Human intelligence is not magical or metaphysical. Technology will be able to approach or surpass human intelligence. However, LLMs alone cannot do this. It will take more than LLMs to achieve general artificial intelligence.

When Donald Trump tells a big lie, his voice goes higher and higher… and higher until this demented old man voice is in the alto range. And his beer-bellied supporters get increasingly energized the higher his voice goes. It’s really supernatural.

😔 paywall… if I renew Apple News can I read it?

You have to hammer this into people every day so they refuse to support renewable energy.

You mean… People’s opinions are influenced directly by other people who use scientifically proven techniques to influence them????

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani Anatomy of a credibility crisis

Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'

I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...

Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!

The art of the deal. Trump keeps his “promises” without having to be responsible for anything else. His supporters only care about what he said he was going to do insofar as it makes his brand “win”. And that means a “winner” can also be an irresponsible asshole.

I'm being entirely serious when I say that this is one of the core commitments of reactionary politics: demand all the privileges, refuse any of the responsibility.

How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off

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The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited

I think refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva could be useful. Democrats - who should have expelled from Congress every January 6 planner on January 7 - should refuse to swear in those same folks when they have the majority in 2027.

Just say no, we won't be doing that, and move on.

However in trials it caused excessive spitting.

A fitting enough epitaph for the human project.

The problem is we punished the hell out of the soldiers and the men, women in children who lived in the wake of defeat of the Confederates. But we didn’t punish the dignified, powerful, connected conspirators of the Confederacy. In other words the one-percenters.

If women ran the world it would already be possible to conceive without sperm.

Too many people don’t think it matters much who is president. It’s just a look like a hood ornament. Nah-ah, not that one, she doesn’t look presidential.
And then there’s the other camp who believe all democrats are communists, and all communists are devils.

Trump Administration announces bombshell scientific study using laboratory mice and shoe leather proving what we have known for decades: Windmills cause homosexuality in the developing human fetus.

Or maybe we could lower the cost of living .

The idea in the minds of venture capital firms is: Sell massive amounts of goods and services for cheap or free, AND pay people little or nothing to live while transferring all their wealth to to top.
So you have people in homeless shelters with smartphones with the latest AI chips.

Way too many assumptions here.
Women may want children without a man.
Women may be fully financially self sufficient.
Lots of men with money are terrible fathers.

…autopsy found a cache of 27 200mg tablets of Tylenol had formed in the subject’s brain, directly as a result of his time working as an occupational therapist with autistic boys… If anyone on the research team had been circumcised they would have succumbed to the intense ectoplasmic autism aura…

It wasn’t ME who turned your thermostat to 40F, it was the algorithm.

On 911, everyone assumed hijackers were taking hostages to make demands. The 24 million people on this plane are not hostages. They are intended casualties. Democrats have to stop negotiating and start trying to to seize control of the plane, laws, rules, norms be damned. News must reveal this.

DC journo brain: Dems give a shit about norms, so they should follow them; Republicans don't give a shit about them, so they can do whatever they want. It's explicit!

“He’s just like us! He failed and he got right back up and tried again! “

Thanks for sharing. Why exactly was the Biden administration so afraid of controversy? After a decisive victory they lived in fear. I’m guessing it cast a spell over Harris. I think she is waking up a bit.

It cannot be done without dismantling the systems that extract wealth from bottom and send it to the top. It requires retaining economists and corporate lawyers and setting in stone policies that cannot be reversed by an election .

Foreskin restoration surgery coupled with leaches placed in the lungs to remove pustules of Tylenol has been proven in basement trials to reverse the effects of autism in preschool boys. Since it’s impossible for girls to have autism, there is no need to waste money on a female cure.

Is a centrist a mid-40s midwestern person with a mid career job in a midsized firm who thinks, the system works for me? I have a midsized car and a couple of kids and a slightly anxious hope that if nothing, absolutely nothing changes, my 401K will let me sell the house and we can get a nice condo?

Yes, we had norms & institutions that had the effect of tamping down & marginalizing true authoritarian nihilism. The right absolutely *chafed* under that regime. Always did.

And now, with the "anti-woke" backlash, they finally dismantled it! (With the help of gullible dipshit centrists.)

… and a rapid build-up of Tylenol resulting in an emergency circumcision to prevent an outbreak of contagious autism…