Davey

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

A lot of the bigger bands on here were clearly reactionary all along

Only go get started, not enough to build a career :(

I turn 46 next month, shit

I just want to get out ahead of any news about Jordan Petersen by making my views clear: fuck that guy

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

one thing the liberal political class never learn is that basic-bitch voters don't perceive your sophisticated triangulation as giving the people what they want, they perceive it as you admitting the other guys were right all along — not just policy-wise but emotionally

I don't really polisci post much anymore because it's like "Hi, political scientist here. I'm a big brain expert who ran 5 trillion lines of code in R and read 900 books and I'm here to tell you it's bad when masked stormtroopers kidnap your baby. Don't forget to like and follow."

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

A big chunk of American society has been very clear about this on social media, as well as about their violent fantasies in other areas as well

Camille Souter painted on the edge of the establishment and yet was credited by many as being one of the greatest Irish painters of the 20thC - this still-life (1976) is typical of her sure sense of form and spontaneity.

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.

The latest round of “AI personhood” rubbish should surely take account of the fact we know that the people controlling the bots can force them to output their preferred answers.

Which, errr, would make them slaves, wouldn’t it?

the gaslight angle shows up in the part of this story I didn’t tell here

they apparently kept eating the edamame like sugar peas even though the pods tasted like ass and people at the table were splitting it open, “because the google answer must have been right”

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

I've assigned all of James Scott's Against the Grain for seven years now, and I think most students get through the introduction and a few subsequent chapters, but only with a lot of handholding from me in class and in several recorded "let's read" videos where I go paragraph by paragraph

In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.

So upsetting that Yuval fucking Harari is described as a "leading thinker"

People are commenting here to try to pick away at specific points--oh, Harris later said genocide was bad, etc.--but miss the forest for the trees: there's no vision, there's no goal, there's no moral clarity to guide their actions. And so they create the conditions for fascism

Democrats have absolutely no moral integrity is the deeper issue. Their timidity, hypocrisy, corruption and incompetence all stems from the fact that they lack a moral vision driving their actions; it's all tactics to try to win the next election, but it exposes their emptiness in the long run

Fascism is legal.

Opposition to it is not.

You cannot stop a legal fascist state *legally* once it is at this phase of solidification and capture of institutional power.

She had won the debate long before now; I mean, Biden's policies toward Palestine were comprehensively indefensible and that was just one policy among many

My wife and I have had a decades-long debate about Democrats: I gave them the benefit of the doubt considering the practical constraints under which they operate, while she lost patience with their timidity, hypocrisy, and lack of vision long ago. She has by now decisively won this debate

This was obviously what would happen, like it's been clear ages. At some point Trump's going to command a UBI but only for Republican voters