Just look at all the conspiracism down there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5d ago

you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny

And this is why, when folks hijack conversations about AI safety to talk about the rise of the [benevolent|terrible] machine God, we should tell them to go play outside while the grownups are talking. Because the actual conversation is about the harms humans do, not about fictitious nonsense.

I'm trying to accept the awkward robot-arms racism framing in DX Mankind Divided, but boy does the writing push it. "We can't let HATE and DISCRIMINATION win, Jensen!" "All Lives Matter!" aaaaaaah

imo the primary anxiety behind "boys need positive male role models" is the necessity of ensuring that boys grow up to be men rather than something instinctively felt to be worse, i.e., not a man. you know. like a woman or a queer lol

I deeply regret reading this piece--but also feel compelled to point out that it contains this absolutely spectacular example of Both Sides-ing it. An NYT all-timer "influencers who are accused of human trafficking and rape" are "functionally equivalent" to feminists

This is evil collective punishment.

Truthdig@truthdig.com · 5mo ago

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

just want to emphasize that there are confirmed photos of this, including one of israeli soldiers stripping a woman in front of all the other aid flotilla activists.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla activists released from Israeli custody after Israel seized an aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters, say they were tortured, sexually assaulted and denied basic legal rights. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/finz9n

The thing about keeping windows around with dual booting even after installing linux is that you can unequivocally experience the same web browser taking like 30 more seconds to launch when running the former

As a child I briefly developed this weird habit of downloading dozens of horror movies only in order to skim through them to "get to the good parts" with the monsters and the gore. What's funny is I definitely missed a bunch of that too, cuz it was fucking stupid

Don Bones @donbones.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want?

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More villages in South Lebanon being detonated by Israel. Israel is the one sharing these videos. They are proud of their war crimes.

Seen one address this as "a silly article that my friend published" and half the recent posts by the author himself are "yeah my bad, imagine a less insane version of this" and it's like, do words and ideas mean anything. How do pundits think the current state of things and elite discourse was built

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 6mo ago

“A 2028 Democratic candidate ought to lean into our rivalry with China not just because the international system is in shambles, and Republicans are to blame. The pressure of the first Cold War was successfully channeled into long needed reforms at home” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-next-dem...

We didn't deserve this day.

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. n.pr/40THi23

Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth

An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process.

n.pr

Non ho il cervellone da analista per determinare come andrà il referendum, ma è la prima volta che sento "bisogna votare per fermare 'sta gente" tanto al circolo sociale di giovincelli ribelli quanto sul luogo di lavoro tra gente non altrettanto ingaggiata con la politica

You’re going to want to sit down for this one, because it’ll come as a big shock, but: they mean “drive out the people who live in southern Lebanon, demolish the existing towns and cities then replace them with a million crank psycho settlers”.

Does it make sense that I'm more fascinated with the One Piece live action take than I've ever been with the anime? To be honest I havent exactly given the latter a fair shake after I stopped occasionally watching as a kid, but there is something peculiar about the cartoony un-reality of the TV show

The Grammarly people that decided to advertise their crap as "here's what this famous writer would say" were definitely high on their own "LLMs are just inspired by *stuff* like real people which makes it fair use to steal your identity" supply, right?

Nulla ti radicalizza sui mali del capitale quanto sentire un'intervista di celebrità a Domenica In

it really is just stunningly on the nose that the opening salvo to Trump’s supposed war of liberation in Iran began with bombing a girl’s school. if you put that in fiction people would dismiss it as being too maudlin and heavy-handed, and yet this kind of thing just keeps actually happening.

You'd think gas prices surging this dramatically would make the European powers rethink their undying support for murdering pedophiles, but I realise they're just as likely to interpret the situation as "better get done with the job quick then!"

Had to lurk r/KotakuInAction for research and now Reddit really wants me to know everything going on over there. Did you guys know a fully clothed Leon S. Kennedy is unfair female pandering while Grace with the Dimitrescu fit is merely an insidious attempt to mask her intentional unattractiveness?

"American politics is divided between a party that believes in attacking our allies, oppressing our citizens [...] and a party that believes in delivering peace and prosperity through liberal democracy at home and abroad" 🚩🚩🚩🚩

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 8mo ago

“We have left behind a world divided between a rules-abiding "Core" and a lawless "Gap" and entered an age of renewed imperialism, colonialism, and conquest. This ambition is shared, in practice, by the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-delusion...

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

"le droghe oggi sono peggio perché le prendi con l'app!" è il tipo di roba che faresti dire ad un personaggio che vuoi far sembrare più che superficiale, infantile nel suo essere un vecchio bacucco