If it's of interest, in the poster they're standing in front of a Kremlin tower, and the text is the first article of the Soviet 1936 constitution. "ARTICLE 1. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of workers and peasants."

YES, COMRADE!

YouTube video by Arrogant Worms - Topic The Last Saskatchewan Pirate

It was revenge for all the piracy up in Saskatchewan. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IehQ...

Well, almost. They're stating they believe (and are we taking corporate statements at face value these days?) people even associated with those expressing those opinions are in physical danger, which is a much bigger statement

"I wish human life felt as valuable as it did before COVID, before the election and ASMR deportation videos and military force against the American people: before the world went mad." Hear hear!

Are those actually the photos the govt is distributing for display? Like, they had some choice in the matter? Vance there is clearly having stomach trouble, while the uppers have kicked in for half of Trump's face, and the other half is a mix of Bell's palsy and 'I dropped my mcmuffin'.

I've heard people lament how little changed after the black lives matter protests, but I've seen police complain how for job postings where previously they might have had a hundred applicants before they were lucky afterwards to get more than ten.

I love Bob the Angry Flower

In terms of not crashing, I've done fine. In terms of not getting stopped for bicycling under the influence, I had to learn to be slightly sneakier.

Probably you're familiar with Temple Grandin 'one of the first autistic people to document the insights from her personal experiences with autism. She is a faculty member in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University', but if not, she seems in line with your plans.

Did you even LOOK at the name of the app? 😆

Were you working on a piece about him? Still in progress?

I've said before, and expect to be able to say again how happy I am to have @wyden.senate.gov as my senator

Which does make the uncharitable, not- loving- their- neighbor- as- themselves behavior of lots of professed Christians really confusing, but people are complicated.

One of my favorite online historians, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social often points out that people frequently really do believe in their ideologies, whatever those may be, and that people with other ones often have trouble with that fact.

The output sounds obsequious and manipulative because the language the model is trying to replicate came from people, who are, of course, often exactly that.

If I understand how they work, it didn't lie about anything, because there's no -as you point out- mind there to have any concept of truth, lies, or reality. It guessed at the text requested, then at a typical excuse for a mistake, then at a typical response to a calling-out.

He seems to be a fairly good one, I'm happy i got to vote for him

And then I've even seen them complain about the "liberal tears"! Seeming actually offended that people are upset at what Trump's doing, not wanting to see complaints, claiming 'you didn't see conservatives whining when Biden was president'. I'm nauseous from my eyes rolling while my head spins.

Can relate. Once went to a store for groceries for a camping trip, and was getting weird looks. Only when I was getting into the car and moved my cutlass sheath to not catch the seatbelt did I remember that most folks HADN'T spent their summer at pirate fests in garb, and my clothes would be weird.

Yes, this! Right til the election, "gonna be fascism, gonna be fascism". After? Crickets. Either they thought they were lying, in which case, I'd be disgusted w/ them, or it was true and should've become a steady stream of resistance tactics! Leadership, please!

I grew up pretty liberal, one of my thoughts after hearing plans for an immigrant detention camp at Gitmo was to wonder how long til a flight takes off with 5000lbs near expired food, 200 detainees, + a bunch of rope and cinder blocks, and lands with just the food. I can regret my imagination.

Crushed up peanuts and chopped fresh goes well, too. Might need to get the maple syrup last week though.

I think those breaking things totally have a plan. When the soviet union fell apart, oligarchs were able to buy up things in the chaos at fractions of what they'd been worth before. Similar things happened elsewhere, Klein wrote on it in The Shock Doctrine. Seems likely this is another iteration.