Nick Simmonds

In things that have never happened to me before: the datacenter I was connected to went down. The whole thing. Because it was bombed.

The options that the US and Israel have engineered for Iranians are increased repression from the Iranian state or full state collapse. Anyone who thinks liberation is on the other side of these bombs, I don’t know what to tell you.

Yesterday I watched videos of Israeli and US bombs hitting the neighborhoods where my family lives, unable to reach them.

The first I hear from them comes today and it’s that they’ve received threatening texts from Iranian intelligence telling them to stay away from “future illegal riots.”

2 consecutive days with electricity

I feel like there are maybe a dozen people in the world who *actually, sincerely* think that being a Nazi is bad full stop and basically everyone else has caveats that boil down to whether or not you like that particular Nazi personally or they're really funny or something.

He's also going to be the next senator from Maine, so, I guess we get six years of his doing this and then getting excused by the Chapo Caucus because how could you expect a blue collar dummy who's actually a white collar dummy to know better than to be friends with Nazis.

And because he just constitutionally does not think it's a big deal to spend his time around a bunch of Nazis as long as he doesn't consider himself one, he's never going to stop doing it. He *wants to do it*, it gives him a stupid little childish thrill.

I think Graham Platner just has ODD and feels like mommy and daddy are telling him not to be friends with the sketchy guy down the street who has all the Playboys when people say "Stop going on Nazi podcasts". Like he has the affect of a child sneaking smokes if the smokes wanted to kill Jews.

Some people are saying the Greens won because of Labour fatigue, others that the Greens won because of the muslim vote, but I think it was the scheming of the maesters and Otto Hightower's treachery.

Are we supposed to pretend that they were hiding Hamas militants in this one, too?

The "I have D-cups, grandpa. The waitress thinks you have dementia" tweet but the grandpa is the anglosphere pundit class collectively screaming that there's no material distinction between trans women and cis men.

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

I feel broken

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

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It has to be beyond sickening to Miyazaki to see his aesthetic stolen for this shit.

Laura taught me about the word "harto/harta" in Spanish for "fed up with something" and I said "ha you know etymologically, with the f->h shift...wouldn't it be funny if the Latin for it were 'fart'"

Chat,

No one wins here. The administration may well destroy Anthropic but it'll ruin its relationship with all industry in the process. At teh same time massive amounts of "value" just get erased overnight.

So basically relying on the Senate to voluntarily House of Lords itself.

the Penguin books translation of a transcription of the Odyssey was meant to be spoken at 1.25x speed by a robot, that's how Homer intended you to experience it.

This is a PRIME example how wellness grifters use a general fact to distort consensus-based science.

Yes! All meds have side effects. Every doctor will tell you to have a conversation before starting. THAT DOESN’T NEGATE EVIDENCE THAT SSRIS ARE SAFE FOR THE MAJORITY OF PREGNANT WOMEN!

You aren't pointing out that he almost certainly raped children, you are speculating because you think the crime of raping adult women isn't shocking enough and won't get you enough internet attention

Epstein also trafficked adult women and it's weird we pretend he didn't

It is 2026 and Larry Summers is resigning a position due to scandal

I promise you that the economic damage from AI will all be deliberate, it's not going to accidentally tank the economy. It's going to be used on purpose to do bad things, its not going to gray goo all the money away.

Sure, fwiw all women Olympic athletes are invited to party with me for the weekend as well. Any weekend really.

I wish places would just stop doing "mocktails" if what they mean is "a juice blend that inexplicably costs as much as a cocktail". Especially when they also offer normally priced fruit juice so they're transparently just milking sober people who want to feel like they're participating.

I wake up and check the news and for some reason it’s never “Xi Jinping says he can do whatever he wants to Uzbekistan” or “China blows up another Vietnamese fishing boat claiming it’s used by drug smugglers”

Weird

So the rock and hard place Anthropic is between are real. It's just not their ethics vs. the US government; it's their propaganda about its capabilities vs. being forced to admit what it can't do.

It's the mirror of how they produce grammatically correct language; it's because they have been thoroughly trained NOT to produce grammatically incorrect language, not because they were given the rules of grammar.