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Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

It's BC Ferries all over again, and we all know how that worked out.

I hope I don't sound naïve here, but I don't think this project to turn Charlie Kirk into a combination of Mr. Rogers and Gandhi is going to work

Did America mourn Melissa Hortman? I don't remember the paper of record doing this shit for actual civil servants gunned down for their work?

Is it bad Charlie Kirk got murdered? Of course it is. Is the majority of America that he expressed nothing but hate for mourning? Fuck you.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

He was just, like, a guy. Not a politician. Not a statesman of any kind. Just some really mean guy. Flags at half mast. Yankee moment of silence. Whatever the shit this is.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

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The mothership from Close Encounters lands in the middle of Central Park and broadcasts a message of love and acceptance to the people of Earth from all the races of the galaxy.

NYT: Aliens Refuse To Condemn Hamas.

MILITARY INTERVENTION NOW

The GOAT

The absurd part is that I can’t think of anything LESS time sensitive than books. I’m constantly picking up a book that a 20, 60, 140 years old because somebody got me interested.

Ditto for Music crit.

Donald Trump AND Benjamin Netanyahu will both die within my lifetime.

You go into the forest, they don’t even got real birds singing anymore. There’s a guy hunched over behind a tree making the bird noises on a synthesizer! I shouted at him “Hey you, what happened to all the birds?” He ran off into the bushes. I was wearing sandals so I didn’t follow him.

If you're in Vancouver, this is tonight! Come browse the shop, buy a record, and marvel at the sound of someone who actually knows how to play an instrument. Not to be missed.

Among other things, Paul Laverty wrote 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley,' one of the most powerful depictions of what it takes to truly resist oppression ever put to film.

Chico's Dance, by Playback Head from the album Body of Water

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The hyper-aggressive, comically loyal government flacks who talk like Trump Spokespeople are defending the administration in a language pioneered by the president.

As I wrote earlier, the government spokespeople who convey this stuff to us are also absurdly, almost comically, rude and trying to emulate the voice of Trump: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.