www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g... It's a little weird when you recognize the names of judges as "I knew that guy in high school"
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www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g... It's a little weird when you recognize the names of judges as "I knew that guy in high school"
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most
Finally figured out my band name Constance and the Variables
I’m going to quote tweet Jarrett’s column the whole way to Boston today, but I want to start with these very basic stats. “The five southeastern counties are home to about 32% of PA residents, and contribute around 40% of the state’s tax dollars” thephiladelphiacitizen.org/southeastern...
On my son's first day in college English, the professor talked up the advantages of AI compositions. He then asked the students to write a short essay on what they were most excited about and least excited by in the class. My son's response outlined why he had no interest in using AI to write.
Kimes/Isola is my favorite PTI duo at this point
I’ve spent all season analyzing why @gamechangershow.bsky.social is the best of the best, and it shouldn’t be a surprise that talking to @samreich.bsky.social about it made everything click into place. My latest feature for @slashfilm.bsky.social. www.slashfilm.com/1937119/best...
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Hey I found some waste/fraud/abuse
There is one fall item that I am perfectly okay with arriving early: cinnamon pine cones and/or brooms in supermarket vestibules
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
Hi This is insane
it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season
Wife and I at Barrel and Flow bottle share for the olde anniversarye
How tf is this even a real headline
There's one key difference between AI and guns: Guns work. (What they call "AI" right now is a puppet show powered by spicy autocomplete, delivering sentences and paragraphs instead of single words. That's all it is!)
JBC made its first TikTok this week. I got in the app and tried to understand it, but there's no button for "this video is boring af" :(
Do people not remember the exact same motherfuckers saying the exact same things about NFTs?
LOL, the kicker on this story about OpenAI's $500 billion valuation. It remains beyond human capability to create an LLM that doesn't constantly bullshit answers, misattributing and fabricating sources. It's inherent to the technology. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The reason so many people who went to a four year college with a live on campus structure think fondly of their experience is because they lived in a walkable community with easy access to their friends in an environment that intentionally fostered human connection
It’s a golden age for Cassandras.
As virtually everyone else has now said, the jobs data going forward will be more or less meaningless
Evergreen skeet, applicable in most every circumstance
If there were any further proof needed that Republicans were unfit to govern an Arby's much less a nation, they provided quite the specimen here
Every major sporting event, from the smallest little league to the 2028 Olympics, needs to be making plans to host their events outside the United States while Trumpism remains
Live your political life such that Wu-Tang offers you a ticket to their show
I'm trying to get used to @janedouglas.bsky.social having hair over both shoulders in the latest Outside Xtra video To be clear, not complaining, but it's reminding me that basically every other video has hair over one shoulder
Cement mixer spits out fridge magnet haiku. Experts ask: can it run a hospital?
Thank goodness they showed those Democrats what-for and everything isn't the exact opposite of everything they say they want
Over here in Huntingdon we have a thousand of them pabucketlist.com/hiking-the-1... And people flock from all over because they didn't read your book yet
It's remarkable that the Biden administration spent money on rural red areas, which then voted enthusiastically for Trump, who has now repeatedly made moves to screw over those exact same areas.
But have you considered how AI can make the conversation even more insufferable
Last night, House Republicans on the Rules Committee blocked a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Do not expect to see coverage of this on Fox News.
criticism is not some opposing team. art and critique are the same thing, because creation is inherently a review of reality, and critique is a valid form of creation. WE ARE ALL WORKING THROUGH THE SAME GIANT PERFORMANCE TOGETHER and it is so much more beautiful by everyone having a say
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Your two scenarios: Grok is lying, and a switch was in fact flipped to make the switch from "slightly helpful" to "neonazi" Grok is telling the truth, and has been a neonazi from the start Both have creator intent, both land at the same place, neither is at all absolving
This thread does a lot to encapsulate some of my feelings on generative AI and I'm grateful @gregpak.net wrote it.
Thanks jibjab hot dog.
If I had 10,000 spoons when all I needed was a knife, I feel like I could still do quite a lot. Like I could start a spoon business, and then maybe buy a knife or two
We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow
Big win for the close the hospitals, open the camps caucus today.
Late to it but this Hanif Abdurraqib @newyorker.com piece on wrestling with despair and finding a way forward stopped me in my tracks. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
Called Rep. John Joyce's office today. JBC was read into the Congressional Record as a COVID survival story. This bill up for vote will end us (and other small businesses). Maybe not instantly, but pretty certainly. It's wild that we survived a natural disaster but won't survive Republicans.
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
The latest @gamechangershow.bsky.social from @dropout.tv was a goddamn DELIGHT
A centrist approach between "everyone should have clean drinking water" and "let's poison at the water" is not "let's poison like half the water" or "let's only use a poison that makes people sick but not kill them" The centrist should kick the poisoners in the crotch and send them out to sea
Goddamn AI is just the dumbest thing we've invested trillions into Going to space at least got us Tang
There's a whole lot riding on the (probably correct) theory that Democrats Won't Be Assholes Like That
Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.
Throw off the chains of party hegemony Declare introvert parties.
