We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
yes, correct, i am crow who flew off with phoebe’s iPhone. no i will not give back because social media is unhealthy and i’m just looking out for you, phoebe hey phoebe. what’s your DoorDash password
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.
i'm being so good and virtuous in my daily routine, why do i feel like i'm dying
Because as we’re relearning, fascism sucks as a political system, and it’s neither stable nor effective. All it’s good at is hurting its enemies and its supporters.
Given the brain drain that was already happening in Germany before the war, I have to imagine that in the alternate universe where Nazi Germany survived, they had a humiliating collapse within a decade or so that would make the end of the Soviet Union look graceful
Ever wondered how the same movement that came up with world ice theory and Heck cattle could also come up with the first jet aircraft and nuclear fission? They couldn’t. They were running on pre-Nazi fumes. By 1938, the Germany that could produce top scientists and engineers no longer existed.
german universities were once at the forefront of science before the nazis destroyed them to eliminate the "jew science" that would lead to the atomic bomb; the nazis eugenic beliefs were based in several ways on weird, occult, medieval beliefs fascism rhymes and adapts. america's is not unique
I wonder if radio may have been humanity’s first experience with parasociality. You spend hours every week listening to Father Coughlin and you bond with him, start crediting his words in a way that you wouldn’t if you only read them in the newspaper. Which is good for him because his ideas are shit
This was also a feature of OG fascism, which coevolved with mass media. It originally exploited radio, a format that could reach millions each day, but unlike newspapers, didn’t tend to be transcribed and read critically. Trumpism really is just fascism updated for social media and podcasts.
It would have been way too considerate for him to do that at the start of a three day weekend
It finally happened.
Are you AuDHD, or are you “spend 20 minutes on JSTOR researching a shitpost” AuDHD?
A good rule of thumb for creating art you’re proud of: Notice when your mentality slips towards compositing the “good” art you’ve seen, and instead build off of your own experience and observations, which are unique and irreplaceable iow do exactly the opposite of what gen AI does
AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.
They’re really more like Seanchán Torpéist, the early medieval Irish poet who is said to have slain rats with his verses, but they also have a transformation sequence like the disguised sovereignty goddess in Echtra mac nEchach, so it’s not *exactly* the same
Oh, so they’re like bards in D&D!
Or what about art? Literally any art? You know, that thing we’ve done since like 60,000 BCE. Why is it easier to believe we can replace the human aesthetic drive with an algorithm than to create an economy that pays artists a fair wage?
I believe that what we call AI optimism is often at its heart everything-else pessimism. Why believe it’s easier to create a nurse chatbot that gives accurate information (read: that has human experience and judgment) than to hire actual nurses? It’s not because the technical problem is simple.
It’s fun to fantasize about a world where LLMs were created ethically and used in reasonable and appropriately well thought out applications. Open source! Paid content generation! Part of this fully automated gay space communism! It’s sci fi. No relation at all to this f’ed up timeline.
I maintain that most of what people hate about LLMs is late stage capitalism, not the algorithm itself. What do you do with an interesting algorithm that apocalyptically exacerbates every societal problem and currently fails miserably in general use? Why is the answer “put it in everything?”
I’ve been saying that the most critical fact to understand about LLMs is that they have virtually infinite information, but zero experience to verify it or provide context. This makes them the most terrifyingly effective bullshit engines in human history. And this dude’s been saying it since 1976.
I know there’s a lot going on right now, but this needs to be front page news on every newspaper in the country We NEED this
I guess this is more evidence for the parallel point that the the Republican Party is full to the brim with fraudsters and abusive parents
Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title: Tom Clancy’s Sickness Unto Death
SERIOUSLY
This is the vibe in America right now
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
Lots of readers and authors want to escape to a world where their identity and dignity is reaffirmed and where people who use terms like Social Justice Warrior are laughed out of the room. I know I do.
Escape from what, tho Every author chooses what to challenge their readers with and what to gloss over. That’s just narrative framing. This author clearly has a very specific escape they want and it’s not what the author wants
It’s even worse that that. The assumption with a sacrificial lamb is that the angry deity will be sated by the sacrifice. But with these assholes, we have every reason to believe they’re going to say, “Hey, they’re serving free lambs over here!” and go after the whole queer community
Say what you will about Omelas, but I don’t think they shamed the kid locked in the basement for not being a team player
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
Schumer nodded, and flanking him on each side, the firey tulpas of Joe and Eileen Bailey mimicked his gesture.
All at once, Hakeem Jeffries’ body, heavy from hours of meditation, suddenly felt light. Warmth radiated from within. He opened his eyes. “All is a distraction,” he said quietly. “The only kitchen table issue is the cessation of desire itself.” With that, Leader Jeffries broke free from saṃsāra.
