Bobby Quine

AI is coming so fast—& in midst of a literary & media collapse+scholarly crisis it accelerates—that thisrough division of labor (description and solution), never stable, has largely been lost. Leading some solvers, I think, toward premature “solutions” in the form of acceptance of inevitability.

Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

Everything Trump has done in his first year plus in office--Venezuela, tariffs, Iran, Cuba, and just the entire tone and culture of wildly unstable reactivity based on personalist whims--has eliminated trust in the US that can simply never be regained. It's one thing to elect a rogue president once.

Electing Trump the first time could have been seen as an aberration, a quirk of US politics that would not be repeated. But electing him a second time sent a clear signal to the rest of the world that it is imperative to reduce military and economic dependence on the US because it is unstable.

Yes, I criticize the Democrats. We know the Republicans are evil bastards. They don't pretend not to be evil bastards. I'm criticizing the people who should know better, the ones who text me every 45 minutes asking me for money.

What if Congress decided to go to work tomorrow? How many of us have worked weekend jobs or come in for a weekend when there's an emergency?

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

I’m voting for the candidate who promises to imprison everyone who makes money insider trading on war.

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork.

The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

I mean he's a nutjob in his own right, but Rand Paul is 100 percent correct about Trump's War with Iran. #IranWar

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

COULD WE GET SOME ADULTS IN THE ROOM NOW PLEASE

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Dems can file impeachment articles. Make the GOP vote on them, and vote, and vote... Make them have to own Trump, and lose the opportunity to do anything else with their majority.

That's the kind of thing opposition resistance should have been doing. Not carrying on like everything's normal.

Today in “No Fascism is the Actual Popularism”

So you want to do illegal wars of regime change the right way, huh?

A tweet from Stephen Miller that reads: KAMALA WILL SEND YOUR SONS TO WAR

i can't believe kamala harris would do this to us!

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

Friendly reminder: This is all unconstitutional.

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.

Can't believe we're finally retaliating against the random buildings and innocent Iranian civilians who have tormented the United States for so long

He’s at war with Iran, Minnesota, and Venezuela.

He’s threatening war with Denmark, Canada, Nigeria, Somalia, etc.

He’s murdered 137 guys on boats for fun.

He’s sold countless pardons.

He’s covering up an FBI interview of a teen girl who says he raped her.

This is one guy! And a partial list.

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

This thing's gonna talk some poor grunt into fragging his CO mark my word.

I teach at a university that takes in members of the armed forces in our graduate program. I could speak volumes to the mutual benefits accrued.

The Secretary is making a mistake of Biblical proportions.

Skynet out there like "Hello fellow humans, would you like some dollars?"

Okay that is my question and it looks like someone who knows what is going on says that Hegseth actually can't do what he says he's doing?

I'm sorry; am I being forced to choose between Anthropic and Donald Trump?

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