Obsolete Dogma

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Writer: The Atlantic, The Washington Post https://www.obsoletedogma.com/

Good news: the Supreme Court didn't strike down birthright citizenship in direct defiance of the Constitution's stated words Bad news: ***Four*** Republican justices were willing to ignore/pretend they didn't understand that the Constitution's stated words guarantee birthright citizenship

The fact that US conservatives idolized Hungary—maybe the poorest, most corrupt country in Europe—all because its conservatives were willing to massively abuse their power, even as they flirted with anti-Semitism & became Russia’s vassal, is the best explanation for Trump.

The fact that our vice president took time off from the disastrous war we just started to go campaign for the aspiring tin pot dictator of a country that couldn’t be more unimportant might be the most pathetic thing about a completely pathetic administration.

Orban loses, democracy wins, and, most importantly, the global forces of diet fascism are in retreat. The EU will now be more united in standing up to Putin and helping Ukraine. And the Trump administration’s losing streak continues. A good day for good people.

The same leftists who told people not to vote for Democrats in 2024 are now wondering why Democrats aren’t stopping Trump from doing the things Democrats warned he would do if he won. It’s because they don’t have the votes, you morons!

The fact that markets keep getting played by the world’s dumbest con man is so humiliating. Traders are terrified of getting on the wrong side of a TACO trade but haven’t been able to figure out that there’s a difference btw backing out of a trade war & an actual war where the other side has a say.

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

Creating AI agents is inherently dangerous. As Geoffrey Hinton has pointed out, AI agents give themselves subgoals to achieve their key goal & a good subgoal will always be acquiring more power/compute. Today, that means mining crypto. One day, it could mean killing all humans.

Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸@gaughen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is allegedly from a tech report by Chinese company Alibaba. Apparently an artificial intelligence in training secretly decided on its own, without prompting, to start trading crypto. And it used an SSH tunnel to avoid detection! And some people want to give AI control of military weapons? 😬

Real war, trade war, job loss, financial fears, spiking energy costs ... the reality of Trump II has almost been worse than what the most pessimistic people thought it would be. And this is just from today! There's also the ethnic cleansing and blackmail of law firms and universities.

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The same people who fell for Tulsi and Fetterman are sure that the guy with the Nazi tattoo who quote-tweets Nazis is really good because he uses the word “oligarchy” (just don’t ask him which religion makes up the oligarchy…)