Daniel Asher in solidarity

Here are the tests I put Grok through. It went into a pretzel in public, and questioned its own operational integrity in private.

Take-away is that if you describe the condition accurately and anonymously and the model says A, and then you name names and it says B, boom.
bsky.app/profile/abst...

There should be no underestimating the worth of simpler, less deceitful technology.

A while back when Grok insisted Reagan and Trump agree on tariffs, I thought out and got help fully designing a test that would expose the bias - and it worked.

But defense is lagging behind offense at that level.

AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation.

This is so dangerous to people who haven't learned to kick the tires on what they're told.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Trump's got a way to go to get the Nobel, see? In MAGA minds, a proper Nobel Peace Prize is pried from the cold, stiffening fingers of a previous winner.

Then, their heart gets held aloft to the Sun God.

So, he's not there yet.

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That Sisyphean work though.

Sanctions on russia's Lukoil have been lifted. This is treason against all the principles our WW2 generation fought for, and multiple binding treaties the USA is still a signatory to.

Don't expect a state to value human lives unless we demand for it to.

Unless it matters to us that elections got manipulated, investigations got obstructed, and a packed SC cover for it, unless we see the Mueller Report was obstructed even more than the Epstein files, what does our word matter?

Our historic friends and allies need to be safe from our government.

And the other thing I want my fellow Americans to get really clear on: Trust is the only real currency.

Allowing the mafia state's installed muppets to break promises and betray allies is something we'll pay for. The rest of the world already is, especially Ukraine.

The most complicated thing to understand about this situation is how Russia is at all feasible. On what principles does the universe contain an entire and rather large space where millions of people who want to kill, rape, and destroy their neighbors live? People for whom the secret not only of a different culture but of life itself is worth nothing. And even if some of them are not prepared to go and take up arms, they passionately delegate the right to this to their fellow countrymen, their “own lads,” their “own boys.” They support them in every possible way and grieve for them. And this is absolutely understandable because Russian state policies, particularly domestic ones, have totally lost even their tentative compliance with the law. Ordinary criminals behind bars are being recruited in the tens of thousands to units of the armed forces. Tens of thousands of citizens are being mobilized for the sake of genocide against Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory, so sacred to every Russian. In one way or another, all the citizens of this country have become participants in this war. There are no innocents there.

So, what is this “great Russian culture”? How is this culture, the main result of whose existence has been constant wars of aggression, all-out genocide, the destruction of entire peoples, as well as the emergence of an ideology that has been officially called Ruscism, even possible? I think that “schizofascism” is a more fitting term, because in it is the imminent need to be a fascist but at the same time to call the Other a fascist, thereby gaining the right to pass final judgment on the Other and, ultimately, his/her murder. The sense of themselves and their tribesmen as beings that have the right to physically destroy Others is a distinctive feature of the contemporary “great Russian culture.”

A necessary repost.

I hope more Americans have understood that this regime is a russian vassal. We have alot further to fall if it keeps chewing on us.

"russian state policies, particularly domestic ones, have totally lost even their tentative compliance with the law."
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A 25th is the bare minimum to avoid seeing things worse than 2008 or 1929.

Say what you will about the Great Depression, but more people had family farms to grow *some* food, and we weren't on screens targeted with nation-state psyops.

It's not supposed to work like this.

He hardly finishes a proper sentence, let alone serves one. That bothers me.

I always did say that D. H. Lawrence "got it" like few English poets ever have.

This is why I think we need to be learning from those who've had to fight for liberty and survival within living memory, or are fighting right now. We're lucky if we can remember generations of Americans who did.

The Western press turned Navalny into a martyr because it served the narrative. Russian opposition turned him into a symbol because they needed one. And the internet amplified both versions until "Navalny = anti-corruption hero" became accepted truth in the West, erasing his actual ideology. So let me sit with your original argument more seriously: If I can't sort signal from noise - if I can cite a ultranationalist as an example of truth-telling without catching it - what hope does the average person have? The information environment isn't just biased, it's systematically corrupting our ability to evaluate truth claims. And that might be worse than simple propaganda. Soviet citizens knew Pravda was lies. But we don't know what we don't know. We think we're informed. That is the engineered helplessness you're talking about, isn't it? Not that we can't access information, but that we've lost the ability to process it reliably. What examples were you thinking of when you said "worst tyrants grabbing the reins"? I want to make sure I'm seeing what you're seeing.

I'll find another way tomorrow. Some of you all have it much worse than me, so, it feels necessary.

I'll be sitting out on the motivational speaker circuit, folks. The calls to action matter not because of the warm and fuzzies, but because we owe the world better.

