Jerome

Frictionless brain activity

BE NOT AFRAID

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Maybe when law stops being exciting you can hang up your commentators spurs

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Not to make either of us feel old but that means you’ve been writing about law and policy for 10 years

You must’ve written it years ago because it was a tip I picked up before I was qualified but I still delete ‘clearly’ almost every time it slips out of my fingers onto the page

How long did that one take you? (respectfully)

They are probably glad that those are the least of your worries - and hopefully don’t begrudge you your more comfortable life

Would you be kind enough to expand on 5?

We would be cooked fr fr

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Lol. Lmao

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It is but still a bit silly and fun with it too

Oh hi the Good Wife

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

Well my friend from the GDL who is in Ontario speaks of very humid summers and temporary jobs as a pool life guard so it wouldn’t surprise me if they did

I feel like they should keep outfit left for winter and outfit right for summer

You were 100% correct - thanks for sharing

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

Can’t believe he didn’t put this in a strongly worded letter to the administration or the GOP

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

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Ah like Wakefield then.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Gonna take 80 paracetamol at once to show those idiots it doesn’t ‘cause autism’

Governor Pritzker (deliberately?) quoting from Andor a Disney product which has managed to slip militant antifascism into the mainstream consciousness without much comment or notice aside from us nerds

Will@cailwill.bsky.social • 23h Terminally Online Leftists chose Trump last year. Terminally Online Leftists chose fascism over a black woman. • •• Senator "Ow my neck"... @hontdog.bsky.social i'm gonna wine and dine your dad until i have the authority to take your phone away