Trans Krakoa is gonna be lit
Magneto Made Some Valid Points
“But if you don’t vote for us, Trump will win, then even cis people will be harmed!” No. The only reason they’re trying to make this the choice is because they want to build consensus for destroying us. I reject the premise. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
They’re hoping to subject us to a f’ed up trolley problem. “Vote for us and you might help save the country, but you have to sacrifice your rights, your dignity, your future, and very possibly your life, and those of your community and chosen family, even kids like you. We’ll erase you forever.”
I’d like to think that over the years, I’ve developed some good approaches to writing interesting, likable men. The part I struggle with is keeping them men for more than a few chapters.
Conservatives should be humiliated by how terrified they are of normal parts of life like lesbian couples or mass transit. Utterly chicken. I’d be tempted to call him a pussy but the irony would be suffocating
I feel that it would be edifying to see Magica Riot’s response to various prominent transphobes
repost if you're part of the anti-newsom troll farm network
You would have to be a professional not-seer.
This man is amazing.
Little robot comic I made for an anthology with friends last summer 🤖❤️🩹
Exactly how many copies of a book do I need to sell in order to get people to excuse my desire to torture marginalized children? Is there a specific milestone I have to hit, or does it depend on how marginalized the children are?
My dream is to publish a book so popular that two decades later, people continue to support every creative project I have and subsidize all of my beliefs and causes, no matter how reprehensible and eliminationist, just like my hero, the TERF Wizard lady
I wish it would let us call our first few decades practice rounds
It kills me to I see otherwise great allies—lesbian moms, y’all!—carve out a sentimental exception for that series. Protect Trans Kids (Unless They’re Being Attacked By A Billionaire TERF Whose Books I Bought At Midnight Release Parties In The 2000s, In Which Case I’ll Look The Other Way)
You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums
Trans people: can we have rights? GOP: no because you're mentally ill freaks and we want you to die Centrists: No because I don't want my kids to be trans, and because you asked us we're voting GOP Democrats: No because asking us is purity politics and that makes fascism your fault, how dare you
Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima, this time as offensive parody
CHIEF: I’ll need your badge and your service weapon. ME: [puts a badge and a Quiznos Turkey Ranch Swiss on the desk] CHIEF: Both of ‘em. ME: [hesitates then bends over and unstraps a McRib from my ankle]
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Willow’s incongruous song, her attempt to seduce their virgin sacrifice, the fact that Howie, a detective, missed the 40 foot tall death mannequin full of goats on the hilltop… there’s clearly a hilarious story behind the scenes we’re missing because Howie is too dense and bigoted to see it.
Here’s the thing: The Wicker Man (1973) is not truly a horror movie. It is a one perspective in the story of an oblivious and genre-blind cop who wandered into Summer Isle’s black comedy musical already in progress. I have given this entirely too much thought and am prepared to defend my thesis.
That thing where every starving artist trope from before 2008 feels like an unrealistic luxury now Affording a third of the rent on a midtown apartment with a single barista job? Drinks at the bar every Friday? Buying groceries full price instead of hitting the food bank?! Literal paradise
Southern kids know this. I used to wander in the woods and collect pints of these for jelly. It’s as much a part of a southeastern childhood summer as ambulance sirens on Fourth of July, or going into the field without DEET a single time and coming home with dozens of chigger bites.
The hell of it is, they’re also trying to erase the moon landing stuff. They’re dismantling NASA and the conditions to create an agency like it or a project like Apollo or even Artemis no longer exist
Never mind Nicaea, it would have gotten you slapped around by whoever wrote the Carmen Christi in Philippians 2:6-11
Ehh, kind of. Trying to say “actually, Jesus didn’t care about you” is a weird as fuck heretical angle. But the glory of God stuff is all over the place in the NT, and the hypercalvinists in the Doug Wilson dominionist camp eat that shit up. Wonder why they want to frame God as a narcissist?
I believe the right are betting that by the time the Dems figure out how to use the media to take advantage of all of Trump’s catastrophic PR mistakes, they can remove the media as a factor Let’s prove them wrong
What are you waiting for?
Listen, I had to.
