Paul Marquis

I wonder if we’ll reach a point where AI systems are nearly indistinguishable from human minds but still not “conscious” that we have no choice but to conclude that consciousness has always been an illusion, a lie we tell each other to set us apart from other animals (and sometimes people).

Jaws is 50, meaning the shark tells its victims that music used to be better before it kills them.

Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund Cruz attempt to tie broadband funding to AI laws called “undemocratic and cruel.”…

So Ted Cruz is worried the 10 year ban on state regulation for GenAi won’t make it (because it isnt related to the budget). So what does this weasel do? Trying to make funding of broadband expansion conditional to States not passing ANY GenAi laws.

Call your Senators because this is BS!

if you’re cis, a useful metaphor for you: the govt taking our HRT is equivalent to the govt forcibly transitioning you or cutting out your testes or ovaries against your will. Imagine that happening to you or your family. It is a violation so deep that words fail. That’s what we’re living with.

Letting Trump ignore any court except the Supreme Court is such a fucking stupid strategy.

OK, THAT WAS ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS 🇨🇦

Absolutely moving speeches. Not a single word wasted!

If you have ever wondered what Liberal Canadians (The backbone of CANADA) are all about, then please watch!

Canada United!
Canada Strong!

TRULY INSPIRED

🍁(PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR ALL 3 SPEECHES IN FULL)🇨🇦

"What makes you think there will ever be another election" well you must be new here if you think I take that on faith, but I'm also not ready to lay down and die.

London

It’s fun to whipsaw back and forth five times every day between “Don’t overreact to alarming news” and “OK should I be hoarding food or something.”

Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies

My Open Letter to Elon Musk From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

two people talking about how everything trump does is a distraction from the next thing, which is also a distraction

here is a cartoon from 2017 about falling into the "it's just a distraction" trap

This inspired a Stephen King story called “The House on Maple Street” - a great pairing! The story behind the story is fun too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hou...

People fleeing Germany leading up to the third reich had some benefit of distance. There’s no place on Earth you can run to today that won’t be directly affected by what’s happening in US.

So ask yourself: Do I fight now, here, for my home? Or suffer in a strange land against an entrenched enemy?

As a little kid I found it fascinating/terrifying. I ended up having Alan Lee autograph that page and he signed it with “sorry for freaking you out”.

I just looked up the cyclops - and I found it gross and funny 😄 but totally see how that could disturb people.

Reminds me of roughly 1/4 the illustrations in Alan Lee and Brian Froud’s book “Faeries”, especially Jenny Greenteeth [shudder]

Whoa yeah. Fugly was like the fun cousins of Rotten.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Strange to look around and say to myself “This could be the best day of the rest of my life” and it’s just a normal day, but there it is.

Keep calling your reps.

I think it should be made clear at this point: If you're a federal employee, you should consider your work devices bugged. If you've logged into personal stuff on those devices, you should consider suspending or deleting the accounts you accessed.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Gritty with the pride flag

If Gritty can still fly the pride flag so can we

There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit.

The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.

I saw a post on the St. Louis subreddit today where people were arguing that there's no point in calling Ann Wagner's office, because she's a MAGA-aligned idiot who will never switch sides or acquiesce to the demands of her constituents.

But that underestimates the power of being a fucking problem

Where’s the Real Power Nexus? How Does the Opposition Get To It? I’ve made this point a few times in passing in other posts....

There's one plausible way Democrats could shut down the DOGE crime spree/constitutional crisis in the short term. And I'm pretty sure this is it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...

Most of the oligarchs who backed Hitler ended up in concentration camps or in front of war crime tribunals. But that’s never going to happen to me.

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