I've spent all my adult life in academia, and from my experience almost everything important is run by black women. They may have a white man boss, but everyone knows he doesn't actually DO anything.
Eh. I've got a lot of that gen-x pessimism that I'm trying to replace with optimism as I can. I like animals, books, plants, and kindness. He/Him. I suspect this account will largely be an old-man-yells-at-cloud space
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I've spent all my adult life in academia, and from my experience almost everything important is run by black women. They may have a white man boss, but everyone knows he doesn't actually DO anything.
I don't understand being so militantly stupid. Why be so angry about the existence of bread you don't like?
Naah. Reagan era Republicans would eat up Thatcher, but the modern MAGA is way too misogynistic for that.
Seen so many posts the past few days about how happy we will all be when it finally happens... I feel like I'm getting a bit too pumped up about what is essentially the same hope we've all had for a decade.
I love science fiction... But the concept of humanity surviving without Earth seems bizarre to me. We are a part of a giant system. Sending humanity to space is like cutting off your thumb and keeping the thumb on life support. What good is that?
Whenever some name or location that I'm unfamiliar with starss trending, I think: oh no, another mass casualty event. I'm always relieved when it is just sports instead.
Maybe if NYT had done its job of reporting the existential threat of this administration we wouldn't be here.
This is the correct take.
LLMs are such a demonstrable harm already, so I doubt it moves the needle much, but I hope it does. A machine that essentially always agrees with you is poison. And not just for people with mental health concerns.
Fair! I came in to, well-actually... But yeah. Fair.
I learned the phrase "Bitch eating crackers" from the If Books Could Kill podcast. It wonderfully captures my disgruntled feeling about some people that just annoy me without real cause. Like, FINE we can add a comma there. Jeez.
Like, I believe AI will get there one day, and that we will need to reexamine what we mean by sentience... But we're not close to that. LLMs are just predictive text. They are just clippy. I don't even think they are in the right direction for general AI.
What I can't decide is: does he actually think that or does he think it is politically expedient? Also, which is worse?
As a white guy I feel weird commenting on what people of color should or shouldn't do... But I absolutely cannot understand why a black man would participate in what seems pretty apparently to be a white nationalist movement.
Does it though?
It wouldn't be peaceful and pleasant sadly. A bunch of MAGAs would go on a killing spree and blow up buildings and people to oppose her radical leftist policies like... Forgiving student debt.
The thing with calling out things as distractions from other things is that is just how Trump operates. It is the same gish gallop he's always done. Nothing ever sticks because there's always a new something.
Seriously. I've heard like maybe two or three of those terms from Democratic candidates. The right just isn't honest about what Democrats say and do, so why do we give any space to discussing what they say that we say?!
Also, this is a "first they came for..." situation. If they are allowed to dictate language, they will move on to the next set of words - that is, next set of ideas - that they don't want in society.
I don't need 100% agreement with allies. I really hope he isn't the candidate ultimately, but I appreciate the way he antagonizes MAGA.
They are totally, 100% going to start using the pre-existing declined crime rate stats and claim that they did it.
He doesn't have much say about his ugly ass face, but dude CHOSE that ugly ass haircut.
If every little problem you mention to your boss becomes a future meeting and shows up on your annual review... You stop telling your boss the truth about what is going on.
Because all of the money that should go to infrastructure instead goes to already rich people.
I feel like the distasteful/funny ratio on the tailgate thing doesn't work for me... But I also don't think "we're better than that" can win anymore.
One of the many things I hate about AI is the bosses talking about how AI can save us money while never ever acknowledging that it means laying people off.
It'll be nice to finally go to a meeting again where my boss DOESN'T talk about AI.
Why the hell can't you schedule Power Automate Desktop scripts?
"Between the US goverment and the Canadian government" ... You mean between the US government and the concept of Canada being a sovereign nation.
The troughs terrified me as a kid. Not sure why exactly, but I'd walk out before using one of those.
