jim, meet me in front of the hampton inn

we started with the simple goal of monitoring everyone all the time and somewhere along the way it turned bad

lol melania has the same birthday as chernobyl

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Anyway here's Stephen Miller hiding under his pregnant wife

Literally, the worst job to have in this exact moment is being a mentalist (fake psychic entertainer) who didn’t predict this.

Luke Russert on MSNOW saying that when the shots were fired he ran down the middle of the aisle in the room, right towards the president, thinking it would be safest near him. Yeah, man, I'm not sure you've really game planned how "rushing the president during a shooting" might end for you

The salad forks have been secured by the wait staff. I repeat, the salad forks have been secured and rechilled.