Mariana Colín

It's hard to internalize the fact that the administration really does believe the Iraq war was "woke" and that they would be able to easily defeat a substantially more powerful nation simply by being based chads

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

That human thinking is an emergent property of the massively parallel interactions of many "dumb" subprocesses is not deflationary or dehumanizing any more than the fact that a painting is made of molecules.

Right, like lowkey I do kinda think rocks are conscious lol but the philosophy of consciousness is not what we’re spending billions of dollars on here, that is a distraction from there not actually being a product in AI worth anywhere near that much.

That’s not the problem here though, the problem is that if we don’t know very much about what consciousness is, then *AI industrialists don’t get to apply the word to their product.* It’s rhetorical sleight of hand that displaces burden of proof disguised as philosophical inquiry.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Mutilization

“No see we’re different because unlike previous admins we’re attacking countries and deposing their leaders and destabilizing their countries by force *for money*”

It’s amazing to see how sincere MAGA was in their delusion that the previous international order really did involve regime change out of weak woke lib human rights concerns and not resource theft. This is literally the same exact shit we’ve always done, said the same exact way, just stupider.

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."

Perfect example, yes

Yay you’re welcome 🥰

My argument that we’re entering a new Romanticist period continues to be affirmed wahoo finally we can all stop pretending cynicism is cool

I see lots of people on here either saying “this is why we should intentionally impoverish rural areas” or “I would simply claim credit for the good stuff and then everyone would like me” and goddamn, would that it were so simple.

Does it utterly piss me off that I (and many people like me) left my specific “how can we know how brains very unlike ours perceive the world?” field because no one wanted to pay us to investigate that? Yep.

Am I even angrier about it watching people debate whether LLMs are sentient? OH FUCK YES.

I think about this all the time. And for faculty in good jobs it still has some of that — I do enjoy knowledge making. But those are so so few and everywhere else the academe is indentured labor to a loan shark.

Regarding the U.S. sinking that Iranian warship: when you're trying to describe an act that (probably) isn't an actual war crime, but DOES feel slimy, I think the word you're looking for is "honor."

Ugh, did, didn’t, words are hard you know what I mean

“Challenge for those who are very confident that I didn’t put down the coin and pick up a dove when my hand was behind the black curtain: prove that I did.”

Come the fuck on

How do we not understand the fundamentals of burden of proof anymore, how did adult working professionals get so unbelievably stupid

(This is rhetorical, it’s very clear how this happened)

It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

What pisses me off more than I'd like to admit is that Hegseth is too stupid/drunk/both to realize just how pathetic and weak he sounds when he thinks he's being cool and badass. It's not fair. There should be like a drug we could give him to make him self-aware and cringe until he shits himself.