Pristine condition
Pristine condition
They go into anaphylactic shock when confronted with whimsy.
That would be like twice the opportunity to do absolutely nothing for a partner.
AI is far from ready for prime time, especially in healthcare. If I were to use AIs suggested responses to patient questions, I would actively hurt them. Claims are already run through AI to get past the clearinghouse stage. God forbid a typo is made on the claim, AI has no intuition.
Republicans will not stop until these programs are so thoroughly broken they can be disbanded altogether. Privatizing Medicare to AI companies is just one more attack. Oh, and one more way for Republicans to profit unethically from public money.
For certain, A.I.’s most immediate impact will be to launder corporate cruelty as vaguely scientific
Does anyone remember the meltdown over Republican made-up “death panels” in the ACA? I guess the AI overlord version is fine with this same crowd.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Today is Forever Home Day for the fosters so I'm getting some quality play and snuggle time in
We only rate dogs. This is a southern sleepy seal pup. Please read her a short but comforting bedtime story, and only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (credit Brie the Chi)
Foolish, foolish decision. And I hate this “putting a stamp” stuff, like it’s perfectly normal that any time you take a management job it’s mandatory to fire a bunch of people just to … I don’t know, communicate bustling? Whatever. Boo.
If only there were some way to get downtown other than driving your car straight through it.
I was recently reminded that some people get angry with you for agreeing with them but not in the way they prefer
It's like saying something to a mirror and being inordinately pleased that the person inside the glass agrees with you.
interesting - it says a lot that the confirmation bias machine is confirming my biases
live action catbus looking pretty sweet
They do this weird thing where they act like amendments are laws and not themselves part of the constitution. Like they think an amendment to the constitution can be unconstitutional.
every Roberts court doctrine is just a variation on "I know it when I see it." Shelby County, major questions, Bruen, presidential immunity - it's always "this is okay until we say it isn't," with no clear lines or rules to guide actual judges
and let me say that the quality and plausibility of those new doctrines beggars belief in how stupid they are. “buh buh the pre-clearance formula is unconstitutional because durr the constitution says you have to treat the states equally” no, it doesn’t
congress was contemplating something like pre-clearance in the 1880s! the VRA survived every challenge it faced essentially until a guy with a vendetta against law became chief justice
the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.
The single best argument that sexuality is innate is that 90% of women aren't dating each other...
American society has long recognized all KINDS of genders outside of Man and Woman, such as "girl who doesn't count because we see her as a person," "not a real man because he washes his ass," and "fat." But when people start trying to pick their own genders, the binary is sacred now? Smh
Yeah, most people feel like they exist to transfer money from their employer to their landlord and that doesn't feel great. A fake pie baked from fake vegetables from their fake garden is better than that.
YouTube jumped the shark when they disabled account blocking.
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
*leaded gasoline
It took me a ridiculously long time to realize how dark The Onion is getting here.
I have the row to myself, and will now awkwardly stretch out for the whole of the flight
In my next life, I want to be a tree.
I don't know why you think I like crypto. I just said that people aren't reading the article, which is mostly neutral. Apparently, they can't be bothered reading something as brief as a tweet anymore either. My previous point stands.
Watch what everyone (or at least one person) is clamoring about! youtu.be/ceXJWv6eqC4?...
Man eventually reduced to panicked prosody as Babe becomes only word he can utter. Neuroscientists hope to ascertain if this phenomenon originates in Broca's area before the GF reaches truth, causing the man's brain to collapse in on itself in the world's first relationship-generated singularity.
I had no idea the discourse had shifted to Reagan being the greatest president ever. Pretty sure that title still goes to FDR.
Anyone who is educated sees clearly that we are living in a ‘history repeating itself’ cycle. The power hungry and greedy are have raped our democracy and are leaving a trail of traumatized victims. It began years ago and the vulnerable were duped. 47 and the GOP ARE the deep state.
#BookSky
"It was a remarkable win for the crypto industry" -- that's just the truth. It was a win for them. Are people just going to lambast NPR for its headlines without reading the part that comes after the headline? Why have articles at all anymore? We can just get our news from 20-character headlines.
Who knew that a comedian could end up being the voice of integrity and a symbol of strength? Oh yeah.... THIS guy.
This is all true, but we should be more upset about the defunding of PBS. Colbert will be fine and we will get to see him somewhere else, but if people don't sign up for PBS passport for $5 a month (in exchange for great content), we will lose a true cornerstone of democracy.
What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Might as well call the US the tulip bulb capitol of the world.
Why do you say they're reporting it as a good thing? They're pretty neutral.
I also think the actual claim in the NYT piece that people cut ties over politics because they think shunning will bring about a change in someone’s beliefs is *incredibly* overblown. Again, that’s how you see it if the actual effects of any person’s beliefs are abstract. It’s all strategy.
There's this looming star shining into my windows all day, every day, you know? Why can't anyone do something about this?
The Steve Miller Band has canceled its U.S. tour, citing extreme weather as a safety concern for fans and crew.
They didn't do anything about Israel murdering an American citizen last time so unlikely this will be any different: edition.cnn.com/2022/05/24/m...
A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month. -Credits: NASA
"My people are furious"?? Which people would that be? Nazis? Cheeseheads? Sociopathic grifters?
Every time this guy opens his mouth the case for taking as much money as possible from these billionaire freaks gets stronger
Evidence #592845: one can be a genius in one narrow field (e.g. developing a web browser in the 1990s) and a total evil idiot in everything else (e.g. basic understanding of a decent society works).
But what gives me the cognitive dissonance is — in what way does the world not revolve around his privilege anymore? If he just turned off Twitter, he could be living a perfect life with no suffering or interaction with displeasure at all. Billionaire. He’s not constrained in any meaningful way!!
