Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!
'Saying that Maduro's status a dictator provides no legal justification for Trump's actions is backdoor justification because you're pointing out that Maduro is a dictator' - is what I'm being screamed at this morning on here, in the most abusive and trollish terms.
No, it doesn't. Grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Hey this is that civility, cruelty thing Zohran Mamdani was talking about if anyone needed another point of reference.
I'll spell it out: Offering that Maduro is bad but the strikes and kidnappings violated legal procedure, is discursively like closing the back door to Trump while opening the front door. You concede the moral case, and offer a legal one that nobody without a lanyard knows of or gives a shit about.
"Maduro was bad, but" shut the fuck up, you people will never learn.
January 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I'll spell it out: Offering that Maduro is bad but the strikes and kidnappings violated legal procedure, is discursively like closing the back door to Trump while opening the front door. You concede the moral case, and offer a legal one that nobody without a lanyard knows of or gives a shit about.
"Superintelligence" 🙄 claims aside, I think he's right. LLM boosters always start dissembling when you point out that the tech has two critical problems—it scales poorly and routinely generates errors—and nobody has a clue how to fix either. Both problems appear inherent to the tech itself.
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"Superintelligence" 🙄 claims aside, I think he's right. LLM boosters always start dissembling when you point out that the tech has two critical problems—it scales poorly and routinely generates errors—and nobody has a clue how to fix either. Both problems appear inherent to the tech itself.
A scathing opinion piece by The New York Times Editorial Board (gift article). "In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended. The damage to the nation is severe." Having watched the Jan. 6 events unfold in real time, I find it appalling that Americans voted for him again.
the thing that strikes me about the Grok "apology" thing is that even those of us who are against "AI" as it is marketed to us have trouble not falling into the basic fallacy that they are trying to sell us, i.e. There's A Little Guy In There
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
the thing that strikes me about the Grok "apology" thing is that even those of us who are against "AI" as it is marketed to us have trouble not falling into the basic fallacy that they are trying to sell us, i.e. There's A Little Guy In There
She did a round of interviews about how she’s “so sorry” and “we need to stop hating each other” then promptly introduced multiple new legislation to the House attacking trans people and their families and doctors
Christ, MTG is not reformed. She’s not apologetic for anything material she’s done. She isn’t going to bring anyone over to even a moderate centrist coalition. Stop being naive as fuck. It’s not a “purity test” to say “the fascist who happens to disagree with Hitler on some points isn’t an ally.”
December 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
She did a round of interviews about how she’s “so sorry” and “we need to stop hating each other” then promptly introduced multiple new legislation to the House attacking trans people and their families and doctors
A whopping $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen after leaving a Massachusetts shipping facility, headed for Costco stores, according to the freight company’s president. on.nbcboston.com/xLIyHqg
It’s fascinating, and it’s something I experienced myself when I was younger. Some men will react in a genuine panic when they see a pretty young woman do something with authority, believing in their bones that she can’t possibly know what she’s doing and needs to be protected (stopped)
December 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It’s fascinating, and it’s something I experienced myself when I was younger. Some men will react in a genuine panic when they see a pretty young woman do something with authority, believing in their bones that she can’t possibly know what she’s doing and needs to be protected (stopped)