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It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
New GOP message is actually spot on: "Yes, Trump IS taking care of his billionaire friends"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoLombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."
Can we poll the passengers on that plane anonymously about a hypothetical? I’m just curious about something.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h ago
you cannot start a breaking news alert with “A helicopter carrying President Trump” without dumping a gallon of serotonin into my bloodstream. please be more careful with words
When Jonathan Bartley said in 2019 he would include halal & kosher in a general ban on particular types of animal slaughter, he was subject to media criticism for days - after which he said he'd been wrong and not known the flexibility of halal/kosher slaughter rules But when Lowe does it, crickets
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 10h agoI thought I had caught Restore in some brilliant trap because Restore calls for banning halal butchering so he’d also be inadvertently banning kosher butchering—‘haha!’ I said, ‘Lowe’s caught himself in a right pickle!’ I said—but lo and behold, he admit it!
KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices
This is bullshit. Once AIs are feeding off only the output of other AIs, you’ll get the tech equivalent of Mad Cow Disease. Those models will produce even more gibberish than they currently do.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago“Once AI has ‘squeezed out’ all the expert data from humans, it won’t need any more input from humanity. That is the time AIs will start just self-evolving by themselves. Right now, the human is the bottleneck.”
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10h agoI actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots
the people saying it mean "falsehood" when they say "social construct" and you don't actually need to affirm that premise
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d agoOnly just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD
this is truly motivating me to use inshallah even more than I already do after all it’s the faster and more fun way to say “if the good lord’s willing and the creek don’t rise,” speaking as someone with Southern roots.
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 11h agostarting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
"negative criticism of a thing I like is a major social problem" is an incredibly cowardly take. if you disagree with her, disagree. don't hide behind a moral panic. it makes you look like a ridiculous spineless lump. 1
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · yesterdayIf the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.
"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.
oh i see; we're going to ruin a man's life over a single, solitary, decades-long pattern of behaviour, are we?
feels like the big AI impacts are: upending coding and the practice of law; making a terrible mess in healthcare; more algorithmic bias in government at every level; and it will also kill the open web, concept art, the take-home essay and possibly critical thinking any other impacts I'm missing?
Isn’t this the same magazine that’s had several big pieces fearmongering about declining birth rates? Make up your minds!
I think there'll come a day when the internet as we know it just burns. The posts and ideas people remember will transform into aphorisms, idioms, and folklore. People will say they can't be killed in a way that matters, or that they'll walk backwards into hell, and it will just be their parlance.
All the projections I've ever worked with predicted an acceleration in the rate of global warming if we continued to increase our emissions. The fact that so many people are shocked about this honestly surprises me. I guess no one ever reads things like the IPCC or National Climate Assessment 🤷♀️
I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Members of the public are fully entitled to ask why the entire national press - who went into an 18-month terrifying panic about racism and bigotry, squealing in pant-soiling terror that even a trace of prejudice in public life was utterly intolerable - can talk about this calmly like it’s no biggie
This is one of the better, more helpful newspaper podcasts and it’s striking they - like all of the lads - talk about Farage and Lowe without any squealing and writhing about the cancerous virus of race hate that must be ruthlessly eradicated, or about the legion of evil scum who support them.
This, while all the lads on the newspaper and magazine politics podcasts are talking about The Return Of Two-Party Politics as if it was a natural phenomenon and not a decision they have reached amongst themselves
"formers" can play a useful role, if carefully managed. But real recurring dangers if valorise formers as saviours + the only people who get extremism Maajid Nawaz's volatile journey from Hizb-ut-Tahrir to Quilliam via LibDems! to QAnon a salutary example www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
LBC’s Maajid Nawaz’s fascination with conspiracies raises alarm
The radio host has been criticised for his tweets on the coronavirus and US elections
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as President, i will declare all conflicts merely an extension of World War Two, allowing me to shift any blame for dead servicemen and women to FDR and sail cleanly to re-election
The Intercept@theintercept.com · yesterdayThe Pentagon is using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.”
EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.