How is this different from when a Communist government confiscates private property?

It’s simply not possible that people behaving this way will ever willingly hand the keys back to the other side. To think they will requires assuming they are suicidally stupid.

Look, these tools are amazing in lots of ways. But if you’re gonna pitch and sell or foist them on the world by saying “This is your PhD level genius expert buddy you can ask things in natural language”, don’t get all pissy when it comically bombs tasks people reasonably think of as trivial.

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

i think the real, good faith criticism of FIRE is specifically that its college free speech rankings (and deplatforming database) are a complete mess with no real grounding in objective metrics, and yet they reflect a massive percentage of FIRE's contribution to the public discourse. 🧵

Digital Necromancy in the Age of AI Thanks to advances in AI, we are no longer allowed to truly die. The peace of the grave and the finality that defines the human condition are all being sacrificed on the altar of artificial intelligen...

I wrote about the horrifying use of AI to resurrect the dead as hollow simulacrum puppeted by the living and why we should reject normalizing this as it dehumanizes the living and desecrates our humanity.

www.thedissident.news/digital-necr...

How Kash Patel Was Duped Trump’s lickspittle FBI director fell for obviously fake Russian documents. So much for Wizard Kashs’s “smoking gun.”

"He unveils the document that should supply the final proof—but instead it provides a definitive debunking. It’s like a mystery novel where the murderer almost succeeds in implicating someone else, only to plant a clue so obviously fake it gives him away."

2nd order effect: everyone else knows that they know this.

If you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a mostly-functional country just shoot itself in the dick repeatedly, well I have good news for you.

Nailed it. bsky.app/profile/kair... <sigh>

I suspect this may be the last month we see accurate jobs numbers.

This is me with Prilosec.

Agree. One thing I am genuinely curious about is how this question has done over time. I.e. is it a natural consequence of ageing.

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

The "EXTREME HEAT" warning is just too perfect for this story

Yes! Also a delight. A reminder that it is *job* and sometimes it’s Tuesday.

You are forgetting the third option, the pessimistic to the point of nihilism. Those are my favorite.

I bought a mandoline, came home, unpacked, drove my daughter five minutes to a music lesson, parked, texted my 14 year old son “don’t use the mandoline till I get home.” Got back “too late, can you stop and get band-aids.”

Very Trump though, anyone following the rules is a loser.

Oh hey look a real trade deal: "UK and India Seal Free Trade Agreement Slashing Tariffs, Barriers" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I use scallion cream cheese. Is a delight.

Tortured Logic We need to stop abusing migrants, now

“One of the things I hate about this administration is that they are so amoral, or immoral as we state-it-plainly-types prefer, that they leave you little choice but to moralize. Because if they represent us, and do evil, then evil is being done in our name.”

open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

And doesn’t sound very warfightery.

More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

Self-proclaimed Catholic fascist fired after Jubilee appearance

Man who advocates for system where people can be jailed or killed for their beliefs asks for money and sympathy because he was fired for his beliefs

thecatholicherald.com/article/self...

You wouldn’t know her, she lives in .ca