The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.

so the podcast that Platner went on as a guest last month and called himself a “longtime fan” of isn’t just antisemitic, it’s also full of anti-Black racism and promoted the racist and xenophobic GOP attacks on Somali immigrants in Minneapolis?

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

graham platner's team rn

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Ed Yong energy (laudatory)

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command. The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

I needed to just take a fucking break for a fucking second, so I achieved a light and pleasant state of inebriation, watching Spinal Tap for the first time since I was a teenager. I remembered it more as absurd; now as an adult, having had to actually deal w people like this—my god it fucking hits

"The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians." www.cfr.org/articles/oba...

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

From The Archives:

EXCLUSIVE: A draft executive order that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over federal elections is reportedly being circulated with the White House. Democracy Docket obtained a copy. Read the full, 17-page order below👇

Fun fact: the dining room at Mar-a-Lago, built in the mid-1920s, was dubbed "the Mussolini room" by its designer because it was intentionally modeled after Rome's Chigi Palace that was occupied at the time by Il Duce.

This was Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 when he came back from exile to power. He was 77 years old, born in 1902. A US senator thinks he’s still in power 47 years later, at 124 years old. Ok Markwaynemullinhead.

Not the same guy, you brick-brained clown. The one who came to power in 1979 died 10 years later in ‘89.

Time to watch another war on social media

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

If you’re a Democratic member of Congress who trusts the Trump regime to take military action without Congressional authorization, you should immediately resign. You’ve already abdicated your responsibility to uphold the constitution—please just vacate your seat. You are worse than useless.

"Mexico has extremely strict gun ownership laws: the country only has two gun stores, both run by the Mexican military, which enforces strict regulation on the purchase of weapons. But in the US, loose gun legislation and a national obsession with firearms mean guns are readily available to buy"

Individual solutions won't stop systemic problems, but talking to the children in your life about the myriad dangers of AI is now a necessary part of being a responsible adult.

so we went from war on anthropic to war on iran in a matter of hours

we now make people sign an agreement that they won’t use AI and if they do, they lose their contingency agreement and become hourly clients

the reason conservatives treat "cancelled for their conservative views" and "cancelled for being a sex pest and rapist" the same is that "powerful men should be allowed to rape their subordinates" *is* a conservative view

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Last week, for the first time in 20 years, a man died from a treatable snake bite on my home island of Martinique. He had asked chatGPT what to do instead of going the hospital. He missed the 6 hours treatable window.

Sharing this again because I am still recovering from this potent horrifying/hysterical cocktail

The DoorDash app is a fucking masterclass in dark pattern design

When people ask me what my novel is about

I've uploaded the #Spanish and #German translations of STOP FORCING AI INTO EVERY FUCKING THING to #TeePublic, www.teepublic.com/user/nobodys... (You can also get English, Russian, French and SFW versions.)

How is every week somehow longer than last week, the longest week I’ve ever lived

I will literally never hand it to Anthropic

A lot of obvious stuff in this poll (people want Dems to act with more conviction and stop tearing their ACLs trying to reach across the aisle), but the thing I learned is that Republicans are viewed as the elitist ones now! Run with that! Usain Bolt with that shit!

mood

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

does the SecDef's new policy disqualify Pete Hegseth (Princeton '03; Harvard MPP '13) from his cabinet position?

When reality is a mid-tier SNL sketch

A general point of misunderstanding between people who think Claude might be conscious and people who think Claude is just a computer program is that skeptics tend to argue against an overly high view of LLMs while believers in fact typically have a low view of humans

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you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

this is good. more of this!

My favorite thing about Jack Dorsey how every iteration of his look is different genre of college campus drug dealer

“Our opposition calls us paid protesters,” she said. “They cannot comprehend or understand that this is coming from the deepest corners of people’s souls. They cannot get their heads around it.”

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

The White House Correspondents' Association: