"Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person — that it was a being with similar inherent rights to dignity or respect." THIS MEANS CLAUDE SHOULD ALSO PAY TAXES.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 50m ago

And every time I pause to look back at that, it seems like the hype has gotten bigger, more extensive, and more insidious. This week, I am seeing credulous media coverage of Anthropic consulting with religious thinkers to try to work out how to "grow" Claude into a moral being. Ex: >>

They did this already. It was "star-in-your-own-story" books and they are nice novelties for 5 year olds.

RedFade@redfade.bsky.social · 21h ago

No that same person posted this it’s somehow even sadder than you think

I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re sexy James Talarico of the Houston Wokes

JS@jsplaceholder.bsky.social · 14h ago

New America PAC mailer just dropped and I regret to report that I want the tshirt version

The Cowboys traded Micah Parsons in August of 2025. In the 22 games they've played since, their defense ranks: 32nd in EPA per drive 32nd in success rate 32nd in explosive play rate allowed 31st in rushing success rate

Just like the oath they took says: “I promise to uphold the laws of our nation, after you admit you’re wrong”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago

Markwayne Mullin on the Twin Cities: "They're gonna have to ask President Trump for help, and if they do, we can come up and we can clean that city up in no time, but they're gonna have to admit they were wrong first"

🔥

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...

Anyways, I remain comfortable in my assessment that Ben Collins has a big chip on his shoulder because Democratic voters didn’t pick his girlfriend.

FWIW there is currently a shortage of accountants in America

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · yesterday

Q: “How do you decide who is the next Elon Musk?” Vance: “Is this person a truly elite human being?…[H-1B visa]’s become a program of taking an accountant making a nice middle-class wage and replacing them with a foreign indentured servant who's making something closer to poverty wages."

The important part is that they don't admit they were wrong, but that they were DUPED instead. This is a victimhood cult.

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

If Trump thinks cost overruns on a renovation project are criminal, I have a reflecting pool to sell him

The two Republicans who helped write the college sports bill were the Atlanta Hawkeyes man and the Basketball Ring man booed by his constituents on College GameDay because his presence is Texas' most notorious sports curse. We're in great hands

My body is rested and my mind is clear. I am prepared for this moment.

Travis Miller@justtmill.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey @jasonkirk.fyi , have you seen this?

Jerry knew the assignment

Jerry-ATX@jda5id.com · last wk.

One of my favorite things about this is you know both of the flunkies behind Schmidt spent the past 48 hrs bragging to their nazi bro friends to tune into this hearing for some real fireworks.

Carl Cecere@carlcecere.bsky.social · last wk.

Just three dudes all discovering at the same time they didn’t consider the existence of the state of Iowa.

Right wing media finding out their big Jack Smith story fell apart.

Bill O'Reilly's On-Air Outburst

ALT: Bill O'Reilly's On-Air Outburst

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"Mr. Smith, I see here you went to a 'Hawks' game. It follows, does it not, that this must have been the Seahawks and that you could only have gone to meet with Bill Gates about weaponizing vaccines." It's basically the same thing.

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

Nobody is more sure about screen time rotting the brains of kids than people who spend three hours a day on Facebook

Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.

Prashant 🌊@prasshant.bsky.social · last wk.

Fair play to Arsenal skipper Martin Ødegaard's father, he refused an offer from a law firm to set up an offshore company in a tax haven to manage his son's image rights when Martin signed for Real Madrid, saying everyone should pay taxes. 🔴⚪

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Just the way Ruffini had it mapped out...

Shoe-per Intelligence@shoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

H/t @horadam.bsky.social

Mike Pillow is really stretching what his Minnesota company is able to do

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w ago

Exclusive: President Trump will announce a Minnesota company’s plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa, as he looks to counter voter frustration with the economy ahead of the midterm elections.

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

republicans hate the troops and consider them little more than political props that arent really people