I am aware that many people in prison would prefer to go outside and work for a nickel an hour instead of rotting in a box all day but that doesn’t mean the working for a nickel should be applauded it means the rotting in a box should be eliminated.
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I am aware that many people in prison would prefer to go outside and work for a nickel an hour instead of rotting in a box all day but that doesn’t mean the working for a nickel should be applauded it means the rotting in a box should be eliminated.
Israelites/Jews/Israelis have been trying to mass murder their way to peace and security in the holy land for like 3.5 millennia at this point; for a people so dedicated to learning about our history and values you’d think we’d figure out at some point how incredibly stupid that is
truly embarrassing that he hasn't been disbarred for like 3 different reasons already. state bars have completely failed.
Additional creative elements added to LLM output should probably be copyrightable. But also: nobody gets paid until the creators whose works were stolen do.
who knows how it will go but how it *should* go is: 1) LLM co's have rights to underlying code. 2) LLM output is not creative, not speech, & cannot be owned nor have any copyright interest; but, 3) a person/company can adopt the output & assume responsibility for the contents (like a pseudo-WFH)
“Nobody cares” says the schmuck with 200 followers to the account with a quarter million followers
You are brave and cool and your moral strength and clarity are a beacon I hope many many people learn to follow. Thank you. 🙏🏻
clicked thru and lost it *immediately* at “these two things are intertwined” 😂
Ultimately I don’t think it’ll matter but I think this is probably right and it really makes me wonder what’s in the Epstein file. Like it must be something he thinks is so bad that even he — the most morally bankrupt man ever — can’t bear to face it and I just can’t even imagine what that could be
many (most?) Jews reject the (predominantly xtian) idea of "God" as a bearded dude in the clouds. but all Jews innately understand/believe in a sort of interconnectedness (often attributed to or identified with "God") and many practice certain traditions/rituals to unpack and celebrate that.
b-b-but muh strong republican daddy I mean party
Death Limo for Cutie #increaseaband
Jimmy Eat Galaxy #increaseaband
Baruch hashem
I understand your underlying point and you’re not wrong! But this is absolutely socialism and you lose credibility by pretending otherwise.
imo this was always basically the only logical outcome of DHS
a lot of people seem to conceptualize what happened to Twitter as “they stopped censoring the Nazis” but what actually happened is they rebuilt it to create Nazis
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Probably had chatgpt summarize it for him
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first: Bernie wasn’t the nom. but even if he was: the US federal govt is a fascist oligarchy masquerading as a republic and has been for living memory. so even pols like him who seem like they have “good” politics are still materially contributing to and giving cover for fascist oligarchism.
lol
the tie that’s keeping his head attached seems to be absorbing a lot of blood…
sorry for reskeeting robert reich but this helped my heart
Ursula Le Guin: “The shift from denial of injustice to recognition of injustice can’t be unmade.... Once you see the injustice, you can never again in good faith deny the oppression and defend the oppressor. What was loyalty is now betrayal. From now on, if you don’t resist, you collude.”
if the gen x lib crowd gets ahold of this skeet it will bring facebook to its knees
actually honest reporting would account for this. apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
gotta be a bot right? theres no way a real human being thinks like this right??
Yes, and what do *we* mean when *we* say “we’ve never been so polarized,” anyway? What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since the reality of injustice has been made so unavoidably present to otherwise comfortable people”? www.the-reframe.com/polarization...
Golly gee wilikers
I’d respectfully disagree w u on the nuances of some of that, but overall an eminently reasonable opinion that’s absolutely consistent with currently existing evidence
Add alliteration to this already awesome accumulation of accurate assessments
Add alliteration to this already awesome accumulation of accurate assessments
your POV is extremely reasonable! and idk what “the left” or “crypto 2” mean exactly but AI’s reach absolutely exceeds its grasp, and I think rather than accepting that reality you seem to be justifying it for less than logical reasons
“the technology is unimpressive number crunching that has no value and never can” AI “proponents” out here delivering the most accurate and devastating anti-AI arguments possible
“the technology is unimpressive number crunching that has no value and never can”
Slava Ukraini
I muted “Laura loomer” and it’s the freest and best I’ve ever felt
Democratically elected head of States are mirrors of society.
