Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

18.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 73687    🔁 18815    💬 1474    📌 833

Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late. What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises? What if we spend so much time waiting and arguing that we fail to marshal our energy toward addressing the problems that exist here and now? That would be a tragedy—the product of a mass delusion. What scares me the most about this scenario is that it’s the only one that doesn’t sound all that insane.

all of this is basically a trojan horse for my sinking feeling right now that generative AI will be 'good enough' and that's...potentially a very bad outcome!

18.08.2025 21:28 — 👍 952    🔁 171    💬 26    📌 37

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

18.08.2025 21:21 — 👍 4426    🔁 1423    💬 151    📌 303

The Apple weather app currently projects 13" (!!!) but AccuWeather is much more conservative with only 2"

15.02.2025 18:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Project 2025 Tracker Track the progress on Project 2025

There’s a Project 2025 tracker to follow their progress and to see what’s ahead. The project Trump and the GOP disavowed because it was so unpopular and then began immediately to put in place. www.project2025.observer

15.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 246    🔁 101    💬 13    📌 7

Would love a post about Thursday’s maybe blizzard!

15.02.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.

This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

13.02.2025 23:40 — 👍 86264    🔁 14672    💬 1676    📌 541

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

13.02.2025 11:37 — 👍 10016    🔁 5775    💬 486    📌 588

Chart showing the federal contracts to musk's companies rising from 630 million in 2015 to 3.67 billion last year

One place our government could save a lot of money is the billions given to Elon Musk's companies every year.

abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...

12.02.2025 15:59 — 👍 1397    🔁 385    💬 18    📌 18