I will never begrudge anyone the shows they watch... but I am definitely experiencing almost parodic levels of not understanding *any words* when people talk about house of the dragon. (credit to starshine, I can sorta follow this one, though I dunno who any of these folks are)

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 8h ago

I feel like they really wasted James Norton this season, and like needed to do something with Rhaenyra her ancillary characters are just kinda…really weak and there’s a lot of time spent there or in the fucking mud with burned boy and creepy guy

my strong prior about michigan btw is that the vast majority of primary voters were actually happy to vote for either candidate in the general and will consolidate quite easily behind el-sayed just like they are coalescing behind talarico in texas online freakouts are not real life

The menswear guy also says the boots theory is wrong

BillieB@billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · yesterday

Sitting quietly, waiting for The Menswear Guy to get a hold of this one.

it IS reasonable to weight sources of information by reliability, of course! but 'this piece of information comes from an AI' is not (and CAN'T BE) enough by itself to establish even that the piece of information is incorrect, much less whether it can be ultimately useful to a human being.

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · yesterday

a general note as well: something being written by AI or not does not change the validity of the underlying information it's a non-argument, an inversion of an appeal to authority

i'm gonna start keeping a list of all the ways that modern problems just boil down to 'advertising'

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2d ago

Information asymmetry ‘lemon problem’ - unable to tell at a glance *which* goods are high quality, consumers assume they are all relatively low quality and thus only pay for cheap ones

Someone on here once said they wished videogames would notice if you hadn't played in awhile and ask you if you needed a quick refresher on the controls when you pick it back up and that's the best idea ever. I just started First Light again and boy oh boy would it come in handy right about now

nice

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fuck off

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

NOT what I expected!!

Schnorkles O'Bork@schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d ago

ssl2002.webhosting.comcast.net/epic-mra/tea... Bernie Porn.

This article is hilarious. First, panic over a reseller buying used books for destructive scanning by AI companies because they must be rare books, but turns out none are particularly rare, booksellers are happy to get rid of them, and the reseller has nothing to do with AI cos or digitization

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

And this is true for all sides. If you're hoping a progressive or a moderate loses a general election because you don't want to validate that side of the coalition, you're not taking beating Republicans seriously enough. We just need to win as big a victory as possible.

We really do need everyone to hate Republicans more than they hate moderates or leftists If you don’t, I have no illusions about whose side you’re actually on

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 5d ago

And this is true for all sides. If you're hoping a progressive or a moderate loses a general election because you don't want to validate that side of the coalition, you're not taking beating Republicans seriously enough. We just need to win as big a victory as possible.

I understand people not liking AI making it their *whole personality* is not something I understand tho

If there’s one thing Alexander Pope taught us, it’s that translators of the Odyssey are a calm bunch who never pick public fights with anyone

you can simply google 'sunset time' instead there are problems with AI search, but c'mon now

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️@wxdam.com · last wk.

Googling "sunset" used to give you the sunset time. Googling "sunset" now gives you an AI summarized definition explaining what the sunset is. The future!

WHAT THE FUCK

Ben@gridlock.bsky.social · last wk.

"As soon as Mosley sat down, Karp began reciting from memory, for several minutes, one of Oswald’s 1939 speeches demanding Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. When finished, Karp executed tai chi moves and walked out without saying goodbye."

WHAT

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · last wk.

His grandson, Louis Mosley, is now CEO of Palantir UK.

What's very important to understand about classicists is that they are primarily motivated by *kleos* (losely translates to "honor" or "glory") not oikos.

100% and it is right and good for experts and non-experts, artists and non-artists, critics and non-critics alike

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last wk.

It is right and good for people to have divergent critical opinions and perspectives concerning art and media.

It is right and good for people to have divergent critical opinions and perspectives concerning art and media.

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.

you know, this much discourse about Homer's literal Oddysey was just not on my bingo card this year. (i'm so down for it, tbh)

And just from a dad’s perspective, it seems to me one of the explicit aims here is to make black girls feel like they are ugly. Like why else are you angry about a black little mermaid. And yes I take that shit personal.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

the amount of pretzel logic this guy is willing to deploy, purely in service of preserving this brand of racism, really demonstrates how much he WANTS it.

Phil Williams@philinvestigates.com · 2w ago

Christian nationalist Pastor Joel Webbon tells Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau he doesn't want to live with different races here on Earth because it would ruin the heavenly surprise. 🤔 (More in link below.)

in this spirit, I would just like to point out that NO ONE calls you "the gangster of love" Maurice.

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2w ago

Couple things I need to get off my chest about Toto's "Africa":

in case anyone doesn't know this the thing about open weights models being made by stealing outputs from big players is almost entirely made up to justify regulations locking openai, anthropic and for some reason google into a cartel position

Wurman says that some cultures are just not ripe, at the moment, for introduction into America’s long-built liberal democracy. His claim is that this is something everyone “knows” and has known for a long time. Who is he talking about? What evidence? What groups? He won’t identify these cultures.