Niall 🇮🇪 🇵🇸

I bet a candidate could do well with “yeah, I said some awful things online when I was younger, but I see why it was wrong, and I’m familiar with extremist spaces online, how young men get radicalized by them, and what we can do about it.”

Less good is “it’s wrong of you to care about what I said.”

whomst amongst us

Whereas focusing on true issues, like job loss, economic instability, and the rampant growth of capitalists is more true to what the real problems are here.

Its a claim people keep making that distracts from meaningful discussion about the real harm. If people's hatred of this rampant tech growth is rooted in "it uses water", they won't actually dig deeper. And as soon as they realise that was a lie, you'll lose them

"it's just a complicated prediction machine" man they're gonna flip when they find out how the human brain works

Somewhere in the United States someone who invested their life savings into an inflatable frog costume business to the dismay of everyone that knew them is having the best week of their life and handing I Told You Sos to those who doubted them.

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

What is he even saying here? Yeah? 40% is a minority

Star wars academia must have been insane

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI

1. My ragebait
2. Your ragebait

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry (for me)

Devs might be the last ones who remember their game is for sickos.

Idk, my position is kinda “it’s a useful tool that’s clearly here to stay but is also over hyped and has substantial negative externalities”

what these people image happens thirty seconds after a retired schoolteacher posts a blurry selfie with #nokings that catches them in the background

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Not really? Pretty decent local LLMs can be run on home PCs, and the bigger models are getting more and more efficient. If it weren't for this chasing of consent growth, it would be more than sustainable. This is a capitalism problem, the tech isn't really inefficient anymore

"The Democrat Party is sick as fuck"

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor. I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor. Who would it be? David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist. Thank you for the correction. Very welcome.

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

AI will definitely make this worse, but this isn't new to AI. I mean this SMBC is from 2017.

This is more an issue of critical thinking than anything else.

Yes now you get it

Yes, both have to exist. But the context of this discourse is many leftists claiming the non violent protests aren't good, which misses that.

people gotta treat this behavior the same as we treat shitting on the floor

Well yeah that's the problem with trying to judge the historical impact of things that haven't happened yet. It is a theoretical possibility though

If this does (big if) result in the removal of a sitting US president and a change in the administration, as a result of citizens protesting, then yes it would be a significant moment in US political history. Maybe not "more notable" as they achieve different things, but it would be up there

The entire tweet is wrapped in jargon or vagueness to make normal things sound cool and politically intriguing. "KYR distro" is just mostly "don't speak to cops" and "info sharing" is just like... taking to people I guess?

Disagree completely, fascism is all about aesthetic and core to that aesthetic is being tough and strong, no one looks tough or strong staring down a weirdo in an inflatable frog - a confrontational, violent approach on the other hand gives them exactly what they want - "see they are violent thugs"

I have no opinion about the Maine Senate primary but "my guy is a world-historic political talent, and if he gets a primary opponent this is tantamount to him being forced out of the race" is a singularly unpersuasive argument