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Melissa Hortman was known for reaching across the aisle in the MN House. Mike Lee (R UT) said she deserved to be assassinated by a wannabe SA dude. There is no amount of nice that will save you or your neighbors from fascist violence. Do not be nice.

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

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the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

She’s never not been about it. I love Christians that actually do Christian shit. Taking care of your fellow human beings shouldn’t be something you personally benefit from. If you’re blessed, bless others who aren’t blessed with those blessings, wherever you’re able. It’s not hard to figure out.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

The world could use a few more Dollys.

And this is why I stopped engaging with politics, writ large. I’m tired of being surrounded by stupid fucking people that aren’t aware of the part they’re playing in manufacturing consent for the continuance of atrocities, just because they think the guy pulling the trigger is “more” at fault.

Otherwise, you are out here telling yourself and everyone else that the guy that loaded the gun and handed it to the guy pulling the trigger is somehow less guilty of the murders they’re bearing witness to, and not a fucking accomplice to those murders.

Ask yourself: does that person sound idiotic?

And yeah, that might sound harsh, but it’s true. Otherwise, they wouldn’t keep expecting you to fall for the same “we’re the resistance, the scrappy underdog, please vote for us & the things we promise but will never actually achieve because we don’t actually serve you” bullshit time and time again.

If you think there’s a difference between the two, a REAL difference, then you’re ignoring history in an effort to help propagate a LIE. If you think there’s a real difference between people paving the road to hell under your feet and the man at the door waiting for you, you’re a fucking idiot.

The Republican cult isn’t a cult. It’s fucking MONEY. Power through the near-singular consolidation of financial might. That’s all. And Democratic leadership is in on the con. McKinsey consultants and Senators that made themselves hundred-millionaires by helping billionaires.

They *literally* paved the way for the fascist takeover of the United States by saying “gee I guess we beddah help dah Bibi pwepare dah Gaza stwip for weel estate moneys” instead of having a fucking soul, never mind a spine. These people aren’t “better.” They’re accomplices.

You’re right, it’s so much cooler to misrepresent “both sides are in on the con” as “both sides suck” so you never have to admit to yourself that you only care about the kinder-sounding of two evils. Yes, the Republicans are a death cult. Yes, the Democrats are accomplices to their killing spree.

You’re right, it’s so much cooler to misrepresent “both sides are in on the con” as “both sides suck” so you never have to admit to yourself that you only care about the kinder-sounding of two evils. Yes, the Republicans are a death cult. Yes, the Democrats are accomplices to their killing spree.

The face of every smug liberal when they casually leave out all the drone killings of innocent civilians

obama bombed libya without congressional approval also

don't any of you amoral cheerleaders have memories at least

I love it when folks like you show up and volunteer yourselves as jersey color politicos

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

The American people are sick and tired of endless wars built on false promises and paid for with innocent lives.

Congress must immediately pass Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

I’m not advocating for inaction. But I’m under no illusion that gradient ascent is going to take place, because the system actively works against it at all times. You only get enough payoff to keep hope alive, and that’s what keeps people invested in the perpetual underdog narrative.

It’s plain to see that the rot is deeper than party, platform or wing. It’s systemic, and it’s rooted in financial rulership bullshit that makes wealthy people believe they possess the right to rule because they inherit wealth from awful people that preceded them.

I’m sorry if that’s what came across; the issue I have is that *most* people either on the moderate left or left adjacent have argued in favor of incrementalism for decades, and nothing has been meaningfully gained. This has made every single stance that sounds close to that a trigger phrase.

I’m sorry to say it, but the time for “let’s be reasonable” is over, and it has been for quite some time. There is no “reasonable” to be had with unreasonable people making unreasonable demands and justifying it through data they shape and tools they build to bolster systems that benefit them.

Every inch of progress is cumulative, but when the people who promise progress only enable it when it benefits the system undermining it - like making “public healthcare” out of bolting the health insurance industry to the healthcare system at the federal level - then we aren’t accumulating much.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.