Matt Butler

A button saying I joined the Butlerian Jihad and all I got was this button and saved the world from machines and the people who worship them

my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person

you know what? good advice.

They're saying it's the most movable object in history.

Unstoppable force meets extremely movable object.

Everything I write myself and everything I love to read or listen
to or watch has one bedrock component to it...Jesus Christ I am alive right now and you are alive right now and someday we will not be but for the duration of this we are both stupidly and beautifully alive orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

whatever the Xai people did to make grok speak more positively about its owner seems to be backfiring

"based on data, evidence, gut feeling, and the literal presentation of the world, I'm wrong, but what if, ignoring all that, I were right, wouldn't you all feel silly then?"

This place has the juice.

if you missed it...

What did we learn, Palmer?

I don't know, sir.

I don't fucking know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.

They told me that it wasn't cool for me to come help them even while they used our services and made us incredibly rich, how very dare they not let me, a wolf, into their henhouse more than I already was.

Absolutely not, and anyone credulously asking this question should get you put into the Hague.

“Our robot phrenologist told me to tell you we’re going in a different direction.”

She can vote for a democrat. She can be of service to people in her community. But Jesus Christ, just because she sees that Donald Trump sucks doesn't mean that her opinions on anything else are even approaching good or good for the right reasons.

Stop getting fished in by these people challenge.

If she is willing to change her core beliefs, make amends for the harm she has caused, tear down the structures that gave her power, and repudiate every thought and idea she has ever had, sure, she can come to the party, but she doesn't get to talk or do anything until that happens. Which it won't.

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No one will save us but us. If your political representation doesn't believe in making sure that the people in their district can eat, get health care, and live sheltered, ask why.

Oh no, Jeff bezos had some money to spend at the grocery store he owns, I guess I'll just have to console myself with all of the children who aren't going hungry.

Oh, and since it is a workers subsidy, I have an idea where to raise the funds.

If you put in means testing, the worst people in the world will use it to stop anyone from getting anything.

SNAP for all. Medicare for all. Rent subsidies for all.

This is the gentle way to go.

I go back to sjc to play soccer with the kiddos every fall, and my god, they are bright, young, kind, friendly, dedicated kids, and I would not want to go near them romantically. Just the sheer life gap between me and the college kids make me feel gross.

Well just got into a nasty car accident, vehicle totalled, I’m a bit bruised and shaken up but mostly fine I think.

Now that cops and tow trucks are gone and I’m home, I have to say the thing all people love to say: IT WASN’T MY FAULT.

bro every aspect of online life has just become me trying to hide from clippy’s nosy ass. this is just 1999 all over again. i open any app or page and there he is, clippy’s ghost, in the form of AI or algorithms, spying on and meddling in my life choices

have you ever actually been in this argument and said “go ahead and arrest them”? they do not care, they keep plowing forward, they want them all to get away with it just so trump gets away with it

Truly, a classic guy who, whenever he shows up, you go, hell yeah.

"She loved his 'Insinkerator' voice, 'as majestic as a dog choking on a bone'."

We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

Like most data dumps, what we got from Epstein’s Estate via Congress this week was unwieldy, disorganized, and impossible for anyone to search through quickly.

So I created a searchable database of all 20,000 documents.