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On the same wavelength: open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

Everyone needs to see AI for what it is—a project that undermines truth & agency while transferring wealth from individual creators to Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. Rooted in exploitation of humanity & the planet, it’s a tool for the radical right to claim dominion & end representative democracy.

I mean, obviously.

The correct thing to do when DHS or ICE or any of these thugs makes a claim like this one -- the only thing to do, really -- is presume they are lying.

Because they always are.

They are state-sponsored Klan members, and should be treated accordingly.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Cora Dean 17 Mar • • Liked by Evan Stern Wrote this as a bubbled over vent in the conversation group... I'm new to Substack. Anyway posting it here too, apologies to anyone reading it twice but l've been keeping this inside a long time. I went to college with her and lived in a shared dorm apartment with her sophomore year. I haven't read any of her recent writing, because I didn't like her then and from the random quotes I see here and there she's gone from her college rage baiting to just utter toxicity. She was in a relationship with Kate McKinnon (of SNL fame) when I knew her, but I guess they broke up and she must have gone down an increasingly right wing path. Too bad the people who rub shoulders with her now would have turned their backs on the person she was when I first met her.

I always felt uncomfortable after a late night conversation we had where she explained to me in detail why it was so important to make sure traditional Jewish communities in Africa never were exposed to outside influences because it meant they maintained a more "pure" form of Judaism. She was utterly shocked when I said that I didn't think it would be terrible, if they were interested, to offer young people from any culture where (for example) a cd player is banned, an object from the outside, and that young people should be free to make their own decisions about whether they want to continue living in a traditional way or make other choices. That many people would gladly choose a traditional culture over a modern one, if the values it holds are strong. I grew up in a household where cultural studies and anthropology were big topics, and a major theme of my own studies has been the resilience of traditional cultures in the face of modernism and cultural supremacy/ erasure.

I always felt uncomfortable after a late night conversation we had where she explained to me in detail why it was so important to make sure traditional Jewish communities in Africa never were exposed to outside influences because it meant they maintained a more "pure" form of Judaism. She was utterly shocked when I said that I didn't think it would be terrible, if they were interested, to offer young people from any culture where (for example) a cd player is banned an object from the outside, and that young people should be free to make their own decisions about whether they want to continue living in a traditional way or make other choices. That many people would gladly choose a traditional culture over a modern one, if the values it holds are strong. I grew up in a household where cultural studies and anthropology were big topics, and a major theme of my own studies has been the resilience of traditional cultures in the face of modernism and cultural supremacy/ erasure. I just remember how what felt like an honest late night college conversation one second suddenly felt like a bizarre litmus test-the inauthenticity of her deeply shocked reaction to my open responses to her questions. It felt manipulative and weird.

I also remember the way she ran into my room to tell me the guy I was dating had a very famous and important mother, as if she was doing me a huge favour instead of just making me incredibly uncomfortable by implying that I should be happy and I could be benefiting from our association or something like that... I knew from the beginning that this was a person who cared very deeply about becoming famous and I can see how she saw a pathway to that through hate speech and racism, and why she has been rampantly and falsely accusing people of anti-Semitism when she is fully aware of how wrong she is. She was deeply unlikeable, even in a relationship with a cool, popular actor in our college and knowing lots of interesting people, and it's clear that she eventually realised that doubling down on her unlikeablility would be her ticket to fame. That's what Trump is right? And Vance and all these guys? That's their ticket-the whole "we want you to hate us, we want you to be repulsed! The people who feel hated and repulsive will eat us up!" She is culpable, for the rest of her life, of having helped write the playbook they're following.

When I saw an article about her providing hate speech scripts for Trump and RFK Jr on a substack article I felt the need to share what I remember about her—having avoided her awful writing for many years.

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American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

It’s funny because it isn’t 😕 🇺🇸

What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part One This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Become a Paid Subscriber to read this piece and support Notes on the Crises Subscribe & Read This year I coined the phrase conve...

ICYMI, I started a three part series connecting the dots between my "conventional wisdom processor" coinage, the contending idea that Markets are "information processors", AI and our current constitutional crisis. You'll wanna read this one. www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...

It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience

I get that some try to make a distinction between criticising Soros and defending him... but that's already the wrong framing: *what's* criticised/defended is what matters. We need to call out antisemitic attacks, while (cautiously, because context matters) criticising people, systems, genocide, &c

IMO, billionaires shouldn't exist, period. But, if the first (or only) billionaire you criticize is Soros, that's a HUGE red flag... a bunch of distinct red flags bundled together, really. We must be wary of attempts to supplant class criticism with bigotry, i.e: the whole point of antisemitism.

RFK Jr.’s plan to link autism and Tylenol just piles blame on moms — again Autism has repeatedly been deployed to indict America’s mothers — and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s coming report is likely to fuel the fear already keeping young women from forming families.…

“It’s worth underlining: Acetaminophen is the only widely recommended pain reliever considered safe in pregnancy.

Scaring women away from it on shaky evidence isn’t responsible, it’s cruel.”

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

the article answers that: yes, but it's a different crime: bribery vs conspiracy (to commit bribery)

We basically know what's coming and why. Might as well start planning messaging and concrete responses now. 'Racism tanked the economy. It has materially hurt you. We need immigrants. People who say otherwise can't be trusted and can never be allowed into power again. Period.'

like a lot of other Big Data problems, you wind up looking for the keys under the lamppost; your proxy metric is easy to measure but not a very good proxy.

My pet crackpot legal theory is that recommendation algorithms should already expose platforms to lawsuits over content as they are inherently not content-neutral and thus should make the platform itself a publisher.

The real issue is that's all that matters. If you preach love and acceptance on Monday, but hatred and division on Tuesday, it's obvious that your Monday message is just a front for the rubes.

when Klein adn Burgis offer solidarity to Kirk but not his victims, they are using their power and voice to justify violence.

Like, they don't think that's what they're doing. but they're telling normy centrists that the left is bad & the right isn't responsible for the violence it urges & commits.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Meet the New Conservative Cancel Culture, This Time With Government Informers Professors who speak wrongthink in class are being summarily fired.

"At any rate, there is a consistent principle here: right-wing moral hypocrisy. Conservative notions of free speech boil down to “I get to say what I want, and *you* get to shut up, or be persecuted by the state.” "

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Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto NX is build software. You write your code on your laptop, you press “build”, it runs NX, and you get a built version you can put onto your web server. If you could hack NX, you could hit a lot of p…

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A build system vibed by AI bros introduces a gaping security hole that allows the hacker to ask the local AI of other vibing AI bros to give the hacker those AI bros' crypto wallets. It's like teaching your guard dog to fetch your jewelry to a burglar. Lovely.

Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."

Incidentally, the argument Hemingway made that sending Bonus Army vets to the Keys during hurricane season was murder is a disturbing parallel to Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump putting immigrants in tents in the Everglades during hurricane season. It's attempted murder even when the attempt fails.

When I say that every hurricane policy is written in blood, and deaths in natural disasters are largely political choices, that's what I mean. The 1935 Hemingway essay could have just as easily been written about Katrina or any number of other storms, with just the details changed.

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

If they're going to burn the country down in the name of racism, I would appreciate it if they wouldn't be so goddamn literal about it