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The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed

This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.

This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

'New York will be the light': Zohran Mamdani vows city will lead the Trump opposition In a fiery speech after his win, the next mayor of New York warned Trump that the city will stand united: "To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

In a fiery speech after his win, NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani warned President Trump that the city will stand united: "To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!

My nervous system deeply appreciated the opportunity to lib out last night

NO KINGS.
NO TYRANTS.
NOT NOW.
NOT EVER.

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

This is also exactly how the stock market works

This happened to me in grad school when I swore by a French press and then by a Chemex and then etc. etc. until one day I had drip coffee at my parents’ house and realized in horror that I absolutely could not appreciate the difference

Thinking back to the depth of my adolescent pacifist rage of 20 years ago, it’s buckwild that I haven’t even thought about Cheney since 2016

Ostrander, my love 🥹

The Toby Keithification of America

There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.

ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences.

You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

a still from Hocus Pocus (1993) featuring Gary Marshall dressed as the devil dancing with Sarah Jessica Parker

we’re watching Hocus Pocus and my wife just said “new pic of JD Vance and Erika Kirk dropped”

Art

a still from Hocus Pocus (1993) featuring Gary Marshall dressed as the devil dancing with Sarah Jessica Parker

we’re watching Hocus Pocus and my wife just said “new pic of JD Vance and Erika Kirk dropped”

the pope says catholic converts are too online

Yesterday I said that I abhorred views expressed by Nick Fuentes—and that the best way to fight antisemitic ideas was to challenge them head on. Fuentes replied on X by saying “I don’t know what exactly you ‘abhor’ about my views.” Allow me to elaborate—because there is plenty to condemn. First, the @Heritage Foundation and I denounce and stand against his vicious antisemitic ideology, his Holocaust denial, and his relentless conspiracy theories that echo the darkest chapters of history. We are disgusted by his musings about rape, women, child marriage, and abusing his potential wife. Fuentes made grotesque analogies to try to cast doubt on the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust and has said “I think the Holocaust is exaggerated. I don't hate Hitler.” Fuentes called for the death penalty for “perfidious Jews” and other non-Christians, stating that “when we take power, they need to be given the death penalty.” Fuentes praised Hitler and in the Tucker interview said he is a “Stalin admirer.” Fuentes stated that his goal is “total Aryan victory” and claimed that "black people should be in prison for the most part." This is but a sampling of his vile daily rhetoric. Racism and antisemitism are not relics of the past. They have blossomed on the Left on university campuses and grown on the Right through figures like Fuentes. Nick Fuentes's antisemitism is not complicated, ironic, or misunderstood. It is explicit, dangerous, and demands our unified opposition as conservatives. Fuentes knows exactly what he is doing. He is fomenting Jew hatred, and his incitements are not only immoral and un-Christian, they risk violence.

The Heritage Foundation president just did the dril "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them'" bit about Nick Fuentes

Please don't worry. I speak for all stoners when I say I will not waste my precious and expensive gummies on your child

screenshot of Matthew chapter 25, verse 40 through 45 40 And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’ 41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You who are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, 42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’

He was not subtle!

I see people with the same opinion all the time, so I know I’m very much not alone here, but as a former evangelical Christian, it is simply SHOCKING to me how many people don’t seem to get that Jesus very much said “if you don’t help the poor, sick, and hungry, I will personally cast you into hell”

why does "we must go back" always mean racism and not quaaludes

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired

bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity

I am personally very much in favor of sending Mel Gibson back

once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways