Traveller In Black

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

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This is a thread on that Gathering of the Eagles annual gathering. A local Christian Nationalist and small time industrialist started it before the Tea Party era. One constant is that it’s featured a host of far right fabulists like Jerome Corsi and the Gateway Pundit guys.
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No, thank you - you pointing out how he throws asides topics and people is EXACTLY what he does. In his 'chat' with Coates, he mostly DIDN'T EVEN RESPOND to much of what Coates said. Nor has he truly answered anybody else he talks to, like say, Sam Seder when he went on the Majority Report.

No Viceroys.

I don't think you're wrong, but I think Klein is fundamentally dishonest with himself and others. To me, he seems driven by trying to attain/retain power via a calculus that involves throwing aside any and all parts of the electorate that doesn't serve his purposes.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Man, I don't like whom I have to thank, for this quote. It's too bad that BTC sold out to the Dem Party for all that Chorus money. Guess he falls into the 'Broken Clock' department, now.

The No Kings stuff on the 18th needs to be really big.

If it is too cringe for you, do therapy or deep breathing or something and then grow up

i made it into the newspaper again

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

Denethor glaring out the window in Return of the King

Bluesky (users): "We fucking love trans people!"
Bluesky (team):

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Trump is now 40 minutes late and counting. Naval cadets still standing around in total and increasingly uncomfortable silence.

I think you're being unfair to the third graders...

somehow they managed to do the free press but worse

I don't want to offend anyone or get too outlandishly histrionic or anything, but I honesty believe the current US administration & its adherents are a bunch of malevolent scumbags whose instantaneous disappearance from the face of the earth would be a boon to all living things.

Last year, OpenAI, the biggest name in the business, burned $9bn to make 4$bn and claimed a valuation of $500bn.

It's be generous and say that their revenues more than double and they end up making $10bn revenue on $9bn expenses.

That's the revenue profile of Campbell's, the soup guys.

At this point, it doesn't matter what justification they provide for Link's suspension, the fact of the matter is that the BlueSky team has demonstrated a wanton disregard for their own commitments to user moderation by deploying suspensions in response to what they take to be personal slights.

Lol, I wonder if the Seattle Times headline writers have a point of view about this race 🤔

YouTube video by Pilgrims Oh, for shame

A famously right-wing paper owned by rich people has a SPECIFIC POINT OF VIEW? Oh, the calumny, oh, Father, I am SO disappointed in them. FOR SHAME!

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<shrugs> Sometimes reasons are just reasons and not excuses. People are willing to vote - but a huge amount of money has been spent to discourage them from even taking interest in politics... and the Democratic Party has been captured by donors, consultants and foreign PACs.

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

If anything, I think Jay Graber is showing why Jack Dorsey, whose is notorious for funding tech startups founded by bigots and white nationalists, felt comfortable with giving the keys to Bluesky to her.

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously.

Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity.

(And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.)

Does that mean the US was fascist?

Wrong question.

I wonder how long it will be until people start snatching their masks off?