Seriously: why do I have so many meetings?
They probably won't "overturn" it or "reconsider" it, they will instead gut it or undermine it such that it doesn't functionally exist anymore.
I think they actually do think that.
I haven't read Left Hand in like 20 years... Is there a problem with it? I don't recall.
I liked all three when I read them in the 80s and 90s, but some of Heinlein made me pretty uncomfortable even then. I don't really believe in "required reading" for enjoyment, but if there were a required author it would be Le Guin.
Others have said it here but too many aren't seeing it I guess: "ultra processed" is a meaningless scary phrase. It is an "I know it when I see it" absurdity with no actual definition. Stop using it or give it an actual definition.
Also the logical conclusion of the logic that makes AI make sense for them also makes most universities redundant.
I work in higher education, and it feels like every meeting has something about AI in it now. "How are you using AI?" "How can we save money using AI?" "We need to learn how to use AI so we won't be left behind." Etc. It is exhausting to keep making the case against AI, and be basically ignored.
I know the whackjobs like RFK Jr are against seed oils... I don't really need to know what their whackjob logic is to get there. None of their stuff is based on any actual science.
No, CNN, the WP, and the NYT would be doing that.
Almost feels like bait. Bush 100% stole an election, and he is at least somewhat responsible for 9/11 and he's 100% reaponsible for the Iraq war. Just because he is kinda comparably likeable and smart to the current guy doesn't mean squat.
I think most of the time, plot holes are introduced with bad editing.
I MIGHT have read worse from high school students.
She'll be put in charge of a human trafficing taskforce.
Feel like this image needs some workshopping. Maybe "slavery" or "slavers" instead?
The mainstream conservative position in a year or less is going to be that the US was on the wrong side of WWII, and the history that the Nazis were bad is liberal propaganda.
He was pretty pissy wbput Epstein stealing girls from him, but he seems OK with stealing everyone from Murdoch. Soon there won't be anyone left on Fox News.
I'm a straight white male in academia, and bro this shit is easy. As a white male, you basically just have to do the minimum and not be a huge asshole to get by.
It won't ever sink in. The only way these people turn against Trump is MAYBE if he dies in some really, really embarassing way. Even then they would probably blame it on Obama some how.
In what way? I haven't used a gascan in about 20 years... Have they gotten worse? Even if they have, hard to see why it is a president-level priority!
Reading a scifi book that has a character that lives in complete isolation and just makes little boats to fill the time at a rate of about 1 every 20 years. I'm envious.
Gross and fucking stupid. Why are the guys in the video storming some compound when the real ICE are grabbing people going to work and people picking up their kids?
I can believe they will succeed. They will first ramp up the rhetoric around illegal voting and then gradually move ahead from there. Their base will go for it no problem. The question is whether the media and the traditional conservatives and libertarians will go along. Doesn't look good.
I don't think it is embarassing. People are not familiar with this person's work and at a glance it looks pretty indistinguishable from the flood of AI slop that we have to wade through now.
I don't think that is what they were getting at at all. I think the comment is just that adult men friendships are becoming rarer, especially with married/family men.
The part highlighted is the only part that sounds feasible.
Huh. Interesting! Most of my directors have been women, and all of my supervisors have been too. I would have totally assumed that was broadly the case.
Did the same thing a few weeks ago.
I know like a thousand people have already said it, but it makes me a little nervous that the US government might just not let him back in!
Seriously... How do they not get this yet?! Leftists want to see Clinton burn too. He moved the Democratic party right on so many issues. I think mainline Democrats are at most ambivalent about Clinton at this point.
Eh. The SC will find a way to say one gerrymandering is fine and the other is bad. Doesn't mean it shouldn't happen though!
Couple of reasons probably: 1. The people who are willing to do the woest jobs for the least money are now afraid to go to work, and 2. The general decay of everything caused by the caustic short-term thinking of modern capitalism.
