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oh god what now, i live in south africa and did not know it was a communist tyranny. we get used to this guy, but the bonkers is ... he just says whatever he wants then the world must be that thing. It's so wild.

same impression

South Africa: 0

And there we have it. Politics aside, people wanted a decent human not a crap human. It's not a complex talking point or strat.

Congratulations from South Africa! This matters a lot, to many outside of the US. A lot.

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Finding real hope, not false hope, hope that can lead to action, the right action, rests on a bed of wisdom. From wisdom, hope flows. From hope alone, flows quackery and ungrounded ways forward. Um, that is, hope vs wisdom is a false binary.

44% like the idea of the ballroom? Not many agree on liking a thing by that number, anywhere. The US is truly, totally not ok.

The test is the most basic that determines presence of dementia if below 26, a gateway to confirm if further tests are definitely required.

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too. Saw this & thought I'd repost

Reposting with Alt-text:

I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.

and you watch one and the algorithm tries to make you watch the rest for the rest of your life

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

wonder what the implactions are for the presidential emergency operations centre underneath . the bunker. In my head, the ballroom is the funnel for all his faves and billionaires to pour down the bunker if ...

what does a foreign nation paying the salaries sound like

We don’t want AI slop.
Stop sending us AI slop.
Stop wasting our time with AI slop.
It doesn’t sound good.
It’s antithetical to our core values.
You didn’t even make it.
Knock it off.

I can’t make a living writing any type of media but the people who can’t afford to pay me to write the media can still make billions a year selling the media they can’t afford to pay me to write.

And, fundamental to everything else, the environment. Drill baby drill.

A moment that changed me: I gave up small talk for a month – and the world came alive I was fed up with discussing the weather, so I started to ask unexpected questions. The conversations that resulted were revelatory

A moment that changed me: I gave up small talk for a month – and the world came alive

omg. and is the triumphal arch near this new party palace? This is actually sad and I've never even been to the US.

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

Awwww, she loves you. I do the same with my adult kids. It's a love language we can't shake off after all those years of raising. Me: Make sure you don't have more than one drink if you driving and remember to ... etc. etc. They grown working people, and I'm an eejit, but here we are.

and south africa too, where I live

ie we misunderstood your arrogant binary falsehoods - and insults to most not in that binary - as [checks notes] reponses assuming it was a policy framework. And you are intentionally misreading the feedback as irrelevant and misguided instead of checking your attitude. Tell us more.

man's getting the arrogance of someone used to being the smoothest, charmingest man in the room, has mastered sound bites, is overexposed because he does tariff TV soundbites and makes the hosts laugh. His post here is contemptuous of everyone basically, except himself.

I've invested tons of time, intitally wowed, then exploring it's limits, downside, economics, environmental impact, motivations of investors, creators and adoptees, psycho social implications, yadda yadda. To arrive at AI sucks. You are immensely arrogant.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Yup, for example I know how utterly unscientific RFK and tRump are on Tylenol. Would I avoid it if pregant anyway? Probably. Stick with the headache cos let's just not risk a damn thing. I would feel an idiot, but here we are.