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Oh my god, we're re-inventing Weizenbaum and the ELIZA Effect from first principles!

Quote below is from "Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgement To Calculation" (1976)

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

Conservatives: buT wOmeN's SPorTS!!!!

Also conservatives:

I still do really love the HP world (unfortunately), I understand that actors need jobs, and I know this was a huge opportunity for all of them. But unless they use their roles as a way to fight against JK’s war on LGBTQIA+ people, I don’t see how to view this news in a positive light.

McFayden, Laurie, Gomez. This really sucks.

one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims

What the F are we doing, people????

Take expedited removal. The law requires that a person show "to the satisfaction of the immigration officer" that they've been here for over 2 years to avoid rapid "expedited" deportation.

Well, $200 goes a long way towards an ICE officer saying "I'm not satisfied" — like what happened below.

Okay some fun news today at last

I’m gonna defend the poor AIs here for a sec. They don’t “confidently hallucinate,” they are *coded to hallucinate*.

And hallucination is not the right word ofc; it’s just a nice approximation. LLMs output a statistically likely set of words as a probable response to another set of words.

It really is wild that the government pays people more to kidnap kids than to educate them

They’re not very good search engines. They’ll make up plausible results that could statistically appear based on a search string, but can’t validate those results well against real information, if at all.

Holy shit that would be phenomenal

A tweet from Matt Walsh reads: "Dudes like this were already gay. I’ve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. It’s now hanging above a fireplace in our home." He is reacting to a video, where a man and a woman are shopping for home decor. The original poster writes: "when will people finally acknowledge the epidemic of men marrying women and being turned gay"

For a while, it was believed that women and gay men are born with a natural sense for aesthetics. In reality, straight men, particularly American male Protestants, have simply barred themselves from taking an interest in aesthetics because they think this makes them noble.

Trump media strategy for the Epstein files:

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

tiffany they were gay

This is what you’d normally hear about Republican presidents from the pulpits. I assume they’re now saying it this way publicly to take advantage of how religions excel at gaslighting. All religions force you to believe some unprovable “truth”. Any evidence against it is just a test of your faith.

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

Two weeks have passed since a Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested the Honduran immigrant client of Magdalena Cuprys of Cuprys & Associates. “He was stopped at a weigh station in Tampa because he owns a construction company, and he was required to stop for his truck to be weighed,” Cuprys told me. “The client had a valid Florida driver’s license. The patrol officer called Customs and Border Protection on him. The client called me, and the officer took the phone from him and spoke with me.” She asked why CBP was alerted. “I was advised that the client looked Hispanic, had a Hispanic name, and now they are collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP, and their orders are to call CBP any time they encounter anyone they suspect is an immigrant,” said Cuprys. “I asked if they would have followed the same process if it had been me driving, and the response was it depends if you look Hispanic.”

“It depends if you look Hispanic.”

From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

There's 1000 percent some serial killer somewhere pretending to be ICE to abduct their victims right now.

What the fucking fuck

As was foretold in the great book of liberty

“It’s definitely a complex journey because I am many different things all at once. There’s no question in my mind that I’m Ugandan. There’s no question in my mind that I’m Indian. And there’s no question in my mind that I’m a New Yorker. And I’m all of these things, yet in each of these places I’ve been made to feel that it’s not actually my home to call– in Uganda, I’m told this guy is actually Indian, in India, I’m told this guy is actually Muslim, and in New York I’m everything but a New Yorker. But I’m realizing that it’s not a determination I should be outsourcing to others. It’s something that if I know and feel, then I need to become comfortable in asserting. Others will take time in catching up to that.”

This answer that Mamdani provided in a 2020 interview shows that he has always been extremely open about the complexities of his diasporic identity and remains the perfect rebuttal to the attempted scandal the NYT is trying to create today.

africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

Happy Fourth of July, where we celebrate the day 2.5 million immigrant criminals decided to just start their own country 🇺🇸

Miami Krome Detention Center Detainees Spell 'SOS' with Bodies It's the latest protest in response to conditions at the troubled facility.

But actually, we’re doing it now, too. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-k...

This is disgusting. And on top of this, Miami is cancelling elections this year while we indisputably have a jail, Krome, where people are being held under inhumane conditions *with video and firsthand evidence* www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-k...