Stim Wenders

If this is true you would easily be able to tell in the very near future because they’ll file financials for their IPO

The snake eating its own tail effect of AI agents isn’t so much a problem of training data model collapse as the collapse of the social epistemic foundations by which human sense-making can be carried out at all—and which AI agents *also* rely on for whatever facsimile of sense-making they conduct.

my opinion about whether democrats should aggressively gerrymander every possible house seat is the same as my opinion about taking a knife away from a guy who has spent the last thirty years stabbing people to death with it

Young woman anime style illustration pointing to a board says I finally discovered the three types of male fantasies. the top one says fight in a desperate last stand against All odds. the middle one says slowly bleeding to death in a snow-covered field. the bottom says digging a hole. each text box has an illustration of people fighting or someone dying in the winter but the bottom one for digging a hole shows the meme of the guys from when KFC had soy nuggets and they look really excited and I think they call them soy jacks but they're both looking at the camera with an open mouth like oh man as they point behind them making eye contact with the camera. the woman is in very tight-fitting clothes with large breasts and hair that goes down past the shoulder, but her eyes look alarmingly open and bizarre. she sort of has fangs now that I notice her mouth. don't know what that's about.

the 3 types of commercially viable videogames

devastated that's what the E stood for

Twitter posts from January: 1. pic of Anne Hathway 2. @grok... do your thing 3. Grok's reply: "Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish [but] she's played Jewish roles

Still thinking about the time someone wanted Grok to nudify Anne Hathaway but wasn't specific enough

Screenshots of articles are whizzing past me like stray bullets

So much of modern conservatism has been building these incredibly savvy systems of domination and oppression and then smashing them to bits because they only get you 80% of the way to eg segregation

They created a system of racialized violence meant to discipline labor and convinced everyone it was necessary for public safety and now they’re trying to set the whole thing on fire because they were mad about hearing a Southeast Asian on the phone

This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

the exploitation of the vulnerable as an exercise of power, as a mark of exclusivity, as a taboo to revel in, as a fantasy to explore—all of it is inextricable, interlinked

I will not accept lectures about political strategy from someone who owns a funko pop

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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this just seems like an evolution of the usual tech startup hustle culture bullshit where everyone virtue signals how much they spend working on their app in an effort to get noticed by venture capital

Father Knows Best Daniel Berrigan’s spiritual radicalism – Charlotte Shane

I finally wrote my big essay about Daniel Berrigan! For anyone with an interest in non-violence, futility, the political/social/moral role of writing, and so much more, even if you've never heard of the man www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...

Esteban the young cat boy princeling of the Bronx and the hog shaped cat shaped bug named Piglet

Two boys…

One of the reasons people don't like HRC is that she's a craven political actor. There's some misogyny in the fact that she's attacked for it more than (say) her husband, who is also, but she does this "we were serious about crime" and "we supported family values" so bluntly. It's gross.

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

In an official update, Discord suggested users who encountered prompts from Persona are part of "an experiment" and that the information will only be stored for seven days. How the tech will be used in the long term is yet to be known. When asked for comment, Discord told Kotaku its work with Persona was part of a "limited test" which has since been concluded.

to be clear when kotaku says "distances" they mean in terms of messaging, not that discord is actually changing anything

least shocking revelation

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

There’s also a lot of schlocky TV, esp that particular bygone brand of CW action adventure, that just misses. Sheena, Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, etc

Tarzan misses by about a decade but spiritually I think he’s there

Original character, iirc

Any recs for big budget movies from the 1990s based on pulp characters from the 1920s or ‘30s? To give you an idea of what I’m looking for, I’ve got Dick Tracy, The Shadow, The Saint, and The Phantom queued up already. Any we’re missing?

3. Even primary school kids know that humans have migrated, traded, reproduced, fought and shared materials, ideas & practices in ever-changing permutations since they first evolved in Africa. Any society that has ever interacted with another is the result of innumerable cultural influences.

2/3 The use of either word in this context demonstrates a wilful ignorance of humanity’s past. Racist thinkers imagine that each race/culture is like a shoot that has grown from its own individual bulb.

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.