*jumps in a mud pit, flails about, sinks up to my neck*
Q: Why did you do that?
A: Obviously the goal of my jump-in-the-mud-pit mission is to get out of this mud pit. How dare you even ask me that?
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A while back we were joking here about how a little over a year ago, some economist must've looked at a monkey's paw and said "I wish regular people appreciated textbook economics more."
Israel attacking Turkiyë and forcing a showdown over article 5 is a situation made in a lab to drive the Reasonable Thinker caucus into Lovecraftian madness
I find the 'how many weeks will the war go?' questions odd.
The war is going to continue until Iran no longer has the capacity to block shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz or chooses to stop doing so.
Given the economic impact of strait closure, it really cannot end before that.
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.
What stage of the apocalypse is this?
polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.
Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.
Danish Defense Minister: Continue.
One thing the current AI era has convinced me of is that any AI alignment plan that contains the idea of "let's not do X" is just bound to fail. It will be done for lolz or military advantage, or possibly both. If there's any single DO NOT DO between AGI and Apocalypse we are toast.
Text reads: You will be voting on all 30 delegates to be elected. Our delegate selection plan requires that the difference between the number of Male delegates you vote for and the number of Female delegates you vote for is not more than one. Since your district has exactly one Gender Non-Binary candidate, this means you must select either: • 15 Male candidates, 14 Female candidates, and the Gender Non-Binary candidate, • 14 Male candidates, 15 Female candidates, and the Gender Non-Binary candidate, or • 15 Male candidates and 15 Female candidates.
Just cast my ballot in the election of delegates to the state Democratic convention. I explained this rule to my 13 yo kid and why I had to switch 3 of my votes from women to men to meet it, and she said, “I mean, I guess, bro.”
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
Sure would be nice if there were any kind of major movement just to straightforwardly limit executive power, rather than to push to use it in a particular way once we have it.
A lot of historical authoritarian regimes ultimately foundered because there are upper limits to how much brutality human enforcers are willing to carry out on a broad civilian resistance that includes their family and old classmates. An AI controlled drone is never going to refuse an illegal order.
Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster Why then did you take down the “Einstein” chatbot? 1:22 AM · Feb 26, 2026 · 67 Views Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 16h Cease and desist Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster · 15h Really? Presumably from Canvas/Instructure, right? Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 7h Due to the name Einstein
In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website.
He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.
Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.
“We’ve invented a service that will do every substantial piece of human activity so you can focus on being slowly lowered feet-first into an industrial shredder”
It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power.
That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.
For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed.
You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.
what even is the fucking point
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
Why attack Iran now?
What’s the US goal? Regime change? Damage? Coerced agreement?
How will the US achieve it by force?
With what follow through? How will any achievement last? What will others in the region do?
I’ve never seen so few answers to those ahead of potentially launching major combat.
“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.
this is a good thread but skipped one of the craziest effects of the rice controls — the near destruction of korean artisanal liquor, and replacement in the market with green bottle soju which is grain alcohol with sweetener. it's cheaper and higher proof. korean alcoholism was never the same
rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵
Sincere question: why would anyone treat a degree from these institutions as having value after this? How is one able to claim expertise in sociology when they are unable to even identify - say - an association between sexism and unequal outcomes? Is "sexism has no social impact" an A-grade paper?
BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.
Sure feels like the 'AOC is a foreign policy lightweight' would be a more interesting argument if every president since George H.W. Bush hadn't also been a foreign policy lightweight when not actively a Dunning-Kruger disaster.
