Darcy James Argue

absolutely dying to investigate this piano purchase

Kat Abugazaleh is capping off her primary run with a guest appearance on Behind The Bastards about incel culture and, you know what? Yes. Let’s do this. Let’s get Brad Lander on for a two-parter on Andrew Cuomo. Let’s get Summer Lee on to talk about Linda MacMahon. Let’s fucking GO.

A lot of people have said to me "there's so much crazy stuff in the Epstein files that turned out to be true, why shouldn't I believe [whatever unfounded thing would make me feel good." Because you are giving away your power if you do that.

Surely the President’s task force on antisemitism will be looking into this pronto to figure out how this could have happened.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

Do the pinheads who wrote this article think that there should be a comma after "As well"?

"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

In the 60s it was “suppose they gave a war and nobody came.” Now it’s “suppose we did a war and then said that we didn’t do a war and also we already won the war and we beat you shut up”

Trump: "No other president can do some of this shit I'm doing"

Not to mention that it turns out that one of the world's richest and most influential men spends an ungodly amount of time talking to, essentially, hallucinations. Not "hallucinations" in the AI sense; literally "hallucinations" in "the apparent perception of something not present" sense.

Democrats should try to solve actual problems in society rather than jumping on the Grover Norquest-lite slop train

I truly do not think the people who spend 25% of their “information consumption” interacting with chatbots understand how absolutely bugfuck insane that sounds.

Imagine being able to read X, The Everything App and thinking it made you smarter

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

I should note that @adamneely.bsky.social also makes this analogy in his Suno video essay.)

Arguing that solution to the problem of working class access to music is Suno and not, say, properly funding public school music programs is the same argument the technoligarchs always make for private sector solutions to problems that really need public sector investment. (E.g., hyperloop vs rail.)

Also you owe me and everyone who saw this an apology for putting this psychic damage into our feed

My feeling is that it's flipped, and it's Suno proponents who think music production isn't for working class people. The implication is that working class people aren't capable of learning music production on their own, so they have to rely on genAI tools to do it for them

So: on the morning of Jan 15, my top boss called. Because I write a lot of obituaries, I answered "Who's dead?" Turns out it was my magazine career! "Today we're going to be making an announcement that people across the the company are being laid off," he said. "Unfortunately, you're one of them."

Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would

>mfw the dudebros that got Trump elected will be the ones drafted

Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet set the opera and ballet worlds abuzz recently when, in an interview for Variety and CNN, he insinuated that "no one cares" about the art forms. The actor—whose grandmother, mother, and sister were ballerinas—is currently nominated for his performance in Marty Supreme.

hmm

I am the Timothee Chalamet of not giving a shit about whether college sports fail

Only way out of this debacle is Timothée Chalamet remaking Black Swan

Stephan Geering ‪@stephangeering.bsky.social‬ Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

You see, the thing is that a number of very smart people have written a lot of very good books on this exact topic.

For those genuinely interested in this question in good faith (which I am not certain is true of the OP), you could start here:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

It would mean that every single person who works at an AI company, and supports them, were amongst the most monstrous individuals the human race has ever produced.

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

8/8 The fact that Platner is obviously a guy who has a Nazi-adjacent past--tattoos, Blackwater, history of racism--and is now running as a leftist is a BONUS for these guys. To them, it's not a red flag, it's proof of concept. They can't tell you that, though, because they know how that sounds.

7/x And ultimately, all of this is because the idea of a multiracial working class united by class consciousness is a religious viewpoint held by a lot of leftists as deeply as evangelicals hold apocalyptic millenarianism. It's like critiquing what an evangelical views as a sign of the second coming