I think I figured out why I hate the generative AIs so much. They talk like friends or wise oracles, but they should talk like aliens because they are truly alien intelligences. Not like us humans at all.

How should an alien talk to avoid sounding like it's pretending to be a (fake) human?

Human kind has risen ourselves to be the masters of the Earth, so why should I be afraid of a little bug, just because it is in my soup?

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

Social media has become a cesspool of the vanities. Or a set thereof? Probably extends up to the entire Internet and down into contemporary politics.

Also applies at the individual level. I call them GAIvatars.

So first you train the Einstein GAIvatar up to 1905 and give it the topics of the great papers. Well trained if the results are similar.

Then you give it the new data up to 2026 and see what solutions it poses to open questions?

I got a story for you if'n you're interested?

Phishing scam "from" a bestselling author based on his YouTube videos. Main question is if it was wholesale going after many targets or retail-level spearphishing. I actually suspect it was sort of halfway going after YouTube commenters on the videos.

The YOB is just the swimsuit king/queen of the YUGE cesspool of the vanities formerly known as America.

(#YOB = YUGE Orange Buffoon)

Never in the history of the United States of America has there been a more destructive president than the current occupant in the White House.

It is code red for American leadership in the fight against the climate crisis.

Yeah, it's insane, but it also sounds like a crazy lie. White on white?

No one noticed the spelling mistake? Context overrules spelling? Yeah, we know you mean "sane", not "same", but still...

And you know that notion never, ever crossed any same person's mind

Yeah, but what can we do about it?

I actually think the reason that the YOB is so buddy buddy with Xi is that he's getting lots of great tips on how to keep "them the people" under "proper" control.

And the "cesspool of the vanities" known as the Internet is not part of any solution I can see.

Hi friends,

As many of you know, ICE is operating in ways that tear families apart, enter homes without warrants, and traumatize innocent people. This is not law enforcement — this is terror and an abuse of power.

This just in: Trump administration to repeal Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's doctrine of pre-established harmony of the universe, in which God created non-interacting, independent substances (monads) that are perfectly synchronized with the material world from the beginning.

I honestly can’t remember any prior AG being this overtly disrespectful in a Congressional hearing.

They really think they’re never going to be in the minority.

Maybe I memory holed it, but personal attacks on members of Congress during testimony just seems so out of bounds.

Is there the kernel of a joke somewhere in this thought of the day?

I think the thing that annoys me about generative AI is that I hate being talked down to by a gang of manipulative idiots.

Polite idiots? Sycophantic idiots? Whatever.

I still and increasingly hate them.

Idiots smidiots.

Possibly there's the kernel of a joke somewhere in this thought of the day? I think the thing that annoys me about generative AI is that I hate being talked down to by a gang of manipulative idiots.

Polite idiots? Sycophantic idiots? Whatever. I still and increasingly hate them.

Idiots smidiots.

Mexico is not happy with the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, so I propose a new renaming that can make everyone happy. We'll call it the Gulf of Credibility in honor of you know who. Considering that it's the largest gulf in the world, I think most Mexicans will be willing to make the sacrifice.

But that might mean there was someone who could negotiate an actual peace deal and that must be prevented. Obviously. Didn't you get the fax?

So I wish I could copyright "cesspool of the vanities"?

However the real problem is that the people who could solve problems have strongly vested interests in not solving the problems. The problems they created are why they could, in theory, solve them. (Recursive humor?)

Pretty good one, but I still think we're all living in a computerized cesspool of the vanities these days. Mostly brought to you by... The google? Apple? Microsoft? Amazon? The cesspool formerly known as Twitter? Larry Ellison? The YOB? YouTube? Some other corporate cancer is #1?

But not Bluesky?

The Internet has become the biggest cesspool of the vanities in history.

Why doesn't she just stay in her favorite cesspool of the vanities? Might be the YOB's personal cesspool or the Musk's bigger one formerly known as Twitter?

Actually I think there's a funny physics joke in here somewhere. White is really ALL the colors. No real humans are free of ALL coloring.

Laura Loomer Demands NFL Apologize After Bad Bunny Halftime Show Wasn't 'White Enough'

They're not even trying to hide it at this point.

One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed In on Crypto. Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn’t always fare so well.

"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families"
extraordinary reporting from @wsj.com
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Thinking about YouTube recently. Sinking to the cesspool level of the cesspool formerly known as Twitter?

Cautionary tale for Bluesky? The comments on YouTube need a joke of their own. How about "cesspool of the vanities"? Not an objective, but rather a sad fate to be avoided... If that's possible.