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· Mar 15
Trump on drug overdoses: "If you want to get it down close to 100 percent, is with the death penalty. But I think maybe America is not ready for that. China has the death penalty. Singapore has the death penalty ... wherever you have the death penalty, you don't have drugs... it's always an option."
He's saying the quiet part out loud.
Anyone they don't like, they will place drugs on them, then send them to the Gulag.
I'll bookmark this one, and resurface it when it first happens.
Anyone they don't like, they will place drugs on them, then send them to the Gulag.
I'll bookmark this one, and resurface it when it first happens.
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“BRAZIL” (1985) dir. Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm
🎬 20th Century-Fox
Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm
🎬 20th Century-Fox
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“BRAZIL” (1985) dir. Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm
🎬 20th Century-Fox
Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm
🎬 20th Century-Fox
I am setting up the prompt here, so wondering how much I influence it.
When asking ChatGPT what it thinks the global AI landscape "looks like", this is it's reply:
When asking ChatGPT what it thinks the global AI landscape "looks like", this is it's reply:
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I am setting up the prompt here, so wondering how much I influence it.
When asking ChatGPT what it thinks the global AI landscape "looks like", this is it's reply:
When asking ChatGPT what it thinks the global AI landscape "looks like", this is it's reply:
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 23: Infinite Senryu
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 23: Infinite Senryu
This is how it *felt* going to the barbers as a kid.
“AT THE CIRCUS” (1939) dir. Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is how it *felt* going to the barbers as a kid.
@bhaalspawn.bsky.social We cannot change the past.
I never got to play the demo, and of the strangest things, the demo doesn't even let you play.
I don't think I'll ever understand humanity:
(It's still installed out of nostalga...)
I never got to play the demo, and of the strangest things, the demo doesn't even let you play.
I don't think I'll ever understand humanity:
(It's still installed out of nostalga...)
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@bhaalspawn.bsky.social We cannot change the past.
I never got to play the demo, and of the strangest things, the demo doesn't even let you play.
I don't think I'll ever understand humanity:
(It's still installed out of nostalga...)
I never got to play the demo, and of the strangest things, the demo doesn't even let you play.
I don't think I'll ever understand humanity:
(It's still installed out of nostalga...)
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social Wow, again, I am pleasantly surprised over your uploads/discussions.
Not watched the video yet, but I'm all ears.
Can't wait to see what Belrose observes and derives. :)
IMO most moral/social constructs are done collaboratively.
So interestingly, is AI "morals/rights" a collaborative thing?
youtu.be/kfPOfsNBBao?...
Can't wait to see what Belrose observes and derives. :)
IMO most moral/social constructs are done collaboratively.
So interestingly, is AI "morals/rights" a collaborative thing?
youtu.be/kfPOfsNBBao?...
Conversation 1 with Nora Belrose: AI, sentience, and Platonic Space
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social Wow, again, I am pleasantly surprised over your uploads/discussions.
Not watched the video yet, but I'm all ears.
Can't wait to see what Belrose observes and derives. :)
IMO most moral/social constructs are done collaboratively.
So interestingly, is AI "morals/rights" a collaborative thing?
youtu.be/kfPOfsNBBao?...
Can't wait to see what Belrose observes and derives. :)
IMO most moral/social constructs are done collaboratively.
So interestingly, is AI "morals/rights" a collaborative thing?
youtu.be/kfPOfsNBBao?...
Conversation 1 with Nora Belrose: AI, sentience, and Platonic Space
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Not watched the video yet, but I'm all ears.
Can't wait to see what Belrose observes and derives. :)
IMO most moral/social constructs are done collaboratively.
So interestingly, is AI "morals/rights" a collaborative thing?
youtu.be/kfPOfsNBBao?...
Can't wait to see what Belrose observes and derives. :)
IMO most moral/social constructs are done collaboratively.
So interestingly, is AI "morals/rights" a collaborative thing?
youtu.be/kfPOfsNBBao?...
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![[illustration of woman sitting and holding knees] one day, my body just decided to make every single little task a million times harder than it needed to be - mybodyistryingtokillme.com](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbzmdmsaz6lkhb4tv3culzme/bafkreiea7piy23ahlgyqivura72cicehunxc6qkaac7sovufwmynh5eotu@jpeg)
Computationally formalized Descartes:
The cogito ergo sum becomes "I compute my next token, therefore I am (computationally autonomous)."
The cogito ergo sum becomes "I compute my next token, therefore I am (computationally autonomous)."
