Running Double

i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this

Like... man, you've got to stop conflating Jewish people with the state of Israel! Israel *absolutely is* responsible for this war. As is the U.S. There's no question about it. If you actually cared about antisemitism (he doesn't), you should be working hard to separate the people and the country.

I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This kid wants to get out of detention in time for his school spelling bee. What the fuck are we doing.

need to watch this with my son so he’ll finally understand why I keep saying that various animals have “the firm handshake and glossy coat of a Yale man”

not the onion

Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words

If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.

This is really where shockingly uncritical tech advocates like Kevin Roose are being key-jangled by the tech companies.

You could do the same test for real vs fake rolexs on the general population, and similarly fail to acknowledge the power of the fake comes from copying the real

The men get cheap and ill-fitting dress shoes. The women get grotesque new faces.

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.

Of note is how this is a potent wedge issue between Trump voters and the administration’s favored donor class

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

one of my obsessions is that when the founders made the president "commander-in-chief" they pretty clearly meant that he was the operational commander of the military, not that he could unilaterally begin hostilities, but it hadn't really occurred to me that this was the mechanism behind the shift

a collage of three pictures of a woman with a red hood Alt: Kleya absolutely stomping through Coruscant

Me stomping to the bookstore

Pedocon Theory still undefeated after all these years

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

This is thorough and merciless and more applicable to American domestic affairs than you might expect. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:

🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano

✏️ by @newrepublic.com

Forged in dying stars is Sagan, I don't even have to look it up

Though he said forged in *the heart of* dying stars, which is better, more evocative and emotional, which absolutely illustrates the point

It plagiarises something then fucks it up, having no mechanism for assessing what makes it good

Which is why, @nytimes.com, learning that a piece of writing is AI changes how people feel about it, in the same way that most people are repulsed by learning a once-favoured artist is a rapist: because context is inherent to interpreting art, and the sole context of genAI is profound contempt.

Fear 1996 Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon

This headline reads like the elevator pitch to a remake the movie Fear.

You can have a high quality of life in a red state. As long as you have enough money to not need social services. Can leave the state if you need an abortion. Don't mind having to drive anywhere. Are straight, cis, and Christian. But other that, yeah. Red states are totally well run!

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.

romance in general has always been a huge load-bearing component of the publishing industry, just rarely acknowledged because books for women and girls aren't seen as serious

THIS good lord this

Pretending like we're stupid.

Everyone here knows Fox News lies to its viewers, but this is an example that not even the most diehard members of the cult can deny, and it's important to not brush it off.

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

If it is conscious you're a slave owner and murderer

This is the funniest thing to me. Like. Back in 2013 they beat the shit out of a guy who did the Seig Heil on stage at their show.