“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone." Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.

I guess I just don't understand like... if you don't consider being a nazi or transphobe dealbreakers in an elected official then what do you actually stand for

That’s called burying the lead

Weirdly it's always the leftists that have to be nice and make room for everyone. I've had plenty of No Kings supporters get mad at me for saying flag burning is a right and exercising it is not wrong and tell me I'm not "with them", but they're never told to stop purity testing

if i was camping and somebody came into my tent and started telling me that trans people don't deserve rights I'd toss their ass out into a ditch. what's the matter with you

mfs be like "you can't be purity testing we need a big tent" and the "purity test" is minorities objecting people who are trying to toss them out of the tent

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

The left is actively winning over the MSNBC wine libs. AOC and Zohran are forging a new consensus around pragmatic leftism and it is working Yet a lot of you are *mad* about it!

The left: always correct—uncomfortably early for everyone else Everyone else: “now that we agree with the left, the left needs to compromise to accommodate us”

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

At some point in the past, the middle aged white men that ran the TTRPGs largest cultural monopolies realized they couldn't coast off of grognard money anymore, and realised they had to appeal to white liberals too. And what to white liberals want the most? To feel morally superior. So... 1/7

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer." JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

Had a really good time with Peter talking about the AI bubble, and said the following, which i stand by: "I don't do this because I'm like "I'm going to be nasty." No, I do it because I'm pissed off at the way they fucked up the computer."

wow i cant believe isreal concocted a flimsy excuse to continue the genocide after getting their hostages back, ah shit sorry posted this 8 weeks too early

May God forgive those who believe history began on 10/7 and may God punish those who tricked them

The homes of a quarter of the animals that live in our oceans. Gone forever. We should grieve & know that these tipping points are gonna fall like dominoes. Now is not the time for ‘carrying on as normal’. All our homes are at risk.

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

we need to abolish this shit

What's also worth studying is how the Social Democrats in government came down harder on the communist community defence organisations than they did on the Nazis, thus facilitating their rise to power.

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

Says a lot about the state of popular science reporting that some techbro doofus can pretend he's going to be immortal and that will grab more headlines than "Hey we have a gene therapy that slows the advance of Huntington's by 75%," or "We gengineered a pothos into a living air purifier."

its hard to look at that speech in front of the generals as anything other than his pitch to the military to start shooting the media and democrats

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

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Here's Michael Knowles a month ago once again calling for the "eradication of transgenderism" and here is a man who threatened to shoot up a gay bar because he wanted to "eradicate transgenderism." This was retweeted by prominent conservatives such as Chris Rufo. This is stochastic terrorism.

Computer did nothing wrong. let us not confuse Holy Computer with the evil software men build upon its perfect silicone

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

it must be awesome having a career where you’re perpetually rewarded for learning absolutely nothing

its crazy that we assume these guys know everything about everything just bc they were the first ones to make a payment processing website

i don't think bluesky is my preferred platform of choice to debate what role america should play in the post-trump world order's international community. that's a subject i will not speak on outside the specific context of A Bar's Patio After Seven Beers

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

it is not lost on me that the democratic party proudly activated in unison against fascism for the first time with real threats of investigations and repercussions when a single rich famous white dude was the one impacted

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here