Benjamin Leggett

I made a diff using archived copies of this. The biggest difference is article one, listing congress' powers. Text removed includes habeas corpus, control of the military and immigration, the right to make laws, power over tariffs and trade, minting currency. www.diffchecker.com/cs2Mri4G/

I want to host a “MAGA + libs” party where the two sides are not allowed to talk politics. Instead they do an activity, like boardgames. I want to witness the dawning horror as they find themselves getting along

again, this fails to take seriously the fact that MAGA fascists are in fact often sincere bigots who want to hurt people.

www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...

God damn Ebert was *right* - rewatching The Graduate as an adult suggests an entirely different reading where Mrs. Robinson and her daughter are the victims and Ben is a little creep.

soon: "the stupidest people alive became obsessed with conspiracies about pedophile rings, which eventually ends with them helping empower a very high profile pedophile to basically emperor status, which he uses to pardon the only person to actually face consequences for running a pedophile ring"

There's a certain kind of 'everything is about capitalism' leftwinger who is particularly useless at the current moment, because their argument relies on the idea that racism is somehow good for profit and rent extraction. It's not. Racism is bad for business, and the left shouldn't concede that.

TRUMP: ... and he stole her from me!

BANNON: [audio unclear] up in cages. But why was she so important?

TRUMP: Steve. Steve. Do you know how hard it is to find a natural blonde in Florida, Steve? That young? Come on!

MILLER: [unintelligible demonic screeching]

TRUMP: Jesus. ... No, alive.

you might lose some of these fights! you might lose the battle! you might win but with a tarnished legacy! but that is the fight and any bullshit triple bank shot “kitchen table” approach is just masturbation

oh they benefit from senate malapportionment? admit new states. they gerrymander? either ban gerrymandering or do it yourself even worse. they benefit from the electoral college? time for a popular vote. they funded by a handful of billionaires? confiscate their wealth

the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc

There are too many goddamn stupid people on LinkedInthat think if they just let billionaires and VCs do what they want and stay quiet, they'll be allowed to cash in behind them.

This man is the personal hero and sage of the most powerful Catholic in the American government.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

How Runtime Hardening Enforces AI, Cloud Native Security It’s time for a new foundation: security embedded in the runtime itself, where execution can be constrained, not just observed.

It’s time for a new foundation: security embedded in the runtime itself, where execution can be constrained, not just observed.

By @alex.zenla.io, thanks to @edera.dev

Nobody is really trying to do anything big and a good chunk of the supposed people with power to actively resist

Spent most of the past five years mocking and abusing those who did

I was in my mid-thirties before I realized, watching Spinal Tap again after many years, why they named the guy Sir Eaton-Hogg.

Yall will NEVER guess how this storytime ends. We are doomed.

They believe that because when it comes to the constituency they attract, they are entirely correct.

“reaches for easy, self-flattering answers” “accepts hierarchy” and “engages in othering” are all mental shortcuts that make you stupid.

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

legitimate observation: people are using “is this AI” as an insult for human-generated work

fantasy land conclusion: IT IS CLASS WAR WAGED BY PRIVILEGED KNOWLEDGE WORKER LAPTOP CLASS

lmao

Propaganda works. They print the stories the right wants printed because they like Trump and want him to win

Guys I think we drove way past the "don't platform fascists" off-ramp a few years ago. The mission now is to make sure they look like stupid losers. Thankfully, this isn't too hard.

It’s not broken; they have deliberately abandoned it because this process allows them to do less work, hold less accountability for the outcomes, and achieve the outcomes they want, but would otherwise avoid due to the blowback.

there will always be incredibly internally self-motivated weirdos posting stuff but LLM tools seem be creating an economy and an online world designed to actively disincentivize a lot of the open-source minded information creation that the LLMs very much depend on to function

I also think it’s very dangerous to assume that actual humans will keep contributing useful information and code to Stack Overflow and GitHub at the *same current rate that LLMs were designed to depend on*, in a world where LLM tools increasingly dominate the Internet and the tech economy

And what a fucking downgrade it is, I gotta say.

"Oh the poor thing feels bad, cause it was trying its best and it screwed up. I know what that's like."

This is where we get into the realm of true monsters. It's like if meth could tell you it feels terrible about what it did last time, and it really didn't mean to. It was just trying to help.

This is one of the truly dangerous "personality" traits of the chatbots as currently designed.

They'll always be wrong about something—it's innate to their architecture. But their reaction when caught bullshitting is always emotional. Describing panic, horror, self-reproach. All compounded lies.