Which is one of the more Khmer Rouge-like things about them, out of an unsettling quantity - thank God they're somehow even less competent than the notably incompetent Khmer Rouge were.
The Project 2025 idiots 110% thought they'd be able to force all those uppity USAID staffers and cancer researchers to work in the fields and in slaughterhouses.
That should do it
Has anyone ever so succinctly captured why grading/giving feedback is hard
"Simply be Dumas, skill issue" is perhaps not useful writing advice however
To give a little side-craft lesson about what I mean here when I say 'clunky writing'—let's say this is your *goal*, to write a space-wizard-action serial for kids (& kids-at-heart) with real political depth (for the genre). This is a subtle and interesting and worthy task! So: how?
Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other
The nazis are entering the straightforward phase.
Obligatory meme.
It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
Philippa Foot: I invented the Trolley Problem to expose the flaws of consequentialism.
Our entire society: Finally we have created the Trolley Problem from classic philosophical work Do Not Create The Trolley Prob—
*out-of-control trolley ploughs through the group, mercifully ending the debate*
*they think the system treats everyone the same
in my experience it's actually rich people who fail to understand how complicated and expensive it is to be poor because the system treats everyone the same bsky.app/profile/atru...
NEW: Today, Sen. Blumenthal introduced the Prediction Markets Security and Integrity Act of 2026, which would enact rules on insider trading/market manipulation, ban bets on war/death/military action, reverse CFTC attempts to preempt state gambling regulation, among other provisions.
For the record, Leading Jewish Group JFREJ is very much in favor of Mayor Mamdani hosting Mahmoud Khalil and his family for Iftar.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
For those keeping score at home:
I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.
To be continued...
good evening
And a Happy Birthday to Douglas Adams (teenage me's favourite author). He would have turned 74 today.
One of my favourite literary put-downs is from Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Zaphod Beeblebrox, who often reacts in erratic ways, claims to be “pretty dangerous when I'm cornered,” to which Ford Prefect responds “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
WONG: Trump has said he won't sign anything until the SAVE America Act is sent to his desk. Is this the end of legislation for this cycle?
MIKE JOHNSON: No, it's not. As you know, if legislation is sent to the president's desk and he didn't sign it for 10 days it would become law automatically
If you're a writing professional who'd rather *not* have random AI-generated articles attributed to you without your knowledge or approval, here's the opt-out email:
expertoptout@superhuman.com
It's insufficient and tacky af, but it's a start. Go ye thereforth, etc. etc. etc.
Isn’t it funny how every headline isn’t about how unaffordable ground chuck is the way we had to hear about eggs every single day?
Hm. What could be the difference?
do not like this timeline one tiny little bit
Tyrants are invincible until they suddenly and extremely aren’t, for evidence of my claim may I refer you to literally all of human history
Hey I have a great idea, maybe we could not do the Nazis’ work for them, I think that would probably be a good thing to avoid
It’s also literally buying into fascist narratives, can we please not do that
