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This is misleading. If you say the Rhine’ s “water levels drop to lowest level since 1880,” that implies that the river was this dry in 1880. But 1880 is just when we started keeping records! So what you need to say is: the river is at its lowest level since records began.
I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
All choices all people make are always under some degree of constraint. Constraints do not render their choices empty of moral freight.
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3d agoI think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference
Look, say what you want about Rod Liddle’s politics, but please remember that as a human being he cheated on his wife with an employee during their honeymoon, and then later beat that employee up while she was pregnant with his child.
“if you were really honest with yourself you would be just as much of a greedy, amoral philistine as i am” is like his pitch, his whole pitch, for Economics as The True Science of Man as Caricature of Darwinistic Rat. and the folks who buy into it are… easily predicted in advance, let’s say.
The guy who has made his entire career about pointless culture wars now says what really matters is the economy
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Most Americans don't believe in evolution. Would bsky say Democrats should indulge in slopulist, conspiratorial appeasement because it doesn't matter?
on some level i get it. america has crank built into its dna and its probably impossible to win without appealing to at least some cranks some of the time. but it always sucks to do and you cant get too mad if people who know who youre baiting shoot you a dirty look over it now and then
Serious answer is that both Locke and Hobbes believed in different structures of obligations between the state and the public while MAGA is animated by the idea that no one has obligations to anyone or anything at all
@ceroespada.bsky.social · 2d agoHow is it that cons today think both Locke *and* Hobbes are frauds lol
The original failure of analysis is that people thought hippies were progressive liberals. The entire point of hippydom was self-indulgence to the disregard of everyone else. Hippies were reactionaries: “back to the land, recover the ancient ways, be self-sufficient.” American Wandervogel.
hypoallergenic bobcat alternative@noghiri.bsky.social · 2d agopost scriptum: also this, like, we don't need the crunchy assholes, they can only hurt us
Remember when he posted an AI video of himself pitching medbeds?
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2d agoObviously he has no compunction about making shit up himself, but I do sincerely wonder how much of his understanding of the world is based on subordinates sending him AI imagery he thinks is real.
as i said when china opens up there will be a great eruption of niche insane nationalist content - move over, balkan youtube commenters - indian posters unhappy about pakistanis speaking out, sit down it will be china's turn
Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d agoChinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵
war is the continuation of slack by other means
ceej@ceej.online · 4d agomy job (responding to slack messages) is harder than war
EVERYTHING DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ABOUT US
Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social · 7d ago“I’m mad about Christopher Nolan’s casting in a movies in Greece, so I will…..go after Jews and a representation of their culture.” AGAIN, EVERYTHING DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ABOUT US WE ARE 0.2% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO OBSESS OVER
It’s like a zombie apocalypse movie, only the monsters are braindead conservatives.
Jim Robert@mollygrub.bsky.social · 4d ago
Hear me out: we want our senior military officers to have a robust liberal arts education, including multiple perspectives from history, literature, and the social sciences, and to know that civilians sometimes know things.
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
The Pentagon is considering a sweeping remake of military higher education, including an end to civilian tenure and a "line-by-line" review of courses, according to a draft memo obtained by CBS News.
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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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in the middle of an article about trump's cuts to food stamps (universally opposed by democrats) causing pain for low income americans: ayfkm
Hating the Jews taking priority over protecting the rights of Muslims goes back all the way to the Interwar Period.
Jasper Cabot@jaspercabot.bsky.social · 4d ago'Muslims are a punishment' is a really cool take from Al-Jazeera, just amazing work
I think people have seriously and genuinely forgotten, or maybe they never really appreciated, just how much of an advancement formal anti-racism as a legal construction made from 1789 to the late 20th century. The fact that having a racial constitution makes you an anomaly today is excellent.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d agoDumbest meme OAT is the assertion that every Western state is actually an ethnostate tbh. No sorry but this word does actually have a meaning even if annoying people online overuse it. Most states in the EU are definitively, affirmatively, clearly legally defined as states of all their citizens.
Appropos of nothing, beyond the racists complaining about black people in the Odyssey, here's a 5th C. BCE januform kantharos depicting two women's faces. The inscription down the side says 'beautiful'....
struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...
Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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This is exactly how people talk about gambling and drinking.
!["I need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs-with doing more and more and more and more-is not healthy for me or good for the world," said Green. "It is careless, and has disconnected me from where people are on this. I was talking about this with [my wife] last night, and she did not pull any punches. Frankly, neither did [my brother]. Neither of them think I've been being healthy. I need to readjust."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pytxycyhu6ql3flqs2qmkuub/bafkreicmxurcds4n55kttsu4q7lglli5tmelaerxppn4gc5ruutlkdqrvq)
again, the danger from AI is not that it will attain sentience and destroy us. the danger is that it's a mindless flattery machine and being mindlessly flattered literally drives people insane.