Wow, WTF. I guess the shift from "Release the Epstein list!" To "The Epstein list is a fake!" is working on some maga.
Eh. It'd be nice, but I think they are just trying to pivot so people will stop asking about Epstein.
You had me at incredibly painful.
It is almost always the third thing I do every morning: bathroom, start the coffee, check if he is dead yet.
He probably appeals to the same people Cuomo appeals to, you know, assholes.
I don't know any "hardened leftists" that are ashamed of being woke. We just stopped using that word because Republicans have poisoned it. Calling something woke is just embarassing. For THEM not for us.
On top of how this is all made up and wrong, he is always talking about serial killers and murderers in a fawning way. They are always "really great guys except they went a little far" or something.
Some people just like a lot of salt amd pepper! We usually have 3 salt shakers on the table for 4 people. ...and hypertension of course.
Ah, I am so happy that I've never had to navigate dating apps.
Funny, I assumed the genders the opposite way!
I can't help but think that the HH from Homeland's Heritage is intentionally put there to annoy people looking for their Nazi shit.
I watched this guy's standup special not knowing who he was. It was actually pretty funny, and then all of a sudden it was homophobic and hateful out of nowhere.
I think it is exactly that. You can even see a soap opera on TV in background often that mirrors the plot of the episode.
I wonder if their thinking is that when we air condition a place, it is moving the heat from inside to outside - which is true - but they are vastly overestimating how much heat that is.
Its a joke. He clearly didn't actually vote for Trump.
Always the opposition to the sinister "other": at the same time lazy parasitic vermin and evil masterminds.
How about how we had segregated high school proms in the 1990s?
Runs the shittiest trailer park in Florida
Yup. Anyone who hasn't learned that you can't "meet them halfway" with bad faith actors needs to not be in charge of anything.
Are you saying it is a goid song on a bad album or a bad song on a good album? I think its pretty good, and maybe the only memorable song on that album.
I wish my anxiety made more sense. Like, the hellscape isn't any more hellscape-y today than it was yesterday. Yet today I want to hide and cry.
Roberts and Alito - as shitty as they are - don't hold a candle to: No 9/11. No Iraq war.
What IS that thing that looks like an orange tabby in their right hand?
I hate ranting about the media... But the media just doesn't make anything stick to them. They will brazenly lie about something they said a week ago on video, and the media just repeats their lie.
I started taking a daily "activity log" for work to keep track of all the little things that I forget that I did... Looking back a year ago it could have been last week. Been going around the same circles forever.
It is less of a lasagna and more of a Smith Island cake.
The chicken in the anime... um.. is definitely a penis.
Seems very unlikely to me that conservatives leave MAGA for Musk. He might pull off some crypto bros, but that is about it.
Same. I grew up in the deep south, and I don't have sympathy for people who keep voting to make other people's lives worse and not noticing that their own lives are getting worse too.
I think they should only be goofy tacked-on things, not really part of the movie.
They would get "all this conversation and debate" also if they published an "Actually Hitler had some good ideas" piece too. Doesn't mean it isn't fucked to do so though.
...but the wolf IS still the problem. You've got a shitty sheepdog that you might want to retire, but the problem is still the problem.
Should be a circle... More of a human ouroboros.
Carpets are expensive.
Yes. Yes Democrats suck. But, why the fuck are you targeting the party that was shittily trying to stop this and not the party that is pushing this? Pissing and moaning about how much Democrats suck - which I'm not arguing with at all - just seems absurd in the face of this.
Can I use the phrase "concept of a plan" in a serious document?
Unfortunately, the Democrats seem to agree that the rules only apply to the Democrats.
A few problems with that: * "Next Democratic president" seems almost farfetched to me * Taking their funding doesn't take them off the streets immediately. Defunding isn't enough. * Democrats will worry about scaring off the "Centrists" and not follow through any way.