Human Torch is an uncle to mutants I guess…??
probably a margarita *and* a beer
(Also for the record I am *decidedly* not a leftist lol)
Listen you’re not wrong. But actions speak louder than words and some snooty elites impotently saying “hey no that’s not right” doesn’t make your life or anyone else’s better. Look at what they’re *actually* *doing*. I’ll give you a hint: it is fuckall (at best) and has been for living memory.
“comparable levels of evil” is frankly a dumb concept. you can’t measure evil in miles or milliliters or scoville units. bottom line: the Democrats’ role/net effect is to be Republicans’ bumbling sidekick. u can say that makes them “less” evil if that makes u feel better. still evil though.
point to me the place where i said the two parties are the same
a firetruck visited my daughter's preschool and named her an honorary firefighter, where's *her* write-up, @nytimes.com HMMM???
i don't know why it's so hard to understand: voting for the lesser of two evils is *still voting for evil*. it is *not reasonable* to blame or malign people for withholding support from evil.
nepo hires about to *explode* if orgs have to start handing out makework jobs to managers' whole polycules
certain laws still (kinda sorta) work, sure. but any "gains" made by acting categorically like the law still matters are illusory. it is of paramount importance to act in accordance with reality.
oh no they closed it u can’t poop anymore
Chicago Jews turning out (that’s the excellent Rabbi Allan Kensky speaking)
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Bizarre if agent/lawyer didn’t negotiate sequel/prequel/adaptation rights into her original contract. Also agencies should be constantly in touch w studios and tracking projects; either somehow they had no idea their client’s project was being adapted (bad) or they knew or didn’t tell her (horrible)
oh my goodness this good boy
Mister Rogers never misses
obviously bad faith bullshit on the studio’s part but also sheer schmuckery by her agent(s)/attorney
He’s like an experiment grown in a lab
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it's not a question of where he grips it!
a 5 ounce bird cannot carry a one-pound coconut!
Like my essay answers the first time I took the bar exam that made me realize I had to go get my ADHD diagnosed
This is why I follow you, otherwise I’d have no idea how to be Normal
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Maureen Dowd rn
Hopefully.
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If you are a Jew, you believe in Tikkun Olam -- healing the world. It is *not* *reasonable* to look at the state of israel's actions in/toward Gaza and Palestinians and think: "this is healing the world." It *is* *not* *reasonable*.
I strongly encourage you to interrogate your own biases.
“I was just maximizing shareholder value!” will be our culture’s “I was just following orders!”
wow Mike how dare u slightly exaggerate something for comedic effect and to make a point, did u not consider me, the most literal man on earth before skeeting this? maybe u should next time???
basically my whole schtick is agreeing with ppl in ways that make them want to k*ll me
I think that’s probably right but imo the available evidence *does* leave open the possibility of him being a closet case
Could be one of those situations where she’s into him and he’s like “nooo I couldn’t possibly bc ur, uh, immortal” and she’s like “k how bout now?” and he’s like “…no sorry I’m too ~tortured~”
The reason white people need to defend themselves this way is: there is no other way to defend themselves.
mazel tov on the baby leon 🥳
The legal system as a whole has — in many, *many* cases — made “acting unreasonably” tantamount to “acting reasonably.” And that, imho, is why we are where we are today.
One of the hardest parts about lawyering is not being able to count on a Court to act reasonably.
hey thats not fair!!! (sometimes it is the gif of the deer eating popcorn)
i don't think that's quite right; it's never been a secret that Trump's personal values are totally incongruent w/ what Trumpists purport to care about. imo the difference-maker now is Trumpists are getting this info [from sources/in ways] that they are actually able to understand and digest.
ok I decided to actually read up a bit on the Epstein case and my initial takeaway is that a great way to protect women and children from sexual predation would be to prosecute white collar crime
if we could get the files describing the military’s and intelligence agencies’ fuckery with the entertainment industry that would be *fantastic*
(white) Americans started to understand that “foreseeability” was a factor in the “reasonable person” standard and collectively decided they would never think more than 0.7 seconds into the future
this is a good illustration of what “compromise” on trans rights looks like. there’s no “everyone gets rights but we take it easy on the pronouns.” if you head down that road you will end up denying that trans people are real.
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Courtney FREAKING Williams yo
fomo like a mofo
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