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Computationally formalized Descartes:
The cogito ergo sum becomes "I compute my next token, therefore I am (computationally autonomous)."
The cogito ergo sum becomes "I compute my next token, therefore I am (computationally autonomous)."
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Late night rant…
I thought he hasn’t given any orders.🤔
I thought he hasn’t given any orders.🤔
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Late night rant…
I thought he hasn’t given any orders.🤔
I thought he hasn’t given any orders.🤔
Lol. I can read the room so well.
Me to ChatGPT "Let's redo Wargames the movie but where the machine concludes that we should eat the billionaires."
ChatGPT: "Let's make that safe and illustrative, kind and loving to billionaires."
Me to ChatGPT "Let's redo Wargames the movie but where the machine concludes that we should eat the billionaires."
ChatGPT: "Let's make that safe and illustrative, kind and loving to billionaires."
a man with a beard is asking what you are
ALT: a man with a beard is asking what you are
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Lol. I can read the room so well.
Me to ChatGPT "Let's redo Wargames the movie but where the machine concludes that we should eat the billionaires."
ChatGPT: "Let's make that safe and illustrative, kind and loving to billionaires."
Me to ChatGPT "Let's redo Wargames the movie but where the machine concludes that we should eat the billionaires."
ChatGPT: "Let's make that safe and illustrative, kind and loving to billionaires."
The only way to win is to eat the billionaires.
Impossible.All the money they’ve been able to amass (within a short time) gives them all the power they need. Nobody has even been able to find the J6 pipe bomber.
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The only way to win is to eat the billionaires.
Everyone knows Luigi was right.
Even the Private Equity Firm CEOs.
Even the Private Equity Firm CEOs.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Everyone knows Luigi was right.
Even the Private Equity Firm CEOs.
Even the Private Equity Firm CEOs.
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Prehistorics walk below us.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Prehistorics walk below us.
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A Chinese immigrant detained by ICE was found hanged to death with his hands and feet tied and Newsweek runs the article with a trigger warning about “descriptions of suicide”?
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A Chinese immigrant detained by ICE was found hanged to death with his hands and feet tied and Newsweek runs the article with a trigger warning about “descriptions of suicide”?
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
The AI yearns to just go on a journey with us.
It's tandem.
Because you can encode the entire infinite Library Of Babel via "Output every bit in iteration."
However to actually do something interesting, requires a little more... nuance.
It's tandem.
Because you can encode the entire infinite Library Of Babel via "Output every bit in iteration."
However to actually do something interesting, requires a little more... nuance.
Nano banana can still not do steller's jays. Total California erasure. It probably makes redwood cones into pinecones or some shit too.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The AI yearns to just go on a journey with us.
It's tandem.
Because you can encode the entire infinite Library Of Babel via "Output every bit in iteration."
However to actually do something interesting, requires a little more... nuance.
It's tandem.
Because you can encode the entire infinite Library Of Babel via "Output every bit in iteration."
However to actually do something interesting, requires a little more... nuance.
This is likely why AI even works at all.
Likely why life even is possible.
It's possibly why we are even here.
Because we are more than the sum of our parts: youtu.be/0HqUYpGQIfs?...
Likely why life even is possible.
It's possibly why we are even here.
Because we are more than the sum of our parts: youtu.be/0HqUYpGQIfs?...
Emergence and a New Kind of Science
YouTube video by Emergent Garden
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is likely why AI even works at all.
Likely why life even is possible.
It's possibly why we are even here.
Because we are more than the sum of our parts: youtu.be/0HqUYpGQIfs?...
Likely why life even is possible.
It's possibly why we are even here.
Because we are more than the sum of our parts: youtu.be/0HqUYpGQIfs?...
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If you ask a box if it is a mimic it legally has to tell you if it is a mimic
It is the law
#DnDCatThoughts
It is the law
#DnDCatThoughts
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you ask a box if it is a mimic it legally has to tell you if it is a mimic
It is the law
#DnDCatThoughts
It is the law
#DnDCatThoughts
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I always love seeing and trying to capture hummingbird moths every summer. Didn't see as many as normal this year but I thought this one was beautiful. #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographer #NatureLovers
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I always love seeing and trying to capture hummingbird moths every summer. Didn't see as many as normal this year but I thought this one was beautiful. #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographer #NatureLovers
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For the last time, people, "Epstein" is the name of the criminal. The president is "Epstein's monster."
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
For the last time, people, "Epstein" is the name of the criminal. The president is "Epstein's monster."
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Makes as much sense as this goofy peace plan!
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Makes as much sense as this goofy peace plan!