Ser Brokenrizz
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yesterday i published this piece about Trump floating a bullshit plan to "raise taxes on the rich" in order to bait the media into talking about it. shortly after, the GOP released their tax plan, which naturally includes no tax such increase on the rich.
The Media Will Never Stop Falling For It
Trump's fake plan to tax the rich shows how little the mainstream media has learned
stringinamaze.net
May 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
yesterday i published this piece about Trump floating a bullshit plan to "raise taxes on the rich" in order to bait the media into talking about it. shortly after, the GOP released their tax plan, which naturally includes no tax such increase on the rich.
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"The intent we're seeing over and over, whether it's Project 2025, or bills like this, or public statements, is that that they believe that 'pornography' should not be legal — and what they believe to be 'pornography' is this all-encompassing conversation about sex and sexuality."
New GOP bill would basically ban porn, experts warn
The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act would rewrite SCOTUS's definition of obscenity.
mashable.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"The intent we're seeing over and over, whether it's Project 2025, or bills like this, or public statements, is that that they believe that 'pornography' should not be legal — and what they believe to be 'pornography' is this all-encompassing conversation about sex and sexuality."
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A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.
It isn't a surprise to me that returning to print has made the Onion significantly funnier, but it is a surprise to me how *quickly* it has done so.
April 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country
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I’ve seen this reposted into my feed a few times, and it’s fake. The reason I highlight it is to point out that *everyone* should be able to tell on sight that it’s wrong— there’s no story link, the poster has gone to some lengths to obscure the source of the false headline (ifunny.co I think), etc.
April 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’ve seen this reposted into my feed a few times, and it’s fake. The reason I highlight it is to point out that *everyone* should be able to tell on sight that it’s wrong— there’s no story link, the poster has gone to some lengths to obscure the source of the false headline (ifunny.co I think), etc.
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There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
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I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. So I finally did.
It was never about antisemitism
From abducting college students to an attack on a Jewish governor, Trump’s real motivations remain clear.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. So I finally did.
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just plugging my column again for the night owls.... i broke my writer's block by becoming completely obsessed with polar exploration buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Into the Arctic
If I had to come up with a metaphor for my mind over the last few months, a wooden ship bound in pack ice would be a good one: wracked by pressures that...
buttondown.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
just plugging my column again for the night owls.... i broke my writer's block by becoming completely obsessed with polar exploration buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
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This official MLB info on Jackie Robinson (!) strips all references to race, racism or the basic fact of the MLB once being segregated. They want to do this with all history because you can’t have a worldview based on bullshit lies about the present unless you have bullshit history that supports it.
The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.
April 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This official MLB info on Jackie Robinson (!) strips all references to race, racism or the basic fact of the MLB once being segregated. They want to do this with all history because you can’t have a worldview based on bullshit lies about the present unless you have bullshit history that supports it.
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"If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?"
April 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?"
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The framing from legacy media on the Ms Rachel stuff is insane. Nowhere do they say that these are baseless claims, or that what she said (every child's life is precious and worthy) is not "Hamas propaganda." If u didn't know the background to this story and saw this post, you'd believe their smear
April 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The framing from legacy media on the Ms Rachel stuff is insane. Nowhere do they say that these are baseless claims, or that what she said (every child's life is precious and worthy) is not "Hamas propaganda." If u didn't know the background to this story and saw this post, you'd believe their smear
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.
When (some) people talk about bringing back manufacturing, they mean "bring back steel & auto jobs that someone can take right out of high school, and live a middle class life"
The worst part of this is that even if manufacturing jobs came back because of this (they won’t)
and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
April 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.
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if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
April 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
April 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
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California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
April 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
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Israel just blew up a hospital completely in Gaza.
There's no other regime I can think if that has targeted medical workers and health facilities as persistently as Israel.
Horrific, unceasing crimes against humanity.
There's no other regime I can think if that has targeted medical workers and health facilities as persistently as Israel.
Horrific, unceasing crimes against humanity.
Israel demolishes the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, located near the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza.
March 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Israel just blew up a hospital completely in Gaza.
There's no other regime I can think if that has targeted medical workers and health facilities as persistently as Israel.
Horrific, unceasing crimes against humanity.
There's no other regime I can think if that has targeted medical workers and health facilities as persistently as Israel.
Horrific, unceasing crimes against humanity.