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Registering a prediction: within 5y, today’s AI disclosures and disclosure guidelines are going to feel the way a spellcheck disclosure would have felt circa 2001.
All us olds who remember Anne Richards are gonna start crying soon
"I wanted to see if you wanted to fill in the silence, but you don't," has to be one of the more devastating things a person who hosts the annual Times Square New Years Eve Ball Drop could say to you
a thing you start to realize is that an enormous number of people who don’t subscribe to any organized religion, and in many cases would disclaim having any religious beliefs, nonetheless have a huge swathe of their worldview shaped by ultimately supernatural, mystical, or quasimagical assumptions
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.“I can’t be bothered to understand the risks of abandoning democratic systems”
I always appreciated how he never felt like he was slumming in genre stuff. Brought a seriousness and grounding to stuff that could otherwise have been way sillier, and it was always the better for it.
I just think that public daydreaming about political violence betrays an complete lack of understanding of what a civil war is like a truly childlike naivety
@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · last wk.I would encourage the bsky commentariat to resist dort-poasting
everyone is dooming about AI in game dev but i know in my bones that we are entering into a truly golden age of indie games
older I get the more convinced I get that cynicism is nothing but microdosing cowardice
Devoting your social time to platforms where you control your own account and your own data, is the only real long term solution to hating billionaires controlling their own platforms.
This is like those pictures of, like, a third grader holding bake sales to pay off their friends‘ lunch debt. Props to that kid, and to these college kids. But the need for the picture, or this mass march here, is sign of a real deep national failure.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w agoStudents from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
The most obvious fallacy in political analysis is concluding that every winning campaign did everything right and every losing campaign did everything wrong. So obviously wrong that no one defends it outright. But so many people fall into the trap anyway. All the time.
Businesses are amoral entities that exist to make money. Complaining about rainbow capitalism is an admission that you don't like it when what is prosocial and what is profitable overlap, a sentiment that is genuinely too stupid for words.
Hi Mike Rogers. Here’s a message from me and 783 of my friends in R+32 Ionia County. Good luck out there, habibi.
Whatever clout you think you get for always asserting the maximally cynical "it's always been bad and I've always known as much" perspective is worthless and actually making you much stupider as a person and more useless as a political agent.
It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week.
i don't think will stancil is transphobic
They used to hand out sainthoods like candy. Used to get canonized for being the first guy to see a horse or whatever. Nowadays if you want to be a saint you need to be a computer, or a lesbian
There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.
if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here
unironically using “spreadsheet people” as an insult during a massive anti-intellectual demolition of government capacity to manage society is really a statement about your approval of it
One of my least favorite kind of posts is "Everyone is stupid except for me", where an outsider looks at something like GDP and assumes that thousands of experts haven't once had the brilliant thought they had, and this is its cousin "You Simply Lack Conviction".
The Mexican soccer team is one of the most hateable teams in sport when your team is playing them, but utterly delightful chaos wolverines when it's anyone else
I still don't understand how a nation can be the birthplace of eye of the tiger and not make it their national anthem
Putting Bud Light out in front of the Trump White House is a funny statement about the durability of culture war complaints
Mia Farrow@miafarrow.bsky.social · 5mo agoUnbelievable
the chuds do not understand what makes this country great but this country is great and we cannot give up on it
dr. rich traditions, JD@helldude.bsky.social · 5mo agoseeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something
i consider myself genuinely patriotic. i love our music and our movies and a lot about our culture and its achievements. new york is in fact the greatest city in the world. we have so many beautiful people here. our elites have declared war on it but it's still worth fighting for. to me at least
It remains incredibly ironic how gender studies was the go to "useless" degree to denigrate but it explains basically all contemporary politics while the "useful" degrees like computer engineering are eating shit
Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 5mo agoboy seems like a guy who probably should not be in the Senate