Right now my ad stream is 50% life insurance
01.03.2026 02:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Right now my ad stream is 50% life insurance
01.03.2026 02:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Haha, this one was written about 5 years before chatgpt launched. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conver...
24.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 371 🔁 123 💬 15 📌 5
Vizzini in the Princess Bride, “YOU'RE TRYING TO KIDNAP WHAT I'VE RIGHTFULLY STOLEN”
Anthropic:
24.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 196 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 0
Screen shot of an essay in 2021 by Anthropic CEO on how they must compensate those who produce the works that power their models. Anthropic instead took the works anyway without any compensation.
Screen shot of an essay in 2021 by Anthropic CEO on how they must compensate those who produce the works that power their models. Anthropic instead took the works anyway without any compensation.
6/7 So to summarize: In 2021 the Anthropic CEO knew full well that taking works they did not own or had rights to, to train their models, was wrong. Yet they willfully did it anyway.
But this isn’t exclusive to Anthropic. *ALL* GenAi companies do this.
This theft MUST stop.
An Economic Model for Compensating Data Producers One of the controversies over Copilot, related to but distinct from concerns about the model spitting out copyrighted data, is a feeling that large corporations (MSFT and OpenAl) are exploiting the open source work of developers and using it extract concentrated profits. The same could be said about GPT-3 being trained partially on fanfiction books, or for that matter about models being trained on human feedback, for which workers are paid near-minimum wage. I think this is a real and important concern, especially when considered as part of an overall trend for Al progress to concentrate wealth, increase inequality, and in the long run automate labor. Zooming very far out, what is happening macroeconomically is that distributed human labor is being used to train Al models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete.
2/7 The Anthropic CEO essay begins with plain acknowledgement of the the wholesale theft of works across multiple industries (creative, technological, scientific etc) to train GenAi models.
He also notes concentration of wealth, inequality and making labor obsolete as outcomes.
"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."
massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social
paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...
Damn this seems exactly correct.
24.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 1859 🔁 216 💬 7 📌 1
Picture of a group of soldiers carrying and stripping the clothes off another soldier, with the title “Hazing Makea Better Men” by Bari Weiss’s Free Press, article by Catherine Morrissette
Fuck aaaaaaall the way off
24.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Same with Trump youtu.be/J56q43rb558?...
24.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING
Former ICE agent:
On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
22.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 4217 🔁 2332 💬 210 📌 247
So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.
"So I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper."
20.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0he’s definitely wrong on the facts, *today.* This was just “thought leader” BS Chat probably told him was “brave.” He was the COO of AEG, if this was actually true, he’d wouldn’t be just talking about it, he’d be doing it - shipping better quality games, faster at a higher profit margin.
20.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Search results for Michael Alfonso: 1. Michael Alfonso’s campaign website 2. Wikipedia article for Michael Alfonso (murderer)
Michael Alfonso, the Trump-endorsed “America First” son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, has some SEO challenges to overcome in his race for Wisconsin’s 7th District
20.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 496 🔁 53 💬 17 📌 5
(g) (1) Any driver's license issued prior to July 1, 2026, that identifies the gender of the individual named on such license in a manner that is contrary to the definition of such term as defined in K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 77-207, and amendments thereto, shall be invalid. (2) The director shall correct any driver's license records that identify the gender of the individual named in such record in a manner that is contrary to the definition of such term as defined in K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 77-207, and amendments thereto. The director shall send written notice to each such individual notifying such individual that such license is invalid and to surrender such license to the division of vehicles. Upon the surrender of any such license, the director shall issue a new driver's license to such individual with the correct gender identification for such individual.
KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE.
www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...
We need to recognize this as an epic once-in-generation run right here — a truly hall of fame level effort to be wrong about everything
17.02.2026 02:47 — 👍 252 🔁 47 💬 13 📌 3
Ryan Dancey Author 1h: Chief Operating Officer at Alderac Entert... I have zero reason to believe that an Al couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several Als RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things Als are great at.
Ryan Dancey © • 1st Thinking Big Thoughts and Solving Problems Creatively 54m - G This morning John Zinser and I talked about the aftermath of my post yesterday about the ability of Al to create ideas for games. He's decided that it's time for me to move on to new adventures. Sorry to have things end like this. I've enjoyed my 10 years at AEG. I wish the team there the best in their future endeavors. I believe we're at a civilizational turning point. That who we are and how we are is going to change on the order of what happened during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions; and it's past time we started talking about it and not being afraid to discuss the topic. Talking about Al, being honest about what it can and cannot do, and thinking about the implications is something we have to begin to do in a widespread way. Humans have a unique creative spark that differentiates us and makes us special and we should celebrate that specialness as we experience this epic change. For the record: I do not believe that Al will replace the work talented game designer/developers do, nor do I think it is appropriate to use Al to replace the role of designer/developers in the publication of tabletop games. During my time at AEG Ideveloped and implemented polices and contracts that reflect those views. It's important to me that you know what I believe and what I don't believe on this particular topic, despite what you may have read elsewhere. 28④ 5 4 comments
A Play In Two Acts #boardgames #AI
18.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2
Jesse Jackson 1941-2026 A photo of Jackson in his later years wearing a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition pin.
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84.
See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
uhhhh
14.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 187 🔁 27 💬 19 📌 1
Prasad’s antivaxx career started 5 years ago when he opposed the pediatric covid vaccine, which didn’t even exist.
None of this is new for him.
It was just inexplicably tolerated and rewarded.
The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.
09.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 2069 🔁 410 💬 10 📌 9
When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
“LESS THAN 14%”
They have been lying all along
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...
New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
One of the most basic yet important things I learned during my Philosophy degree was how people like Semmelweis (hand-washing doctor) or Galileo (championing heliocentrism) got in so much trouble.
Arrogant, powerful people hate their orthodoxies being challenged. It's never about facts or truth.
“Imagine if we had to follow the law”
03.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 17563 🔁 6286 💬 2168 📌 907
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
