Astrid

“If you do not agree at this point, two years in, that the state that needs to be demilitarized–and deradicalized frankly–is the state that is committing genocide, then you’re part of the problem.”

@thegallowboob Meet the Chevrotain, aka the mouse deer. They have hooves and look like how you’d draw a dog if you sucked at drawing.

Using the phrase ‘golden ticket’ like saving your family is a game and you just got a cheat code is insane. The Labour govt are soulless ghouls.

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

A cool way to illustrate #Viking ships? Paint them on a pane of glass and set it up by the sea.

So Keir Starmer’s position is to both recognise the State of Palestine and strongly support its total colonisation by Trump, Blair, and the IDF?

Fuck Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)

#philosophy

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OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

Btw the new OpenAI data centers will consume more power than the entire city of New York, brags Sam Altman

Hmm, okay but it's wrong. I shall stubbornly persist even with evidence of my delusions.

That don't make no sense whatsoever.

What, it isn't? It must be, I've heard this for more years than I want to admit to. Stevie, don't let us down.

🇦🇺Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub volunteering in Gaza City writes:

“Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide...

This 💔 is awful in so many details. Oh man.

Publicity shot for a stage production of 'The Wizard of Oz', 1902. Arthur Hill as the Lion and Anna Laughlin as Dorothy

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

Tony Blair wants to RUN Gaza.

Hell no.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

0.5 tsp chilli flakes. Tsk.

Quite, hence a non rational judge is called for.

I think any non rational judge would allow. Free the chilli!

I'm over invested because this is my way of cooking with garlic 🧄 and now I need to know how it ends....

Hella cool 😎

The UK is a spineless disgrace.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

30 the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified aim of excluding males who identify as female in par- ticular. Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move- ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche- mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though many others are not. This difference in attitudes starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche- mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind lingering doubts about the possibility of converting iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac- cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi- cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

And yet... she didn't take a step out of line and here we are. Brat nonsense instead of being serious and now she's pointing a finger? Pah.

I actually lolled at that.. oh my goddd they've massively fecked it, haven't they.

Cartoon: A crow is standing on a branch. Another, smaller crow is lying on top of it, on its back, legs in the air. Caption: Velcrow

Velcrow

Birds of a feather stick together.

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Hilarious example of UK-pundit-brain:

"Hey, EU, agree to take back an unlimited number of asylum-seekers from us, in return for us agreeing to take a much smaller fixed number from you, or else we'll go ahead and make Nigel Farage Prime Minister!"

No, srsly, that's it.

But does he run the risk of losing his multi million dollar job contract? Huh? Right! So who's got more to lose?