Michael Tichy

I think it invalidates the Turing test when you tie someone’s ability to pay rent and buy groceries to convincing themselves the machine is a person

I wonder if the magas boycotting the Super Bowl will measurably mitigate the spike in domestic violence that predictably occurs the weekend of the event every year.

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Well, this is likely more about never pausing long enough to realize you don’t have any friends. It’s only a joyless life if you remember that joy is a thing. I used to think our process brains suffered most from our product aspirations but leave it to tech bros to invent something even worse

That stoker preliminary ballot reminds me of the scene in the Shawshank Redemption when they randomly choose people to do the roof tarring job.

Thanks!

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I finished the first draft of my new novel today. Definitely the most personal thing I’ve ever written. Maybe the most topical too. Takes place in an RFK “wellness” camp.

The retail model common in my youth was to work low level management to death with the promise of promotion and then burn out 95% of them and then replace them with whoever was next level down on the ponzi. It seems the tech bro culture is a table full of marks thinking they’re playing poker.

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Donald Trump just announced breaking news. The legacy media ignored it. Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponen...

Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponents for having defeated him in an election. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

We all have it coming, kid.

Listen, sneering anti-Americanism from online rubes from the husks of empires who think they deserve personal cultural credit for Mozart or w/e while drinking Coke and eating their national equivalent of dinosaur chicken nuggets IS annoying.

But we're absolutely, 100% asking for it, so just cope

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Finally a worthwhile answer

Black Phone 2 is free on peacock and it’s still not worth the cost of admission. Tedious, terrible dialogue, bunch of nightmare on elm street ripoff done with less skill and it’s weirdly Christian. If you liked this movie your judgement is suspect

this type obscuring of colossal harm bc it 'looked nicer'

bc someone they find more appealing was its face

bc everyone floating above it due to a lucky station in life could tell themselves it was necessary, promise themselves *they and theirs* were safe from harm

=why we're here headed for worse

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This is basically the end of act one of expedition 33. IYKYK

Cbp has been killing foreign born people for years with impunity. I’m sure they’re absolutely stoked to have the opportunity to broaden their victim pool

This is correct. ICE is there in the first place because of an evidence-free racist conspiracy theory promoted by a 23 Year old YouTube propagandist. They manufacture pretext.

Your body doesn’t have special distinct stress hormones for hiding in a tree and hoping the bear doesn’t look up, or huddling in a trench under artillery fire, or scrolling through bad news on the internet.

All your brain knows is that it’s being dunked in cortisol for hours on end.

My only solution is to massively curb my social media. Which I’ll miss some people but there’s no healthy way for me to navigate this stuff

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

I know a popular response to all this is to blame the hiring of all the j6 refuse. But I would argue what we’ve seen so far is actually normal for experienced cbp officers maybe with slightly less accountability. When the numbers really swell with the influx it’s going to be much much worse.

the only difference between a millennial New York Times journalist and an irony poisoned anime avatar twitter bluecheck who denies that he’s racist while he posts memes about Somali daycares is that the NYT journo is better at convincing you that he deserves to be part of polite society.

Trumpists will be giving the ICE murderer awards and recognitions and honors. That’s because (1) killing someone who thinks differently than they do is their fantasy (2) most of them are too spineless to do it but (3) by praising the murderer they can murder in a fantasy-league way

Everyone needs to watch this.

Tattooed man in locker room wearing Chinga La Migra tank top

Obligatory gym selfie. Fuck ice

Lol. He is so easy to frustrate too.

As you… wish