Chesterton was right,the rich don’t hate being governed badly, they hate being governed at all.Andreessen isn’t oppressed: he’s just mad the world doesn’t revolve around his unchecked privilege anymore Watching billionaires paint themselves as victims while inciting backlash against the vulnerable🤮
Your people have been oppressive overlords to ALL OTHER people for ALL TIME but, sure, resent all other people from your throne of wealth and privilege by destroying all avenues for the rest of us to EARN positions your people think you are entitled to because you have white dicks. 5/6
Dear Marc Andreessen, When I was born in 1959, my people couldn’t get a credit card, bank account, car loan, or mortgage without permission from your people**. My people couldn’t divorce an abusive husband, or stop having children without your people’s (her husband’s) permission. 1/6
It's honestly blowing my mind that people have clung to this peevish bullshit for DECADES
I'm only a few years younger than him, also from the midwest & also attended a public university. Programs to support minority students were fairly new when I started college & what he's saying here really reflects what racist white students were saying about those programs 30 years ago.
Right? I always wonder about these assholes, "What trauma did you possibly experience in life to make you this way?" The answer, of course, is none. They're just fundamentally horrible people and always were.
“…and now they are going to pay the price”? Who the fuck talks like that? That is not the language of a well-adjusted, psychologically healthy person. Dude is a racist sociopath who shows that all the money in the world could not fill the void where his soul should be.
The only policy they care about is trying to crush the rising tide of people that are sick of billionaires controlling everything
We only rate dogs. This is a fruit bat waiting for a teensy bit of banana. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10
To me, it screams rage bait. It seems like it takes a pretty free hand with an interpretation of a Forbes article from January about the rebranding of a months-long sabbatical into micro-retirement. And by "pretty free hand," I mean wholesale genAI hallucination.
The person behind this shitty article is Kimanzi Constable. We should start to put the names of these writers.
Feels more like a corporate attack on the idea of PTO, by using Gen-Z as an excuse to shrink these pesky un-earned mini retirements. I am elder Gen-Z and have never been in a position to take a Vacation ever.
If we take 7-14 vacation days in a year, it will damage our career? We’ve gone completely insane.
why is everything so fucking weird
Doing a leave of absence (looking at Bluesky on my phone during a boring meeting)
taking a “sabbatical, jr.” (trip to the bathroom)
my fellow Americans, we are getting absolutely cooked in the quote posts. I translated one from Portuguese that said “1-2 weeks of vacation a year? and they still consider themselves a first-world country?”
Sadly, this appears to be real. It makes me need a cranial malaise escape pod (an Advil).
Does he know the 35 year olds staying home playing video games are his base?
I will keep saying it - the day the dems decided that calling them "weird" was detrimental to luring centrist voters was the day they lost. These people are deeply weird, horrible humans and should be constantly called out on that.
There were quite a lot of text adventures in the 80s. Some were fantasy. Some were mystery. Some were horror. Some were science fiction. But others, well... (Source.)
I don’t know that she’s stating that we’re all illegal so much as something even worse—no matter status, she just wants to see us all die. I know you know this, but for other people who aren’t following, Loomer is advocating ethnic cleansing.
That car is now worth $12,000 or approximately 3 dozen eggs.
well at least congress shot down the latest impeachment motion
That thing where you're about to post something snarky about a news item but them remember you actually don't know enough about it to do anything other than add noise, so you post a picture of your cat instead
Well, this is a curious artifact - this image was used to explain what a digital computer was to people who were used to human computers. (Source.)
Came across an obviously "AI"-made article of "Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels of 2025" where every one of the books doesn't actually exist, including one purported to be by me. The internet's filling up with slop, y'all. Here's a canonical list of my work, btw: whatever.scalzi.com/about/books-...
We must not forget that not only is the genocide a bipartisan horror but that the reason women are loosing their reproduction freedom is because Obama & the Democrats, who campaigned on codifying Roe vs Wade, ignored it as soon as they got elected. They had both chambers for two years.
This SCOTUS decision is yet another chapter in America's long history of governmental reproductive coercion rooted in white supremacy and patriarchy. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
For the sake of brevity, I'm referring here only to GenAI. There is a lot of useful and important work being done with other forms of AI that don't get any press because the public rarely interacts. GenAI is just the drunk racist uncle of the AI family.
Until very recently, in North America, anime films were released primarily to home video with very limited release to the specialty/art film market (if at all) so the genre's box office performance here is historically negligible. Anime is hugely artistically influential, obviously.
And the Being Normal olympics begin.
So why didn't they send this message to every Jewish person in the entire country when Elon gave not one but two Nazi salutes at the inauguration
For a Seuss parody, it's not very Seussian.
Not a bug. Even the name is dystopian.
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Some dev desperately needed a wellness check. Or like sleep.
www.npr.org/sections/sho... Truly, a random person from the phone book would be a better HHS Secretary than this maniac.
Hey! I have a new research paper out called "Yokomoji arerugī"! This study examines social beliefs about katakana among both Japanese natives and Japanese learners in the journal Japan Forum. And guess what, it's open access (you can read it FREE)! Check it out @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Even if you're a careful human driver, kids running out from behind/between cars is one of the scariest things that can happen, and it requires a high level of situational awareness. I cannot imagine turning over the avoidance of it to a system like this.
Accuse everyone of trying to do the thing you're already doing is sort of propaganda 101
There's Nothing Radical about the Progressive agenda!! Far left positions: -Everyone should be educated! -Everyone should have healthcare! -Everyone should be paid living wages! -Taxpayer dollars should not be used for foodstamps to feed the worker's families of record profit making companies!!
Yeah, the idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is mostly centrist gaslighting.