They’re not sending their best. At least if we were being taken over by a bunch of Hans Grubers or Magnetos it wouldn’t be so embarrassing.
They’re not sending their best. At least if we were being taken over by a bunch of Hans Grubers or Magnetos it wouldn’t be so embarrassing.
Idk…that choice of names might work out as well as “Autopilot”
interesting. what did he perceive as changing?
Yes, and this applies more generally to these "the internet thinks" takes
...was not a fan of this kind of thing
Somebody remembers when monographs on neural networks came from the Santa Fe Institute!
it was possible
Similar problems have been around with science videos for a while. Science YouTuber Kyle Hill has done some good explainers on it.
But for real "Outspoken reasonable person target of anger from vocal minority on social media" is sort of a dog bites man story. Bluesky isn't the troll-bot-nazi mess that Twitter has become, but it hasn't solved the human problem.
The Economist has been on a "NYT Pitchbot" lookalike tear for a bit
or the cost of *a car*
Apropos of nothing, we need more and faster passenger trains
he should send the national guard there i guess
How did he end up saying this? Was he explicitly disavowing the Gettysburg Address?
I might actually donate to one of these spammers if they did something that bold
Reichstag fire 101
Sad but probably true
I’m assuming that’s part of what he gets out of it, but 🤷♂️
I don't know. I'd say it's like being a basketball player who gets picked on in the locker room who would rather be on the field where if he returns elbows he at least feels like he's pushing in the right direction.
why do they never proofread
They object to the way you relish in pointing out the difference :)
I've thought for a long time that the post-social media post-cable news information environment demands an update to what we regard as ethical behavior regarding our own beliefs, e.g. www.nationalaffairs.com/publications... people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/Clif...
Idk, Will Stancil has made the case for "fighting the fight" on Twitter and Armand definitely does that. I'd rather read science posts and entertaining shitposters while getting some news, so I'm not up for that, but if he's feeling pugilistic maybe that's best for him.
I have to think you wrote this with a chuckle. Everybody thinks they're right and the other guy is wrong.
yes because they can't win less than the zero they started with
Except it's easy to block and it's (so far) real people instead of the bot/troll situation on Twitter. But it's not nothing.
A small group of blockable extremists is worse than a cacophony of unblockable haters and bots? Because that's the comparison point here, let's not pretend it isn't.
It's like what now? This is a bizarre analogy.
My "for many people, participating in Twitter (even for the express purpose of disagreeing with much of what is said there) somehow constitutes approval" view remains undefeated
There's no implication in the quote that the criticism is constructive - in fact "being assholes" sort of implies the opposite
The quote says nothing about the "assholes" knowing things, only implies that they are broadly on his side.
I think the maneuver is actually more widespread than that
People like the legal terms because they think it validates their opinion (correct) that things are objectively awful, but you (intentionally?) phrase your corrections in a way that often seems to invalidate that opinion. You're right, Tom, but you're not innocent 😀
huh, blocked me too and i'm a nobody
just wanna find the writers with all these takes granting - effectively rubber-stamping - the assumption that Trump admin is making a plausible attempt to accomplish recognizable positive goals and beat them mercilessly with a stick
This is an even better guide to the Trump administration than "be cruel and greedy"
prima nocta FTW
Like real life: less politics, more science, more goofs
Obviously that just shows that America's health has been in the grip of a woke conspiracy for the tenures of the last nine directors. *oops sorry channeled my mom for a minute there
they're all wearing the same clothes
The golden age of sci fi always lowballed population estimates, presumably because anything much higher than current numbers sounded crazy big to them. Trantor was supposedly 40-45 billion, hardly requiring a world-city, and Soylent green put NY at 40 million, huge but on the order of Tokyo
This is a huge problem in journalism - and yes it makes sense! "Do Dems have any alternatives to military occupation when it comes to fighting the crime wave in DC?" --- burn all those takes and mock the people writing them mercilessly
underreported "good Florida man"
She's established her bona fides for a cushy right wing welfare job emitting dehumanizing sound bites on occasion. No need to stick around in a job where many people expect her to do useful things.
Tangential: are your columns published separately? In like a book or whatever? Is this a thing anymore (possibly a casualty of digital)? I am not one of these "Not a penny for the Post!" people but I maintain just a few subscriptions and an a la carte option would be valuable.
This is one of those little tech features that was so obviously crap that I have always assumed there was some other, better, justification for it
America lives and dies by the Frontier Hypothesis
This guy somehow makes me less pro-kidney donation
Will Hunting and the Skarsgard character are really the 2 mathematician characters you see in movies, and both are pretty much bullshit.
I see you've beefed up the text here to help bolster your take that this is not a manifestly corrupt attempted firing, but it's not working
bare feet? indian food? indeed you do
*attempted sacking
Hmm. OK sir. You have changed my outlook somewhat with a post on social media (non-ironic). Congratulations to both of us.
