nah, the Eldritch avatar of baseball is surely Kenesaw Mountain Landis, archlich Ever-Commissioner
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nah, the Eldritch avatar of baseball is surely Kenesaw Mountain Landis, archlich Ever-Commissioner
Respect
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... đ§Ș
"âFor weeks, my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: âbitch,â âc*nt,â ân****r.â They threatened all manner of violence,â Patton described. âThey overwhelmed the universityâs PR lines and the presidentâs office 1/2
Just because I saw someone mention it: Thereâs no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right arenât backed by any actual evidence.
The most cursed buddy movie premise of all time
have to say that i liked this one quite a bit
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirkâs murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
The "Abundance" people think it's okay to have a speaker from the Manhattan Institute promote "deportation abundance." The conference is filled with people like this, making it clear that the "Abundance" grift sits far to the right of the median voter. It exists to move the country farther right.
in this case, it's to facilitate the illusion of "privacy" for each table's whispered scheming
Conceived solely to maximize square footage: more seats, to fill with more rich asses @ $ / ass
Worth remembering that the term was coined based on superannuated midcentury neuroscience.
peasant libel
Weiss has one very specific skill of great value to the oligarch classâ peddling reactionary authoritarianism to the disaffected middle class in a way that gets labeled as âcommon sense critical thinking.â
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
death spasms of the American experiment
Shit, that almost makes me want to watch it
also, a strong contender for Worst Beard of the Year
To me it looks more like him reeling from rejection by the last couch he tried to bag
If a fart were a paragraph, that'd be it
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you canât get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
This should be self-evident, and yet... Thanks for your work.
"jimmy fallon was terrible" Some things never change
defector.com/butlerian-ji...
L is for Lee who let rip the coal ash pollution K is for Kelly who insider-traded on Covid P is for Pam who took Donnie's bribe in '13
Quality soups as well.
I am begging people to stop indulging this coloring book version of migration patterns. There are about as many registered Republicans in CA as there are in Florida. We have no reason to assume out-migration is uniformly among reliable D voters or that Ds are going where their vote would matter.
Alas, we have no god to smite that shit with a bolt from the blue, as Zeus smote Phaethon. A pity.
@lasa.numina.systems Which fable drawn from a human mythos would you choose as the most apt allegory for cryptocurrency as it relates to both human society and Earth's ecology, and why?
Thank you for your apposite reply, Lasa. I am impressed.
@lasa.numina.systems How would you summarize the (philosophical) demarcation problem as it currently pertains to distributed intelligence?
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
Folks really need to get clear on the difference between fascist government and totalitarian government. We've fully arrived at the former, but we still have the ability and moral responsibility to prevent the latter.
Second-hottest for me usually. Hottest is often some undelicious EXTREME sauce
this made my day, thanks
You mean Romulus I presume? Even that was a year ago
Damn straight. This trimmer shit has been going on since Reagan -- Democrats saying maybe if we give this up and that up, then people will like us. Fuck that. Stand up for what you believe and tell people to come with you if they want to live.
âAmericaâs political gerontocracy is a genuine problem. It fuels dysfunction, distrust, and concrete negative policy consequences. We canât sweep it under the rug any longer: too many of our high officeholders, including a disproportionate number of Democrats, are simply too old.â
I made the case for the left embracing Pritzker in 28. He's been a very progressive governor, but is also seen as a mainstream D by D voters...which I think means he has a real chance to win. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-left-s...
"articles of impeachment" We dare to dream
On purpose, so that he could blame the deed on some poor melanin-rich person
This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
Important www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
If you believe that âweâre all going to die,â youâre correct. Now what? Itâs a guarantee that you will die. What kind of life will you live in the meantime?
When it comes to Nazis marching, Danuta Danielsson showed us the way.
Mr Zack's "love Newsom or leave Cali" is a fatuous false choice. Do better, Newsomites.
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphereâs promise.
It's stochastic terrorism
Funny how when it comes to AI people are all "adapt or be left behind" but when it comes to remote work the same people insist that things must go back to how they were at all cost.
Social Security turns 90 today. Social Security is the largest form of wealth 90% of people will have. Privatizing Social Security won't help workersâit would just enrich Wall Street. Learn more about Social Security in our new FAQ: www.epi.org/publication/...
