ACTupper

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Here's an example of the reaction I'm describing here, and I appreciate something this particular poster makes clear: They neither understand nor respect boundaries. There's no policing happening here, just my own decisions about who I will have a conversation with.

“We didn’t go in thinking we were going to find so many instances of really forcible family separation... Women would come in just sobbing, saying they weren’t even asked if they had kids.”

“We were all crying on the plane...thinking about our children” –mother separated from her 5-year-old child

The US government will not stop sharing Nazi propaganda And their supporters are loving it.

The Trump administration's social media repurposes language and cultural references with connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements.

It's content that experts say is instantly recognizable to those who are in the white supremacist know, but can be largely invisible to everyone else.

mickey mouse and bugs bunny are flying through the air . ALT: mickey mouse and bugs bunny are flying through the air .

Wheeee!!!

A whole hero right here.

When u realize the guy u helped get elected is protecting powerful pedos and is the most corrupt president in history

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses would violate the privacy rights of millions of people and cost the company billions of dollars in legal battles. It should abandon its plans. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

if you're a republican, this is, like, *the* type of guy you absolutely cannot lose like this

I long for Accountability & Evidence-First Tech Journalism.

Not sure we ever had it, but how I long for it...

It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?

Repeat after me:
An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law.

Also:
Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

I think a lot about the quote at the start of Ken Burns’s Civil War about how no foreign army could take a sip of water from the Ohio River, but that any destruction would be done by our own people.

I also think a lot about the Civil War in general these days.

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.

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.

But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.

(Published Oct. 2023)

As @zeblarson.bsky.social wrote for us, it’s Necropolitics

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.

In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

royalty weird: dukesmaxxing

hawaii music weird: ukesmaxxing

THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Sen. Kelly: The old world is gone because Donald Trump blew it up. We had this system of alliances that has served us since World War II. Even if we are able to repair these relationships, it's going to take generations before they feel comfortable.

Operation "Look! What's That Over There?"

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

I want the Reconstruction
I want the Nuremberg
I want the coooooombination Reconstruction/Nuremberg

The "moderate position" is just going to getting spicier and spicier the more we find out.

I'm personally at the point where my moderate solution borders on fedposting.

Consultants running to Schumer's office in a panic:

"tRIPLE tHE fUNDING!!!!"

As an air pollution guy this is straight up false. EPA called them "stationary sources" and you cannot operate one without a permit. It couldn't be more simple

It's a bully's preferred kind of deal: "Give me everything I want, and I'll temporarily stop hurting you."

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text