Has a pretense of legal reasoning been given behind this? Is the rule just that "if you are not a citizen and have ever interacted with the legal system you are fair game"? I'm always confused on what the cover story is behind these cases
I have an optimistic read on this - people are incredibly good at ignoring stuff until it's unignorable to them; those numbers could move pretty fast and a pessimistic one - it's always been the case that 30% would go for fascism by a different name until bombers were overhead
You could argue that part of the implicit worldview of cyberpunk-branded dystopian futures is that familiar democratic polities are downstream of 18th-20th century technology and modes of communication
Wish they’d tossed em into the fire and seen who would actually indict
With you
Yeah, that’s a short term strategy
Heck yeah. Somebody needs to run on the fact that this is the most unChristian administration in memory
Along with the Fed, this has now turned into the open bureaucratic war of Trump Admin vs Everyone who knows what the fuck they're talking about which is where it was always going to end up.
It would make as much sense if he said midichlorians
Came here to say this. I can't help but think this *approach* to polling - "What do you think of the eight dishes on the menu but no questions on the maitre d' throwing literal grenades around the dining room" helped foster the Dem's "kitchen table" myopia
What I wouldn't give for a few 1990 Republicans running the country
Or stated differently: we're all imposters! A bunch of humans think you're gonna work on a project for a few years or decades and understand the universe? Ridiculous.
Loki's speech in Avengers hit home because we all knew it was true for some significant (if hopefully not determinative) set of people...
& you thought "I have too much self respect for this! After all, I'm a shitposter!"
"Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
Why would you assume that's his goal? Why do you assert that as a given?
I'm at a loss to describe on how many levels this is horrifying. "Imagine the world run by Heathers, but with actual deadly fascism, via TikTok" is my best shot at capturing this
This is actually a core issue, I think. Most people don't know how to do due diligence on their factual picture of the world; but in an age of information overload it is both harder and a primary ethical obligation for the voter
it's not at all inappropriate, but being the first sentence in a statement that should be "the president is doing another fascism - here's how we fight" it's somewhat of, as mr jeffries might say, a distraction
Well there's Buckaroo Banzai....
DFW understood. From "The Pale King": “If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
are you comfort swifting or is this a special occasion?
Good catch! I missed that.
This must be parody, yes?
Was misled by the typical celebratory mood of most songs describing the Vietnam War
You're welcome. Right back atcha for "The Seventh Function of Language."
Unsurprisingly, it's also totally factually false. Violent crime rates were significantly higher in 1984, the last time they held the Olympics in LA.
Solid state FTW, episode 1000. But I find the name "grid-forming" unintuitive. Probably seems more natural with familiarity.
this is consistent for Bernie, and also part of why I'm not a huge Bernie fan
I'm not even clear what the claimed benefit of this is.
If this is not a police state, what is?
So many books that Jake Tapper should have written/be writing if he wanted it to matter
"How do we know there's a national emergency?" "Whenever I say so."
True enough but being internet dad also means some bad dad takes from oversimplification. If Fox is going to make it a "thing" any time some Marxist community college professor uses a word, maybe we should be exploring strategies other than "nobody anywhere ever say those words"
Incredible. Being a black officeholder was significantly more dangerous than being a basejumper
But interestingly these are not in all cases the Democrats who have trouble appealing to wide swathes of voters
It can be used that way, but "illegal immigrant" is likewise used to falsely equate to things like theft (as you have done). The legal system is different, there's a whole asylum process. "Illegal immigrant" at best assumes guilt, at worst is just false.
So Trump is going to send the troops in to occupy Texas now, right? Right?
i only buy locally sourced comets
I see your point but it has the odd effect of crediting/assigning agency to the mass of us "peaceful folks" but little to the "activists" and "thought leaders"
"Water you swim in" underrated as shaping ... well, everything
There are a few third rail topics here (regulars know what they are; I won't even mention) and a few nutcases. Not the ambient nightmare that is Twitter.
Fair enough. The other response I made on this is that these are actually not common terms, but terms blown up by Fox et al, which is a harder problem to solve
This is financially true for obvious reasons. In any given year it is much more expensive (and much better!) to fund needed programs and be fiscally responsible than to enrich one corrupt dictator and cronies while cutting quality of life & borrowing a hole in the budget for years to come.
Of course the honest defense against the Third Way critique is that these terms aren't used much (yes examples exist) but much of their infamy is due to Fox et al trumpeting them. Given the D's can't police the language of every student lefty group, it's a hard problem
Although AOC is *not* an example of a politician who has difficulty gaining acceptance from a wider audience, interestingly
But the point here is almost the opposite - "trans women are women" is a principle, while insisting that the term "birthing people" be a part of everyone's vocabulary is eye-rolling pedantry to 99% of voters. Don't compromise on bathrooms, ditch the newspeak.