"It's not fair."
14.03.2026 23:52
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"It's not fair."
About half the time when cis men talk about changing/fixing the world, there's a silent, implied "...with my penis" at the end. "We need to deal with the Birth Rate Problem - with my penis!" "I want to protect and support women with my penis!"
It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".
Altman's "intelligence as a metered service" captures the AI moment well—it's an attempt at the formal subsumption of ever-finer microrealms of human labour embedded within capitalist production. You already have an underpaid email job but what if you also had to pay the machine to write your emails
Trump's health is obviously deteriorating and his appearance along with it.
That's a tantalizingly easy visual metaphor to latch on to.
But at time of weaponized eugenics I really wish folks who otherwise claim liberatory values would know not to reinforce the equation of health with character.
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I recommend #ShareGoodNewsToo for a break from The Horrors.
There *are* things the make me hopeful about the future. They just get lost in the piles and piles of Doom.
Two ogres block the player’s access to the gender-changing coffin.
this really is what it’s like
Don’t let anybody who doesn’t love decay paint you flowers, don’t trust them they’re liars
Mine came from the Wild Cards books and William Gibson's Count Zero. In the 2000s I attended a "real and authentic" ritual at a pagan event, where everyone including the "priests" were white. So glad we have better language to talk about it now. "No, it's a Closed Practice, not for you" helps.
This is horrifying
Ms Rachel has shifted from advocating for children killed by bombs that our taxes pay for, to advocating for children that our government is imprisoning without cause, which our taxes also pay for.
This isn’t what a kid’s entertainer should feel the need to do, but since we’re here, more ppl should.
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
somehow this is the exact guy you would figure to have lost old doctor who eps
yeah, it's wild - never caught it as a kid bc i was watching on a tiny tv in fullscreen but the Goblin King Sarah imagines is a pastiche of a Bowie-esque "real" matinee idol she is obsessed with, who her mom apparently fucked.
In the last scene she is in the middle of taking down his clippings.
So if using AI actually does erode human cognition the way studies suggest, then it's a feature instead of a bug?
The world is gross enough without "take away people's ability to think so we can sell it back to them" being on the list.
A graph of a survey asking whether people in different nations believe their fellow citizens are good, moral people. the US is at the lowest level while Canada, with 90% is at the highest.
I suddenly realized that one of the fundamental tenets of my humanism may have been subconsciously instilled in me
because I spent 11 years in Canada.
Safe separated infrastructure is a win for everyone, let's have more, not less of it.
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I'm using Google Translate a lot to work out how to say certain things in French and sometimes when a sentence involves the second person it chooses the wrong form for what I need (tu vs vous) but it turns out I can get it to use the desired form by ending the sentence with either "buddy" or "sir" 🙃
I feel like the real trolley problem is the fact that many American cities used to have widespread trolley networks and then they were dismantled to build car infrastructure.
Is the NY Times transphobic?
Short answer: yes!
Long answer: yes and!
Means testing is an invention of the devil to turn well-meaning people into monsters.
Ah, the middle-aged transition experience
“He does what?”
“He likes to guess their shoe size and orders it for them.”
“And they don’t fit?”
“No, he’s comically wrong. Like, every time.”
“And they wear them anyway?”
“Yeah. See, that’s how you know how sycophantic they are. It’s symbolism.”
(beat)
“Eh. We can’t do that. It’s too on the nose.”
The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"
well they *did* say they were trying to shame people into stopping
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""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."
There's a certain type of centrist that's convinced that it's not Serious Politics unless someone is being hurt, and believes the main point of Politics is finding consensus for the most socially acceptable victims. Any concept that we try to reduce or eliminate harms is fundamentally "unrealistic".
