The Infinitely Prolonged

People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.

The tech executives themselves tell us

*AI could kill us all

*They want to cover the world and maybe space with "data centers"

*AI will take everyone's job, and some are firing people already

*We must use AI

What's not to love?

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On Feb. 20, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism.

Fake counterterrorism. Make believe armed conflict. Real killing.

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Inc. PAC Before Trump Blasted New Span

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc.

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Claude loses $13 for each dollar it makes.

It's a matter of when, not if, vibe coders wake up from their sycophantic wetdream to discover they've permanently deskilled themselves out of programming jobs.

robot looking down at shattered phone on the ground

Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two

‘user error, not AI error,’ Amazon said

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"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one ...Acting ethically in an imperfect world

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

"ICE doesn't have enough guys"

Have I introduced you to local police agencies

Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

Nobody could predict that ICE and CBP randomly detaining and terrorizing foreigners might cause people to nope out of traveling here 🙄

Nobody could predict that ICE and CBP randomly detaining and terrorizing foreigners might cause people to nope out of traveling here 🙄

Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

Of course Trump is confused. The Supreme Court told everyone that the Constitution doesn’t apply to him and he can break laws without consequence if he feels like it.

They effectively rewrote the Constitution just for him. More than once!

Why would he expect the law to suddenly matter for tariffs?

People don't realize that his inability to admit he is wrong isn't a choice. It's pathological.

"If he could just..." He can't.
He can't.
He's incapable.

He's welded his sanity, his emotional regulation, to this false image of infallibility he's created in his own mind.

It would also - almost more importantly - mean that you wouldn't have Musk sitting on top of global democracy like a bowling ball on top of a flan.

"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American."

Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?

21-Year-Old's Body Found In Wooded Area Of Georgia Park The unidentified 21-year-old man was found Feb. 14 in Fair Oaks Park in Marietta, Georgia, northwest of the city of Atlanta.

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Black man found hanging in Marietta ga. a couple of days ago. No news coverage again. Likely not a suicide as they are again trying to say. Statistically speaking Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees. Any guess of who would do this?!

Liberals don't like tech.

About this SCOTUS tariff ruling: all these Congresspeople celebrating it today COULD HAVE STOPPED THESE TARIFFS AT ANY POINT IN THE LAST YEAR. They just chose to not do that. So, they can STFU. Also, SCOTUS could have stopped this at any point in the last year. They just didn't.

Democrats should run this year on returning tariff revenue to Americans. Trump already said today he’s going to fight this in the courts. An easy mode way to be on the right side of the affordability issue.

Polymarket really shouldn't exist. It should be illegal to run a book on political processes. I'm also all for outlawing Nate Silver but that seems less possible

Bluesky should not get into this idea that blocking you is a problem. You can be blocked for any reason. You can be blocked because your pfp is annoying. You can be blocked because your vibe sucks.

If you take this personally I think that’s also a reason you can be blocked.

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care not for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love!

[twangye charminge lute riff]

Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye: *Ich am yn love!*

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.

That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.

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Wild that the president of the united states is reacting to a supreme court ruling by having a crash out temper tantrum meltdown press conference where he's literally saying this isn't fair, I'm allowed to do whatever I want, even destroy countries, and people are acting like it's situation normal.

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC