Cosmic

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:

Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. " "You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

You know, today's also Dhanteras, the first day of Diwali, which is a holiday celebrating the victory of good over evil sooooooo feels good!!

This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

Oh they’re so close to getting it.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like.

Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college.

Game. Set. Match.

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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Happy Musk vs Trump day for all those celebrating.

Fucking THANK YOU.

Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes.

Wow, Disney PR working overtime to rewrite Kev’s history so that ‘NOTHING BAD WAS HIS FAULT, I SWEAR’.

incidentally the whole point of stuff like having a federal dept of health and human services is instead of each of us all figuring it out on our own, we all chip and and hire the best scientists in the world to do our research

1. This isn't true at all.
2. IQ numbers are BS. The test depends on who's administering it, and even if it WAS a reliable indicator of "intelligence," that means nothing about a person's value.
3. You know what's in water that DOES hurt development? Lead. They're not interested in that.

More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs.

The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.

One of our Constitution’s core principles is that concentrated power leads to tyranny. That’s why judicial independence is so important. Proffessor @kateshaw.bsky.social explains:

Tweet by Molly White @molly0xFFF it's always fascinating to watch grown adults discover the concept of public libraries for the first time Quoted tweet by Ken Herman @kherman Ponderable? And do free people expect to read every book they want to read for free (at public expense)? After all, many people who write and produce the books do expect a return on their effort and investment. Just a thought.

Tweet thread: Molly White @molly0xFFF 37m and when you decide to defund libraries because "people who can afford it can just buy the books", you restrict access to those who can't afford it Ken Herman @kherman 21m How about if we use those tax dollars to buy the books for those who can't afford them? Molly White @molly0xFFF congratulations! you have just invented libraries

every damn time

Funny, how "I will fix things on day one" quickly became "Please, please give me NINE MONTHS to show any signs of progress!!!"

Oh no! I just looked it up.

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Happy Presidents' Day!

Reminder that Presidents are elected to serve the PEOPLE — not unaccountable billionaires, corporations, or special interests.

this is such a great example of the conversation folks were having on here earlier this week about the left refusing to cede the tropes and symbols and imagery of American patriotism (like the flag) to the right

If the goal of ‘DOGE’ were truly to expose corruption and save taxpayer money it wouldn’t have been preceded by the unlawful firing of 18 Inspectors General whose job it is to expose corruption and save taxpayer money.

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

Pete Hegseth Is Sworn In as Defense Secretary After Being Confirmed by Slim Margin Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his confirmation came down to Vice President JD Vance serving as tiebreaker.

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools." Hannah Arendt
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive