This is literally a whole "The Good Place" bit.
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2d agoOver a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.
Isn't this the sort of thing he had people arrested for?
Raw Story@rawstory.com · 2d agoSen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) is being accused by a local baker of skipping out on a bill for nearly $700 in cookies during his last election.
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
I knew Trumpism was basically just rehashing every terrible idea from American history, but ffs I didn't expect him to revive the Middle Passage
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d agoWhoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
Also, reading to your kids is one of the lowest-effort, highest-reward parenting tasks and one of the best parent-child bonding activities. Why would you ever want to offload that one?
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d agoIt's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
What's he got against the blues?
The Blues Brothers: Hit It!
ALT: The Blues Brothers: Hit It!
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: "When the blues get in, everything becomes dirty. The streets are dirty. The doorknobs going into stores are dirty. The sidewalks are filthy dirty. Everything becomes dirty and has a bad smell. But we're gonna escape all that lawlessness and corruption ... "
We should also remember that Y. pestis never went away. There are still a few cases every year; the Southwest has had ~500 during the past few decades.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat's going on with this plague death in #Russia? Whatever it is, don't count on Moscow to be honest about it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Can someone explain to me how clicking on an ad for prostitution and then paying a prostitute for sex constitutes “human trafficking”? Do words mean anything to cops?
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d agoThree elected Alabama public officials, all Republicans, were running a human trafficking ring. They were arrested and booked this weekend. weartv.com/news/local/a...
A(n ostensibly) feminist rabbinic colleague got in my DMs the other day to scream at me about how drawing attention to these— well, there’s no banality to this evil— Was “playing into the hands of the Right” Like, when is the right time to name a genocide, then? Only after? Only then? Like?
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d agoIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson@fendersonia.bsky.social · 6d agoI have questions
Looks like the worst of the worst, a truly hardened criminal.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last wk.ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
Yes! Bit crazy to see Uno over Staude though
The Lions Pitch@lionspitch.bsky.social · last wk.Jacobs!!!!
WTF they killed Durkee's? Nooooooo I always associate it with Passover, weirdly, because I used to put it on my Hebrew-National-salami-and-matzo sandwiches at my grandmother's house in Arkansas...
Laura Seay@texasinafrica.bsky.social · last wk.Corporate killed Durkee Sauce. Wright Thompson has the obit, at his mama's request.
Oh yeah well I released LLM version infinity-plus-one so THERE.
Tim Carmody@tcarmody.bsky.social · last wk.This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
But he lets white people in, and all Christians are white, right?
Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · last wk.When Matthew Soerens of World Relief tells Christians the Trump administration has banned persecuted Christians, many don't believe him. We talked about why. Listen to the whole conversation: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social
Worst part is that the rapist dude getting banned from the team for a year would've been the genuinely surprising outcome for anyone who pays attention to college football or MBB. The individual stories are horrifying but we can't forget that they're not aberrations and the whole edifice is rotten.
Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · last wk.The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:
Never once have I gone through the TSA line and said "this would be way better if the agents had been standing"
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.
This is proof that the Netanyahu regime doesn't want Israel to be a state for all Jews. Argument and debate is at the very center of rabbinic Judaism; exiling someone for wrongthink is not very Jewish at all.
Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · last wk.Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.
Literally the only person on Earth who could get me to read anything about the iced coffee thing.
Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 2w agoI wrote about iced coffee
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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w agoI love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump now says "If I weren't president, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be here right now ... They'd be wiped off the face of the planet." 🙃
As an Elder Millennial I'm going with "this is your brain on drugs". I feel like it's broken generational containment more than the other one.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2w agoHive mind, settle a Gen X debate for me. What's more famous: "I learned it by watching you" OR "This is your brain on drugs" And if you need more context then you aren't allowed to answer.
Yes, Tucker Carlson, famous Palestinian-care-abouter
Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 2w agoCenk Uygur claims that TYT are the only people trying to stop genocide and giving money to Israel. He then says that people who won't work with Tucker Carlson are selfish and don't actually care about Americans or Palestinians.
This presidency is like someone crossed Mussolini with @tomtomorrow.bsky.social's Very Silly Mayor.
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2w agoUnited States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
