Stentor Danielson

This needs to be immortalized.

Though it is a sign of the apocalypse etc. that ragebait recipes are a functional marketing strategy in our society.

This is a ragebait recipe. A deliberately over the top item meant to go viral from people sharing their disgust, thereby getting brand exposure, and drawing customers in to try it once as a joke.

It's fascinating how there are apparently some PhDs who are like "wow, I could've just skipped the whole learning portion of my PhD, the entire point of the process!"

Skipping the college seminar on how to use "your favorite LLM" to design your courses in order to go to an ENT appointment about a possible deviated septum, and I think it's a pretty good tradeoff.

It feels especially insulting that so many pet food commercials are full of AI-generated cats. I have a relationship with an actual animal in my house, but you're selling me stuff for him with a soulless simulacrum of an animal.

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

They should make a form of knighthood that isn’t bestowed by a government or monarchy or religious institution. There should be Knights of the Common People and they should be allowed to carry swords at the mall.

I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant.

It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

"Mommy, why don't the kids on TV ever have two moms like I do, or two dads like Jimmy does?"

"Well, Billy, I guess we have to have a talk about a thing called homophobia..."

You're not saving families from having hard conversations, you're just picking which families will have to do it.

Receipt for dinosaur stickers and postcards with a total of $6.66

Bought some dinosaur souvenirs at the Carnegie museum -- I guess evolution is satanic after all.

This. Stop anthropomorphizing the tech.

January: Conservatives lose their shit because Bad Bunny said that "America" can refer to the whole Western Hemisphere, not just the USA.

March: Trump announces some sort of security thing for the whole Western Hemisphere called "Shield of the Americas."

None of my grandparents would approve of the positions I'd take as a congressional candidate. One grandfather wouldn't let me park in front of his house because he didn't want the neighbors to see the ACLU bumper sticker I had.

Grandpas were a dairy farmer and a bank manager.

One grandma was a church organist, the other ran a business making sewing patterns.

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

🐳🎵 stop reposting accounts that don't source their infooo 🎵 🐳

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.

It's especially important to be skeptical of viral stories that perfectly validate your worldview and prove just how blatantly horrible the bad guys are. Christian Nationalism is a serious problem but that doesn't make every story about CN true. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...

it would be great if christians would stop using “throwing the money changers out of the temple” as their go-to anti-corruption metaphor in light of *waves hands frantically*

1. Actual humans spend decades crafting Wikipedia articles driven by love of knowledge

2. AI companies hoover up Wikipedia content to train their models

3. The models shit hallucinated slop all over Wikipedia, degrading its reliability

What a great system.

Phillips: We need to stop stigmatizing this condition.

Everyone in the replies: Let's stigmatize someone I hate by accusing him of having this condition.

The Star Wars universe is chock full of humans, but the only animals we ever see are alien ones.

Squirrel Hill Lunar New Year parade canceled amid fears of ICE in Pittsburgh’s Asian community In lieu of the public event, organizers invite residents to write their New Year’s wishes on red tags, and tie them on trees throughout the neighborhood.

Abolish ICE www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

My students are working on creating critiques of the "Gates Memo" about climate change, and they are having a raucous good time ripping into him for putting faith in AI.

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

He's a great communicator *and you fell for his bullshit*!

Communication is a skill, and it can be used for evil purposes like convincing people that a military contractor with with a Nazi tattoo is a leftist savior.

Evangelicalism is intellectually vapid, with not a shred of logical or historical justification, and that's the point. It's a big "fuck you" to anyone who thinks you should have a better justification for your actions than raw hatred.

... all the sexism, racism, transphobia, ableism, and general unrestrained violence and hatred against the Other that you could want. Want to indulge the frisson of hypocrisy as you falsely accuse others of your own favorite crimes? Come on down to your local megachurch!

Evangelicals like to say that people leave the church because they "just want to sin." This is straightforward projection, because people join evangelical churches specifically in order to sin.

Evangelicalism's whole appeal is that it provides an intellectual excuse, and social support, for ...

Somehow I have to set aside the illegal wars, the kidnapping and killing of brown people, the dismantling of public health systems, and the campaign of extermination against trans people, in order to focus on prepping a lesson about rushing headlong into the existential threat of climate change.