This is incredibly funny but, also, I hope everyone who is pro AI or a teacher that allows AI can see clear as day that the ultimate goal is to put the thumb on the scale of all of this shit. That's why they're forcing it on us. It's a joke.
SO DARK, @smbccomics.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/slam
#Resist version If you think Pride sends children the wrong message, how about cutting kids off food stamps and using the millions to throw a parade for a rapist.
Anyone who thinks writing a resume is too hard can just jump into volcano at this point
If the Padilla thing is normal in your America, you done lost the plot. Shame on you.
*sooner, of course
Reason eleventysix to just toss generative AI into a dumpster some rather than later
There are now just 6 days left before the final, final deadline for an independent, or a Dem, to enter the race against the GOP sheriffs in Virginia's two largest cities — a matter with heightened stakes given the ties sheriffs & ICE: boltsmag.org/sheriff-elec...
just heard that BRIAN WILSON has left this timeline and dang it hits hard. there are so many thoughts trotting through my mind, but id like to take a moment to talk about my personal connection to this and what brian wilsons music meant to me, so bear with me buckaroos.
While I appreciate this advice as a non-lawyer, I feel like there are apparently a few outstanding actual lawyers who currently need to see that advice more than I do. :P
This is a thread of nominally-unconnected people I follow laying into Mark Cuban for having a ridiculous take and I am here for it
It definitely smacks of bullshit. :( If we can figure out how to protect fragile folks from instinctively recoiling at the thought of "City of [Whatever]" being a danger that only authoritarian fascism can solve, we'll win every election forever
@lonesometoast.bsky.social you folks hanging in there through this? :(
Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.
NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com
Dear God no ... I have to work up the effort to actually make the damn thing still. Making MANY seems like madness
bsky.app/profile/juli... Everything people screamed would happen is happening. That's not simple ignorance; that's a willful blindfold.
Hey @johnrogers.bsky.social is there already a "Radicalized by Leverage" t-shirt or are you cool if I make my own?
If we grant that it's acceptable for me to demonstrate an ignorance about Trump's rhetoric and campaign promises that that would have required an effort to maintain, certainly we must also grant it acceptable for you to wonder why I undertook that effort, and be suspicious of my stated motives.
This the part where I tell you that leverage is like 24% responsible for me becoming radicalized
Guys, is honoring contracts "woke" now?
It sounds stupid and I'm not sure why I'm telling you this but it was like a real turning point in my vision of the world. You could never possibly be an independent agent against the world you inhabited. It would impose. And it would win. Everything about your life depends on the society you foster
Everyone that orders beer at a brewery is my favorite person
I believe that if you have never seen a modern hard disk drive work with the cover off, you do not understand how fucked we are in apocalypse. This SHOULD NOT WORK. Period. It moves FASTER THAN YOUR EYE. To within MICROMETERS. You just do not fucking get it. Videos cannot approach showing this.
Of course I meant cool and not cook stupid technology
Ahhhh 5p close! Sadly I'm quite uncertain I can pull that off Maybe I'll make my in-laws go.get something later this week
@chuckwendig.bsky.social which bookstore do I hit for your cook signed stuff? I'm in Chalfont for a graduation party and I thought I was close to something or other here.
A presidential historian like @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social saying this gives me a measure of hope, but not enough to pull me out of the nosedive of the last decade
Illusion of reality shattered
Suits LA get cancelled because it's unrealistic for a dude to walk away when Victoria Justice is throwing herself at him
Absolutely cooked.
Is our metric "boy that sucks and is too damn viable to ignore" Some suck more, but are pretty bananapants
Ow
My downhill slide was "Playmates are all reliably older than I am now" quite some time ago
Should we be worried about Gavin being in there three times?
I definitely hurt some feelings this week when I went on a small public tirade (as in the audience was small, the tirade was not) about a similar reliance on "AI" for job duties and someone's belief that it was telling them the truth
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
I hit like because there's no sadness/commiseration option
I'm going to go with the agent. The other two you can write off to competition; an agent rejection is much closer to a rejection of you personally What do I win
This Christmas, your children will have 93% fewer gifts under the tree (by their own math!) due to the policies of this administration.
President Lucille Bluth is not as funny in real life
"No one really knows why the Crackening happened. But most people you run into will say Dahl caused it -- extracting minerals or something, I dunno. I guess stories don't have to be true to be believed -- they just have to be told. And I tell that one a lot."
And (as a subsequent reply noted) the Homeland Security Secretary had her purse stolen Which way leads to the exit from the Upside Down
The economy SHRANK in the first quarter. Down from 2.4% growth in q4 to -0.3 in q1. Trump has officially cratered the strongest economy in the world in just a few months.
I would happily do this if not for the need to cushion your business against an incompetent administration that might just put them back in place if Peter Navarro happened to be the last person to whisper in Trump's ear today
I kinda feel like the burden of proof isn't on me to show that a human creation has feelings. If you want me to believe, lay out your case. "We simply don't know for certain" is not a compelling argument here, in the same way it lacks sufficient oomph for the existence of God.
I also honestly have no real idea if my dining room table has subjective experience, but I'm more than willing to play the odds on both LLMs and the furniture, especially in relation to actual people