hence therefore

yeah wait have we taken the sign down out of the window or have we put it back up again guys

see, it makes sense to use Claude - a cluster of interacting large language models - for something like this because - as everyone knows - all truths like "is this school full of children a danger to israel?" are contained solely in the record of human expression and not in the world itself

I feel like one of the key strategic benefits of AI warfare from an American general’s point of view is if they ever end up in the dock at the Hague they can just say the vapourisation of an entire school full of children was a technical mishap and not any kind of conscious choice on their behalf

I think this is one of the things that makes me most sad about the defeat of Corbynism, because at its peak it did bring together a whole bunch of people and orgs that had been thinking seriously about what 21st-century democratic socialism could look like. Even if it was half by accident...

I have the impression this is more or less happening now (in its early stages)

Best sign yet at the Melbourne protest against the visit of the war criminal Isaac Herzog, president of Israel:

every day i have to go and work with people who don't think this kind of macroeconomist is the very definition of evil

story + very Born Sandy Devotional aerial photo combo is making me believe this is a Triffids song come to life

how's this fuckin headline that manages to suggest that the rally participants (not the police) ejected the nazis, instead of cheering them

Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

All of this and not a single cent of funding towards community based deradicalisation programs, support groups for families of radicalised people, harm reduction, anti-racist and respectful relationships programs in schools etc. State oppression is apparently the only answer.

what if they wedge too far? I keep looking over at the UK though and thinking it would be very bad if we ended up in a similar situation (trad right-wing party replaced by more overtly racist/fash party; overtly racist/fash party essentially dictating policy to sclerotic & timid labor party)

wait why is Marcus Whale smoking a cigar

Jin, Jîyan, Azadî

it's crazy that this planet is a beautiful jewel with nearly infinite wonders to be discovered, and somehow people invented a system to make living here a complete hell.

ayyyy I've been to this one - this is the view

those pricks set up in an airbnb two blocks from my apartment. i feel sick

There would be less than ten thousand people Australia wide that have a legitimate business reason to keep a firearm in their home. The vast majority of people who need firearms for work would access them through a managed armoury.

Why do we have 4 million registered firearms in Australia?

If you’re online tonight to comment and do anything but express empathy and solidarity to Australia’s Jewish community you need to log off forever and think about your choices.

I'm not sure what exactly is being measured here, given LLM stuff is being inserted into every digital service used by anyone

“but my car needs petrol until alternatives are possible for me” is a strong argument

“but we need the machine that tells children how to kill themselves” is… not

“your house burned down so we could increase B2B SaaS productivity” will get you knocked out, as it should

"Thousands gather in Newcastle Harbour as Rising Tide flotilla blocks coal exports" #RisingTide 👇🏽

www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

I feel like Richard Seymour has written some good stuff about this

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

Renewables are the future

ha, not quite