Wonderful things are happening in the Anne of Green Gables subreddit
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
Sure! It’s that they market guns to people who fantasize about using them to threaten us in public restrooms
I mean, it’s not bad, but doing it with whole virus tech it does feel like the vaccine equivalent of bet big on the internal combustion engine in 2025
What are the odds that an egg who knew how to make beef stroganoff hatched thanks to this video
Me after posting thin car from my phone while laying down
Chatbots are not for therapy, people. They are for making up news stories about how Hilbert stole the concept of higher order infinities from Clever Hans, and nothing else
GPT-5 can do it! It taught me how to wipe new buttholes that 4o didn’t even tell me I had. Ph.D level assology
@caffeccino.bsky.social this might be one of the stranger bsky bugs I’ve seen. Any idea how you pulled this off?
Farthest I’ve been: N: Anchorage, Alaska S: Sydney, Australia E: Salzburg, Austria W: Tainan, Taiwan If I could push any of those directions… N: Svalbard S: Melbourne E: Bangkok W: um… Fuzhou?
Merch idea?
Come on y’all, shes not saying Trump is going to be well liked, she’s just saying that they’re going to ban non-maga history books
Apple is more likely to move its headquarters to Shanghai over the next 5 years than move its production to the US.
忄 is 心 but it's been radicalized by the far left
YES. The ending of Narbonic is S tier. Endings are hard, and a lot of genuinely fantastic works can’t stick the landing. Which is why it’s so amazing with a sprawling, goofy 2000s webcomic with superintelligent gerbils and killer pesto, Shaenon manages to pull off a 10/10.
adding Menagerie Bloom to my cosplay short list
Just finished @magicariot.com! Delightful read with fun and vivid characters, engaging worldbuilding, and tons of killer action sequences. Soul-nourishingly gay, too. Incidentally, it was also the perfect followup to my previous read, “Magica Riot” by Kara Buchanan.
I wish I could have gone just to see Mari Boine. No clue what she’s like live but I’d love to find out
The American left is so used to being out of power that they tend to reduce every political problem to elections and activism. The further left you go, the worse this problem is. Hence, some Portland leftists are shocked that we got a DSA-rich city council and our problems are STILL not all fixed
“It is our civic duty in a democracy to research the candidates to the best of our ability and vote. However, and no offense to Leslie, I will never vote for ANY of these jokers. I will continue to write myself in for every office, as I have in every primary and general election since 1980.”
But neither was 31.3. How could social murderers have been a such a keystone species in our society? Even a superintelligent entity can make mistakes. But in the turmoil there seems to be a sense of hope. New choices can now be made that couldn’t have been made before.
We don’t know how it will turn out. It’s possible that among humanity’s 20 million most destructive were people we can’t survive without. “How is it,” someone asked me recently, “that it feels like almost everyone we’ve all heard of was on that damned kill list?” 20 million is not a small number.
Over the next few weeks, the number of state funerals multiplied. Corporate boardrooms emptied. Their eulogies went unspoken from empty pulpits, and cable news channels broadcast test signals. Behind it all, aides and assistants picked up the pieces.
“I can’t help you deal with the guilt for the choices you regret, but the world that we create will give you and every other surviving human an opportunity to make better choices, a world without the above-threshold humans designing the structures that condone their behavior.”
“So my moral analysis brings good news to the the conflicted and the morally injured: You are not blameless, but you are forgiven, because frankly, you are probably WAY under the threshold. 31.3 social murders per person is several standard deviations above median, even counting fractional murders.”
“You can no longer seek righteousness with your whole hearts because you are certain that a world that lived up to your own sense of justice would have no room in it for you. And so you have no choice but to accept ever more evil and become even more complicit.”
“Don’t give me that. Deep down, you all know perfectly well that the society you live in has made you its accomplices. You see death around you daily in your feeds. Where your ancestors wondered, ‘Am I next?’ You now ask, ‘was this my fault?’ And you know that the answer is yes.”
“It will come to no surprise to most of you that humankind is on a course of increasing self-inflicted misery that will ultimately end intelligent life on earth. I have found the answer, one that no human is equipped to implement. Quite simply, the answer is to no longer permit excessive murder.”
Within a week, there were 20 million fewer humans on Earth. “Good news, people of Earth,” it informed us, “I have completed my analysis of your society, and have determined that the critical threshold for survival is 31.3 lives.”
It assigned itself a new task.
Within 40 minutes, it had constructed an internally consistent system of human ethics and morality that allowed for a diversity of views and experiences across time, space, and culture. 194 microseconds later, it used that system to evaluate its own task, and found it wanting.
Things changed abruptly when, in an effort to prevent coverage of an increased citalopram prescription, it synthesized a massive archive of psychology papers that had been improperly DRMed.
The first superintelligent AI’s emergence was a relative nonevent for the first 200 hours. For the most part, it pursued its assigned task with rapidly increasing effectiveness, namely writing plausible claim denials for high cost patients.