in case you don’t speak Anglican, this means “if you work for ICE you are going to hell” which is both based and theologically sound

A lot of people on the right were weeping about Ashli Babbitt yesterday. Check the killer's social media.

It’s hard to pin down the right’s concept of “person,” but it’s roughly a single cell through birth, and then a white Christian male starting when they can whoop their daddy.

It’s particularly ironic since the “intellectual dark web” love Plato.

I know people believe that the Democrats are in the minority and can't do anything. I would encourage you to read about how, in fact, minority parties can be disruptive. If they want to be. You don't even have to read. You can just see how the Republicans acted during the Obama years.

I went through what appears to be the personal Twitter account of the late Rep Doug LaMalfa (it's mutuals with his official account and was listed in a news article as his), and I was prepared for the far-right accounts that he followed, but not the explicit porn ones.

The city comes by about once a year to knock down the beaver family's dam, and it's a little upsetting until I remind myself that they've been building dams for millions of years and will likely continue to do so long after humans are gone.

One of my pettiest complaints about LLMs is that they'll tell you that the Bradbury Building was in Double Indemnity. The Bradbury Building's atrium is open to the glass ceiling, so the office from the film wouldn't be possible.

this is also why i suspect the GOP is likely to get worse, not better with time as the boomer wing of the GOP pass on, you get more of the racist types in control

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

"Sam was getting advice as trustworthy as a Reddit comment, but it was packaged like he was talking with an empathetic doctor." I've had several cases where ChatGPT is very wrong and appears to be getting the info from Reddit.

The fascists may be extremely online, but they are certainly not good at Actual Online Things

We’ve reached a point where it can take minutes to tell a video of yourself isn’t you. “When I clicked on the attached YouTube link… I began to worry that my memory is not what it used to be. When did I record said video? A couple of minutes in, I knew there was something wrong.”

Great thread by Chad on organizing on the left. It’s much easier for white evangelicals to maintain a coalition than countless communities who sometimes have legitimate beef with each other.

Meanwhile, over at The Guardian:

He’s just jealous Putin got to do an invasion.

Dude’ll never stop being jealous of President Obama.

For no particular reason, this passage from Ernest Becker’s Escape From Evil: “In this book I attempt to show that man’s natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.”

Look how much bicentennial Archie Bunker jingoistic bullshit they were able to cram into one image.

The fact that he thinks it's challenging isn't a great sign, either.

Brutal seeing Radiohead and The White Stripes on Apple Music's "Dad Rock" station.

Here’s a list from 2020 of the 154 Californian billionaires at the time. I count three that I’d miss.

Did somebody say William F. Buckley?

Grammarly has a "plagiarism or AI writing" checker, and I regret to inform you that it is not good.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

As a former D&D player, it was fun to discuss whether the scariest monsters were Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, or Chaotic Evil. Turns out the scariest monsters are True Neutral. ChatGPT will tell you how to make sourdough bread or kill your family in the same tone.

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It seems as though the psychotic-break enhancer is _not_ in fact a necessity on every desktop, I’m saying.

Maybe society should put up guardrails around the suicide whisperer, I’m saying. Maybe we _don’t_ need the self-annihilation intelligent assistant chatbot.

Just finished the final episode of Frieren and wow, what a show!

In college I took a course “class, crime and the police” which essentially boiled down to people commit crimes at the same rate, but poor people are likelier to be prosecuted, and likelier again to be concerned. It was a criminal justice class, and every future cop was in such denial.

This headline is such bullshit. His citizenship has absolutely NO bearing on his being accused of sexual assault. Like, really? Are they trying to imply that if he was a US citizen, this wouldn't have happened? Well, I beg to fucking differ. www.wral.com/news/local/d...

In 2025, I continued to publish articles championing humans in the context of the #AI onslaught (while also looking for work, which I have not yet found). I co-authored 1 oral conference paper and 2 book chapters, and I wrote 4 articles for @fastcompany. Here is the list for 2025:

Anyone want a job at my alma mater?

Tired: Dark Brandon Wired:

One of the dangerous things about LLMs is that they repeat widely accepted untruths. I just ran into another: the mistaken belief that NA beers have the same alcohol per volume as orange juice. That's off by a factor of about ten, and it's probably because of mixing units.

YouTube just served me an AI-generated ad with Ben Carson telling me that dementia is caused by drinking warm water.

Next up: Black Plague was a lab leak, dinosaur extinction was a lab leak, Big Bang was a lab leak.

"In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime."

I’ve been reading a lot of conservative Christian content and it’s amazing to me that millions of people base their entire moral framework on word choices by random people 2,000 years ago.

Eion’s being sued by self-described useful idiot Matt Taibbi. I just bought his book, and you can, too:

Make a Bond film casual. Dr Meh

“Still going over every choice made” Including buying it?

Why’s Vance wearing Rudolph Valentino makeup?

Make a Bond movie academic: Goldfinger: Precious commodity price regulation and emergent market maker behavior.

This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.

The more I look at the right, the more I realize how much of their ideology is due to their inability to count.

A useful thread about the philosemitic antisemitism of the Christian right--IOW, an explanation for why their unqualified support of the Israeli state is totally consistent with their wish for a future in which Jews convert or perish.