Ruth Becker

Vance: "The couch thing was entirely offline"

Ok right next week!
Can’t come soon enough 🔥🔥

In the meantime, so happy for
Bill! Can’t believe he sat out an entire season before joining the team — doesn’t seem to have hurt him tho 🫶

Next week?

Interesting! Thanks 🙏

tbh Klein doesn't inhabit the same intellectual or moral universe as Coates. In fairness, few do

Klein is a conventional thinker -- smart, generally effective -- but he lacks Coates's depth and capacity to pierce the veil of seems-to -be to reveal what actually is -- and how the veil operates

Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.

ICYMI - a scathing takedown of Klein's pivot in the interview, where he responds to "love can get you shot" with "there’s a Buddhist meditation I like"

lizbucar.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Disagree. They are very intentionally consolidating data and tech with narrative control

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

This is the bigger problem with LLMs — citizens as ciphers, pouring our souls into emptiness and seeing it reflected back at us

omg give this man a nobel prize!!!!!
😱😱😱😱😱

Siri, show me Betteridge's law of headlines

love them like crazy. that's all you have to do

they will learn all the terrible about the world
and still -- carry hope in their hearts

just love them like crazy

❤️‍🩹❤️

🫶🫶🫶

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This is truth spoken soft and low, opening a window into the increasingly featureless desert of Israel's soul.

@lisang.bsky.social writes with profound sensitivity and an unflinching, but deft touch. Worth your time.

You Had One Job Hall of Fame

Oh those clever Gen Z kids! It's almost like... these are their only possible options?

FFS

We are in the phase of the Gaza war where Gazan towns’ Wikipedia pages are having to be rewritten in the past tense.

The demolition of Khuza’a this spring was the work not of air strikes in combat, but of the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade and attached engineers while facing little resistance.

Asimov was spot on when he figured that the key thing in whether AI would be good or ill came down to the prompt you feed in. He never thought to include a fourth law of robotics saying ‘a robot must never shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect’ though.

It's important to note that while changes to the prompt itself are impactful, changes to the training data, fine-tuning, and reward mechanisms are MORE impactful, hidden from the public, and ultimately where Musk's manipulation of the system to support his political views will escalate.

Fuck

Waiting for the ADL to explain these are just “awkward statements” made in a “moment of enthusiasm”

Oh my god

nice upgrade

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

People will die because of the all-out Republican assault on healthcare in America.

The House Floor is now a crime scene.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

corrupt from tits to tail, aren't they

Alt text: A digital image with black serif text on a light beige background. The text reads: So long, America, that never has been yet It’s been good to know ya — to know you must be [An American flag emoji appears in the lower left corner.] This image is a mashup of two iconic voices in American protest art: Langston Hughes and Woody Guthrie. The line “So long, America, that never has been yet” echoes Hughes’s 1935 poem Let America Be America Again, which mourns the broken promises of American freedom and equality while insisting on the dream’s enduring necessity: “O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free.” The phrase “It’s been good to know ya” recalls the refrain of Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl ballad So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, a song that blends warmth, weariness, and a sense of moving on. Guthrie famously wrote “This machine kills fascists” on his guitar—a reminder that music and poetry can be tools of resistance. Together, the lines in this image form a quiet elegy and a call to conscience: a farewell to the myth of America, and a vow to keep walking toward the dream it has yet to fulfill

My mashup of Langston Hughes and Woody Guthrie -- elegy and echo for this dark day

From the crucible of depression-era disillusionment came Woody's guitar ("This machine kills fascists") and Hughes's oath:

America will be 🇺🇸

May the dream guide us as we walk each other through

fuck these fuckers to hell