Republicans tried to appeal Obamacare like 200 times, knowing full well that Obama would veto it, to signal to their base and voters broadly that “we’re trying to do stuff but da president won’t let us!!” Democrats meanwhile are like 🥺 we can only vote on stuff mister trump wants

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · yesterday

this is shockingly stupid. if donald trump is vetoing things @schatz.bsky.social it means democrats are pushing GOOD THINGS

Congrats to Brewers fans

You can uncensor it using this prompt engineering technique I invented

now here's the thing: it is of course completely reasonable for someone to be skeptical of cars on the ground that they are *dangerous*, but anyone who says they are *useless* is obviously very dumb AI denialists seem not to have grasped this distinction yet

no kings includes draftkings

Can you imagine if CA/the country had done this when interest rates were near zero

Governor Newsom Press Office@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 2w ago

>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom signed 4 new California laws that “aim to speed student housing construction by exempting projects from environmental review, curbing certain lawsuits and offering developer incentives.”

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

Another person who is good at deception of this nature: Donald Trump. Trump is a moron with no special insight into humans, but he’s capable of saying stupid and wrong stuff confidently (in part because he’s detached from reality) and that’s quite literally all you need to sucker half the world.

Again, what I want you to realize is that THIS IS NOT REALLY EXPERT MANIPULATION. Elizabeth Holmes did not succeed at fraud by telling convincing hard-to-detect lies. She succeeded at fraud by telling big, dumb, obvious lies that rich people wanted to believe. This is how 95% of fraud works!

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is extensive documentary evidence that she knowingly misled people, including by her own admission! (www.ms.now/opinion/eliz...)

I feel like the AI consciousness debate is getting too "weed smoke-filled dorm room" for me. yeah it's kinda interesting but it's hard to really go anywhere with it in a way that feels like you're making progress.

Elizabeth Holmes—like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—is a dumb person's idea of a smart person. I am genuinely troubled that more people can't seem to see this.

remember the world cup, when you had tons of folks visiting the united states for the first time and having just the best time of their life? it ruled! we should encourage that kind of thing!

Anyone else feel like everyone is just nuts nowadays? I'm not even talking about the obvious candidates but everyday people who get worked up into a defensive frenzy about the most insane things and can't fathom that they might be wrong or that someone else might think differently.

Something very important to figure out before Jan 20, 2029 is whether, when a new President is inaugurated, they will control the computer system at GSA (i.e. doors to federal buildings) and Treasury payments system or if those systems will be somehow in the hands of DOGE cronies

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Minnesota Republican state Sen. Bill Lieske: "Back in the day when the measles vaccine didn't exist, measles was a joke! ... yes, there are increases cases. How many of those are actually resulting in deaths? Are they just going home with the sniffles? Back in the day, people had measles parties."

This is different from a malware botnot how exactly

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · 3w ago

Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down

Seeing things like "Chinese youth unemployment is 18.9%"is why I feel more than a little insane when young people talk about how much better China is than the US

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3w ago

On that note, I have never in 25 years of doing this stuff seen such a divergence in analysis between scholars focused on a state's domestic political economy and colleagues focused on its impact on global geopolitics and trade as with scholarship focused on China over the last five years

Weird how Republican lists of bad people to deport never, ever, ever includes neo-Nazis, segregationists, apartheidists, or any other white nationalists.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "The Republican Party, we believe that Somalia bandits, third-world gangs, and jihadist sympathizers do not belong in Ohio, they do not belong in America. We got to get them the hell out of here." More "De-port! De-port!" chants from the crowd.

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

hard to think of anything that better sums up the modern Republican Party than this note right here

If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."

I swear to god this is a replacement of the original meme, but a quick search doesn't show that one up.

This is right. The issue is that LLMs are at best a $50 billion/year revenue type business and they've invested in it like it's going to be $500 billion/year in revenue or more. The mismatch is potentially trillions in capex overspend which is enough to cause a deep recession when the bubble pops.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead

"I watched a bunch of snuff films and now I am filled with the urge to kill others" is a serial killer origin story

“i should be able to type extreme homicidal threats and slurs at the machine if i want to” is psychopath behavior

like, if gaddafi had declared that all apples are now oranges and that all libyans calling them apples were internal enemies, it’d be covered in the press as a wacky but dangerous move from an unserious and dangerous clown dictator

🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃@golikehellmachine.com · 3w ago

the president demanding that one of the primary engines of the country’s economy — thousands of companies, trillions of dollars — rename their core products to suit his whim is tinpot dictatorship shit, and the only reason it doesn’t feel like it is because no one is listening to him

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

While I’m making people mad by claiming consumers get what they want, a lot of consumers really do like big houses with no lot lines in the exurbs. Good urban form exists in lower quantities than demand for it but I think exurban housing has a very high demand and that’s why there’s so much of it.