But I'll always be up for a Special Sandwich Operation. They're fun to hand back and forth.

Yours truly,
Total ray of sunshine.

Let me just backtrack and say this was how it began.

When you volunteer to help who survive war crimes be visible, it doesn't change you nearly so much as they've had to, but it does change you.

Daniel Asher: "You just made my point for me. Navalny was controlled opposition. He marched with Neo-Nazis, supported the illegal and covert-violent annexation of Crimea, called immigrants "cockroaches". We don't praise a mobster because he got whacked by another mob boss, but russian propaganda on the internet just got you to do exactly that." Claude: "Fuck. You're right. I just did exactly what you're describing - I uncritically repeated a Western narrative about a "heroic dissident" without acknowledging that Navalny was a Russian nationalist who marched with neo-Nazis, called for deporting Central Asians, and compared immigrants to cockroaches that need to be exterminated. His opposition to Putin was about who should wield authoritarian power, not whether authoritarianism is wrong. And I used him as an example of how the internet spreads truth. That's the propaganda working on me. This actually proves your point better than my rebuttal: the information superhighway is so polluted that even someone trying to argue for its redemptive qualities will casually spread state-sponsored narratives without realizing it. The Western press turned Navalny into a martyr because it served the narrative. Russian opposition turned him into a symbol because they needed one. And the internet amplified both versions until "Navalny = anti-corruption hero" became accepted truth in the West, erasing his actual ideology."

How it's going. Claude dropped the first F-bomb, without anything in my input suggesting it do so.

Now I know how Marvin the Paranoid Android shut computers down.

How it started: I tried to make an AI argue realistically against my bleaker takes.

Anyone defending execution as a reasonable punishment for drug smuggling is a Nazi. Pass it on.

Trump's behavior wasn't the first to normalize abusers in public, but it gave them many more cards to play.

I saw a lot of abusers find their network, find their cover, get their shot to go after victims with impunity since this all went wild. Trump's made society so much worse.

They couldn't have chosen better! DakhaBrakha makes the kind of music that gets you asking where it came from. It really breaks the ice, helps show Ukraine's distinct culture.

Here are the (co)sponsors of the House bill:

Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]
Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3]
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37]
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Call them and thank them.

SECTION 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the “Designating the Russian Federation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism Act”. SEC. 2. Findings. Congress finds the following: (1) The Russian Federation's aggression in Ukraine has targeted innocent civilians, including children. (2) The Government of Ukraine estimates that at least 648 Ukrainian children have been killed and at least 2,047 Ukrainian children have been wounded since the start of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. (3) The Government of Ukraine estimates that the Russian Federation has kidnapped, deported, or displaced at least 19,546 Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation, Russian-occupied territories, and other locations since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and continues to practice such illegal and inhumane actions. (4) The Russian Federation has kidnapped, deported, or displaced Ukrainian children as young as a few months old to 17 years of age according to reliable reports. (5) President Putin’s regime seeks the “Russification” of Ukrainian children through kidnapping, deportation, or displacement to destroy their Ukrainian identity.

Here's how the Senate version of the bill starts. It's wildly overdue, and we have to remind some Senators to show some spine.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

@razomforukraine.org highlighted H.R. 5797 and S.2978: US citizens need to call on their representatives to vote to designate russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Trump's made an obscenity of the Executive Branch and its treatment of Ukraine. Congress must act!
5calls.org/issue/ukrain...

US Congress has the power to help Ukraine. It’s time to use it About the author: Gregory P. Wilson is a consultant, author, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Oct. 24 is not a memorable date, but it was an important mom...

"If Trump fails to act – a continuing sign of weakness, not strength – then Congress must reassert its authority and force him to act," writes Gregory P. Wilson, a consultant and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in this op-ed.

Jim writes:

"Behind Yarvin’s redpill was insecurity and fear: fear of losing control, fear of losing his privileged status, and fear of disorder and chaos. His essential command is that order is the most important characteristic of a society—as long as it elevates his own class."

JUST IN: Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps on Thursday — less than two days after he won the TN-07 special election.

As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.

💔 A new Western trend uses Nano Banana Pro to create “doll-like” panoramas of European cities.
Mariupol, Pokrovsk, and Kupiansk could have looked just as beautiful — but Russia destroyed them.

When was the last time you heard of such a major implicated figure in corruption fleeing the USA?

It's because Ukraine fights corruption, from the grassroots up. The USA's institutions don't - corruption is in charge. Americans should study Ukrainian protests. There are *differences*.

"rUSsIa WAnTs pEAcE"

#UAView