llms peaked back when like chatgpt 3.5 was new. ever since then they just gradually make the models dumber so that when there's a new release that's just as good as what they used to offer it feels like a huge step forward. it's a shepherd tone illusion sort of thing

Keeping records for literally everything about people on the internet is a great idea, until you suddenly realize you created woke KF.

These guys have been throwing random people into gulags without a second thought but they've suddenly rediscovered the concept of presumption of innocence

He's right, and it's not just Brazil.

Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

He really is Mr Brexit. (To this day I don't understand the stated motivation of many Leave voters of doing it to "punish Cameron")

Trump’s electoral superpower is that voting for him is seen as a generic “I’m mad” button and everyone just kinda fills in what they’re mad about and what he’s going to do about it themselves, ending up with their own personal fanfic version of the president.

this shit needs to work like illusion spells in dnd. i know what ur doing, adhd, u can stop fucking up my concentration rolls now, tyvm

It's gonna turnout that far rightwing know-nothing reactionaryism has been structurally supressed over the past 2 centuries since the 1800s and with social media we finally created an environment where all the retrograde dipshits could organize to make the world a worse place.

Just saw a cooking video in which the creator referred to a “liberal use of salt” and the comments are rife with partisan bickering because society is equal parts dumb and broken.

Think this is the purest and most open distillation of what is an increasingly influential among elites, strain of thought on the British Christian right which goes “I oppose Islam because it is hostile to mainstream modern British thought, which I am explicitly hostile towards”.

"i see......that you are going to rub a belly. Yes.....rub a belly"

I think it was structural to Twitter, tbh. It beign the platform of choice for so many academics, politicians and journalists, i.e people who are sources of *credibility* gave the whole thing an air of legitimacy that any other internet forum wouldn't have. A single world "public square" is noxious

I think that there are really two problems

1. The retroactive halo of Woke 1.0 is totally dishonest

2. The vast majority of anti-woke people were frauds

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However, there is this rhetorical tic in pieces like this where the author has to insert this caveat to avoid admitting that *those criticisms were actually correct*

right. a bunch of people discovered that you could press a magic button and then suddenly hundreds or even thousands of people would intervene in your own petty dispute

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It’s so cool how guys like this can trivially hop between software jobs, no questions asked. I love that. I love this industry. I love what a true meritocracy looks like.

I think (pace @tedunderwood.me) that the biggest failings of these pieces is the unexamined assumption of wanting to build a slave

The internet should never have stopped being always aggro on fundies

The Secret Landlord: Why my tenant thanked me for their £660 rent increase. Accompanying image - a modern housing estate with fields n the background.

I see The Telegraph is branching out into fiction

Bits + Follow @bitshammer.bsky.social someone was just reminiscing about playing World of Tanks and let me in on his secret to success: posting "Rommel was an ardent nazi and a bad general" right before rushing the enemy and ganking them while they typed January 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM o Everybody can reply 436 reposts 25 quotes 1.5K likes

i genuinely hope the next john wick is set in hell and hes just doomguy in a suit, absolutely zero lore or discussion of the change in setting or character should happen

Mannimarco, the God of Worms. Grey scale line art of an elf with long white hair and dark clothes.

Trying this style because I actually like it so much. Here you go, Mannimarco, the greatest loser of Tamriel 🫴
#eso #elderscrolls #fantasy #art #fanart

Salvadorian death camp, not even federal prison, but yeah.

your crazy ass stupid post just fucked up the whole world . hope it was worth the likes. hope youre enjoying the clicks

"Large Hitler Model" is an excellent coinage

it is every american suburbanite's dream to one day afford to live in a house in a neighborhood without sidewalks so they can spend the weekend watching bicyclists get hit by cars

don't trade away your kids for gold is literally the entry level lesson of about 80% of fairy tales

When the consent manufacturer is manufacturing consent 🤯

¿Donde es el sandwich? Tiene buena pinta.

Every time Musk tries to de-woke Grok it just becomes insane.