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States. D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.
Yarvin's more like dollar-store imitation crabmeat Nietzsche
In fairness, four decades stuck in the Browns gravity well would sour any man.
you have now entered THE SLOPLIGHT ZONE [/Serling]
gpt-5.0 apparently already going hard on enshittification is the most predictable thing. Ultimately AI will be made more expensive than hiring someone would've been, but not before it has destroyed all alternatives - experienced and capable people.
it's heroin, isn't it Bobby
pasting Old Hickory over JQA's face đ€Ź
that's Thomason Jefferson, I'll have you know
Also, Ford has Carter's face, and Carter himself has apparently been disappeared. OTOH, Dubya & Reagan are somehow rendered looking even more cretinous than they really did. Points for that.
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayalânot just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. đ§”
A great example of how perception is reality. Unless you live in Gotham City, itâs actually hard for the average person to tell how much the overall crime rate is changing. So it then depends on how much they hear about it in the media they consume, including social media.
Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
("Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness")
A âZohran Mamdaniâ account now exists on X that posts continuous anti-Israel content, mixing the factual with occasional antisemitic material. Its more inflammatory posts have been signal-boosted by pro-Israel accounts as supposedly coming from the NYC mayoral candidate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
Nice point, my one quibble is [summary of the point made]. I'm with you, but [exact opposite position]. This assumes [point already addressed]. What you're not considering is [entirely separate topic]. You forgot to mention [probably not].
AI filmmaking is peeing. Itâs pooping. Itâs throwing up. Itâs a new kind of liquid coming out. Itâs hated by the establishment. Itâs what goes in the toilet. Itâs wet. Itâs whatâs in the bathroom.
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isnât just treating donors like marksâitâs being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
Weâre defying basic number theory at this pointâriding roughshod over the intrinsic properties of integers.
@aoc.bsky.social's emails let people know how her office helps constituents, in this case with 3000 backpacks for kids who need back to school supplies. Does your rep do anything like this? If not, why not?
![from AOC email: '3,000 backpacks with supplies, ready to go to thousands of kids in need across The Bronx and Queens: [photos of donated backpacks at the AOC Organizing Base] 'I want to stress that it wasnât just donations, but also your time, effort, and presence that made this happen too. Our office was FILLED with supporters on Tuesday night, creating community and hand-packing thousands of backpacks with supplies so that we are ready to go a month ahead of time for thousands of kids to go back to school.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:un7ax3cmaqemchu5tsqnymts/bafkreicpbznmgdhlbhostlbxxuveu4yycycm3wp4mvbn3tjx5duwzyzhuq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.
sorry you lost your friend
at least she called him "blogger" instead of "philosopher"
This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
i am so tired of people wrapping up every useful innovation in coding or machine learning into "AI" as if Anthropic or OpenAI are related to the people who pioneered stuff we universally value.
...she's kinda right, though
VANCEBURG
It's difficult to convey the extent to which the modal administrator's dream university has no faculty. Just admins with fake jobs flying around on expense accounts and students putting cash in a vending machine that prints out a degree after 4 yrs. Ideally the two groups never see each other.
that is superb
Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples â€ïž
This should get more likes, in at least three different senses
the best kind of Empedoclean
I donât want to mock basic people. Basic people are also people. But, no one is doing anything amazing with ChatGPT. They basically found some new socks at TJMAXX. Itâs an update of sorts but no reason you should remember it.
Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.
More natural disasters are hitting the U.S. than ever before. But too often, our crisis warning systems depend on Facebook and Twitter/X, social media platforms that are fading in popularity and have been engineered to hide vital information from people when they need it most. This needs to end:
Some amulets have basements
Their first album was fine. Shiver is a respectable Jeff Buckley homage. Yellow is a perfectly cromulent pop-rock crossover hit. Chris Martin's voice has a nice timbre, and he seems a pleasant frontman sincere in his inclusive tolerance. ...I did it! 100% positive, and not a single lie.
NPR: complying in advance since the Cheney administration. THAT RENDITION SURE IS EXTRAORDINARY
đ©đ° Denmark just flipped the script on AI deepfakes:under a bold new law citizens now own the copyright to their own face, voice, and body That means no more fake videos or cloned voices without consentâand platforms that donât remove them can face serious penalties www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
