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The complex layers of nuance inherit in destroying each other for pleasure

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

He was a fas

A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.

Chresus Jist

I would highly recommend changing the name of the series

Do you ever think about the fact that the fact that the fact that the

#Zampanio burger

Like, beyond the fact that suggesting all homophobic men are secretly gay and in denial is still treating calling a dude gay as a way to "own" him, it's constructing a scenario where gay people are the principal enactors of homophobic violence. Think carefully about who benefits from this framing.

Pick up #zampanio

a blue sky with white clouds over a green hill ALT: a blue sky with white clouds over a green hill

You have reached a internet checkpoint

Let these DOGE feel your pain.
Keep it nonviolent.

u are cool

u are awesome

never let anyone tell u otherwise

It would seem to me that we are going to undergo something dangerous

They have the weapons
#zampanio

it’s a fun number

The most dangerous thing to autocracy is circulation of information outside of their control

Keep talking

To me ADHD is just not represented enough today. It's seems to be common, but I think people chop it up to "not being able to focus" when in reality it's so much more than that. I struggle to do basic tasks my whole life and people chop it up to being "lazy". It took such a toll on my mental health.

Consider the active consideration

What happens when 1+1 no longer equals 2

JD Vance Says It’s OK to Beat up Cops Sometimes, Actually JD Vance has the worst defense yet of Donald Trump’s mass pardons for January 6 rioters.

Five years after the party took a hard pro-police stance in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Vice President JD Vance believes it’s okay to support individuals who beat and kill cops, so long as they do so in support of Donald Trump.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190724/jd-vance-donald-t…

2 degrees in German, studied sociolinguistics in Germany, speak German, wrote on the extremist language used in communist E. Germany and in pre-WWII & WWII Nazi propaganda (published in NY & Berlin, "At War with Words").
It was a Nazi salute.

I think that the tweet genre of “this person (who might be a bot) had a bizarre opinion that made me think less of humanity and so the right thing by to do is screenshot it and show it to the largest number of people” is silly.

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Zampanio is a great example of how to make a good game

It’s Sunday, so let’s share the good word:

If churches want to play politics, they can pay taxes like the rest of us. God doesn’t need a tax break, but millionaire pastors sure seem to love one.

The issue is that open AI can declare AGI without it’s actually meeting that definition scientifically to get out of its agreement with Microsoft.

Three men sit at a table. At left, a destitute man sits with no plate. At right, a working man sits with a plate containing one cookie, listening to the man in the center. Sitting in the center is an old man in a business suit (looking suspiciously like right-wing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch) who is pointing at the destitute man, while speaking to the working man, saying: "Careful Mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!" Sitting in front of the man at center is his own plate, which contains MANY MANY COOKIES.

Time for my annual repost of this banger by Australian artist Denis Lushch.

Ever-more relevant with each new horrible year.

After further interrogations and suggestions (thank you for the thoughts everyone!)…

In the spirit of the Turing Test, I propose the Cripslock Test: No system can be called AGI if that system cannot reliably determine whether or not it is spewing absolute bullshit.

(Named for Sacharissa Cripslock)

Monoid