Chris Lay

The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America's history.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

A photo of Frodo speaking with Gandalf in the Mines of Moria: "I wish it had not happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But the Dow is over 50,000."

Gracie’s Ice Cream is the best

I don’t know what this is called but I’m pretty sure it’s the cure for male loneliness

Good morning from the baby harbor seal factory!

Production is at full capacity. In the past 48 hours FOUR pups have reached the end of the assembly line, one of which as recently as 5pm last night!

I'm running on 6 hours sleep, so have low expectations, but I'll be threading as I can 🦭 🦑 #SealSky

This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.

Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election

Imagine that feeling stretched out for *years* as dem leadership and wealthy dem consultants (same ones who ratfucked Mamdani in favor of the disgraced rapist who wasn't even running as a democrat), relentlessly push a rotten candidate with zero hope of winning.

Remember how fucking rancid the vibes were during that interval when it was extremely obvious to everyone that biden was going to lose badly, except to dem leadership who kept insisting there was nothing wrong?

Until literally at the very last minute they relented and he dropped out?

somehow I get the feeling that if Mamdani had a nazi tattoo we'd have simply never heard of him again about 15 min after it was revealed instead of having to read a new piece every 5 days about how he's just a smol bean

In point of fact he covered the nazi tattoo with a different less obvious nazi tattoo which feels worse to me

there's a lot of reason to doubt him!

1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE

Russell Vought is also an evangelical and a proponent of Christian nationalism, which tells you everything you need to know about this particular brand of Christianity 👿

We have a word for killing millions of people because we think it benefits us, and eventually it will be used about everyone involved, hopefully to school children. This isn't just beneath us. It is beneath everyone.

Now I can say it: I blanked Healey’s line when I was an MA voter

Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first in a series of eight...

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“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯

Re LRS, all creatures strive. An LLM will never strive. Some other machine learning system might eventually strive, but nobody is working on any path that might lead there because LLMs have sucked up all of the resources in the space.

this is a dumb thing to try to talk about in skeet-length chunks but roughly this is why I think arguments about LLMs as such ever having _GENERAL_ intelligence are silly; a huuuuge part of human intelligence is modulation of capacities by the (hugely sophisticated) intrinsic motivation system

This x one kazillion bazillion.

“I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out – not the tech billionaires.”

I really like Sturgil but oh my god does this read like the most annoying song possible

I know the Democratic establishment is depressing, but I refuse to believe it’s “the guy who somehow launched a campaign with a Totenkopf tattoo is a sign of the future of the party” depressing

p.s. A principled person, on discovering he'd had an "accidental" Nazi tattoo on his chest for 20 years, would withdraw from politics, knowing the liability he brought

When David slayed Goliath.

5'8", 165-lb electrician Ondřej Satoria strikes out Shohei Ohtani on three pitches.

Fastest pitch: 79 mph.