"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...

Computational complexity for hype immunity

Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…

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Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

A New Color (1/5🧵)

there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability

DOJ designates refusing to have cybersex with Grok AI as Domestic Terrorism

McConnell has released a proof of life photo

Happy Bastille Day

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:

Honestly we're like a year out from MAGA Lysenkoism

Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery@dovermuseum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

(1/8) Who is Deal Man? Deal Man is an Iron Age carved chalk figurine on display at Dover Museum. He was discovered in 1984 during excavations by the #Dover Archaeological Group ahead of construction work on a site adjacent to St Richards Road in, #Deal.

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

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Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’

WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

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With this salvo, Kansas has escalated what will be a federal effort to establish a Jim Crow system of lawfully enforced second-class citizenship aimed at trans American It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.

Claude, people don't believe that I'm productive because of you. They didn't believe it when I refused to measure and said they simply had to accept my conclusion because it's obvious to me Tell me the scientific theory of why they're snowflakes in an echo chamber (1/100)

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51

Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

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Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Family abolition is about ending the state’s exploitation of family as a stand-in for public infrastructure. No housing? Rely on family. No healthcare? Family. No safety net? Family. The neoliberal family formation is privately subsidized state abandonment dressed with a sentimental smokescreen.

NYT editor doing a magical girl transformation sequence that ends with him becoming J J Jamerson shrieking about getting scooped by a substack nazi named NorseWulf1488, who he is in groupchat with.

I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.