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This was literally a bit on Adult Swim 10 years ago. youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ?...

TFW you’re home sick and 80% done with Silksong but the brain fog is too strong to stand a chance against these bosses

He’s not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer so he might not be lying.

"Don't RSVP, that puts your name on a subpoenable list."

IDK. So does donating? So does putting your name down on a ballot-initiative petition? Frankly, so does walking out of your house with your phone in your pocket.

Get rid of the fascist in your head and live like a citizen of a free country.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Taking the small opportunities for consumer activism where I can find them. Canceled Disney/Hulu. So much for my attempt to watch The X-Files from start to finish as a retreat from contemporary horrors.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

As an optimist about the potential upside of AI, I wish people would stop putting together garbage research like this. The authors don't even acknowledge (or realize) that "better search engine over survey results" is an option. Obvious retroactive justification for someone's AI pet project.

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

A distinguished penguin in a three-piece suit giving a PowerPoint presentation to a boardroom full of rubber ducks about the quarterly reports on why pineapple belongs on pizza, while a confused-looking houseplant takes notes in the corner

A moment of psychocybernetic whimsy. Frontier AI models are (biased) compressions of the collective unconscious of the internet, so I asked Claude 4 to write me a prompt for a playful shitpost which I fed in to Flux 1.1 pro. #ai-generated

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

I’m looking for scholarly work on the inverse relationship between the rate of... The relationship between a species' capacity for learning/cultural transmission and its rate of biological evolution involves complex trade-offs, with...

A jumping off point i generated because it’s been awhile since I last studied these things…
www.perplexity.ai/search/945d8...

Setting aside technology for a moment, the relationship between evolution, learning, and culture is fascinating. Learning capacity can reduce pressure on bio evo, but learning and culture can also increase complexity of environment. Sci Show episode idea?

Using a LLM to write a term paper is useful in a similar way t using a forklift for weightlifting at the gym. Yes, it may be efficient in completing the task, but the value is in the hard work

How do you think the philosopher Richard Rorty would approach AI alignment... Richard Rorty, the influential neopragmatist philosopher, never directly addressed artificial intelligence alignment as we understand it today. However, his...

Morning chatter on AI alignment spurred a bit of ironic and lazy cybernetic philosophy. I think Rorty’s contingent liberalism could be an interesting starting point for an alignment research program.

www.perplexity.ai/search/9ab37...

Disappointed the article doesn’t distinguish between AI systems that have data augmentation and LLMs which don’t. Not a fanboy but OAI’s mentioned hallucinations matter a lot less than Google and Bing in this context.

I’m more optimistic about the use of AI for inter-human alignment than about solving AI alignment in any general fashion. Universal alignment isn’t needed to facilitate compassionate discourse.

Making progress in post-modern ethics is far more difficult than incremental improvements to algorithms. Generative AI cranks up the volume on unsolved cultural problems.

At this point, censorship will just be privatized. It will side-step the first amendment worries quite neatly. We’re certainly in the right frame for it to happen, and distracted enough to not oppose it coherently.

This is the human alignment problem, if you like.

New favorite incantation. First prepare your spellbook.
```
git config --global alias.recent-branches '!f() { count="${1:-5}"; git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --count="$count" refs/heads/ --format=" %(refname:short) (%(committerdate:relative))"; }; f'
```
Now:
`git recent-branches 10`

Stupid computer game with a dialogue pop-up needlessly explaining the tutorial popups.

Is #shitvibing a thing yet? You just vibe code your way to a shitpost of a computer program. Earlier I made a game which is just clicking through tutorial dialogues. That's the game.

Today in software engineering, a website I needed to use was broken. As it loaded I saw it show and then remove a button I needed. I opened the web developer tools and throttled my connection. The website worked afterwards and I shared a good laugh with my coworker. 🥲

It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint.

In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry.

Make sure everyone knows it.

AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong Other Democrats, from Schumer to Hochul, should follow her lead.

"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

Kudos to Mapquest for this brilliant bit of fun marketing

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

When it comes to these executive orders, I need more states with Democratic governors and majorities saying, simply, “That shit is illegal. We ain’t doing that. Sue us,” and go on with business as usual.